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But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.
One girl describes her past, her succession of broken marriages, the abortions she has had and finally confesses that she loves sex and sees no reason why she must justify her passion.
Besides showing no inclination, apparently, to absent himself from his native region even for short periods, and in addition writing a shelf of books set in the region, he has handled in those books an astonishingly complete list of matters which have been important in the South during the past hundred years.
During the past year, our long-range striking power, unmatched today in manned bombers, has taken on new strength as the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile has entered the operational inventory.
We note that, first, America has already made great contributions in the past two years to the world's fund of knowledge of astrophysics and space science.
Certainly one of the most important comments that can be made upon the spiritual and cultural life of any period of Western civilization during the past sixteen or seventeen centuries has to do with the way in which its leaders have read and interpreted the Bible.
To the contrary, through the past six weeks violence has been piled upon violence.
The widespread purge that has taken place the past twelve months or so among Communist leaders in the provinces gives assurance that the party officials who will dominate the Congress, and the Central Committee it will elect, will all have passed the tightest possible Khrushchev screening, both for loyalty to him and for competence and performance on the job.
As has happened so often in the past, the ability to recognize true greatness has been inadequate and tardy.
The record of past earnings and prospects for the future must indicate it has the ability to repay the loan out of current and anticipated income.
In the past twenty years the ratio of state-owned automobiles per state employees has varied from 1 to 22 then to 1 to 23 now.
Whereas the maintenance rotary fund had in the past sustained losses considerably beyond expectations, the introduction of the cost-billing system plus other control refinements has resulted in keeping the fund on a proper working basis.
And so, let us remember on this day not only to thank the Almighty Who gave hope and courage to the Pilgrims, but also to place our trust in Him that He will continue to protect us in the future as He has in the past.
For the past 40 years Congress has advocated a carefully planned, balanced and competitive railway system.
During the past year, great progress has been made by the weaving mills in creating new stretch and textured fabrics.
This delightful tropical fruit has become well-known in the past thirty years because modern transportation methods have made it possible to ship avocados anywhere in the United States.
As has been the custom for the past several years, John Cross, Jr., Bench Show Chmn. of Westminster, arranged for the Juniors' meeting before the Class, and invited two speakers from the dog world to address them.
A stream which has all of its watershed within a national forest or other lands under good conservation practices is less likely to be affected by pollution than one passing through unrestricted logging or past an industrial area.
Gradually he withdrew from the shop altogether, and for the past thirty years, he has worked independently as a painter, except for his continued hunting and fishing expeditions.
As Yinger has pointed out, the `` reliance on symbols, on tradition, on sacred writings, on the cultivation of emotional feelings of identity and harmony with sacred values, turns one to the past far more than to the future ''.
With the universal list as his weapon, Swadesh has extended his march of conquest farther and farther into the past, eight, ten, twelve millennia back.
For the industry of this model, the effect of such public pressures in the past has been to hold the price well below the short-run profit-maximizing price ( given the wage rate and the level of GNP ), and even below the entry-limited price ( but not below average cost ).
This past year the pattern has been different: The organizing program had the full support of the AFL-CIO, which supplied staff and money to the AWOC, as well as moral support.

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Isn't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A & M colleges??
`` Mr. Gross, concerning the formation of your Committee, there's the fact that you have been a legal adviser to the U.N. in the past ; ;
`` No complaints or charges have been filed during the past year, either verbally or written, from any individual or group.
My husband's hours away from home for the past years have been from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. the early part of the week, and as late as 8 or 9 on week-ends.
Too often in the past Russian tactics have been used to justify like tactics on our part.
Rector had never been able to find out much about Hino's past.
Thus, direct comparisons can be drawn with free burning arcs which have been studied in detail during the past years and decades by numerous investigators ( Ref. 3 ).
The biological and physical properties of infectious particles have been studied intensively during the past fifteen years.
As a result of these changed conditions, the impact of the organizational effort on agricultural labor-management relations has been much greater than in the past.
During the past decade the program has been carried on through expansion of free higher education in state universities, state colleges, and community colleges.
Mine warfare has in the past been directed against surface targets.
-- On the basis of a differentiability assumption in function space, it is possible to prove that, for materials having the property that the stress is given by a functional of the history of the deformation gradients, the classical theory of infinitesimal viscoelasticity is valid when the deformation has been infinitesimal for all times in the past.
By applying this general principle, a great number of complex compounds of osmium, ruthenium, iridium, and rhenium, with triphenylphosphine, triphenylarsine, and triphenylstibine have been obtained in this laboratory during the past few years.
If Depew had told any academic psychologist that he had a weird feeling of having lived through that identical convention session at some time in the past, he would have been informed that he was a victim of deja vue.
In the past year there had been too many examples of his euphoric self-confidence and self-aggrandisement for their liking.

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William Cobb suspected his wife of infidelity, and was sneaking past his own bedroom window to catch her in the act ; she saw the silhouette of what she presumed to be an intruder, and, acting in self-defense, shot and killed her husband.
Bram proceeds to take the idea to the extreme, first flirting and then copulating with the other woman ( McDonald ) while her unconcerned husband Tom ( Foley ) chats with Nina about his own impotence and his past experimentation with homosexuality.
In the final scene of the film, which does not appear in the original Coward play, Laura's bland but kind husband Fred suddenly shows that he has noticed her distress in the past weeks, and takes her in his arms.
Several years later, de Havilland remembered the slight and exacted her own revenge by brushing past Fontaine, who was waiting with her hand extended, because de Havilland allegedly took offense at a comment Fontaine had made about de Havilland's husband.
Its most famous past resident is undoubtedly former prime minister Margaret Thatcher who with her late husband Denis raised their then young children, Mark and Carol.
Her husband, who for most of the past 11 years has devoted as much time to the restaurant as she, recently went into the mobile home service business.
The husband of a reigning queen is usually not called “ king consort ”, although it was more common in Europe ’ s past for husbands of queens regnant to become reigning kings ( e. g., Philip II of Spain in England, Antoine of Bourbon-Vendôme in Navarre, Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in Portugal, etc .).
Several years later, de Havilland would remember the slight and exact her own by brushing past Fontaine, who was waiting with hand extended, because de Havilland had allegedly taken offence at a comment Fontaine had made about de Havilland's husband.
Christine's past relationship with André is openly known by her husband, her maid, and their friend Octave.
Bobbitt also claimed that her husband had repeatedly raped and verbally abused her in the past, and that the memories of this abuse " raced through her head " in the moments prior to the attack on her husband.
In the 1995 film Mighty Aphrodite two unresolved plot points are resolved when a disabled helicopter drops from the sky and introduces the character Linda to her husband ( providing her with true love ) who will then believe he fathered Lenny's child ( covering up her past ).
However, it is still possible that a woman could be abstinent until marriage and still contract this disease through the past sexual contact of her husband.
Though the Tsar had been unfaithful on many occasions in the past, his relationship with Catherine began after the Empress, who had had eight children, stopped having intercourse with her husband on the advice of her doctors.
She warns Hulk not to pursue a fight with her husband, as Black Bolt has defeated Hulk in past battles.
They typically include such stock characters as a handsome young gentleman and his beautiful and rich fiancée, an actress with past glory and an alcoholic husband, a clumsy aspiring young author, a retired colonel, a quiet middle-aged man no one knows anything about who is supposedly the host's old friend, but behaves suspsiciously and a famous detective.
A few days past the first anniversary of the death of her husband, Francisca Benicia Carrillo de Vallejo died on January 30, 1891.
Thomas Onslow, 2nd Baron Onslow, had begun an investigation of his own and discovered that for the past month Toft's husband, Joshua, had been buying young rabbits.
As the novel opens, the Makiokas ' pride has led them to dismiss the numerous marriage proposals they have received for Yukiko in the past, but, now that their fortunes have declined, the rate of proposals has slowed, and Yukiko, now thirty, remains without a husband.
The locally quarried gritstone has weathered nicely over the past 90 years and the house looks as though it belongs to the 17th Century. In 1913 the house was bought by the famous electrical engineer and inventor Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, whose seventh and last child, Yvonne, was born at the Hall in July 1914. That the Ferranti ’ s were happy here is clear from Mrs de Ferranti ’ s charming biography of her husband, but it is equally evident that life at the Hall had its hazards, largely because ‘ Basti ’( as Mrs Ferranti affectionately called her husband ), could not confine his passion for electricity to working hours.
Some laws in past centuries have however specifically prohibited punitive wife-beating: " The Body of Liberties adopted in 1641 by the Massachusetts Bay colonists states, ' Every married woman shall be free from bodily correction or stripes by her husband, unless it be in his own defense from her assault.
Thomson had provided Melbourne gangland figure Tony Mokbel with a personal reference, saying he understood Mokbel had been married for the past eight years and that he had been " a responsible, caring husband and father ".
Olivia and her fiendish husband, Gregory, planned to steal Caitlin's baby and pass it off as Olivia's ( telling Caitlin her baby had died ) in order to break up Caitlin's relationship with Cole, who her parents disapproved of because of his criminal past.

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