I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

He was convinced that George Orwell's 1984 was nearly all wrong as it applied to England, which was `` driving forward into uncharted waters '', with the danger of a new tyranny ahead.

It should have been nearly as easy for her to remember that as it was for Big Hans to remember going after the axe while he was still spattered with Pa's yellow sick insides.

`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.

Times Square, when I ascended to it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks swarming with celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey.

The use of 100 instead of 140 substance paper plus the adoption of side stapling beginning with the May 1960 issue reduced costs sufficiently to allow completion of the fiscal year with nearly $4,000 in unexpended funds.

Inventory and evaluate wildlife habitat resources in cooperation with other Federal agencies and with the States in which National Forests and Grasslands are located, as a basis for orderly development of wildlife habitat improvement and coordination programs, including ( A ) big-game, gamebird, and small-game habitat surveys and investigations on the 186 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands, ( B ) fishery habitat surveys and investigations on the 81,000 miles of National Forest fishing streams and nearly 3 million acres of lakes and impoundments, and ( C ) participation in planning, inspection, and control phases of all habitat improvement, land and water use projects conducted on National Forest lands by States, other Federal agencies, and private groups to assure that projects will benefit wildlife and be in harmony with other resource values.

It is made up of tumbling, which might be said to start with a somersault, run through such stunts as headstands, handstands, cartwheels, backbends, and culminate in nearly impossible combinations of aerial flips and twists and apparatus work.

As I was playing Mother Cabrini, the picture was actually `` all mine '', with nearly every scene built around me.

The proteins were extracted with 3 volumes of Af in Af to give a nearly neutral extract and precipitated by 80% saturation with Af.

What we have left as reasonably comparable are four classes: ( 1 ) body parts and products, which with a proportionally nearly even representation ( 51 terms out of 253, 25 out of 100 ) come out with nearly even ratios ; ;

It was nearly sundown before they finished the business with Beall and began riding down the stream.

This was nearly completed May 23, 1901 with a promise of lights by June 10, but the first light did not go on until September 28.

It omits, for example, practically the whole line of great nineteenth century English social critics, nearly all the great writers whose basic position is religious, and all those who are with more or less accuracy called Existentialists.

Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.

The effect is that the platform returns from an off-level position at a rapid rate until it is nearly level, at which point the platform is controlled by a proportional servo with low enough frequency response so that the noise has little effect on the leveling process.

He said: `` If it's all right with you, Mr. Morgan, I'll sleep out here on the couch.

`` He stuck with me all these years.

He did that with all the Nations.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

one with blood all over it, Arbuckle's blood ''.

`` Sally '', admonished her mother, `` you've got all evening to visit with Dan.

But with Bill O'Connor on the fiddle, and Gran Harrow exuberantly shouting `` Glory Be '' and `` Hallelujah '' above their united chant of the lilting old ballads, they played their quaint folk games with all the fervor and abandon of a real celebration.

With Rod on his way and Matilda visiting with Mrs. Jackson while they searched out familiar names on the face of the cliff, Harmony settled on the edge of the grub box, to ease the pressure of her swollen body on her bone-weary legs, and worried about all that might have happened to Sally.

`` Moriarty '', my driver suddenly exclaimed with something so definite, so final in his tone I once more repeated the absurdity, mustering all my latent powers of hypocrisy to sound convinced.

He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.

`` Yes, I'm still all covered with that soap.

this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.

His presence there, asleep in the grass, confirmed all that Mary Jane believed it was in his power to teach her: freedom from the tedium of needs such as hotels, the meaning of nature, how to live, simply, with the angels.

Mary Jane belonged to a world acquainted with small attractive hotels and pensions in all the major and minor cities.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

As cheerfully as possible, he said, `` Well, I guess we could all do with a little drink ''.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

They have pulled out all my teeth and now she will carve out my tongue with her hacksaw!!

Real big, with shoulders out to here, and hair all over him like a grizzly.

Everything was burnished with sweat and grease so that all of the objects seemed to have been carved from the same material and to be ageless.

`` As my wife puts it '', he said, again with a twinkle in his eyes, `` all you know is your music.

Variants of TKS and TK-3 Polish tankettes up-armed with 20 mm ( 23 – 26 vehicles ) were operationally deployed in the invasion of Poland.

* Turkey – According to one source, two were sold to Turkey in 1935, along with 60 T-26, five T-27 tankettes, and about 60 BA-6 armoured cars to form the 1st Tank Regiment of the 2nd Cavalry Division at Luleburgaz.

The Italians were equipped with L3 tankettes and M11 / 39 medium tanks, neither of which had any chance against the Matildas.

Instead, the cavalry units were equipped with modern armament, including 75 mm guns, tankettes, 37mm AT guns, 40mm AA guns, anti-tank rifles and other pieces of modern weaponry.

The mounted infantry rode over behind the attacking German armor in behind the tankettes with the tank men throwing smoke grenades to cover the approach.

The British Carden Loyd tankette was considered the classic and most successful design, with many other tankettes modelled after it.

The Italian Royal Army ( Regio Esercito ) equipped three armored divisions and three " fast " ( celere ) divisions with L3 / 33 and L3 / 35 tankettes.

In 1939, re-arming of the tankettes with 38FK 20 mm machine guns began, but only about 24 were completed before the outbreak of World War II.

Only the handful of tankettes armed with 20 mm guns had a fighting chance against the enemy tanks ; in one instance on 18 September 1939 a 20 mm gunned TKS with Nkm wz. 38 FK commanded by Podchorazy or Officer Candidate in the rank of SFC Roman Orlik destroyed three German Panzerkampfwagen 35 ( t ) tanks.

As with most tankettes it was severely deficient in armor protection, and was easy prey for a. 50 caliber machinegun ( heavy machinegun ).

Italian tankettes advancing with a flame thrower tank in the lead at the Battle of Guadalajara.

Italian tankettes advancing with a flame thrower tank in the lead at Guadalajara.

The Type 97 was deployed in Manchukuo ( Manchuria ) and China in combat operations in the Second Sino-Japanese War with considerable success, as the ill-equipped National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China forces were limited to only three tank battalions consisting of British exports of the Vickers, German Panzer Is, and Italian CV33 tankettes.

The army only had 16 tanks apart from a small number of tankettes armed with machine guns.

Peculiar vehicles were Polish armoured draisines-they were tanks or tankettes fitted with special rail chassis, able to be used on rails or on the ground, leaving the rail chassis on the rails.

While the infantry based part of the doctrine demanded " powerful tanks " ( heavy tanks armed with infantry guns and machineguns ) and " tankettes " ( light, often amphibious tanks with machineguns ), the shock Army demanded " manoeuvre tanks " ( fast tanks with medium guns ) used in conjunction with motorized forces and " mechanized cavalry " that would operate in depth as " strategic cavalry " combined with nascent airborne troops.

The 21st Armoured Battalion under Maj. Stanisław Gliński, equipped mostly with Polish TKS tankettes was ordered to counter-attack the village, along with the cavalry squadron of Captain Jerzy Hollak.

Although the tankettes were not supplied with antitank ammunition, in chaos of the battle they managed to halt the German advance for a moment.