Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approach of Indians bearing war bonnets, nuns, or other disconcerting greeters. He obviously has a New England reticence about himself, is unwilling to surrender some recess of his privacy. Mingling with the crowds of well-wishers, Kennedy moves rapidly, shaking every available hand, signing autographs, smiling shyly and murmuring "Thank you" or "Glad to be here," as he goes. Greeting his fans from a distance, he lifts his right hand in a diffident, shoulder-high wave that is identical with the football signal for a first down, but deliberately resists such exuberant gestures as the wide-open Eisenhower arms. Generally...
...maintain. There was even a spontaneous reaction against earlier hysteria. At Kitwe, when a mine company's cinema tried to evade the law by converting itself into a club for white "members," so many Europeans switched over to the desegregated commercial theater that the management flashed a grateful "thank you" on the screen...
...Japanese see nothing impolite about slurping soup or noisily blowing the nose or clearing the throat; the booklet warns that fastidious Westerners will recoil. There is a great difference in giftgiving: "Foreigners normally open gifts on the spot and then thank the donor. Japanese, however, thank the giver and then take away the unwrapped gift, and nobody else sees it.'' The booklet advises against mixing "Eastern and Western customs'' by simultaneously bowing and shaking hands "because it is ungraceful...
...behalf of the Council I would like to thank the many students who have supported us and who have made it possible by their contributions for us to plan a promising program of services and activities. Howard J. Phillips '62, President, Harvard Student Council...
...called, "if you tell me where I can find Winslow Homer. I have a quarter for you." "Where's your quarter?" snapped the old fisherman, and the stranger quickly handed one over. The fisherman took it, carefully dropped it into his pocket, and without so much as a thank-you said, "I am Winslow Homer...