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One had it that a friend, protesting her snobbery, said, `` But, Gracie, you are an American, aren't you ''??
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One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.
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.
One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.
One day I tired of following the Hetman's advice of `` shadowing '' and of the `` ring-around-the-rosie '' approach to a report that Enrico Caruso had pinched a lady's hip while visiting the Central Park monkey house.
One of the uniformed officers stepped in my way, demanding to know whether I had permission to enter Germany.
One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.
One soft evening -- that marvelous sea-blessed time when the sun's departing warmth lingers and a smell of spume and wrack haunts everything -- Amy had picked herself off the floor and begun to walk.
One of the important and difficult decisions which had to be made in this budget concerned the role of the B-70, a long-range supersonic bomber.
One year I simply set the plants in the remains of a compost pile, to which a little sand had been added, and I had the most beautiful pansies in my, or any of my neighbors' experience.
One morning, we discovered not only that the pennies were missing from the idol but that a cigarette had been stubbed out in its lap.
One sample, which had been exposed to the atmosphere after evacuation at 375-degrees-C, showed the presence of adsorbed water ( about 0.3 wt ) ) as evidenced by a weak resonance line which was very narrow at room temperature and which disappeared, due to broadening, at low temperature.
One prediction had been made about the difference in security or self-confidence between those subjects who shifted their Kohnstamm reactivity when informed and those who did not.
One subject spontaneously asked ( after her arm had finally risen ), `` Do you suppose I was unconsciously keeping it down before ''??
One Kohnstamm-positive subject who had both arms rise while being tested in the naive condition described her subjective experience as follows: `` You feel they're going up and you're on a stage and it's not right for them to do so and then you think maybe that's what's supposed to happen ''.
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One can see it as humiliating that an extra hormone casually fed into our chemistry may induce us to lay down our lives for a lover or a friend ; ;
One day Maeterlinck, coming with a friend upon an event which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream, detailed the ensuing occurrences in advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified.
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One of the club's directors Henry Norris, and his friend William Hill, took over Arsenal in the early 1910s, the plan being to merge Fulham with Arsenal, to form a " London superclub " at Craven Cottage.
It is the stage of Abraham our father whom the Holy One, blessed be God, called " My friend " ( Isaiah 41: 8 — ohavi
One commercial in the series, starring a high-school friend of his son Hamilton Morris, named Ellen Feiss, became an Internet fad.
One kind of false friend can occur when two speakers speak different varieties of the same language.
One of these students, Elizaveta Fen, an autobiographer and future translator of Chekhov, recalled Orwell and his friend Richard Rees ' draped ' at the fireplace, looking, she thought, ' moth-eaten and prematurely aged.
One of Barlaam's friends, Gregory Akindynos, who originally was also a friend of St Gregory Palamas, took up the controversy, which also played a role in the civil war between the supporters of John Cantacuzenus and John V Palaeologus.
One of Anderson's early short films, Thursday's Children ( 1954 ), concerning the education of deaf children, made in collaboration with Guy Brenton, a friend from his Oxford days, won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short in 1954.
One of the alcoholics he brought into the Oxford Group was Ebby Thacher, a long-time friend and drinking buddy of Bill Wilson, later co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ).
One of these was whether the driver of a car would have his friend, a passenger riding in the car, lie in order to protect the driver from the consequences of driving too fast and hitting a pedestrian.
One such was the daughter of a friend, called Louise ; in his grief he is believed to have written the cantata " Entsagen " ( Renunciation ).
One critic ( Welsh's personal friend Kevin Williamson ) went so far as to say that Trainspotting " deserves to sell more copies than The Bible ".
One day, Darth Vader arrives and blackmails Calrissian to betray his old friend Han Solo over to the bounty hunter Boba Fett by threatening to take over the city.
Apple was introduced to the music industry in 1994, when she gave a demo tape containing the songs " Never Is a Promise ", " Not One of Those Times ", and " He Takes a Taxi " to her friend who was the babysitter of music publicist Kathryn Schenker.
Issigonis ' friend John Cooper, owner of the Cooper Car Company and designer and builder of Formula One and rally cars, saw the potential of the Mini for competition.
One night, John and his friend Max ( David ), a local high school football team's head coach, go to a bar.
BBC Formula One commentator Murray Walker, a great fan and friend of Hill, has often maintained that Schumacher did not cause the crash intentionally.
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