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I and asked
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
I asked Rawlins.
`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.
I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.
I asked the same questions inside the launch-control rooms of an Atlas missile base in Wyoming, where officers who wear sidearms are manning the `` commit buttons '' that could start a war -- accidentally or by design -- and in the command centers where other pistol-packing men could give orders to push such buttons.
I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.
I asked.
How, I asked, could chaos be admitted to chaos??
I asked about the battle between life and death in his plays.
Given a theological lead, I asked what he thinks about those who find a religious significance to his plays.
At a party an English intellectual -- so-called -- asked me why I write always about distress.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
Just as I was about to enlarge upon my discovery of the underside of the leaf of love, memory, displeased at being asked to yield its unsavory secrets, dashed ahead of me, calling back over its shoulder: `` Skip it.
The waspish man stopped me three paces from the bicycle barricade, and asked me in French if I had papers to leave France.
I asked him.
I asked.
One of the girl students, sitting by while I ate the thick soup, asked me if I had a sleeping bag.
I asked him.
Once or twice my father asked me if I wasn't overdoing a bit in my churchgoing.

I and silly
There have been cooing doves, chattering magpies, thieving jackdaws, a proud peacock, a silly goose, and a harpy eagle -- whom I was silly enough to mate with and who is now busy tearing at my vitals ''.
But I would not pamper myself in that silly way.
I felt my frozen sad face crumble, and I grinned a silly one I couldn't have helped.
Anyway, I didn't like the picture – thought it was silly and stupid – then, when I saw the astronauts: what else are they but part of a machine?
As teacher on this point, I shall produce to you the Sibyl prophetess :- ' Not the oracular lie of Phoebus, Whom silly men called God, and falsely termed Prophet ; But the oracles of the great God, who was not made by men's hands, Like dumb idols of Sculptured stone.
::: So I ’ m not going to throw away my short allotment of life on a futile, silly hope, searching for something there simply cannot be, a completely blameless man — not among us mortals who must win our bread from the broad earth.
David said, ' When he looks at me and flare those nostrils ; and he would be gone ,' it would be such a wonderful thing to see this great big guy just reduced to a giggling idiot by Harry, but unfortunately, all I could do is to tell you, we had great fun doing the show ; and much of it was laughing at some silly gag that one of us had pulled on the others.
I knew silly buggers like that in India ".
So when I read in New York that I was to do this film, I said ' How silly!
But then the success was so monumental that I was getting offers to be in such interesting movies and be in such interesting places, and it seemed silly to pursue anything else.
[...] I had no idea that he would prove so popular that he would eventually take over the entire series, and later we would be stuck with that silly name!
Her stuff, that she makes, I think, is silly and very soon her career will wither away and disappear.
Roger Ebert concluded, " Earth Girls Are Easy is silly and predictable and as permanent as a feather in the wind, but I had fun watching it.
In this scene, twelve of Joan's sixteen lines have been cut ; the entire seven line speech where she says John Talbot refused to fight her because she is a woman ( ll. 37 – 43 ); the first three lines of her five line mockery of Lucy's listing of Talbot's titles, " Here's a silly, stately style indeed ./ The Turk, that two-and-fifty kingdoms hath ,/ Writes not so tedious a style as this " ( ll. 72 – 75 ); and the first two lines of her four line speech where she mocks Lucy, " I think this upstart is old Talbot's ghost ,/ He speaks with such a proud commanding spirit " ( ll. 86 – 88 ).
I supported the Iraq War and ( although I feel kind of silly about it in retrospect ) the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
I had the silly thing in reverse!
: Oh Mr Porter what a silly girl I am!

I and question
Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
I grinned, but ignored the question.
When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;
I never heard of a poll being taken on the question.
I leave out of account the question of the best interests of the children, the question of what their best interests really are.
Carl thought the question over slowly and answered: `` I know a starving man who is fed never remembers all the pangs of his starvation, I know that ''.
He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.
If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.
Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.
While I respect his sincere concern for peace, he made four points that I would like to question.
Everywhere I went in Formosa I asked the same question.
And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang Kai-shek: `` In America '', I said, `` practically no one believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland.
I answered the routine question about my itinerary, rather coolly.
I was interested in James Webb Young's Madison Avenue column in which he raised the question: `` Do We Need a College of Propaganda ''??
this is a question which I have no wish to take up -- condensation is a phenomenon in which one finds not a condensed expression of various feelings and ideas which are, at an unconscious level, well sorted out, but rather a condensed expression of feelings and ideas which, even in the unconscious, have yet to become well differentiated from one another.

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