Word: thanking
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...wouldn't call it a danger, but a risk. The European Community, thank God, is not a dream. It is true that we speak nine languages and that we still feel the roots of our national histories. But there is another reality. No member country -- not even Britain -- can afford to leave the E.C. We are much too integrated economically now, though this dependence has not yet entered the collective consciousness. So I don't think it's easy for anyone to slow down the process of integration. Everyone has an interest in taking the European path, and my country...
While both Cronyns have enjoyed success in the movies and television -- they even had their own TV series, The Marriage, in the '50s -- the theater is their first and last love. "The theater is Mother!" says Cronyn. "Thank God!" But Mother has changed since they were young, and they are not altogether pleased with how she looks today. "Very often people are not used to going to the theater," says Tandy, "and they don't understand that it's not the same as watching television shows. Much more concentration is required of them. You can't just turn and tell...
...much cold water on a plan we may want to swim around in for a while," he said. The water was warm enough for Bush to pick up the phone and call his old friend -- the two served together on Ways and Means during the late 1960s -- and thank the chairman for his suggestion. He praised Rostenkowski for trying to "break the ice." Although he carefully repeated his pledge of no new taxes at Tuesday's press conference, Bush added, "I'm only one player...
...sort of benediction. Or perhaps just a simple acknowledgment. "I would first like to thank you, the listener, for saving my life," he says after the music's over. "And I would like you to accept these notes, these true feelings, in peace...
...shots in the West's second largest city. They set the tone of its breezy conservatism. They generate much of its impulse for urban face lifting and instant culture. They influence, and in fact make, many of the city's major civic decisions. "Every day I get up and thank God that we have Mrs. Kroc and Mrs. Copley in San Diego," the mayor says extravagantly. "They go not just the extra mile, but the extra 100 miles. What they do for this community -- and they don't have to -- goes beyond any mayor's wildest expectations of private-public...