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*" It was perfectly obvious that if I sat in that kite it was bound to crash and I would probably get killed.
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*" Rinkagate ": Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was arrested and tried for allegedly paying a hitman to murder his homosexual lover, model Norman Scott, while walking his dog on Exmoor ; the hitman only shot the dog, Rinka.
*" Diana of the Tower " a copper statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens was created as the weather vane for the second Madison Square Garden in 1893.
*" And I Love You So " was covered by Elvis Presley, Helen Reddy, Shirley Bassey, Glen Campbell, Engelbert Humperdinck, Howard Keel and a 1973 hit for Perry Como
*" The Grave ", a song that McLean had written about the Vietnam War, was covered by George Michael in 2003 in protest against the Iraq War.
*" terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village, which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of its inhabitants – 240 men, women and children – and kept a few of them alive to parade as captives through the streets of Jerusalem.
*" Janus " was a codename used for Microsoft Windows 3. 1x and Windows 2000 ( DEC Alpha and Itanium 64-bit editions )
*" What we all spoke when the world was young " by Nicholas Wade, New York Times ( February 1, 2000 )
*" According to Julius Caesar, it was customary among the ancient Britons for brothers, and sometimes for fathers and sons, to have their wives in common.
*" in certain cantons of Media, ... a woman was allowed to have many husbands, and they looked with contempt on those who had less than five.
*" Super Bon Bon " ( off Irresistible Bliss ) appeared in " Strangers and Other Partners ," episodes of the television series Homicide: Life on the Street, Long Term Parking, The Sopranos, and Castle, and was also the theme song of ECW wrestler Danny Doring and Roadkill.
*" Super Bon Bon " was used in the soundtrack for Michael Jordan to the max, an Imax documentary about Michael Jordan.
*" It can't be true what the girls at the Rectory said, that her mother was an opera-dancer —"" A person can't help their birth ," Rosalind replied with great liberality.
*" Traditional taekwondo " typically refers to the martial art as it was established in the 1950s and 1960s in the South Korean military, and in various civilian organisations, including schools and universities.
*" and perfectly
*" My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood.
*" and obvious
*" Rod Hull ", a recurring character who claims to be the genuine Rod Hull but is in fact an obvious fraud.
*" and if
*" Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.
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*" What if ... starring Secret Wars: 25 years later " the children of heroes are teleported back to earth where sometime in the last 25 years, a variation of " Days of future's past " is shown when the group is attacked by Sentinels
*" They all held their peace, but Diomed of the loud war-cry spoke saying, ' Nestor, gladly will I visit the host of the Trojans over against us, but if another will go with me I shall do so in greater confidence and comfort.
*" Sure, if I reprehend any thing in this world it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
*" aids "-payments to aid the lord in times of need ( customarily given to the lord to cover the cost of knighting of eldest son, marriage of eldest daughter, and for ransoming of lord if required );
*" I don't mind if I do " – Colonel Humphrey Chinstrap's catchphrase, spoken by Jack Train, turning any remark into an offer of a drink.
*" kena "-to get caught / punished ; often used like a noun (" I sure kena if I cheat ") or ( I need to ' kena ' a joint o_0 ").
*" I expect to pass through this world but once and therefore if there is anybody I want to kick in the crotch I had better kick them in the crotch now, for I do not expect to pass this way again.
*" Let us keep the figure of the Five-pointed Star always upright, with the topmost triangle pointing to heaven, for it is the seat of wisdom, and if the figure is reversed, perversion and evil will be the result.
*" I don't think there's any point in being Irish if you don't know that the world is going to break your heart eventually.
In this case, however, the use of the reflexive voice strongly indicates the lack of an agent ; where " John broke the window, or maybe Jack did — at any rate, the window broke " is understandable, if slightly unidiomatic, *" John solved the problem, or maybe Jack did — at any rate, the problem solved itself " is completely self-contradictory.
*" The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland, and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live in Eastern Europe, as if we were condemned to change places with them: they moved out of their ghettos and we occupied similar ones.
*" Maxi's from Mars "-United Kingdom ( 1969 ) A number of white Austin Maxi's were driven around the country with numbers on the doors and if the number inside your Mars wrapper matched the Maxi you would see driving around your area you won that very car.
*" I would rather spend a holiday in Tuscany than in the Black Country, but if I were compelled to between living in West Bromwich or Florence, I would make straight for West Bromwich.
*" There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.
*" One has to be very sure of oneself to go against the ordinary view of things ; and if one isn't, perhaps it's better not to run any risks, but just to walk along the same secure old road as the common herd.
*" The only way we'd get beaten was if we got a little fat-headed, if we didn't train right, if we had dissension on the squad.
*" Caustic cocktail " in the loop if water comes into contact with the soda lime used in the carbon dioxide scrubber.
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