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And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.
We talk about national character in the same way that Copernicus talked of the compulsions of celestial bodies to move in circles.
To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.
They laughed and, true to national form and manners, never talked long or solemnly on any subject at all, but some of them worried out loud about short memories and ghosts.
He talked about it to the Presiding Elder.
When I talked to Ching about it, he said, Everyone can learn, if he is not a Reactionary or lazy.
Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.
Hino talked very little about himself except for the infrequent times when he used a personal illustration in connection with another subject.
Her neighbors in the expensive Houston apartment building told reporters that the ash-blonde beauty had talked at times about her past as `` the Golden Girl of the Mickey Jelke trial ''.
They talked and wrote much about the elemental functions of the body.
The deeds of this team, through two seasons and in the two World's Series that followed, have been written and talked about until hardly a word is left to be said.
Her eyes became bright as she talked about her father and mother, aunts and uncles, cousins.
Oh yes, he'd talked about doing so.
I talked first, telling him everything I knew about Seaton and his house and domestic arrangements.
At one time, while still under the impression that he was dealing with a Cuban plot, the President talked about invoking a total embargo on trade with Cuba.
He talked about unauthentic storylines too.
Such a leader must strengthen NATO politically, and establish that true unity about which it has always talked.
And when she returned from taking her guests back to New York she had said, `` All they talked about was Harvie Harvie this, Harvie that When they know the truth will they drop away from me, will I become a nothing ''??
You talked about John-and-Linda as an entity.
So when old Mr. Lovejoy, the company president, talked about putting in a single sales manager for both branches after the head of the regular steels had gone with Carnegie-Illinois, it looked like the perfect chance for Bobbie.

talked and himself
For a while the young men waited outside the lodge of TuHulHulZote, glorying in his harsh language as he talked with himself.
Marx himself had talked about the " materialist conception of history ", which was later referred to as " historical materialism " by Engels.
The study soon became one of the most talked about psychological experiments in recent history, making headlines across the world, and resulted in Milgram finding himself in the centre of public attention.
At first he showed himself friendly to Berengar, and talked of taking him back to Rome to get Leo IX's authority with which to silence his foes.
Essex's greatest failure was as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, a post which he talked himself into in 1599.
After one year of study, he moved to Philadelphia and talked himself into a job with architect Frank Furness.
An 18-hour standoff ensued during which time the police talked over the phone to Bryant who called himself ' Jamie '.
The Red Skull encased himself in a golden suit of armor, and talked of creating a new order of knights.
Crawford himself has talked of how he based many of Frank's reactions on those of a young child.
As for Sandberg, he had played two full seasons in the major leagues, and while he had shown himself to be a top-fielding second baseman and fast on the basepaths ( over 30 stolen bases both seasons ), his. 260-ish batting average and single-digit home run production were respectable for his position but not especially noteworthy, and Sandberg was not talked about outside Chicago.
He was talked into admitting himself to drug rehabilitation in January 1998.
After leaving KCSB, Hannity placed an ad in radio publications presenting himself as " the most talked about college radio host in America.
To gain Nazi support while keeping himself Chancellor, Schleicher often talked of forming a so-called Querfront (" cross-front "), whereby he would unify Germany ′ s fractious special interests around a non-parliamentary, authoritarian but participatory regime as a way of forcing the Nazis to support his government.
Rann sometimes talked during this period of his ambitions to one day become Premier himself.
A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger's was talked over in which I strictly declared that I had never deserted from the truth in the matter, and as I supposed was admitted by himself.
Martin talked about songs 1 and 5, Batt discussed songs 2 and 6, Hunniford passed comment on songs 3 and 7, and Welch ( a former Eurovision participant himself ) talked about songs 4 and 8.
Although his employer said he was a " very hard and dependable worker who kept himself to himself ", in 1971, Bremer was demoted to kitchen work after customers complained that he talked to himself, and that " he whistled and marched in tune with music played in the dining room ".
More often than not, he talked himself into radical positions ... as a result of trying to impress his peers or his girlfriend, or rebelling against middle-class parental authority ".
He once stepped up to bat wearing a Beatles wig and playing " air guitar " on his bat, led cheers for himself in the outfield during breaks in play, and " talked " to Babe Ruth behind the center field monuments at Yankee Stadium.

talked and time
His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.
Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.
They even talked about Lucille down at the Young Christians' League where I spent a lot of time in Bible classes and helping out with the office work for our foreign mission.
3: 16 ), prophesied a future time, possibly the end of days, when the Ark will no longer be talked about or be made again:
" It's the first time we ever talked about these issues publicly.
At the same time, Hall frequently talked with family and friends about philosophy and how she was disappointed with the state of welfare.
He talked of retiring from performing in 1992 and 1995, but each time returned to touring.
3: 16 ), prophesied a future time, possibly the end of days, when the Ark will no longer be talked about or be made again:
Lex is absent from the home at the time of the murder, having been talked into going to a football game by his schoolmate Perry White.
Afterwards we talked for a long time.
He talked about the priest needing to fast for a certain amount of time and the sacrifice of animals in order to help with the binding of evil spirits.
During the initial period ( 1985 – 87 ) of Mikhail Gorbachev's time in power, he talked about modifying central planning, but did not make any truly fundamental changes ( uskoreniye, acceleration ).
While not addressing the allegations directly, Clemens stated: " I could care less about the rules " and " I've talked to some friends of his and I've teased them that when you're under house arrest and have ankle bracelets on, you have a lot of time to write a book.
We sat and talked and drank coffee and shot rubber bands and after much too much time someone said -- most likely Ralph -- " We don't have a Snowball chance in hell of finding a name ".
" All through the making of Dial M for Murder, he sat and talked to me about Rear Window all the time, even before we had discussed my being in it.
People at the time talked about the Awakening ; historians named the Second Great Awakening in the context of the First Great Awakening of the 1730s and ' 40s and of the Third Great Awakening of the late 1850s to early 1900s.
Interviewed in 1995, Derrida talked about the difficulties of divulgative tasks under limited space and time, when professors and journalists need to explain something difficult without betraying it ; Derrida's argument was also a rebuttal of certain charges of obfuscation and obscurantism:
He considered quitting Led Zeppelin to spend more time with his family, but was talked into returning by the band's manager, Peter Grant.
According to Heise, he then talked to Steinhäuser for a short amount of time, luring him into the doorway of an empty room.
He also talked about three of his grandchildren whose parents were unmarried when they were born, saying his sons " were not happy at the time but they came to love these children.
For a time Bill Mack ’ s shows began to go out from XERF between 2AM and 6AM Central Standard Time using the 250, 000 watts RCA transmitter and Venditti had talked about creating a microwave link so that Bill Mack could broadcast live from his own studio in Fort Worth.
We talked for a few minutes about London and things like that and I could soon see that it was time for me to leave.

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