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Southern Liberals ( there are a good many ) -- especially if they're rich -- often exhibit blithe insouciance.
That doctrine has been accepted by many, but has it produced good results??
A good many pages of the first section are taken up with an account of the dogged determination of the prisoners to write to their wives and families -- even when it becomes clear that the Germans are simply allowing the letters to blow away in the wind.
While observing the operations of our Government in various parts of the world, I have felt that in many situations where our policies were good we have tended to ignore minor problems which spoiled our main effort.
The one- or two-season hunt, of which there have been too many recently, may do more harm than good ; ;
And yet, despite some disappointment with the performance of this first year of the new decade, 1960 has been a good year in many ways, with many overall measures of business having reached new peaks for the year as a whole.
The shift in sentiment from excessive optimism early in the year to the present mood of caution has probably been a good thing, in that it has prevented the accumulation of the burdensome inventories that have characterized many previous swings in the business cycle.
There are a good many of them.
In recent years many counties and the U. S. Forest Service have taken aerial photos which show features in detail and are very good for planning use.
A good formulation will keep the clothes clean and white after many washings ; ;
By the middle of the summer, many of the larvae apparently receive such a good diet that it is `` optimal '', and it is then that young queens begin to appear.
In fact, in the desegregated school system which may have a good many schools with all-Negro population, how can we assure equal opportunity??
Some are blest with an abundance of good health -- some are in poor health and many are invalids.
In the first place, a good many writers who are said to use folklore, do not, unless one counts an occasional superstition or tale.
Some of them are very delicious indeed, and there are many good ones exported -- unfortunately, along with others not so good, and worse.
Indeed, in some periods of our history and in some neighborhoods the job opportunities have been so good that undoubtedly a great many boys who were potential members of the professions quit school at an early age and went to work.
In many sections he may even reap applause from press and public for giving it a good lesson.
It occurred to Bill Weigand that he was, on a hunch basis, eliminating a good many.
Although the Administration's program cut crop acreage to the lowest point since 1934, farmers, with the help of extra fertilizer and good weather, are getting such high yields per acre that many are being forced to buy new harvesting machines.
For A good many seasons I've been looking at the naughty stuff on television, so the other night I thought I ought to see how immorality is doing on the other side of the fence in movies.
Negro lawyers dug into the records of 300 white students, found that many were hardly interviewed at all -- and few had academic records as good as Hamilton Holmes.
The sail was still unfurled, though there were a good many holes in it, as Langer had predicted would be the case by now.

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At the same time, Goldstein's actions were praised by the some extremist settlers ; Yochay Ron said that he " felt good " when he heard the news, and stated that Jews were " at war with the Arabs " and " all Arabs who live here are a danger to us ... they threaten the very existence of the Jewish community on the West Bank.
War films usually frame World War II as a conflict between good and evil as represented by the Allied forces and Nazi Germany whereas the Western portrays the conflict between " civilized " settlers and the " savage " indigenous peoples.
Building good relations with local Native Americans Hualapai Nation and white settlers, he discovered the Crossing of the Fathers, Lee's Ferry in 1858 and Pierce Ferry ( later operated by, and named for, Harrison Pierce ) – the latter two the only two sites suitable for ferry operation.
The shortage of good pasture in Van Diemen's Land led to settlers there showing interest in the country across Bass Strait, following Hume and Hovell ’ s reports and stories of visiting sealers.
He began earning money at this time by locating good land for other settlers.
However, the good moisture years that had attracted these settlers were succeeded by a severe drought in 1893 and 1894, which drove many of the new settlers away again ; the number of farms in the county declined by more than half, from 565 in 1890 to 226 in 1900.
According to Missouri folklorist Margot Ford McMillen early settlers to the county found good quality, inexpensive, farming land.
The early French settlers named the parish for the fertility of its soils: terre bonne means " good earth.
Due to its high position, protected by the River Waveney and marshes, the site was in a good defensive position and attracted settlers from early times.
Local settlers referred to the area as " Plaza Buena " which means " good park " in Spanish.
The Potawatomie Indians solely inhabited this area until white settlers looking for good farmland began to settle here in 1832.
One of them said that a man travelling on the train threw out a cigar box containing the name Modoc, and that Henry Conley, one of the first settlers of the town, picked it up and suggested to bystanders that it would be a good name for the town.
He knew most the people around the area, the money issues had settled down by then, a good portion of the English and French settlers had sold out to the German population that was immigrating into the area.
A large part of the town was originally covered with valuable timber ; and this being a good locality for fish, lumbering and fishing were the main occupations of the early settlers.
There was also an abundance of wildlife which afforded good hunting for the settlers ’ food requirements.
The Five Civilized Tribes were the five Native American nations — the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole — that were considered civilized by Anglo-European settlers during the colonial and early federal period because they adopted many of the colonists ' customs and had generally good relations with their neighbors.
Much of the good land on the reservation was also illegally expropriated by white settlers.
It is estimated ( for example for small Antioquia, a region where hundreds of Spaniards arrived, of which a good portion were Basque, some limited aspects of the culture and traditions brought by Basque settlers, without even mention his particular language, it has been unclear to track the use of Euskara in the current Antioquia and Colombia, because the Basque language was always an outcast, which apparently left no written evidence in Antioquia.
Relations between Californios and Anglo settlers were relatively good until military officer John C. Fremont arrived in Alta California with a force of 60 men on an exploratory expedition in 1846.
For a brief period until the mid-1850s Tainui made a good return from selling food to the new settlers but this all came to a sudden end when traders realised they could get food – especially flour – much cheaper from New South Wales.
Rip resumes his habitual idleness, and his tale is solemnly taken to heart by the Dutch settlers, with other hen-pecked husbands, after hearing his story, wishing they could share in Rip's good luck, and have the luxury of sleeping through the hardships of war.
American attitudes towards Indians during this period ranged from malevolence (" the only good Indian is a dead Indian ") to misdirected humanitarianism ( Indians live in " inferior " societies and by assimilation into white society they can be redeemed ) to somewhat realistic ( Native Americans and settlers could co-exist in separate but equal societies, dividing up the remaining western land ).
By the 7th century, the Alamannic settlers had already taken most of the good locations southeast of the Aare and they began moving up the Aare to the regions of Lake Thun and Lake Brienz.

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