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McFeeley and parents
McFeeley greeted the parents, then studied his notebook.

McFeeley and them
Studying them, McFeeley could not help make comparison with the Andrus couple.

McFeeley and .
It could continue this way, hitting 106 and more in the Valley, Joe McFeeley knew, into October.
Both had been up since 7:00 -- Irv on the early-morning watch, McFeeley unable to sleep during his four-hour relief.
The night before, they had telephoned the Andrus maid, Selena Masters, and she had arrived early, bursting her vigorous presence into the silent house with an assurance that amused McFeeley and confounded Moll.
While she was thus engaged, McFeeley questioned her about her whereabouts the previous day, any recollections she had of people hanging around, of overcurious delivery boys or repairmen, of strange cars cruising the neighborhood.
`` Few crank calls '', McFeeley said.
When McFeeley was halfway to the door, the proprietor emerged -- a mountainous, dark man, his head thick with resiny black hair, his eyes like two of the black olives he imported in boatloads.
McFeeley identified himself.
McFeeley looked puzzled.
Tim McFeeley, a Harvard Law School graduate, founder of the Boston Lesbian and Gay Political Alliance, and a co-chair of the New England HRC Committee, was elected the new executive director.
* McFeeley, William S. Grant: A Biography ( 1981 ).
Because it is a day retailers make profits – black ink, said Grace McFeeley of Cherry Hill Mall.
Cusack was born in New York City, the son of Margaret ( née McFeeley ) and Dennis Joseph Cusack.

told and parents
When Richard's parents told him they wanted to take him to an orthodontist -- a dentist who specializes in realigning teeth and jaws -- their young son was interested.
Deaths before that time meant that many parents, spouses and children were never told more than that it was secret work for the Foreign Office or one of the armed services.
Haley told the story that when he made a simulated guitar out of cardboard, his parents bought him a real one.
Frances was by then living with her parents in Scarborough, but Elsie's father told Gardner that he had been so certain the photographs were fakes that while the girls were away he searched their bedroom and the area around the beck ( stream ), looking for scraps of pictures or cutouts, but found nothing " incriminating ".
Little is known about their first impressions of each other, but Arthur did write to his parents-in-law that he would be " a true and loving husband " and told his parents that he was immensely happy to " behold the face of his lovely bride ".
Several months later, she called Shearer's parents and told them that she had gotten Shearer an audition for the radio show The Jack Benny Program.
Freud therefore told the parents only that he was prepared to study their daughter to determine what effects therapy might have.
His parents decided to dedicate a university to their only son, and Leland Stanford told his wife, " The children of California shall be our children.
In 2004, ten-year old Tilly Smith of Surrey, England, was on Maikhao beach in Phuket, Thailand with her parents and sister, and having learned about tsunamis recently in school, told her family that a tsunami might be imminent.
She attended one of O ' Sullivan's films playing in London's West End and told her parents of her ambitions to become an actress.
When frontman Charlie Alcock was told by his parents that he had to give up the band to concentrate on his O levels, Cook took over as lead vocalist.
When my parents traveled on the lecture circuit, she once laughingly told a Lansing, Michigan, paper ...: ' My husband never knows where his trips will take him ....
When he was five, Dalí was taken to his brother's grave and told by his parents that he was his brother's reincarnation, a concept which he came to believe.
The song " Daddy " was described by lead singer Jonathan Davis " When I was a kid, I was being abused by somebody else and I went to my parents and told them about it, and they thought I was lying and joking around.
Wagner worked backwards from planning an opera about Siegfried's death, then deciding he needed another opera to tell of Siegfried's youth, then deciding he needed to tell the tale of Siegfried's conception and of Brünnhilde's attempts to save Siegfried's parents, and finally deciding he also needed a prelude that told of the original theft of the Rheingold and creation of the ring.
Bryant told them that they could not because his parents were away and his girlfriend was inside.
Previously, experts had told parents that babies needed to learn to sleep on a regular schedule, and that picking them up and holding them whenever they cried would only teach them to cry more and not to sleep through the night ( a notion that borrows from behaviorism ).
All these failings, he said, were due to my having told their parents to give them " instant gratification " as babies.
In 2002, Hailey told John Marquis, editor of the Bahamas ' principal daily newspaper The Tribune, that he was lucky in having supportive parents who encouraged him to believe in himself.
She told them Elizabeth was gone, but her parents thought she was having a bad dream.
As a thirteen-year-old, he read a Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents he wanted to attend ; his parents thought it was unreasonable and did not encourage his hopes.
In the tale told by Llewelyn Pritchard, Twm is the illegitimate son of Cati Jones following attentions from John Wynn of Gwydir ( John " Wynn " ap Maredudd ); the Welsh forms of the names of his parents became incorporated into his name.
Qalupalik is a myth / legend that was told by Inuit parents and elders to prevent children from wandering to the shore where the Qalupaliks live.

told and would
Dan Morgan told himself he would forget Ann Turner.
I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.
Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.
Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.
If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.
`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??
Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.
What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.
After making a short statement about human rights, and the freedom to travel, I told them I would be going to the Kehl bridge the next morning in order to cross the Rhine into Germany.
That would be a great help, I told him, thanking him for his thoughtfulness.
A volunteer food brigade had been arranged, they told me, which would supply me with the necessities as long as I remained at the bridge.
But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.
`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.
Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.
Baker put the `` cribs '' and the saloons out of bounds, ordered the co-operation of military officers with local law authorities, and told communities that the troops would be moved unless wholesome conditions were restored.
Lewis told him what clothes he should bring along, and enjoined him not to buy anything that he did not already own, they would do that in New York.
When he was in the war, he was in Law or Supplies or something like that, and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals -- just like the one we sent in for Trig -- and go away with a real glow.
At their meeting he told her not to bother about `` where '' -- he would attend to that.
`` I would say depressed, not impressed '', I told him.
In place of asking salesmen to fill questionnaires, checking their references, interviewing them, asking them to be tried out, he told them he would prefer to test them.

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