When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

In his Message of December 2, 1862, he put his purpose and his policy in these words -- which I would call the Lincoln Law of Liberty-and-Union: `` In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free ''.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

The work had its beginning in 1938 with an eight-bar musical strain to which Koehler set the words `` There'll be no more work ; ;

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

Milton was to act as the archfool, the supreme wit, the lightly bantering pater, Pater Liber, who could at once trip lightly over that which deserved such treatment, or could at will annihilate the common enemies of the college gathering, and with words alone.

And the second requirement for convincing people without their knowledge is artistic talent to prepare the words and pictures which persuade by using the principles which the scientists have discovered.

It won't develop until he has words with which to clothe it.

And the stiffly regal look of them, she saw grimly, lacked the quaver of age which, thwarting the efforts of her amazing will, ran through her spoken words like a thin ragged string.

To all, the Foundation gives the kind of thanks which are more than thanks: to them we are grateful beyond the possibility of conveying in words how grateful we are.

Poster Products Inc., Chicago, Ill.: a changeable copy and display sign which consists of an extruded impact styrene background in choice of colors, onto which are mounted snap-in letters, figures, or words screened on acetate or other types of sheet stock.

Eventually such incidents became more sporadic, and more sharply demarcated from her day-after-day behavior, and in one particular session, after several minutes of such behavior -- which, as usual, went on without any accompanying words from her -- she asked, eagerly, `` Did you see Granny ''??

and which, more often than all these, conveys a welter of feelings which could in no way be conveyed by any number of words, words which are so unlike this welter in being formed and discrete from one another.

in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.

The initials of the main words in this title gave rise to spud.

Their first album, 2000's SMPT: e ( a play on words, as both a combination of the members ' last initials, as well as a common machine time protocol used in high end recording studios ) received strong critical reviews, including " some of the best progressive rock music ever written " ( Robert Taylor in Allmusic )).

Two words were made from the initials: “ Pe Ell ”.

The canonical names P and V come from the initials of Dutch words.

On the reverse are found the initials " SP " in script, which stand for the Latin words Societas Philosophiae, or " Philosophical Society ".

The second, called by some " tomb of the Innocentiores " ( a burial club which owned it ), has a refined stucco ceiling, Latin inscriptions in Greek characters, and a graffito with the initials of the Greek words for " Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour ".

1 column ; and notariqon, which uses Hebrew words as initials for a potential larger sentence, for instance the first word of the Torah BRAShITh is manipulated as BRAShITh RAH ALHIM ShIQBLV IShRAL ThVRH (" In the beginning Elohim saw that Israel would accept the law ").

Across the center of the slab is a black enamel band upon which three Greek letters appear, which are the initials of three mystic Greek words meaning phronimon ( Phi ), thumos ( Theta ), katharotes ( Kappa ) and meaning " wisdom ," " aspiration ," and " purity.

Acrostics can be more complex than just by making words from initials.

The Harry Potter series presents many unique challenges to translators, such as rhymes, acronyms, dialects, culture, riddles, jokes, invented words, and plot points that revolve around spellings or initials.

However, in a case of hypercorrection, some speakers have started pronouncing words that should have a null initial using an initial, even though according to historical Chinese phonology, only words with light tones ( which correspond to tones 4, 5, and 6 in Jyutping ) had voiced initials ( which includes ).

* acronym: considered to be a " word " in its original sense formed from the initials of one or more words that is pronounceable like a normal word, such as NATO, sometimes in distinction to initialism ; reflecting a historical development from its component word initials

This causes problems for those translating the series into other languages, where a literal translation of the words ' Danger ' and ' Mouse ' do not have those initials ; the Scots Gaelic version, for example, calls the series ( and the lead ) Donnie Murdo ( two given names unconnected either with mice or danger ).

The Greek letters Chi ( X ) and Rho ( P ) in the centre are the initials of the words Christus Rex, Christ the King.

In most Late Antique manuscripts text and decoration were kept clearly apart, though some initials began to be enlarged and elaborated, but major insular manuscripts sometimes take a whole page for a single initial or the first few words ( see illustration ) at beginnings of gospels or other sections in a book.

Of the initials the most important is normally the so-called " Beatus initial ", based on the " B " of the words Beatus vir ... (" Blessed is the man ...") at the start of Psalm 1.

William H. Baxter pointed out that some of the words that were reconstructed with Middle Chinese palatal initials were perhaps words that had velar initials.

A note with the words " First and last warning " was pinned to his chest, along with the initials of other union leaders, and the numbers 3-7-77 ( a vigilante code famously used by the vigilance committee of Virginia City, Montana ).

The watch has " J. Maybrick " scratched on the inside cover, along with the words " I am Jack ", as well as the initials of the five canonical Ripper victims.

The Spanish words estadounidense ( United States person ), yanqui ( Yankee ), and gringo are Spanish terms denoting U. S. things and persons.

For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.

The 21 consonant letters in the English alphabet are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Z, and usually W and Y: The letter Y stands for the consonant in " yoke ", the vowel in " myth " and the vowel in " funny ", and " yummy " for both consonant and vowel, for examples ; W almost always represents a consonant except in rare words ( mostly loanwords from Welsh ) like " crwth " " cwm ".

Industry observers, however, speculated that the most important motivation was that a name change would help Nissan market stocks and bonds in the U. S. They also presumed substantial ego involvement, since the absence of the Nissan name in the U. S. surely rankled Nissan executives who had seen Toyota and Honda become household words.

On one occasion, the use of the word niggardly led to the resignation of a U. S. public official because it sounded similar to the word nigger, despite the two words being unrelated etymologically ).

The Guatemalan government had to fight the pressure because although U. S. had recognized, in words, that Guatemala had the right to conduct their own politics and business, U. S. representatives also claimed that they had to interfere because UFCo was their company that had brought in a lot of profit and harming the interests of that company was harming the U. S. economy.

Here highbit ( S ) denotes the most significant bit of S ; the '< tt >*</ tt >' operator denotes unsigned integer multiplication with lost overflow ; '< tt >^</ tt >' is the bitwise exclusive or operation applied to words ; and P is a suitable fixed word.

Murray died in 1915, having been responsible for words starting with A – D, H – K, O – P and T, nearly half the finished dictionary ; Bradley died in 1923, having completed E – G, L – M, S – Sh, St and W – We.

Although most native speakers do not notice this, in most English dialects the " c / k " sounds in these words are not identical: in cat and kit the sound is aspirated, while in school and skill it is unaspirated ( listen to U. S. pronunciations of and ).

On May 24, 1844, the line was officially opened as Morse sent the famous words " What hath God wrought " from the Supreme Court chamber in the basement of the U. S. Capitol building in Washington, D. C., to the B & O's Mount Clare Station in Baltimore.

Annie Ellsworth chose these words from the Bible ( Numbers 23: 23 ); her father, U. S. Patent Commissioner Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, had championed Morse's invention and secured early funding for it.

S ( named ess, spelled es-in compound words ; plural esses ) is the nineteenth ( 19th ) letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

It was, in the words of C. S.

William S. Burroughs, a core member of the Beat Generation and a very influential postmodern novelist, developed what he called the " cut-up technique " with former surrealist Brion Gysin — in which chance is used to dictate the composition of a text from words cut out of other sources — referring to it as the " Surrealist Lark " and recognizing its debt to the techniques of Tristan Tzara.

The name " Samba " was derived by running the Unix command grep through the system dictionary looking for words that contained the letters S, M, and B, in that order ( i. e. < tt > grep-i '^ s .* m.

On June 14, President Harding was also the first president to be heard by the U. S. public on the new mass medium: he spoke on radio at a dedication site in honor of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner.

The initial letters of these words ( P, R, D, S ) form together the word PaRDeS (" paradise / orchard "), which became the designation for the Zohar's view of a fourfold meaning of the text, of which the mystical sense is considered the highest part.

Once underwater, sudden changes in speed or direction triggered — in the words of a U. S. Navy intelligence report — " dangerous and eccentric movements.

Systems could be bought in a variety of configurations from the S / 500 with no I / O and 0. 5 million words of memory, to the S / 4400 with four I / O processors and 4 million words of memory.