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was and convinced
Because he couldn't hear them, he was more convinced they were there.
Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.
I was far from convinced of the truth of my statement, but could not think of anything that might evoke responses more quickly.
If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.
His `` articulate Jewish friends '' convinced him that education ( read `` reading '' ) was `` a must ''.
The more I talked with him, the more convinced I became that that was the secret of their riotous blooming.
By 1952 he was convinced he would no longer spray.
But still Mel Chandler was not completely convinced that men would really die for a four-syllable word, `` Garryowen ''.
Still later, he finally convinced himself that it was an accident -- just a coincidence.
But he was convinced that the realities of power -- military, economic and ideological -- were the decisive factors in the struggle with the Communists and that these could not be talked away at a heads of government meeting.
Mr. Kennedy was convinced that insistence on the demand would make international agreements, or even negotiations, impossible.
But the beer hall riot in Subic had been unusual, too, and Walt Perry was convinced that Doc had started it through some expert tactics in rabble rousing.
She convinced him that he ought to be a member of some of the small tea-drinking parties she held at her rooms and in the end he complied with her wishes, although it was only rarely that he added anything to the random conversations.
With Herberet's blessing, he was convinced that Allstates' Wisconsin folly would be ideal for conversion to airplane sub-assembly, tanks, missiles or ordnance of some kind.
Reluctant at first, Fernández was finally convinced to pose nude to create what today is known as the " Oscar ".
Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.
Hushai convinced Absalom to ignore Ahithophel's advice to attack his father while he was on the run, and instead prepare his forces for a major attack.
While the Byzantine troops were assembling for the expedition, Alexios was approached by the Doukas faction at court, who convinced him to join a conspiracy against Nikephoros III.

was and George
In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.
she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.
His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.
Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.
On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.
His coat trimmed in sable, diamond stars of the Orders of Saints Andrew or George agleam, he was often prone to sit sulkily, eye downcast, in a Scheherazade trance.
Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.
His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.
A three-dimensional exhibit depicting `` A Century Of Naval Medicine '' was formally presented to The Director by George S. Squibb, great-grandson of the founder of E. R. Squibb and Sons, for permanent display in the Museum.
The sentimental pure heart of Galahad is gone with the knightly years, but I still believe in the heart of the George Meredith character that was not made of the stuff that breaks ''.
In the United States Department of Agriculture's Yearbook Of Agriculture, 1952, which is devoted entirely to insects, George E. Bohart mentions a site in Utah which was estimated to contain 200,000 nesting females.
George Woodcock was manager and troubleshooter ; ;
The next speaker was George T. Day.
A chance remark about Lenin's sealed train brought the rejoinder that this was a myth akin to George Washington's cherry tree.
For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.
Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.
To everyone's astonishment he seemed no more like the run-of-the-mine Russian ambassador than George Babbitt was like Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.

was and Orwell's
George Orwell's classic dystopia Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949.
Other literary portrayals of planned economies were Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, which was an influence on Orwell's work.
Tibbetts argues that such a relation between NCTE and Orwell's work is contradicting because ' the Committee's attitude towards language is liberal, even radical ' while ' Orwell's attitude was conservative, even reactionary '.
Diamond Dogs ( 1974 ), parts of which found him heading towards soul and funk, was the product of two distinct ideas: a musical based on a wild future in a post-apocalyptic city, and setting George Orwell's 1984 to music.
Pollitt was suspicious of Orwell's political reliability ; he asked him whether he would undertake to join the International Brigade and advised him to get a safe-conduct from the Spanish Embassy in Paris.
Orwell spent time in Wallington and Southwold working on a Dickens essay and it was in July 1939 that Orwell's father, Richard Blair, died.
Eleven eventually appeared and Orwell's The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius was the first and was published on 19 February 1941.
This was Orwell's first experience of the rigid conformity of life in an office.
In March 1943 Orwell's mother died and around the same time he told Moore he was starting work on a new book, which would turn out to be Animal Farm.
Orwell's health was in decline again by Christmas.
Orwell's son, Richard Blair, was raised by an aunt after his father's death.
Journalist and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens was one of several authors influenced by Orwell's politics and use of language
" Christopher Norris declared that Orwell's " homespun empiricist outlook – his assumption that the truth was just there to be told in a straightforward common-sense way – now seems not merely naive but culpably self-deluding ".
In Orwell's Victory, Christopher Hitchens argues, " In answer to the accusation of inconsistency Orwell as a writer was forever taking his own temperature.
Jacintha Buddicom repudiated Orwell's schoolboy misery described in the essay, stating that " he was a specially happy child ".
" Jackson was to be the most critical of Orwell's marriage to Eileen O ' Shaughnessy but their later correspondence hints at a complicity.
Eileen at the time was more concerned about Orwell's closeness to Brenda Salkield.
Orwell's first published article in his home country, A Farthing Newspaper, was a critique of the new French daily the Ami de Peuple.
the other crucial dimension to Orwell's socialism was his recognition that the Soviet Union was not socialist.

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