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I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.
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At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!
In his Message of December 2, 1862, he put his purpose and his policy in these words -- which I would call the Lincoln Law of Liberty-and-Union: `` In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free ''.
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.
What I have to put up with!!
Sonuvabitch, I can't figure out what in hell for they went and put niggers in my squad for.
Somebody, got to be somebody If I don't put my two cents in soon, somebody else will I know they're waitin only for one thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed.
Had to put my foot on it to hole it down while I cut it up fer the lob-scuse ''.
`` Connections '' was all he would say with that smooth hurt smile when I put leading questions.
That's why I only put towels on his chest and belly.
I put my arm carefully around him.
As soon as they are large enough to move, I put mine 9 inches apart where they are to bloom.
I put a little scoop of pulverized phosphate rock or steamed bone meal into each hole with the plant.
( Sometimes I think you need only one rule for cooking: if you can't put garlic in it, put chocolate in it.
Her presence only made Letch more distant and irritable and, in the hurry of buying Chateau Belletch, I had neglected to consider a room for Baby-dear, so there was no place to put her, anyhow.
She said to the saleslady, `` I want a dress to put on around the house ''.
`` The human ego being what it is '', I put in, `` science fiction has always assumed that the creatures on the planets of a thousand larger solar systems than ours must look like gigantic tube-nosed fruit bats.
This theory has been put so clearly and precisely that it deserves criticism of the same kind, and this I will do my best to supply.
As for me, I am holding in reserve two huge puzzles ( I love puzzles ) to put together when time hangs heavy on my hands.
I and lot
`` I seen a lot o' things in my time.
`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.
She's been hangin' around me a lot here lately, and I figgered I might as well's try it.
`` Baby, I saw a lot of old friends I hadn't seen in a long time '', he told me, his eyes bright.
Or: `` I walk around the house a lot ''.
I have heard people talk with contempt about the British regulars, but that only proves that a lot of people talk about things of which they are deplorably ignorant.
They were always leaping to light cigarettes, open car doors, fill plates or glasses, and I mistrusted the whole lot of them to the same degree that I mistrusted bake shops that called themselves `` Sanitary Bake Shops ''.
What I find appalling -- and really dangerous -- is the American assumption that the Negro is so contented with his lot here that only the cynical agents of a foreign power can rouse him to protest.
I wasn't far behind him when he entered the parking lot and hurried over to his car.
I circled the block and found he was in the parking lot of a high-class restaurant.
`` A lot of people are so peculiar that they don't like cats, it's not the easiest thing in the world to find good homes for kittens -- and, damn it, you know very well if I have them around long, impossible to give them away!!
Still, I wanted to get this over with, had a lot of paper work waiting in my own office.
and I knew they knew it, for I'd told them a lot of it.
`` We'll let him do a lot of running this week, but I don't know if he'll be able to play ''.
It was a real stimulant to a lot of guys I know who have moved past the 2-score-year milestone.
`` It would make me feel a lot better, but the Woman's Exchange isn't taking baked goods any more and I can't leave the baby with Grandma because she isn't strong enough and the baby's too young to be put in a nursery ''.
Actually, there was a lot of force in him, which is why I kept on in that class instead of quitting after a week.
Via was in the parking lot when I went outside.
`` Somehow I imagine that as you grew up you were alone a lot.
I had a lot to be thankful for.
I and more
We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.
Now dammit, I don't want to go into any more explanations.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
`` I ain't going to fight you no more ''.
`` Moriarty '', my driver suddenly exclaimed with something so definite, so final in his tone I once more repeated the absurdity, mustering all my latent powers of hypocrisy to sound convinced.
I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.
with more time I could have loosened a small burr or cotter pin --
`` I couldn't agree with you more ''.
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.
`` I don't believe I'll play any more neither ''.
But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.
I suspect that there are far more unreconstructed ones than the North likes to believe.
I was far from convinced of the truth of my statement, but could not think of anything that might evoke responses more quickly.
I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.
I granted this might be so, but found the result to be even more attention to form than was the case previously.
I have more than once sat cross-legged in the grass through a long summer morning and watched without touching while a poppy bud higher than my head slowly but visibly pushed off its cap, unfolded, and shook out like a banner in the sun its flaming vermilion petals.
In the work of every artist, I suppose, there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ;
But I think that something more than this is involved.
I want to say more about Gabriel's so-called fundamental law.
Father Murray goes back to the Declaration of Independence, too, though I may add, with considerably more historical perception.
`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.
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