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keep and two
At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep an eye on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi's party.
The failure to keep these two usages distinct presents hazards to the reader.
When the visitors, after losing this game, rode along the village streets toward home, the youngsters who could keep abreast of them for a moment or two screamed triumphantly, `` You bunch of hay-shakers!!
There's no way to take him in now and keep those other two -- Wister and the one who hired the two of them -- from finding out about Roberts and lamming out.
Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o'clock.
For a number of years the board used a machine to keep a permanent record but abandoned the practice about two years ago.
`` I'll keep Cathy for two weeks.
We'd keep her a day or two, and the AA people would talk to her.
The wires are usually bowed to bulge upward in the center, to keep the beads pinned to either of the two sides.
Military action was heavily influenced by the Russian military, which inspired and manipulated the rivalry between the two neighbouring nations in order to keep both under control.
The remains of the acropolis fortifications are very interesting, including roads and ditches hewn in the rock ; but beyond ruins of two churches, a gatehouse, and a fine keep built by Thoros I There are no notable structures in the upper town.
Campbell-Bannerman tried to keep these forces together at the head of a moderate Liberal rump, but in 1901 he delivered a speech on the government's " methods of barbarism " in South Africa that pulled him further to the left and nearly tore the party in two.
Inside the hollow disc-shaped housing were two or three freely-floating pawls arranged so that when the clutch was tripped, the load torque on the first pawl to engage created force to keep the second pawl engaged, which in turn kept the third one engaged.
Charlton's first Premier League campaign began promisingly ( they went top after two games ) but they were unable to keep up their good form and were soon battling relegation.
Ironically, although the ID tags include religion as a way of ensuring that religious needs will be met, some personnel have them reissued without religious affiliation listed or keep two sets, one with the designation and one without out of fear that identification as a member of a particular religion could increase the danger to their welfare or their lives if they fell into enemy hands.
He needed two soldiers to keep his hands up and when the Danes were about to win, ' Dannebrog ' fell from the sky and the King took it, showed it to the troops and their hearts were filled with courage and the Danes won the battle.
Although officially classified as a torpedo boat in 1898 by the US Navy, the, a long all steel vessel displacing 165 tons, was described by her commander, LT. John C. Fremont, as "... a compact mass of machinery not meant to keep the sea nor to live in ... as five sevenths of the ship are taken up by machinery and fuel, whilst the remaining two sevenths, fore and aft, are the crew's quarters ; officers forward and the men placed aft.
He went out in the evening to keep two drink appointments.
Russian and British troops were quickly alerted, but the two powers reached a compromise ; Russia was in possession of the oasis, and Britain believed it could keep the Russians from advancing any farther.
" I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this ( award ) two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton ," she joked.
In 1516, after a failed Navarrese-French attempt to expel the Spanish invaders from the kingdom, an attempt in which Francis ' brothers had taken part, the Spanish Castilian kingdom's Governor, Cardinal Cisneros, ordered family lands to be confiscated, the demolition of the outer wall, the gates and two towers of the family castle, the moat was filled, and the height of the keep was reduced in half.
In an attempt to keep control of the process and prevent the Assembly from convening, Louis XVI ordered the closure of the Salle des États where the Assembly met, making an excuse that the carpenters needed to prepare the hall for a royal speech in two days.
( They had originally thought that there were two boys and one girl, but decided to keep the name Chandler, despite the baby turning out a girl.
Tied to a chair, Ichinose can only watch as Mafune and the aliens unleash Mechagodzilla and Titanosaurus on Yokosuka, while Interpol struggles to repair their sonic wave machine and the Japanese armed forces struggle to keep the two monsters at bay.

keep and straight
He was less to see, but Feathertop took him in, too, just to keep the records straight.
And when they stood by the fountain in the piazza looking at Santa Maria he had to keep a straight face, not letting on he had been there with Alberto.
At best, the technique is only effective at extremely close ranges of five to ten feet, since the recoil would make it hard to keep both weapons straight, and using the sights on the guns is next to impossible.
If the bacterium senses that it is moving in the correct direction ( toward attractant / away from repellent ), it will keep swimming in a straight line for a longer time before tumbling.
The trigger guard and area above the trigger of a firearm presents a natural point for a handler to keep their finger out straight alongside the weapon, so as not to violate this rule.
The swing and row simply consists of the vaulter swinging his trail leg forward and rowing the pole, bringing his top arm down to the hips, while trying to keep the trail leg straight to store more potential energy into the pole, the rowing motion also keeps the pole bent for a longer period of time for the vaulter to get into optimum position.
On the home straight, Ritola sprinted from the outside but Nurmi increased his pace to keep his rival a metre behind.
In order to keep it from spinning while in the gun due to the rifling, a small " key " fit into a straight groove in the rifled gun.
" Spacey obliged, eventually coming up with 35 phrases, but Bening could not always keep a straight face, which meant the scene had to be shot ten times.
Giving the Gymnote submarine the ability to keep a straight line under water during several hours, it allowed her to force a naval block in 1890.
Men wore their hair short, and either parted on the side or in the middle, or combed straight back, and used pomade, creams and tonics to keep their hair in place.
A rigid splint can keep the wrist straight.
In the process of designing his system, he also designed an ergonomic interface for using it, based on Barbier's own slate and stylus tools: by soldering two thin bars across the slate, he created a secure area for the stylus which would keep the lines straight and readable.
), " waveform processing " modules actually performed the modem functions, " key processing " and " cryptographic processing " managed the cryptographic functions, a " multimedia " module did voice processing, a " human interface " provided local or remote controls, there was a " routing " module for network services, and a " control " module to keep it all straight.
Some track arrangements use return rollers to keep the top of the track running straight between the drive sprocket and idler.
The mizzen has to be small in size to keep the sail area balanced around the hull's centre of lateral resistance to ensure the boat will sail in a straight line without excessive correction.
A tall, cylindrical container with padding on the bottom to keep the points sharp can store straight needles neatly.
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations ; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
After his mother's fatal illness, Sonny Sandoval converted to Christianity and was asked by his cousin, Wuv Bernardo, to join the band as a way to keep his mind straight as mentioned on their DVD, Still Payin ' Dues.
Variety said he hit " all the right notes in a star-powered performance that will amuse, if not amaze, anyone who only knows the actor as Tony Blair or David Frost " while Richard Corliss of Time noted that he " tries bravely to keep a straight face "
# When doing long division, keep the numbers lined up straight from top to bottom under the tableau.
Scarlett is somewhat impressed with Melanie's ability to keep a straight face and a smile in the presence of the wounded and her willingness to help and comfort them.
After Kira expresses her feelings for Sonny in the song " Suspended in Time ", Zeus and Mnemosyne decide to let Kira go to him for a " moment, or maybe forever ", which they cannot keep straight because mortal time confuses them, and the audience is left to wonder her fate.
Art tried to keep his father's story chronological, because otherwise he would " never keep it straight ".

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