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I and might
We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
But Johnson couldn't quickly unwire the truck door, and if I escaped, he might suffer.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
But a young American has a bath next to his room and I shall ask him if you might use it this once.
`` I might have starved, but at least I wouldn't be fried to a crisp and soaked with dirt ''!!
She's been hangin' around me a lot here lately, and I figgered I might as well's try it.
`` I might try it one of these days '', Jack said wonderingly, thinking of Miss Langford.
Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.
I was far from convinced of the truth of my statement, but could not think of anything that might evoke responses more quickly.
Others mentioned that I might have had to ask friends or even strangers for help and that to be stranded in a foreign country without sufficient funds did not contribute to international understanding.
When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.
I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.
I suppose we might classify Billy Graham as an old liberal.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

I and point
I saw Little Billy rise and fire almost point blank and an Indian's face became shattered flesh and bone.
My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??
There had been classroom guffaws which quickly subsided as Professor Griggs said dryly: `` I see your point, Pauson.
I consider it the center of the world and make it a point to be there once a year ''.
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.
What I want to point out here is that all of them are ex-liberals, or modified liberals, with perhaps one exception.
While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.
One, a reservation on the point I have just made, is the phenomenon of pseudo-thinking, pseudo-feeling, and pseudo-willing, which Fromm discussed in The Escape From Freedom.
Along these lines, the particular point that sensitivity in literature leads to sensitivity in human relations would require more proof than I have seen.
Had I been granted the floor on a point of personal privilege, the matter she raised would have been clarified.
I suppose I am missing some elementary point but I honestly cannot see how two wrongs can make a right!!
Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members who desire to do so may extend their remarks at this point in the record ; ;
May I add a caution on this particular point??
I wonder if anyone ever bothered to make the point that when it comes to boats and their motors, Americans excel over any country in the world in the long run.
From this point, I paint in as direct a manner as possible, by flowing on the washes with as pure a color mixture as I can manage.
I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.
Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.
If this attitude is seriously questioned in the Soviet Union, it does not necessarily follow that the majority of the society in which I live is too aware of the necessity for clarity on this ethical as well as aesthetic point of view.
I tell you, I know how it is with you, my friend, I sympathize, and I'll make it a special point -- a special favor -- get in touch, and get some stuff just for you.

I and out
She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.
`` I guess I'll find out soon enough.
He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.
I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.
Print it in real big letters, an' I can cipher it out later ''.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
At these words of sympathy and understanding, Harmony said generously, `` I don't mind setting here along with Gran while you go out and join in the games ''.
Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.
Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.
She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
`` So I just scooted out of his clutches.
I swam like mad, got out of the pool, grabbed my robe, and ran to the car.
As I went out, I could hear water pouring in the shower.
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.
I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.
`` I don't want to be thrown out and I don't think I will.
He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.

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