Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roommates are the skeptical sort who have developed, over the past two-and-a-half years, a healthy disrespect for Ivy League men's basketball. Accustomed by years of sports watching to wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am NBA dunks and other SportsCenter highlights, they scoff at the idea of serious competition in the Ancient Eight...
Last week, thank God, the-cops caught their...
...forceful defense of free trade at the Americas Summit in Miami, Clinton met privately with 30 lawmakers from both parties. Wisconsin Republican Toby Roth, a fierce conservative, stood up and suggested the election might have gone Clinton's way had he struck such a probusiness tone in October. "Thank you for saying those things now," said Roth, "and not before the election." Clinton laughed and replied, "I don't think anyone would have listened before the election anyway." Maybe not, but as he starts over yet again, Clinton is hoping Americans will listen...
Harvard squash, men's and women's: More of the same, thank you very much...
...Dickens invented Christmas -- the holiday as we know it, with lavish presents and greeting cards, with liberal sentiment and family gatherings, and with the spirit of generosity helping to stanch the guilty suspicion that we hadn't been charitable enough on the other 364 days. Shopkeepers and toymakers can thank Dickens; put-upon parents can blame him, though the commercial excesses perpetrated in the name of Christmas were the last thing this radical social reformer had in mind...