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At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.
In the 20th century, theologians like Jürgen Moltmann, Hans Küng, John Robinson, Bishop David Jenkins, Don Cupitt and Bishop Jack Spong challenged traditional theological positions and understandings of the Bible ; following these developments some have suggested that passages have been mistranslated or that they do not refer to what we understand as " homosexuality.
Boston Disco Radio DJ Jack King turned the record over and recalls being stunned by what he heard.
( It is also possible from what Jack Ryan Jr. says in Teeth of the Tiger that Jack Sr. resigned, feeling he has done what he needed to as President, and encouraged Robby Jackson to run for the presidency.
Smith's son, Jack, as an ABC correspondent received Peabody and Emmy awards for his coverage of technology ; he died of pancreatic cancer in Marin County, California, days before what would have been his 59th birthday.
" If you had Jack Gould in your corner, you could not believe what it meant ," said Cooney decades later.
" As Jack Endino recalled, " People just said, ' Well, what kind of music is this?
The group's subsequent recording, on the Arcade Records label ( owned by Haley's manager, Jack Howard ), was a regional success, although it sounded very different from what Haley would later record.
Rational Recovery founder Jack Trimpey explains, "... Rational Recovery is not interested in having people give up any of their religious beliefs ; it's just none of our business what people believe about gods and saints.
The Pacific Southwest Championships directed by Jack Kramer, had announced a 12: 1 ratio in the prize money difference between what males and females would win.
When Jack lands to pick up a souvenir, he becomes distraught when he learns what he has done, but before David dies, he forgives his comrade.
That same evening Bennell's friend Jack Belicec finds a body with what appear to be his features, though it's not yet fully developed.
Under the date of November 26, 1833, John Quincy Adams records in his diary an encounter with Crockett, whom he quotes as saying that he ( Crockett ) " had taken for lodgings two rooms on the first floor of a boarding-house, where he expected to pass the winter and to have for a fellow-lodger Major Jack Downing, the only person in whom he had any confidence for information of what the Government was doing.
Comedy writer Jack Douglas was the owner of what is now Northridge Park.
Uranium was discovered outside what is now Litchfield ’ s eastern boundary in August 1949, by a local prospector, Jack White.
Dodds was most well known, however, for what he called his “ shimmy beat ,” which he first used in 1918 at Jack Sheehan ’ s in New Orleans.
James Berardinelli wrote that Mirkin " brings a lot of energy to the production, always keeping things moving ," while Jack Matthews of The Los Angeles Times says Mirkin " knew exactly what he had here and composed it like frames in a comic strip, ordering cheerful snow-cone colors for everything from the girls ' childlike outfits to the decor of a Laundromat.
This is reflected in the person of the 16th century cloth magnate, Jack of Newbury, the proprietor of what may well have been the first factory in England, and the later tale of the Newbury Coat.
As the patrons realize that an alien is amongst the group, Jack Elam's character laughs and says, " She's just like science fiction, that what she is.

Jack and is
All, that is, except Jack.
If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.
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.
In Mack's the leader at camp, but Jack is here the is of the second main declarative represents is the leader and therefore has stress.
It is, of course, easy to see how `` J '' will mean Uncle Jack to one person and little Jane to another.
Emcee Jack Herbert insists Dick Nixon's campaign slogan for governor of California is, `` Knight Must Fall ''!!
The book is by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction by Jack Elliott, and the production was directed by Mr. Abbott.
So is that of the limber company of lasses who whirl and glide and quickstep under Jack Cole's expert choreographic direction.
Jack Frost is not really responsible for this great seasonal spectacle ; ;
It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.
* Patrick O ' Brian's fictional British sea captain Jack Aubrey is described as owning a " fiddle far above his station, an Amati no less ," in The Surgeon's Mate.
She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
In Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, Ambrosius Aurelianus is the half-brother of Caius Merlyn Britannicus ( Merlin ) and helps him lead the people of Camulod ( Camelot ).
*" Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.
His elder brother Jack, who was also in the World Cup-winning team, is a former defender for Leeds United and manager.
It is only played with two bowls each, the Jack also has a bias and is only slightly smaller than the Bowls.
Geophysicist Jack Oliver is credited with providing seismologic evidence supporting plate tectonics which encompassed and superseded continental drift with “ Seismology and the New Global Tectonics ,” published in 1968, using data collected from seismologic stations, including those he set up in the South Pacific.

Jack and nature
Spengler's vision of the cyclical nature of civilization and the contemporaneity of the end of the Western European cycle led William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg to look for the seeds of the next cycle in the communities of which they were a part.
Jack epitomises the worst aspects of human nature when unrepressed or un-tempered by society.
Jack represents the irrational nature of the boys, while Ralph represents rationality.
Beggar-My-Neighbour ( alternatively Beggar-Thy-Neighbour or Beggar-Your-Neighbour, each a bowdlerization reflecting the substitution of " beggar " for " bugger "), also known by the etymologically unrelated names Jack Daniels, Beat Jack Out of Doors, Beat Your Neighbour Out of Doors, Beat your Neighbour Out of Town, Strip Jack Naked, Picture and Draw the Well Dry, is a simple card game somewhat similar in nature to War, and has spawned a more complicated variant, Egyptian Ratscrew.
In 1960, the term bionics was coined by psychiatrist and engineer Jack Steele to mean " the science of systems which have some function copied from nature ".
One biographer writes, " Throughout his life, Jack had been warmed by Sam's sunshiny optimism, his thirst for excitement, his inventive mind, his gambling nature.
* Gentle Jack ( 1963 )-an unusual work by Bolt, a comedy contrasting humanity's material world with nature.
In a debate with Project Censored's Associate Director Mark Lowenthal, Jack Shafer wrote that Project Censored had " an overbearing left-wing bias -- a fact belied by its refusal to review stories from the right-wing or conservative press, the openly partisan nature of the stories that are selected and the leftist panel of judges who help select them.
Due to their working nature, Jack Russell terriers remain much as they were some 200 years ago.
its dramatic nature ensures it remains popular among producers of fictional works, including the 1988 TV film Jack the Ripper starring Michael Caine as well as the 1996 graphic novel From Hell and its subsequent film adaptation.
* The parallel-processor nature of the X-MP and its ability to solve multi-variate simultaneous equations rapidly is used in Tom Clancy's novel, The Hunt for Red October, when ' Skip ' Tyler uses the USAF's X-MP machine to work out the performance and sonic characteristics of the October for Jack Ryan on behalf of the CIA in return for both profit and the chance to evaluate the vessel should it successfully defect.
Its common name refers to its aggressive nature and strong facial features, likened to that of the famous 1920s boxer Jack Dempsey.
Deighton was known as Gassy Jack because of his talkative nature and his penchant for storytelling.
" totalitarian regime of thought control " and pointing to the " very meta concept " of " how the designer ’ s imposed plan or path for the player maps to the tyrannical nature of the government ", where, " like the player, Jack has no agency other than what his puppet masters give him.
Shortly after the book's publication, Jack London became a target in what would later be called the nature fakers controversy, a literary debate highlighting the conflict between science and sentiment in popular nature writing.
Pryce's death, particularly the horrific nature of it, was met with great grief from all those who knew him during his career, none more so than his wife Nella, his parents Jack and Gwyneth and the Shadow team.
During the lawsuit, Jack Whittingham stepped down as ' co-plaintiff ' and stood by Kevin as ' principal witness ', having previously signed away all his rights " of whatsoever nature " entirely when the screenplay was presumed finished.
The precise nature of the Great Disaster is never revealed in the original series, although it " had something to do with radiation " ( in the series ' letter column, Jack Kirby and his then-assistant Steve Sherman repeatedly asserted that the Great Disaster was not a nuclear war, a fact confirmed in issue # 35 ).
Piracy and life at sea have always fascinated Elizabeth, but she is revolted by pirates ' aggressive, wild nature, especially Captain Jack Sparrow, who made his escape from Port Royal at her expense, though she is grateful to him for saving her life.
Jack Ryder is a former Gotham City television talk show host fired due to his outspoken nature.
Thanks to the popularity of this theory among fiction writers and for its dramatic nature, Gull shows up as the Ripper in a number of books and films ( including the 1988 TV film Jack the Ripper starring Michael Caine ; and the 2000 graphic novel, compiled from the comic book series that ran from 1991 to 1996, From Hell written by Alan Moore with art by Eddie Campbell, as well as its 2001 subsequent film adaptation ).

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