Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chilly tour of San Francisco Bay aboard a Coast Guard gunboat, he was greeted by nine-year-old Brownie Scout Dara Woods, her bare knees knocking in the cold. Gallantly, the general bent like a great, gawky crane to accept a bouquet of flowers. "Merci,'' he said. "Thank you." And hours later, as he finished a speech at the Civic Auditorium, the visitor was still stirred with emotion. He spread his arms and shouted "Vive Chicago!'' - a temporary geographical lapse that his translator promptly straightened...
...Dear Tod: Thank you for your letter of March ninth concerning the Wellesley fund-raising drive. I would be delighted to contribute towards this campaign, and accordingly, this note is a pledge of securities having the market value of approximately $150,000, this amount to be paid at my convenience prior to January...
Charlestonese is not an intelligible distortion of the American language in the sense that the dialects of Boston, Brooklyn and Davenport, Iowa are. It pays the merest thank-you-ma'am to Webster's English, draws a lot of its vigor and flavor from Gullah, an African slave dialect still spoken by the white and Negro populations of the rice islands along the South Atlantic littoral, adds a touch of Huguenot French and a dash of regional accent that is as deep-rooted and mysterious as the brooding cypresses. Confronted with Charlestonese, philologists tremble...
Never has more precious and timely truth concerning college entrance been printed in so prominent a place [March 7]. Thank you. I hope that it will be an eye opener and a help to many youths and parents...
...borrowed his father's Salmson sports car to go to a wedding. Rounding a curve, the headlights suddenly flickered out. When Cousteau crawled from the wreck, his left arm was broken in five places, his right was paralyzed. The doctors wanted to amputate his left arm. "I refused, thank God," says Cousteau. "You are always owner of your body...