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They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.
The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.
If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.
Of course the higher officials could add or place a name on the list wherever they wished.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
But the citizens would, of course, never be sure that the decisions that resulted were as correct as they were expeditious.
It is true, of course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.
Since faculty see themselves as self-employed professionals rather than as employees, enthusiasm in a common enterprise is proportionate to the sense of ownership they have in it by virtue of sharing in the decisions that govern its course.
Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.
It is of course useful to have a sovereign cause on one's social criticism, for it makes diagnosis and prescription much easier than they might otherwise be.
It was there, in the course of trying to prepare new men for the `` culture shock '' they might encounter in remote overseas posts, that he first began to develop a system of charting the `` norms of human communication ''.
When we arrive at the events concerned in the vanished majority, they, of course, cannot impress us as anything familiar.
Of course they learned in time that they not only could use whole-wheat bread, but the children liked it better.
Diane was needed as a material witness in the case and New York police searched three continents before they found her in their own back yard -- in a swank hotel, of course.
They may, of course, be curiosity seekers -- or they may just be interested in the phenomenon of mediumship.
When the Negroes landed at Boston a month later they were, of course, no longer slaves.
Today many college bound students try to take a course in personal typing, as they feel a certain degree of mastery of this skill is almost essential for one who proposes to do academic work in college and a professional school.
Of course, most toilets are Eastern style -- at floor level -- but even when they are raised to chair height, they are actually outside toilets -- inside.
But of course the paterollers won't be of any help, not with everything so upset and that Yankee cavalry outfit they say is running around, God knows where ''.
There was, of course, no special reason to believe that the man or woman they sought had stayed only overnight at the hotel.

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The water in Thor's big swimming pool had been covered with a blanket of thick, foamy soapsuds -- fashioned, of course, from zing -- Joyce had dived from the board into the pool, then swirled and cavorted in her luxurious `` bath '' while cameras rolled.
He had it all doped, of course.
In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.
To exonerate the legislature and thereby extricate himself from a sticky situation, Pike took another course and made it appear that the legislature had been bilked.
That was in the days before blood banks, of course, and transfusions had to be given directly from donor to patient.
I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.
He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.
The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.
Of course I had to give her Eileen's address, but she never came near us.
The contributions were ahead of what she had got the previous year, and while the money, of course, was not hers, it excited her to stuff her kit with big checks.
Of course he couldn't say much, really, because of Debora, but Linda Kay could imagine what kind of woman his wife had been and what a raw deal he had got.
The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.
Of course, it must not be forgotten that in achieving this historical feat, Prokofieff had the vast resources of his people behind him ; ;
Of course, if you want to throw all caution to the winds and rent an Imperial or Cadillac limousine just for you and your bride, you'll have a memorable tour, but it won't be cheap, and it is not recommended unless you own a producing oil well or you've had a winner in the Irish Sweepstakes.
`` Never mind '', Arlene had said, after the policeman had left, having pursued the usual unco-operative course of grownups.
He found, as he had suspected, a general consensus that perhaps over half of the present functionally designed course was not really functional for these students.
Since the writer had established this democratic procedure in the beginning he had to go along with their decision -- after, of course, pointing out whether he thought their decision was a wise or an unwise one.
In fact, we had one birth before the end of the course, and another student had to take the final examiantion a week early, just to be on the safe side.

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However, their very poor rate of fire ( which often meant that only one shot was fired in the course of an entire battle ) and their inaccuracy made them more of a psychological force multiplier than an effective anti-personnel weapon.
In this scenario, the ball is fired into a wormhole at an angle such that, if it continues along that path, it will exit the wormhole in the past at just the right angle to collide with its earlier self, thereby knocking it off course and preventing it from entering the wormhole in the first place.
The Elfego Baca Golf Shoot is named after a former mayor of Socorro who survived a gun battle near what is now Reserve, New Mexico, involving over 4, 000 bullets that were fired over the course of 36 hours.
Several reporters unwilling, or refusing the new course, like Peter himself, are forced to go away, finding a new safe haven in the Front Line, the only magazine willing to accept people fired by Bennett, pursuing a scorched earth policy over them.
Six thousand rounds were fired from a single pistol over the course of two days.
In 1986, he dropped out of the course in his final term, and was subsequently fired from his job at a hospital due to his poor attitude.
Their variance in colour in the exterior walls is an indication that the home was built over an extended period of time, their difference in colour is a result of the varying conditions under which successive loads of bricks were fired during the course of construction.
In the course of the later 18th century, cheap porcelain took over the market for refined faience ; in the early 19th century, fine stoneware — fired so hot that the unglazed body vitrifies — closed the last of the traditional makers ' ateliers even for beer steins.
" He has said that over 100 people, cast and crew, either quit or were fired over the course of the production.
Once clear of Takanami at 23: 28, Kuroshio fired four and Oyashio fired eight torpedoes in the direction of Wright's column and then reversed course and increased speed.
At 23: 27, as Minneapolis fired her ninth salvo and Wright prepared to order a course change for his column, two torpedoes, from either Suzukaze or Takanami, slammed into her forward half.
: She fired a couple of answers to me: ' 5, 280 ' and the question of course was how many feet in a mile.
In this scenario, the ball is fired into a wormhole at an angle such that, if it continues along that path, it will exit the wormhole in the past at just the right angle to collide with its earlier self, thereby knocking it off course and preventing it from entering the wormhole in the first place.
After going through two managers over the course of less than five years with disastrous results in attendance and outlook, Cox fired Russ Nixon in June 1990, and appointed himself as the manager.
This caused momentary unconsciousness, but by great effort he recovered partial control of his machine when it had dropped nearly 3, 000 feet and succeeded, although fired on, in completing the course and brought the plane back into the Allied lines.
In the course of 10 months in action, the 7th occupied about 60 gun positions, fired nearly 70, 000 rounds of 100-pound shells in support of three Canadian divisions, most of the British divisions and the 1st Polish Armoured Division, all of the British 21st Army Group.
The Gladiators had 90 seconds to make it through a course that spanned the entire arena floor length, firing off weapons to hit a target located near the Contender, while avoiding high-speed tennis balls fired at them from a cannon.
A cross between an obstacle course, a haunted house, and a shooting range, it used a three dimensional layout with stairs and tunnels, pop-up targets, deliberately poor lighting, psychologically disturbing sounds, simulated cobwebs and bodies, and blank cartridges being fired towards the shooter.
Over the course of two and a half years, Hampton fired Carter a total of seven times.
As the country was embarking on the course that led to the creation of a Greater Romania ( confirmed by the treaties of Saint-Germain, Neuilly and Trianon ), its capital witnessed a relatively expanded social crisis-on December 26, 1918, troops fired on compositors engaged in a strike, who had been agitated by the newly-created Socialist Party of Romania.
During the lightsaber fight between Luke and Darth Vader, Vader states that he knows Luke is the pilot that shot him out of the way during the Death Star trench run, when it was Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon who fired the shots that disrupted the course of Vader's fighter.
Meeting the Soviet attack, he fired his gun destroying seven tanks in the course of which he was severely wounded when his gun was destroyed by an IS-2 tank returning fire from 30 metres.
Lane fired Glass and received praise from Peretz for his efforts to " put the ship back on its course.

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