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we and looked
She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.
We had looked forward to what we hoped to be our first informal meeting with a number of Moscow's artists.
But, darn it all, why should we help a couple of spoiled snobs who had looked down their noses at us??
" He sat up, looked at me, and answered: " But Dr. Weizmann, we have London.
The whole, however, may be judged from this fragment: " We Irish, though dwelling at the far ends of the earth, are all disciples of St. Peter and St. Paul ... we are bound to the Chair of Peter, and although Rome is great and renowned, through that Chair alone is she looked on as great and illustrious among us ... On account of the two Apostles of Christ, you pope are almost celestial, and Rome is the head of the whole world, and of the Churches ".
In selecting a Chief Justice Eisenhower looked for an experienced jurist who could appeal to liberals in the party as well as law-and-order conservatives, noting privately that Warren " represents the kind of political, economic, and social thinking that I believe we need on the Supreme Court ....
" Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell " that their " ambiguous choice " was " dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women, because ... we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice " Charlotte contributed 20 poems, and Emily and Anne each contributed 21.
For if this argument works, then any property that has changed from the last time we looked at a thing would mean that the thing does not exist anymore, and there is a new thing in its place.
On 27 February 1914, two days after his death, the Daily Graphic recalled Tenniel: " He had an influence on the political feeling of this time which is hardly measurable … While Tenniel was drawing them ( his subjects ), we always looked to the Punch cartoon to crystallize the national and international situation, and the popular feeling about it — and never looked in vain.
Harry Thuku said in 1952, " To-day we, the Kikuyu, stand ashamed and looked upon as hopeless people in the eyes of other races and before the Government.
If c, h, and e were all changed so that the values they have in metric ( or any other ) units were different when we looked them up in our tables of physical constants, but the value of α remained the same, this new world would be observationally indistinguishable from our World.
In short we have a fractal-like situation in which if we look closely at a line it breaks up into a collection of " simple " lines, each of which, if looked at closely, are in turn composed of " simple " lines, and so on ad infinitum.
Moore recalled that " we all sorta looked around and said, ' That might be it.
At first Miffy looked like a toy animal, with floppy ears, but by 1963 she looked the way we see Miffy today.
" We looked over the top of the hill and we could see the train coming over the top and we're thinking, ' we're going to die '.
I looked at it, and I thought, ' No, no, no, we ’ ve got to get rid of that.
The largest proportion of Cranach's output is of portraits, and it is chiefly thanks to him that we know what the German Reformers and their princely adherents looked like.
" After I showed the film to George, at an hour and 55 minutes, we looked at each other ," Spielberg remembered.
It looked good, and we began using it as our name.

we and more
But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.
`` we the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America ''.
We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.
So we see that a specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less as he develops, as contrasted to the generalist, who knows less and less about more and more.
Here there may be an analogy with cancer: we can detect cancers by their rapidly accelerating growth, determinable only when related to the more normal rate of healthy growth.
Have not our physical abilities already deteriorated because of the more sedentary lives we are now living??
Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.
Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.
Shocked at the response to our proclamations, we grow more defensive, and worse, we lose our sense of humor and proportion.
If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.
In this essay, we are, along with most historians, interested in the more general or more inclusive ideas, that are so to speak `` writ large '' in history of literature where they recur continually.
An idea, of the sort that we have in mind, although of necessity readily available to imagination, is more general in connotation than most poetic or literary images, especially those appearing in lyric poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience.
It is as if we, in our center of human observation, from time to time penetrate more deeply into the unknown.
Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.
Asked by the townsmen to cease his suit, Greville had answered that `` hytt shulde coste hym 500 first & sayed it must be tried ether before my Lorde Anderson in the countrey or his uncle Ffortescue in the exchequer with whom he colde more prevaile then we ''.
A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

we and intently
In one Garfield strip we see Garfield staring at a goldfish in a bowl intently, until Jon tells Garfield that ' fish don't have eyelids '.

we and at
I've noticed the way you've been looking at me ever since we met ''.
As we expected, on the following day my Uncle was completely recovered and opened the store as usual at 10 in the morning.
`` By God '', Waddell said, `` we don't want to upset the boy at this time of all times.
And yet we obviously also believe that the avoidance of the disaster depends in some obscure or at least uncertain way on the details of how we behave.
I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.
His letter had suggested we meet at my hotel at noon on Sunday, and I came into the lobby as the clock struck twelve.
That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.
But now we can keep it out no longer, because we have come into a time when `` it invades our experience at every moment.
If we look at recent art we find it preoccupied with form.
Lunch was over, and we walked back to the hotel with the light and dark of Paris screaming at us.
Squatting on our haunches beside the flat stone we broke them on, we were safe behind the high closed gates at the end of the drive: safe from interruption and the observation and possible amusement of the passers-by.
Looking at the diagram, we see that Af connection lines come in to each member.
Such problems are of extreme interest as well as importance and are so much like fighting in a rain forest or guerrilla warfare at night in tall grass that we might have to re-examine primitive conflicts for what they could teach.
With regard to the change we are examining, the question is, at what point does the change become irreversible??
As things turned out, however, we have not profited greatly from the lesson: instead of persistently following a national program of our own we have often been satisfied to be against whatever Soviet policy seemed to be at the moment.
We feel uncomfortable at being bossed by a corporation or a union or a television set, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena and what they are doing to us, we can hardly learn to control them.

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