But it at least offered him a chance for living.

sufficiently, at least, to get them back into town.

Not without a face-saving respite of at least a few minutes.

It seemed long, at least to Tom Brannon.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

Or at least not to Joyce.

It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.

I'll be soaking for at least half an hour ''.

`` I might have starved, but at least I wouldn't be fried to a crisp and soaked with dirt ''!!

After the war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to visit her home with her.

Slug the kid, grab his dough -- at least enough to get to Philadelphia -- and then have a rockin' ball with the doll.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

His assumption seems to be that any such friends, being tolerable humans, must be more liberal than most Southerners and therefore at least partly in sympathy with his views.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

By subduing disparate lesser groups the nation has, to some degree at least, broadened the capacity for individual liberty.

And it is expressed, at least to their taste, in a perfect form.

On this trip to the South he wants, above all else, to sniff the effluvium of backwoods-and-sand-hill subhumanity and to see at least one barn burn at midnight ''.

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.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

Any attempt to reconcile this statement of the central issue in the campaign of 1956 with the nature of the man who could not conceive it as the central issue will at least resolve our confusions about the chaotic and misleading results of the earnestness of both doctors and President in a situation which should never have arisen.

The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.

They have an ancestry extending back, however, at least to 1728, when William Byrd described the Lubberlanders he encountered in the back country of Virginia and North Carolina.

They mounted up and rode slowly behind the others at a safe distance.

All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

Tom Brannon had caught up with the outfit shortly after the Maguires joined it, which had been at midday.

Damn it, he thought bitterly, picking up his shirt and staring at the fresh bullet hole in the sleeve.

Dan asked Hez, who had limped back from his team to hold the notched-stick chair braces in place while his boys swung up the tailgate and tied it tight at the ends.

Hez looked up at the high face of Emigrant Rock, official signboard for the Raft River turnoff, and gloated, `` Seems funny that them Burnsides never took time to leave their John-Henry up thar ''.

At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.

He half sat up and scratched at the hair on his forehead and then, more vigorously, between his legs.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

He walked straight up to the man sitting on the ground and bent over to look at him.

He slammed the door and listened as his servants ran up, alarmed at the sound of the shots.

As he looked up from picking at a leg ulcer, he saw a marine in the jungle across the clearing.

Taking aim at the man's face, Matsuo squeezed the trigger up to the point of discharge, and then he changed his mind.

But the fighting marshal's fifty-year run of immunity from violent death came to a full and final stop one night in a street at Cromwell, Oklahoma, where he had been sent to clean up the gambling and vice rackets.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

About that time Miss Langford straightened up and looked out the window directly at him, he thought, although probably she didn't even see him.

Then the boy straight-armed himself up, twisting at the last moment so he landed sitting.

He need only pick up one of the two red telephone receivers at his extreme left, right next to the big red button marked alert.

They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.

He does not know whether to look up or look aside, to put his hands in his pockets or to clench them at his side, to cross the street, or to continue on the same side.

We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.