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It's late and you said they'd be here by dawn ''.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
`` Let's go, Marshal '', Brannon said, and took him by the arm.
She'd driven around for a while, Joyce said, then, thinking Louis Thor would have calmed down by that time, she'd gone back to his home on Bryn Mawr Drive, parked in front, and walked toward the pool.
Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.
`` I'd wind up full of bullet holes '', he said, and there was no question that he was talking about bullets fired by his coworkers.
To guard against the tyranny of a numerical majority, Calhoun developed his theory of `` concurrent majority '', which, he said, `` by giving to each portion of the community which may be unequally affected by the action of government, a negative on the others, prevents all partial or local legislation ''.
Lincoln understood this better than most when he said in his `` Second Inaugural '' that God `` gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came ''.
They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.
`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
First, Wright said, he was choked by the smoke, which fortunately kept him from seeing the dreadful town.
' Kalamazoo guitars ', he said, ' used by radio hillbilly singers.
Hanoverian agents assisted in promoting circulation, said to have reached 40,000, and if one may judge by the reaction of Swift and other government writers, the work must have had considerable impact.
The Negro composer Hall Johnson studied the American-Negro Suite and said of it, `` Of all the many songs written by white composers and employing what claims to be a Negroid idiom in both words and music, these six songs by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler easily stand far out above the rest.
It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.
One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.
A Bay State supporter said, `` Mr. Hearst's fight has been helped along greatly by the starting of his paper in Boston ''.
`` Conservatism '' and `` traditionalism '' seem implied by what has just been said.
she `` labored & thought she shuld effecte '' it but her husband said that `` we shuld wynne it by the sworde ''.
And when questioned by ship's reporters about the separation, she said, `` I adore him, and he adores me ''.
Blackman said that he wanted to apologize for not having prevented Lewis from making that horrible spectacle of himself, that he should have seized him by the neck at once and forcibly hauled him into his bedroom.
The same can be said about the half-hearted Cuban invasion mounted by the administration last April, which, we trust, is not symptomatic of the methods to be invoked in holding off the felonious Khrushchev.
Mr. Freeman said that in many of the countries he visited on a recent world trade trip people were more awed by America's capacity to produce food surpluses than by our industrial production -- or even by the Soviet's successes in space.

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A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.
Tabari, the most famous Muslim historian, in his Ta ' rikh quotes from Muhammad Bin Sa ' ad Bin Abi Waqqas, who said: " I asked my father whether Abu Bakr was the first of the Muslims.
The 4th century historian Ammianus Marcellinus, relying on a lost work by Timagenes, a historian writing in the 1st century BC, writes that the Druids of Gaul said that part of the inhabitants of Gaul had migrated there from distant islands.
Sir Harry Hinsley, a Bletchley veteran and the official historian of British Intelligence during the Second World War, said that Ultra shortened the war by two to four years and that the outcome of the war would have been uncertain without it.
The 20th-century historian Frank Stenton said of the Anglo-Saxon chronicler that " his inaccuracy is more than compensated by his preservation of the English title applied to these outstanding kings ".
He taught logic to Demosthenes, and he is also said to have taught Apollonius Cronus, the teacher of Diodorus Cronus, and the historian Euphantus.
As the historian Socrates Scholasticus said, at the opening of his history that was designed as a continuation of Eusebius, " Also in writing the life of Constantine, this same author has but slightly treated of matters regarding Arius, being more intent on the rhetorical finish of his composition and the praises of the emperor, than on an accurate statement of facts.
" According to historian Piers Brendon, " Orwell was the saint of common decency who would in earlier days, said his BBC boss Rushbrook Williams, ' have been either canonised – or burnt at the stake '".
On the Union, historian Simon Schama said " What began as a hostile merger, would end in a full partnership in the most powerful going concern in the world ... it was one of the most astonishing transformations in European history.
" Lillian Hoddeson, a University of Illinois historian who wrote a book on Bardeen, said that because he " differed radically from the popular stereotype of genius and was uninterested in appearing other than ordinary, the public and the media often overlooked him.
According to the Christian historian Sozomen, Libanius was supposed to have said on his deathbed that John would have been his successor " if the Christians had not taken him from us ".
Writing in 1872, church historian William Stephens said The Patriarch of the Eastern Rome appeals to the great bishops of the West, as the champions of an ecclesiastical discipline which he confesses himself unable to enforce, or to see any prospect of establishing.
Yet historian R. A. Leeson, in United we Stand ( 1971 ), said:
Art historian Bernard Berenson wrote in 1896: " Leonardo is the one artist of whom it may be said with perfect literalness: Nothing that he touched but turned into a thing of eternal beauty.
The historian Kenneth Scott Latourette said that " the Portuguese had chiefly themselves to thank " for the massacres the Chinese committed against them.
A church is the place, par excellence, of architecture ,” he said in an interview with architectural historian Judith Dupré.
Ashley Cowie, Scottish author, historian, and archaeologist, and his team search the U. K. for treasures said to have been hidden away by Merlin in the 5th episode of season 1's " Legend Quest ".
Irish historian James Emerson Tennent theorised Galle, a southern city in Sri Lanka, was the ancient seaport of Tarshish, from which King Solomon is said to have drawn ivory, peacocks and other valuables.
Fables, succinct tales with an explicit " moral ," were said by the Greek historian Herodotus to have been invented in the 6th century BCE by a Greek slave named Aesop, though other times and nationalities have also been given for him.
These slings were apparently very powerful ; in 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, historian Charles C. Mann quoted a conquistador, who said that an Incan sling " could break a sword in two pieces " and " kill a horse.
In an interview with Richardson in 1979, Danish historian Mikael Venge, author of the article about Christian II in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon said: " I think you ought to protest the next time the Swedish radio claims anything so utterly unfounded that could be understood as if the Danes approved of the Stockholm bloodbath.
The historian George Herring has said that while the purchase was somewhat the result of Jefferson and Madison's " shrewd and sometimes belligerent diplomacy ", that it " is often and rightly regarded as a diplomatic windfall — the result of accident, luck, and the whim of Napoleon Bonaparte.
An early 19th-century historian wrote that the Tuscarora traditionally were said to occupy the " country lying between the sea shores and the mountains, which divide the Atlantic states ," in which they had 24 large towns and could muster 6, 000 warriors, probably meaning persons.
Although the historian Gilbert Burnet claimed that Henry called her a Flanders Mare, there is no evidence that he said this ; in truth, court ambassadors negotiating the marriage praised her beauty.

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