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How could he exert authority over them -- make them toe the line, as he had to -- if he knuckled under to this small-town clown??
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
He had considered throwing erasers or flipping paperwads at someone or pulling the hair of the girl sitting in front of him, but he couldn't take a chance on either of these possibilities: the teacher probably would make him stand face-to-wall in a corner instead of stay in after school.
Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.
And for the first time a representative of the highest office in the land would have been liable to the charge that he had attempted to make it a successorship by inheritance.
When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.
Mother and son recognize each other and, in Mann's version of this legend, make a remarkable confession of guilt to each other, the confession of unconscious motive and unconscious knowledge of their true identities from the time they had first set eyes on each other.
There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.
To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.
Bang-Jensen said you told correspondents that you had checked in advance to make sure the term ' aberrant conduct ' was not libelous.
He would not make a sound until the President had wakened and left for the office ; ;
I've had a trying day and I just can't make it out again '', I told them.
A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.
Mrs. Podger had obligingly pushed things around on the porch to make room for it, and there it was, slung in a vine-shaded corner, the night breeze rippling its fringe with a slow, caressing movement.
Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.
Investors breathed more freely when it was learned that this acrobatic dancer had turned magician and was only doing a best seller book to make some dough.
In fact, he intimated clearly that that was the reason that Wilson had been sent here -- to make a larger contribution of dollar money.
He explained his errand, but without bothering much to make it plausible, for he felt something well up in him which was the reason why he had fled the army.
I had to shake her to make her listen.
That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.
Up until that time it had been possible to make cutters for making gear teeth, but they were good for only one sharpening.
He had a bakery make buns sized to fit his franks.
We have seen good new products shelved because no one had the assignment to develop such facts and plans -- and management couldn't make up its mind.

had and Jess
He had found Curt's weakness, or what to Jess was a weakness, and was smart enough to take advantage of it.
Pain shot up Curt's arm clear to the shoulder, but Jess seemed hardly aware that he had been hit.
Jess had had enough.
Market research indicated, however, that this scenario would not be popular, so Jess Oppenheimer changed it to make Ricky Ricardo a struggling young orchestra leader and Lucy an ordinary housewife who had show business fantasies but no talent.
" Some of this alcohol had been directly confiscated from the Prohibition department by Jess Smith, assistant to U. S. Attorney General Harry Daugherty.
) Daugherty's famous defense attorney, Max D. Steuer, blamed all corruption allegations brought against Daugherty on Jess Smith, an aide at the Justice Department who had committed suicide.
Daugherty, according to a 1924 Senate investigation into the Justice Department, had authorized a system of graft between aides Jess Smith and Howard Mannington.
Arnaz and Jess Oppenheimer decided, however, that Lucy needed to work in front of an audience to create the kind of comic energy she had displayed on radio.
Among his opponents were Fireman Jim Flynn, the only boxer ever to beat Dempsey by a knockout when Dempsey lost to him in the first round ( although many boxing historians, including Monte Cox, believe the fight was a " fix "), and Gunboat Smith, formerly a highly ranked contender who had beaten both World Champion Jess Willard and Hall of Famer Sam Langford.
While Yates was fighting for custody of Tiger, it was reported in the media that Jess Yates had not been Yates's natural father.
After Green's death from lung cancer, Botham wrote the exposé story, also in the News of the World, of Green being the biological father of Jess Yates's daughter, TV presenter Paula Yates, a fact she had first learned after the tabloids printed the story ( although Green being her father had been an " urban legend " for many years ).
The two almost kiss, but Jess pulls away, saying her parents would object ; although they had bent their rules to let her go to America to play, she doesn't think they would be able to handle her breaking another cultural taboo.
" Within this framework, historian Jess Nevins writes that, " Timely Publications how Goodman's group companies had become known ; before this it was known as ' Red Circle ' because of the logo that Goodman had put on his pulp magazines ...." A variation was used as a publishing imprint on some Timely comics, with the Michigan State University's Comic Art Collection Reading Room Index giving Red Circle Magazines as an " American comics publisher, a Timely-Marvel imprint ", and listing issues of Comic Capers ( 1946 ), Snafu ( 1956 ) and My Own Romance ( 1960 ) as examples.
By 1939, Jess Easterday had switched to bass to replace Red Jones, and Acuff had added guitarist Lonnie " Pap " Wilson and banjoist Rachel Veach to fill out the band's line-up.
Jess began having more control over her visions during season three, but the problem was that Janey Cooper, an agent who had come to train with the bureau, kept popping up in them.
Fall, whom he appointed Secretary of the Interior ; Daughery, whom he appointed Attorney General ; Forbes, whom he appointed Director of the Veterans ' Bureau ; Thomas W. Miller, whom he appointed Alien Property Custodian, and Jesse W. " Jess " Smith who had office room in the Department of Justice.
Fall had become Secretary of the Interior by forging Daugherty's signature, and that his close friend, Jess Smith, had killed himself because of diabetes, not a guilty conscience.
Vincent James McMahon was born on July 6, 1914 in Harlem, New York to his father Roderick James " Jess " McMahon, an Irish-American, was a successful boxing, wrestling and concert promoter who had worked with legendary Madison Square Garden promoter Tex Rickard, and his mother Rose, a New Yorker of Irish descent.

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