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But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.
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what and you
I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.
and, when you took a walk you never knew what adventure or pair of sparkling eyes were waiting around the next corner.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.
`` At 200, 300, 400 feet under the water, when he must be paying very much attention, he will be thinking about what you are telling him.
what and could
I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.
He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.
Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.
It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
Let us look in on one of these nerve centers -- SAC at Omaha -- and see what must still happen before a wing of B-52 bombers could drop their Aj.
The debate needed no additional controversy and soon I could ask each individually what he expected from life, what his hopes were and what his fears.
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.
No matter what troubles might betide him, this most American of artists knew in his heart he could not function properly outside his native land.
First, it could locate the enemy infantry, learn what they were doing, and hold them until the heavy foot columns could come up and take over.
what and know
Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.
No one seemed to know for sure what had happened, nor was there any purpose or responsibility in the muttering feet and urgent voices behind the driver, beyond finding out.
`` You know what they say about two deep dives in one day '', Artie went on, still twirling the snorkle and studying it intently.
If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.
`` I've been in government and I can tell some pretty hairy stories about personnel difficulties, so I know what a problem he was ''.
Mama didn't know what to do -- whether to tell on Rob Roy or not -- since she had the ear of Mrs. Coolidge more than the other maids.
But, here again, comparative benchmarks are lacking, and we do not know, in any case, what measure of profoundity and intensity to expect from healthy, young, secure and relatively inexperienced persons ; ;
But you could ( as from yourself ) tell her that you had friends who, being with the army, don't know what to do with their money and would willingly let her have one or many thousand dollars ''.
To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.
The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know.
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