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I met a man whose most frequent expression was, “ Do it yourself .” Along with that came the implicit understanding that I had an obligation to find my own way forward.
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It was a disturbingly familiar face, too, but I couldn't remember where we had met.
I was aware that when our eyes met we both quickly averted them.
A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.
after all, the large ( and probably unreliable ) Reader's Digest literature on the `` most unforgettable character I ever met '' deals with village grocers, country doctors, favorite if illiterate aunts, and so forth.
As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.
`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.
I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;
Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.
I feel that few burglars would be prone to break and enter into someone's apartment if they were met with a good hardy growl that a dog would provide.
I did have the decency to call up Thelma and tell her I'd met old friends and would be home late.
I wrote her that I'd met up with Eileen and that old bonds had proved too strong and asked her to send my clothes down by express.
We didn't even know them till about a month after we moved -- at that time, they had called on us, after I met Fran at a PTA meeting, and had taken us in hand socially.
The husbands of these women and others I had met in Catatonia were distinguished only in that they were, to me at least, indistinguishable.
But everyone I met had sought cover first and asked questions later.
In the evening the former Oregon State science teachers met for dinner at the New Tokyo Restaurant where I had my first raw fish and found it good.
Hiroshima is a better city than it was before -- in the minds of the people I met was a strong determination for peace and understanding.
Chaplin, 71, who met K. when the Soviet boss visited England in 1956, confided that he hopes to visit Russia some time this summer because `` I have marveled at your grandiose experiment and I believe in your future ''.
Then the monk praised Yang Shan saying: `` I have come over to China in order to worship Manjucri, and met unexpectedly with Minor Shakya '', and after giving the master some palm leaves he brought from India, went back through the air.
The upshot of the evening was that I got the address of Pendleton's studio -- or rather, of the studio in which he gave his classes, for he didn't work there himself -- and joined the life class, which met every Tuesday and Thursday from ten to twelve in the morning.
I met Claire, which was better.
I'd never even petted with a boy, and after I met Johnnie he never touched me for the longest while, not until I all but threw myself at him.
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I made you a man ''.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.
As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.
The rest of the time I devoted to painting or to those other activities a young and healthy man just out of college finds interesting.
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.
I expected Brassnose -- as a man with a strain of Melanesian in his blood -- to speak to them.
I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.
`` I am an honest man '', the German said with fervor.
`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
A man must be able to say, `` Father, I have sinned '', or there is no hope for him.
`` I scanned the world through printed symbol swart, And through the beggar's rags I strove to see The inner man.
But I have been at some pains to review it as the drama of the common man, to point up what happened to him under Eisenhower's leadership.
Said: `` There are things I must tell you about this man you are marrying which he does not know himself ''.
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 ''.
I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.
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