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It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.
It is most probable that Freud and the Oedipus complex never entered his head in the writing of this story.
This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;
Since Laos is of no more purely military value to Moscow itself than it is to Washington, this approach might be expected to head off Mr. Khrushchev for the moment.
The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??
`` That is undoubtedly a hell of a quote '', said the writer, scratching his head.
At the head of the CDC is an unorthodox, 39-year-old amateur politico, Thomas B. Carvey Jr., whose normal profession is helping develop Hughes Aircraft's moon missiles.
The words ran crazily in his head: Mollie the Mutton is scratching her nose in the rain.
When the fate of the individual is visited on the group, then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ), ah, then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted.
To measure the volume of one of the combustion chambers in the cylinder head, install the valves and spark plug in the chamber and support the head so that its gasket surface is level.
This volume is added to the total volume of the combustion chamber and head gasket opening.
The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.
While assembled lid is still on design head, gently but firmly press it on plaster board.
The sink in the hinged panel above the bunk drains into the head and a five-gallon water tank is mounted on the bulkhead above the sink.
The drill press consists of a vertical shaft ( spindle ) which is tapered or threaded on one end to hold a drill chuck, a tubular housing ( quill ) in which the spindle is mounted, a head in which the quill is mounted, a feed lever which moves the quill up or down, a power source, and a movable table upon which the work is placed.

head and handy
; < span id =" ice_axe "> Ice axe </ span >: A handy tool for safety and balance, having a pick / adze head and a spike at the opposite end of a shaft.
Likewise, for the occasional nap, decorative pillows are handy for supporting the head or neck, even though they are not covered with a pillow case, as are bed pillows.

head and thing
She said without turning her head, `` After that rain beating in atop the dust, there isn't a thing that won't be streaked ''.
Virgil imagines the Cyclopes in Hephaestus ' forge, who " busily burnished the aegis Athene wears in her angry moods — a fearsome thing with a surface of gold like scaly snake-skin, and he linked serpents and the Gorgon herself upon the goddess's breast — a severed head rolling its eyes.
" He declared many of his contemporary scholars to be stupid, lazy, vain, or all three, proclaiming: " Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary ; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders, and brains, not pudding, in your head.
: Strife whose wrath is relentless, she is the sister and companion of murderous Ares, she who is only a little thing at the first, but thereafter grows until she strides on the earth with her head striking heaven.
Another thing, when you put on the gorilla head, you can only turn your head maybe a quarter of the way.
It is probably the most singular thing in connexion with this singular administration, that its most pregnant measure should thus have been one directly opposed to the well-known principles of its head.
Pliny's narrative dwells upon a gigantic portrait-bust of Pompey, a thing of “ eastern splendor ” entirely covered with pearls, and with the benefit of hindsight, has this disembodied head anticipate Pompey ’ s later defeat at Pharsalus and subsequent decapitation in Egypt.
Before they head out into the space, Creator asks that they leave it one thing from them ...
Alexander Verkhovsky, the head of a Moscow-based center that monitors hate crime in Russia, said, " It looks like this is the real thing.
He opined that for television " thing " could appear as a disembodied head that rolled through the house on various ramps and pulleys.
:" The Conservative belief that there is some law of nature which prevents men from being employed, that it is ' rash ' to employ men, and that it is financially ' sound ' to maintain a tenth of the population in idleness for an indefinite period, is crazily improbable-the sort of thing which no man could believe who had not had his head fuddled with nonsense for years and years.
Upon his head he has a thing like a broad eminence ( a big lump ), called ( 尺木 ).
Regarding the record, Smith said " I thought my head would be chopped off immediately when it came out because at the time it was so opposite to the grunge thing that was popular ...
Her different approach to dance is evident in these preliminary classes, in which she “ followed fantasy and improvised, teaching any pretty thing that came into head ”.
During their travels, Trillian discovers that Zaphod may be the more superficially exciting choice, but Arthur is the man who truly cares about her, Arthur commenting when he is about to have his head cut open by the mice that his feelings for Trillian are the only thing that he ever had questions about where the answer made him happy.
I could hear the whole thing in my head as if it were a finished record.
Gerald Cosloy, head of Homestead Records, summarised the band's music: " It was its own bizarre hybrid ... It wasn't exactly pop, it wasn't exactly punk rock — it was completely its own thing ".
He later conceded Clarke did the right thing and he never served as a head coach again.
But I was walking along, and this thing landed on my head and said hello.
The reviewer mentioned that when asked to think of holiday specials, " the first thing that popped into my head wasn ’ t nostalgia for my Rankin / Bass-and Chuck Jones-filled youth.
In our countries and the other non-British monarchies of the Commonwealth there are no established churches, but in our countries there are people who have faith in the direction of human affairs by an all-wise Providence ; and we felt that it was a good thing that the civil authorities would proclaim that their organization is such that it is a defence of the continued beliefs in a supreme power that orders the affairs of mere men, and that there could be no reasonable objection from anyone who believed in the Supreme Being in having the sovereign, the head of the civil authority, described as a believer in and a defender of the faith in a supreme ruler.
This situation came about due to the head of light entertainment believing that " forces "- based humour had had its day and television was the next " big thing ", so Lawrie was told to create a show with the same cast in an independent TV station situation.

head and have
) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.
I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.
Men continuously at the head of growing enterprises can acquire experiences of the most varied, complicated and trying type so that at maturation they have developed the competence and willingness to accept the personal responsibility so sorely needed now.
much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.
He had the same bullet head of curly reddish hair but he didn't have Jim's pokerfaced humor or his brains or his charm.
The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle -- it must have been late in September -- I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front, nearly dying, my head bandaged and blooded, and Jessica bending over me, the power of her love bringing me back to life.
otherwise, you'll have to spend a few minutes to either attach a suitable spring clip somewhere on the press head or fit the key to a length of light chain and fasten to the bottom of the motor mount so that the key is out of the way when not in use.
We also have an ' engineering section head -- research engineer ' classification which has salary possibilities equivalent to that of a research engineer.
I am equally impatient with the shrug of the shoulder, shake of the head of those who no longer care because they have known it for so long ; ;
But if there was evidence at the Trial that aimed over Eichmann's head at his collaborators in the societies where he functioned, the press seems to have missed it.
Instead of quelling the dissension, as many captains of the era would have done ( Sir Francis Drake lopped a man's head off under similar circumstances ), Hudson decided to be reasonable.
Though Bob Carroll seemed to have had his head practically blown off by the exploding grenade, he lived.
She must have looked temptingly pretty to the dean as he put the crown on her head.
If I'd stayed, all that I'd have got was four punctured tires and one busted head.
There had also been a man who must have had St. Vitus or something, because he kept jerking his head.
There are a great many bishops who have never had a cross on their bosom, nor a mitre on their head, who appeal not to the authority of the Pope at Rome, but to the Almighty Dollar, a pope much nearer home.
Cady snapped the Venetian blind shut and slammed himself down before the typewriter, rolled in a fresh sheet, and gave his letter the same savage attention he bestowed on a salesman who needed to have the bucket taken off his thick head.
In turn, the origin of aleph may have been a pictogram of an ox head in Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Pond-type larvae often have a pair of balancers, rod-like structures on either side of the head which perhaps prevent the gills from getting clogged up with bottom sediment.
They have three pairs of external red feathery gills, a blunt head with two rudimentary eyes, a lateral line system and a short tail with fins.
Metamorphosis is gradual but by the age of about ten months they have developed a pointed head with sensory tentacles near the mouth and lost their eyes, lateral line systems and tails.
The Egyptian god Set is said, by some, to have the head of an aardvark or to be part aardvark.
According to the head of the Armenian Central Bank ’ s ( CBA ) department for financial system policies and analyses ( Vahe Vardanyan ) Armenian banks have no large asset concentrations in foreign markets, particularly in capital markets.
Kornemann's brief is that Antoninus might have waged preventive wars to head off these outsiders.

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