Word: thanking
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...laziness and short attention spans extend to our daily speech and written work as well. Everything, it seems, is abbreviated into those sometimes inane, sometimes clever acronyms. Or else orthodox spellings are altered: "thank you" is now "thanx," "because" becomes...
...rules of this convention preclude my acceptance tonight," Clinton said from the steps leading up to the podium, "but 32 years ago, another young candidate who wanted to get this country moving again came to the convention just to say a simple thank...
Raudenstine smiled and said 'thank you," beforehe was whisked away in a black telephone-equippedLincoln with license plates reading...
Never mind that the Post story did not suggest any such thing. Never mind, too, that Perot received a thank-you note from Bush in late 1986 after he passed along some harmless gossip about the Bush kids. What mattered was that Bush had found a way to throw the wily Perot on the defensive. "The public found out," said Robert Teeter, Bush's campaign chairman, that Perot "is not the kind of person who has the character, the judgment and the temperament to be President...
Most analysts hesitate, of course, to attribute the Year of the Woman to the mounting worthlessness of political endeavor. More commonly, they point to the restiveness of the female electorate, for which we can thank those great feminist organizers -- Clarence Thomas and William Kennedy Smith. We all recall the Hill-Thomas hearings and the ineradicable image of 14 white men forcing one petite black woman to recount porn-movie plots over and over while they endeavored to keep from licking their lips...