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Angry that none of us knew anything but filth and poverty.
Both of those have had dynamic run-ups in price on the market in recent months, both were selling at higher price-earnings and yield bases than Morton was coming to market at, and everyone who knew anything about it expected the Morton stock to have a fast run-up.
The commission called for citizens who knew anything about the founding of baseball to send in letters.
Supposedly Tiberius knew of this but never dared to do anything about it.
When he asked whether she knew anything about his horses, she answered, that they were in her own possession, but that she would not give them up, unless he would consent to stay with her for a time.
In 1980, Julian Simon repeatedly challenged environmental scientists to bet against him on trends in prices of commodities, asserting that humanity would never run out of anything ... Paul and the other scientists knew that the five metals in the proposed wager were not critical indicators and said so at the time ...
I had never witnessed anything of the kind before, although like every person, I knew earthquakes by description.
" I like some men a lot, but from the start, before I knew anything, it was always girls and women who lit me up.
He rarely knew anything in-depth about the singer himself and primarily only catalogued verse that could be relevant or of some use in his work.
In Moon's biography, Full Moon, longtime friend and personal assistant Dougal Butler, observed: " He ( Moon ) would do anything if he knew that there were enough people around who didn't want him to do it.
" She knew no Egyptology -- or anything else.
The brothers, who conducted the operation, all they knew was that they have a martyrdom operation and we asked each of them to go to America but they didn't know anything about the operation, not even one letter.
Before receiving the formal nod, Harding was summoned by George Harvey, told he was considered to be the consensus nominee, and asked if he knew, " before God ", whether there was anything in his life which would be an impediment.
Although Harding was responsible for making these appointments, it is unclear how much, if anything, Harding himself knew about his friends ' illicit activities.
When the league was first organized in 1999, it was originally supposed to stand for " Xtreme Football League "; however, there was already a league in formation at the same time with that name, and so promoters wanted to make sure that everyone knew that the " X " did not actually stand for anything ( though McMahon would comment that " if the NFL stood for the ' No Fun League ', the XFL will stand for the ' extra fun league '").
The law may also have been used to prosecute adult male citizens who willingly took a pathic role in same-sex acts, but prosecutions are rarely recorded and the provisions of the law are vague ; as John Boswell has noted, " if there was a law against homosexual relations, no one in Cicero's day knew anything about it.
Angela Lansbury, who worked with the pair on State of the Union, later said: " We all knew, but nobody ever said anything.
Lustig was successful in keeping it a secret by making sure that not even the underlings knew anything about it.
In most, only the teacher knew anything at all about running a school.
According to Rüdiger Safranski ( 1998, 72 ), “ and his followers ’ great ambition was to disregard anything that had until then been thought or said about consciousness or the world on the lookout for a new way of letting the things investigated approach them, without covering them up with what they already knew .”
Of course nobody knew ; nobody at Waterloo ever does know where a train is going to start from, or where a train when it does start is going to, or anything about it.
At times, even the guests would find out that someone else had been listening to their confession while they were on stage or in the audience ( on one show in 1995, a guy who admitted to having a affair was unaware that his wife was onstage after Ricki saw her there and asked if she knew anything about what he was doing behind her back ).
According to a victims brother, Mirtala Linares ', testimony,He wouldn ’ t tell us anything ; he claimed they hadn ’ t captured, that he knew nothing of his whereabouts – and that maybe my brother had gone as an illegal alien to the United States!
Sutherland refused a script for this role, saying he knew Bethune's life so well they could ask him anythingand the interviewer ended up with enough material for two programs instead of the planned one.

knew and little
She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.
His English was limited, and the little he knew he found irritating.
He had bought a little piece of property down along the coast of the hard country of Calabria that he knew so well.
It is already difficult to recall how little we knew before the Trial of what had been done to the Jews of Europe.
They knew what they could do and it was often a little more than I thought they could do.
For Linda knew how to help her husband, not just the Stuart-family contacts but also the little dinners for Reuben Lovejoy.
the many little tricks she knew made her embrace the ultimate one -- the ever more fantastic pressures deeper in her body squeezed not me but the air I breathed into a nitrogen anesthetic.
The sensation he so overwhelmingly realized was one which told him he had been there before but he knew he had not, and could not recall any place he had visited to be likened to the limpid green water or the little fountain-falls or the green demon imprisoned beyond his reach.
I picked him up, and the length of him arched very carefully and gracefully and only a little wildly, and I could feel the coolness of that radiant, fire-colored body, like splendid ice, and I knew that he had eaten only recently because there were two whole and solid little lumps in the forepart of him, like fieldmice swallowed whole might make.
And then it moved a little more, and I knew the snake was dying, and I would have to kill it there.
He knew little about the technical details of the space program, and was put off by the massive financial commitment required by a manned Moon landing.
And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.
His thinking is often described as Hegelian because of his references to dialectical thinking but, although he probably knew Hegel, Clausewitz's dialectic is quite different and there is little reason to consider him a disciple.
His treatment of heresy, for example, is limited, and he knew very little about the Western church.
Fermi and his team knew that such work carried considerable risk but they considered the outcome so vital that they forged ahead with little regard for their own personal safety.
Some time ago, when the reading public was alarmed at being told how London milk is adulterated, timid persons deprecated the exposure, on the plea that it would give instructions in the art of adulterating milk ; a vain fear, milkmen knew all about it before, whether they practiced it or not ; and the exposure only taught purchasers the necessity of a little scrutiny and caution, leaving them to obey this necessity or not, as they pleased.
There was very little information available about the original project ( even ex-TSR employees having forgotten what they knew about the module over the years ), so the module was published based entirely on the working title and information drawn from Dragon magazine articles.
) Among those who critiqued him from the left were Marxist-humanist Raya Dunayevskaya, fellow German emigre Paul Mattick, both of whom subjected One-Dimensional Man to a Marxist critique, and Noam Chomsky, who knew and liked Marcuse " but thought very little of his work.
Gilead, e. g. a district little named in the prophets, is twice mentioned in Hosea ( Hosea 6: 8, 12: 11 ) and in such a manner as to suggest that he knew it by personal observation ; and Mizpah ( mentioned in Hosea 5: 1 ) is no doubt the Mizpah in Gilead
His esteem for Maimonides knew no bounds: he placed him next to the Prophets, and he exhibited little patience with Maimonides ' critics and detractors.
Many people knew of his work, but paid little attention to it.
Euler had limited training in rhetoric, and tended to debate matters that he knew little about, making him a frequent target of Voltaire's wit.
Some time ago, when the reading public was alarmed at being told how London milk is adulterated, timid persons deprecated the exposure, on the plea that it would give instructions in the art of adulterating milk ; a vain fear, milkmen knew all about it before, whether they practiced it or not ; and the exposure only taught purchasers the necessity of a little scrutiny and caution, leaving them to obey this necessity or not, as they pleased.

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