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`` What would you have done in Montero's moccasins??
As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
An hour before, with the children asleep and nothing but the strange darkness, he would have appreciated company.
There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.
The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.
It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.
A few days ago, she would have thought such an expedition as this utterly ridiculous ; ;
His presence would have interfered with her duty.
A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.
An inch lower and it would have knocked him out.
Black would have little trouble getting out, but it might delay him a few minutes.
Yet had he not visited the girl at Saw Buck he would never have been involved in this latest tangle.
`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??
They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.
I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.
Johnson never would have believed she had a son that age.
Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.
She'd driven around for a while, Joyce said, then, thinking Louis Thor would have calmed down by that time, she'd gone back to his home on Bryn Mawr Drive, parked in front, and walked toward the pool.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.
It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.
Without money or property, what would you have had at Baton Rouge ''??
Now we peered anxiously for any speck of land in the Pacific, for this interminable bailing would have to stop soon.
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With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.
The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.
He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.
Whenever he saw someone lying in the dirt, Ramey wondered what the person had been thinking and he would try out thoughts in his own mind.
And he would have enjoyed it just as much if he had been a Nazi.
Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.
and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.
Poor where they had once been rich, humbled where they had been arrogant, having no longer any hope of sharing in the leadership of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother country.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
They believe that if the South had been let alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America.
And Hamilton, who felt it `` a religious duty '' to oppose Aaron Burr's political ambitions, would have been a better actuarial risk had he shown more literary restraint.
Without the decay of a sense of objective reference ( except as the imitation of mystery ), the stress on subjective invention would never have been stimulated into being.
In my own company, in effect a partnership, although legally a corporation, I have been able to do many things for my employees which `` normal '' corporations of comparable size and nature would have been unable to do.
Also, I am convinced that if my company were a sole proprietorship instead of a partnership, I would have been even abler to solve long-range problems for myself and my fellow-employees.
It would have been unwise policy, for instance, to apply the pound-of-flesh characterization to the thrifty Scotchman.
If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.
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It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.
A great many writers are bewitched by the apparently overwhelming advantage an attacker would have if he were to strike with complete surprise using nuclear rockets.
If our SAC bombers were, today, capable of surviving a surprise missile attack and because of infinite dispersion or long endurance had the capability to strike at Russia again, and again, and again, those bombers would unquestionably assure our military dominance.
Somewhat to his surprise he found that one girl, whom he would never have considered for the job since she had appeared somewhat mousy and also had been in the office a relatively short time, did the most outstanding job of playing the role of receptionist, showing wit, sparkle, and aplomb.
or surprise, which would set the patient apart from other people.
Neither Alfred's reformed fyrd nor his burhs alone would have afforded a sufficient defence against the Vikings ; together, however, they robbed the Vikings of their major strategic advantages: surprise and mobility.
A surprise attack from the Americans would destroy much of the Soviet ICBM fleet, allowing SDI to defeat a “ ragged ” Soviet retaliatory response.
General Baratieri planned to surprise the larger Ethiopian force with an early morning attack, expecting that his enemy would be asleep.
In later seasons, Tapp would be increasingly replaced by that episode's guest singer, or another surprise celebrity ( normally if it were a guest, his or her name would be included in the lyrics of the song before they would sing the refrain ).
He would only remain three months in that post before becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer after Nigel Lawson's surprise resignation in October 1989.
However, as soon as Ford met Cagney at the airport, the director warned him that they would " tangle asses ", which caught Cagney by surprise.
Kemp was a bit of a surprise to stay in the Bush Cabinet for the duration of his presidency, and he was described as one of the few Bush Administration members who would take tough stands.
To the surprise of the entire cast including Mary Tyler Moore herself, it was announced that they would soon be filming their final episode.
The plan was that after Theseus, Aegeus, and the palace guards had been forced out the front, the other half would surprise them from behind.
If we were to regard Sirius and Procyon as double stars, the change of their motions would not surprise us ; we should acknowledge them as necessary, and have only to investigate their amount by observation.
To the surprise of observers who thought Roosevelt had unstoppable momentum, Taft determined he would not simply step aside for the popular ex-President, despite the diminished support he had in the party.
Conservative commentator Bruce Anderson has claimed that the " Rivers of Blood " speech would have come as a complete surprise to anyone who had studied his record: he had been a West Midlands MP for 18 years but had said hardly anything about immigration.
Lightly armored warriors relying on speed and surprise would generally carry light shields ( pelte ) that were either small or thin.
Given Rickover's single-minded focus on naval nuclear propulsion, design and operations, it came as a surprise to many when in 1982, near the end of his career, he testified before the U. S. Congress that, were it up to him, he " would sink them all.
Brighton advises Faisal to retreat after a major defeat, but Lawrence proposes a daring surprise attack on Aqaba which, if successful, would provide a port from which the British could offload much-needed supplies.
According to legend, the king had promised the Welsh that he would name " a prince born in Wales, who did not speak a word of English " and then produced his infant son to their surprise ( and presumable chagrin ).
Gibbon makes the point that he did not move at once against Charles Martel, was surprised by him at Tours as Charles had marched over the mountains avoiding the roads to surprise the Muslim invaders, and thus the wily Charles selected the time and place they would collide:
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