Ekstrohm lay in his bunk and listened to the sounds of the night on Yancey-6 138.

Ekstrohm asked.

`` I think they're dead '', Ekstrohm interjected quietly.

`` Ekstrohm, you and I will have a look '', Ryan said.

Ekstrohm smiled, and followed the captain through the airlock with only a glance at the lapel gauge on his coverall.

Ekstrohm nudged it with a boot.

Ekstrohm cleared his throat.

`` No, it isn't '', Ekstrohm said.

Ekstrohm suggested.

Ekstrohm was not asleep.

Ekstrohm stood up.

Ekstrohm never slept.

Ekstrohm had to hide his secret.

Ekstrohm picked up a lightweight no-back from the ship's library, a book by Bloch, the famous twentieth century expert on sex.

Ekstrohm walked through the alien glass and looked up at the unfamiliar constellations, smelling the frozen sterility of the thin air.

Ekstrohm was startled in the morning by a banging on the hatch of his bubble.

Ekstrohm shouldered his way outside and scanned the veldt.

`` I'll be damned '', Ekstrohm said.

Ekstrohm demanded.

`` Listen, Ekstrohm, I want to give you the benefit of every doubt.

`` No '', Ekstrohm said, `` No, I didn't know that ''.

It was not a new experience to Ekstrohm.

Ekstrohm scowled.

The bunk he lay on was much more uncomfortable than the acceleration couches on board.

In the first ship, the X-9 ( later replaced briefly by the X-10 ), the crew at takeoff lay upon tilted bunk beds on their elbows, a posture based upon space-travel theories of the time.

Deciding it would be better to remain where other officers knew where to find him if they needed him, he lay awake in his bunk until fourth officer Joseph Boxhall summoned him to the bridge.

I suddenly thought of Mary Jane Brennan, the way her pretty eyes could flash with anger, her quiet competence, the gentleness and sweetness that lay just beneath the surface of her defenses.

He had never heard so many bells, and as he lay there listening, he thought of her scolding him for his remarks when he had looked up at the obelisk and the church at the top of the Spanish Steps.

Nichiren thought this could be achieved in Japan by withdrawing lay support so that the deviant monks would be forced to change their ways or revert to laymen to prevent starving.

Immediately following his election, Urban began preaching intemperately to the cardinals ( some of whom < ref > Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14 < sup > th </ sup > Century, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978, pp 330 – 331 </ ref > thought the delirium of power had made Urban mad and unfit for rule ), insisting that the business of the Curia should be carried on without gratuities and gifts, forbidding the cardinals to accept annuities from rulers and other lay persons, condemning the luxury of their lives and retinues, and the multiplication of benefices and bishoprics in their hands.

While Sapir never made a point of studying directly how languages affected the thought processes of their speakers, some notion of ( probably " weak ") linguistic relativity lay inherent in his basic understanding of language, and would be taken up by his student Benjamin Lee Whorf.

In the 1970s, the focus of debate within American human geography lay on political economic processes ( though there also was a considerable number of accounts for a phenomenological perspective on social geography ), while in the 1990s, geographical thought was heavily influenced by the " cultural turn ".

One of the earliest acts of the new ministry was to lay an embargo upon corn, which was thought necessary in order to prevent a dearth resulting from the unprecedented bad harvest of 1766.

He thought these skills that would lay the foundation for the creation of stability that the African-American community required in order to move forward.

Towards the end of the period of Crusader rule, in 1166 Maimonides visited Hebron, which he apparently thought lay east of Jerusalem, and wrote ,' On Sunday, 9 Marheshvan ( 17 October ), I left Jerusalem for Hebron to kiss the tombs of my ancestors in the Cave.

For the Duke thought it unseemly to receive money for such merchandise, and equally he considered it wrong that Harold should be buried as his mother wished, since so many men lay unburied because of his avarice.

A number of groups have claimed possible descent from the Scythians, including the Ossetians, Pashtuns ( in particular, the Sakzai tribe ), Jats and the Parthians ( whose homelands lay to the east of the Caspian Sea and who were thought to have come there from north of the Caspian ).

In the Enneads Plotinus writes: " Our thought cannot grasp the One as long as any other image remains active in the soul … To this end, you must set free your soul from all outward things and turn wholly within yourself, with no more leaning to what lies outside, and lay your mind bare of ideal forms, as before of the objects of sense, and forget even yourself, and so come within sight of that One.

The critic Ernest Newman suggests that Bizet may at this time thought that his future lay in the field of instrumental music, before an " inner voice " ( and the realities of the French musical world ) turned him towards the stage.

Since it is impossible to have pleasure without pain, Cārvāka thought that wisdom lay in enjoying pleasure and avoiding pain as far as possible.

Epaminondas saved the life of his fellow Theban Pelopidas ; Pelopidas, after receiving seven wounds in front, sank down upon a great heap of friends and enemies who lay dead together ; but Epaminondas, although he thought him lifeless, stood forth to defend his body and his arms, and fought desperately, single-handed against many, determined to die rather than leave Pelopidas lying there.

Oswine and Oswiu came into conflict circa 651, Bede blames Oswiu for the troubles and writes: For when they had raised armies against one another, Oswin perceived that he could not maintain a war against one who had more auxiliaries than himself, and he thought it better at that time to lay aside all thoughts of engaging, and to preserve himself for better times.

When the Egyptians conquered Sinai, he was also thought to guard the turquoise mines, which predominantly lay within Sinai.

In a poll organised by The Architectural Review in 1939 to find what lay people thought were Britain's best modern buildings, Battersea Power Station was in second place, behind the Peter Jones building.

Although it is sometimes mistakenly thought to be Rostropovich, Tortelier is the inventor of the bent cello pin, enabling the instrument to lay more horizontally than vertically.

The philosophy of Victor Cousin influenced him strongly, but his strength lay in exposition and criticism rather than in original thought.

And when in 1890 he began to gather together the miscellaneous essays and papers written during a period of sixty years, he expressed the hope that, though " they could lay no claim to logical consistency ," they might yet show " beneath the varying complexion of their thought some intelligible moral continuity ," " leading in the end to a view of life more coherent and less defective than was presented at the beginning.

The estates could only assemble when summoned by him ; he could dismiss them whenever he thought fit ; and their deliberations were to be confined exclusively to the propositions which he might think fit to lay before them.

The Greeks thought that Boreas, the North Wind, lived in Thrace, and that therefore Hyperborea was an unspecified region in the northern lands that lay beyond the north wind.

Marius, finding himself overshadowed by his colleagues and compromised by their excesses, thought seriously of breaking with them, and Saturninus and Glaucia saw that their only hope of safety lay in their retention of office.