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next and thing
He had his chance the very next morning, for exactly the same thing happened again.
The next thing he knew he was reporting for duty as commanding officer of Troop H, 7th Cavalry, in the middle of corps maneuvers in Japan.
What awful thing had she to face in the next few hours??
As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.
The technique got to Europe almost immediately, and Segundo de Chomon and others at Pathé took it further, adding clay animation, in which sculptures were deformed from one thing into another thing frame by frame in Sculpture moderne ( 1908 ), and then Pathé made the next step to the animation of silhouette shapes.
With Bauhaus flying in on similar wings could it be the next big thing ?".
In the Doctor Who serial The Green Death ( 1973 ), The Doctor temporarily stumps BOSS by asking it " If I were to tell you that the next thing I say would be true, but the last thing I said was a lie, would you believe me?
The most important of these commands was the space character, which means " go on to the next thing ", where the next thing could be the next page, the next article, or the next newsgroup, depending on where the user was in the process of reading news.
The conditions in Sicilian sulfur mines were horrific, prompting Booker T. Washington to write " I am not prepared just now to say to what extent I believe in a physical hell in the next world, but a sulphur mine in Sicily is about the nearest thing to hell that I expect to see in this life .".
The Miami Dolphins would do the same thing the next year.
The next day, Homer is dirty and disheveled, and begs Marge to take him back, saying the one thing he can offer her that nobody else can is " complete and utter dependence.
A January 2005 Newsweek article suggested that Internet telephony may be " the next big thing.
As he surveys the desolate battlefield — which has already attracted looters — he laments, in voice over, that " next to a battle lost, the saddest thing is a battle won ".
He has four close friends: Claude Funston, a hapless working man ; Griffy, a stand-in for Bill Griffith, who often appears in the strip to complain about various aspects of modern life ; Shelf-Life, a fast-talking schemer always looking for " the next big thing "; and Vizeen Nurney, a 20-something lounge singer who, despite her rebellious image, has an optimistic and sympathetic nature.

next and hears
Over the course of the next couple of hours, the marine hears assorted garbled radio messages, gunfire, and screams, followed by silence: " Seems your buddies are dead.
However, the “ actual sounds that she hears are accounted for by the efforts of the faithful servant to communicate with her, there is still a hint of supernatural in her dream, inspired, it would be seem, by the fact that she is on the spot of her father ’ s murder and that his unburied skeleton is concealed in the room next hers ”.
As Dick realizes this and hears youngsters repeating the lyrics he realizes that salvation may lie within the hearts and minds of the next generation.
Oelph's eyes are closed at this point, and in his narrative he is unable to adequately describe what he hears next, other than an impression of wind and metal.
After he hears what happened, Wade tells Sueleen she can't sing and asks her to go back to Detroit with him the next day.
Procris follows him the next time he goes hunting, and leaps out of the thicket where she is hiding when she hears him call out to Nephele again.
He becomes suspicious when he hears somebody in the next room, but when he investigates, all he finds is a hungry baby boy she is supporting the best way she can.
Lady Thorpe, wife of Sir Henry Thorpe, the local squire, dies next morning and Wimsey hears how the Thorpe family has been blighted for 20 years by the unsolved theft of jewels from a house-guest by the butler, Deacon, and an accomplice, Cranton.
Leotychides therefore sailed as close to the camp as possible, and had a herald make an appeal to the Ionians: " Men of Ionia, you who hear us, understand what I say, for by no means will the Persians understand anything I charge you with when we join battle ; first of all it is right for each man to remember his freedom and next the battle-cry Hebe: and let him who hears me tell him who has not heard it.
The next day, Peter makes his way to school when he hears Mary Jane call him over from the water fountain in the school's courtyard.
The next day, as Bob is fixing his mother's car, he hears the news bulletin on the radio that his brother's plane crashed without any survivors.
He now lives by himself in a shack next to a lake — his experience with Gadget having made him a nervous wreck with a phobia when he sees or hears the word Gadget.
Their next film, Punch Drunks, was the only short film that was written entirely by the Three Stooges, with Curly as a reluctant boxer who goes ballistic every time he hears " Pop Goes the Weasel.
Soon, Bart hears a girlish scream next door, and witnesses Ned Flanders burying something in his backyard and screaming " I'm a murderer.
The next day, Jack hears his song on a car radio for the first time.
The listener learns that Streeb-Greebling was put in prison by his father at the age of four, once spent a ' year and a quarter ' standing on Lake Ontario with only bears for company, and hears of his next project: cloning from the fossilised remains of the infant Christ with the assistance of BMW, Honda and Sony.
When Frédérick hears Garance singing in her room, which is next to his, he quickly joins her.
Sobel wears a tape recorder in his next meeting with Vitti, but throws it away once he hears from Jimmy that Vitti's father was murdered before his eyes when Vitti was still a child, at the very restaurant where they are having lunch.
The next morning over breakfast, Susan hears her aunt, Mrs. Cudahy, read about the nightclub theft from a newspaper.
On the next tour, in a scene directly paralleling one near the beginning of the film with their roles reversed, Izzy hears a fan ( Myles Kennedy ) singing along with him toward the end of a live concert.
The next morning, the couple hears noises and are surprised to find workmen putting furnishings around their apartment and a man asking them, " you ’ re still here?!
The next victim, Milt Sturmfuller ( James A. Baffico ), whose daughter is Marty's girlfriend, hears a racket in his shed.
The next morning, he hears a voice telepathically.
Story after story he hears and even sees people chained without cause, beaten without cause, immured in dungeons for life without cause, and a twelve year old boy sleeping in a lake of human dung from an overflowing latrine because there is no other place on the prison floor, but clinging in a vain search for love to the leg of the man next to him, until the book achieves the bizarre intensity of a horrific fever dream.

next and are
`` We are ready for your next mysterious assignment '', said Mr. Baer to the Hetman.
So successful has been this program, worked out by white and Negro civic leaders, that further extensions are expected in the next few months.
If it will simply delay the debates until the qualifications are closed next spring, and then carry all the candidates on a tour of debates, it can provide a service to the state.
These cases in which light is already visible at the other end of the tunnel are ones which over the next few years will absorb the bulk of our capital assistance.
The first Atlas ICBM's are now operational, the first two Polaris submarines are expected to be operational this calendar year, and the first Titan ICBM's next year.
There are more than 8,000,000 recreational boats in use in the United States with almost 10,000,000 the prediction for within the next decade.
Keep ashes from one barbecue to the next to sprinkle over coals if they are too hot, and to stop flames that arise from melting grease.
Has your company developed selection and training processes that are geared to providing the caliber of salesmen you will need in the next 10 yrs.??
This makes it certain that Federal expenditures for military preparedness and foreign economic aid are likely to rise further in the next several years.
The modern student, who knows what was to come next, is likely to place first the factors of change which are visible in the eighth century.
we are reminded of this at the end of the next scene, when his theme cuts through the warmth of the love duet, again throwing a chill over the atmosphere.
He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.
Small areas that aren't right for a certain crop may lie next to areas that are well suited to that crop.
This does not mean, though, that a red wine improves with prolonged aeration: there is a reasonable limit -- and wines kept over to the next meal or the next day, after they have once been opened, are never as good.
If the Orioles are to break their losing streak within the next two days, it will have to be at the expense of the American League champion New York Yankees, who come in here tomorrow for a night game and a single test Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. J. Edward Hackstaff and Mrs. Paul Luette are planning a luncheon next week in honor of Mrs. J. Clinton Bowman, who celebrates her birthday on Tuesday.
Any adjustments which are made, Mr. Grenier said earlier this month, will appear on the balance of the tax bill since most of the town's taxpayers take the option of paying quarterly with the balance due next year.
After all, this year's movies are next year's television shows.
These things may be happening many miles away from us but really they are right next door.
The panels will stay up until they are replaced next summer.
The next two reactions do not involve the formation of ions but are still proton transfer reactions.
Experiments have been conducted to attempt the synthesis of ununennium ( Uue ), which is likely to be the next member of the group, but they have all met with failure .< ref name =" link "> However, ununennium may not be an alkali metal due to relativistic effects, which are predicted to have a large influence on the chemical properties of superheavy elements.
There is a second bulb-shaped structure similarly reminiscent of a thalamus flower, which is represented by a cross with arms that are actually buds announcing the next flowering.

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