Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you for telling me that sex is too important a matter to be left to writers...
...Every day we add something to our conduct of this war, and it's finally beginning to pay off. If we're just not pulled off, we're going to win this. We can bring more power to bear than any other nation on earth, and thank heavens we're finally starting...
...William Higgs, counsel of the Freedom Democratic Party of Mississippi, tells the story of a group of young Vicksburg Negroes who one day marched through that town, carrying a banner emblazoned with "Thank you Commies." When confronted by a delegation of astounded city fathers, the leader of the march explained respectfully that "I don't know what Commies are but the papers give them all the credit for this civil rights business, and that's good enough...
...these scuffles come too fast in the movie to glean any human relevance. The audience I sat with laughed lightheartedly when a member of the gang pulled a knife on his father, when Duke stole a purse, and when a rival whom Duke stabbed rolled over and said "Thank you," and died...
...stagehand told Bob Hope he had a minute and a half before it all started. "Thank you," replied Hope calmly. "Shall I pull my pants up or just go on?" A minute and a half later, pants pulled up, the comedian-master of ceremonies walked onto the stage at Santa Monica's Civic Auditorium and, for the eleventh time in 13 years, did his valiant, 21-hour best to pull up that most intractable of TV shows, the annual "Oscar" awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...