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We and were
We were coming
to an intersection
, turning right
, chuffing
to a stop
.
We were off
the road
, gleaming barbed wire pulling taut
.
We were in a field
, in a tight
, screeching turn
.
We were back on
the road
.
We were slowing
.
We enjoyed a paradoxical freedom when we
were still too young for school
.
We were not
, however
, entirely unacquainted with
the varying aspects
of the street
.
We were forbidden
to swing on
the gates
, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way
, but we could stand on them
, when they
were latched
, rest our chins on
the top
, and stare
and stare
, committing
to memory
, quite unintentionally
, all
the details that lay before our eyes
.
We can also argue that
the three brothers Karamazov
and Smerdyakov
were the external representatives
of an internal conflict within one man
, Dostoevsky
, a conflict having
to do with father-murder
and the wish
to possess
the father's woman
.

``
We were possessed by visions
of a new civilization
to come
, very pure
and elevated ''
, he has said
, `` in fact some ideal form
of socialism such as we had dreamed
of since
the war
of 1914-1918 ''
.
We were given a job
and we carried
it out, and later
, his case was taken up by
the Disciplinary Committee
.

``
We were requested by
the Secretary General
, as I understand
it, to discuss with you such matters as appear
to us
to be relevant
, and we are not
of course either a formal group or a committee in
the sense
of being guided by any rules or regulations
of the Secretariat
.
We were struck by
the notable absence
of banana skins
and beer cans
, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement
, perfection was side-stepped by a couple
of braying portable radios
.
We were almost
the same age
, she was fifteen
, I was twelve
, and where I felt there was a life
to look forward
to Lilly felt she had had as much
of it as was necessary
.
We may say
of some unfortunates that they
were never young
.
We were at a party once
and heard an idealistic young European call that awful charge glorious
.

``
We have just returned from Roswell
, N.M.
, where we
were defeated
, 34
to 9 ''
, the young man noted
.
We were less than a quarter
of a mile from
the road
, and we could trace its shape from
the ribbon
of powder smoke
and dust that hung over
it.

``
We were on our vacation in Canada ''
, Howard explained
, in a muffled voice that must have been used
to booming
, ``
and the news didn't catch up with us till we
were nearly home
.
We would have
the means
to seek
out and destroy
the enemy's force -- whether
it were fixed or mobile
.
We were in business!!
We were camping a few weeks ago on Cape Hatteras Campground in that land
of pirates
, seagulls
and bluefish on North Carolina's famed Outer Banks
.
We and flustered
We can tell that McGonigle is a trans-dimensional entity because when he is
flustered he finds himself being pulled away from reality into a world that lies beyond his own distant hand
, and he recites: " From so far away she calls
to me
.
We and turned
We had stopped before a shop window
to assess its autumnal display
, when you suddenly
turned to me
, looking up from beneath one
of your wrong hats
, and with your nervous `` ahem ''!!
We lived for a while in a movie melodrama with a German cook
and her son who
turned out to be Nazis
.
We ran east for about half a mile before we
turned back
to the road
, panting from
the effort
and soaked with sweat
.
We are preventing or averting pathogenic phenomena such as undue regression
, unhealthy suppression
and repression
, excessive use
of denial
, and crippling guilt
turned against
the self
.

In many cases that statement -- ``
We break even on our downtown operation
and make money on our branches '' -- would
be turned around if
the cost analysis
were recalculated on terms less prejudicial
to the old store
.
We can all breathe more easily this morning -- more easily
and joyously
, too -- because Joshua Logan has
turned the stage show
, `` Fanny ''
, into a delightful
and heart-warming film
.

``
We all feel guilty ''
, I
turned away from her coldly
.

/
We watch in reverence
, as Narcissus is
turned to a flower
.

And
We caused a fount
of ( molten ) brass
to flow for him
, and there
were jinn that worked in front
of him
, by
the Leave
of his Lord
, And whosoever
of them
turned aside from Our Command
, We shall cause him
to taste
of the torment
of the blazing Fire
.

They used no synthesizers or digital effects on
the album ; Shink noted
, "
We turned our back on technology
.

He was cast as ' Albert Fosdike ' in Noël Coward's 1942 film In Which
We Serve but
turned up late for his first day
of shooting
.

Conyers expressed concern that this silence was due
to the CIA's connections
to these military officers dating back
to the creation
of the Haitian Intelligence service known as SIN
, as Alan Nairn's research has shown: "
We have
turned a very deaf ear
to what is obviously a moving force ...
it leads you
to wonder if our silence is because we knew this was going on
and of our complicity in drug activity ..." Nairn in particular alleged that
the CIA's connections
to these drug traffickers in
the junta not only dated
to the creation
of SIN
, but
were ongoing during
and after
the coup
.
We are told by
the biographers
of Aratus that
it was
the desire
of Antigonus
to have them
turned into verse
, which gave rise
to the Phaenomena
of Aratus ;
and it appears from
the fragments
of them preserved by Hipparchus
, that Aratus has in fact versified
, or closely imitated parts
of them both
, but especially
of the first
.

The next major event
, the Korean War inspired a long-running television series M * A * S * H
. With
the Vietnam War
, the tide
of balance
turned and its films
, notably Apocalypse Now
, Good Morning
, Vietnam
, Go Tell
the Spartans
, Born on
the Fourth
of July
, and We Were Soldiers
, have tended
to contain critical messages
.

The band stated: "
We are getting back together for
the joy
of music ", though they
turned down a multi-album deal offer " because
the " treadmill "
of releasing albums
and touring marked
the beginning
of the end for
the band a decade ago ".

When
the messenger
turned back
to look at
the spot where Oedipus last stood
, he says that "
We couldn't see
the man-he was gone-nowhere!
We started
the publicity
, we started moving in
the same direction with them
, and then
the devil came in
and just
turned that right around
.

" If
We Make It Through December "
turned out to be Haggard's last pop hit
.

“
We turned some attention on
the Congo
and on Darfur when nobody else was
.

But for GIs who saw
the show
, it was worth
it: "
We turned to watch Ann perform
, and for about two minutes
of American beauty
, the war was forgotten
.

The breakaway group felt that he was no longer relevant
, and they
turned Isou's own words back against him: "
We appreciated
the importance
of Chaplin's work in its own time
, but we know that today novelty lies elsewhere
, and ' truths which no longer entertain become lies ' ( Isou ).
We thought this would
be hailed as an unprecedented step in jurisprudence ; instead
, the press
turned around
and hinted that we had drugged our witnesses or given them posthypnotic suggestions
to testify falsely
.
We found each other
and it turned out to be the longest-lasting friendship
of my life
.
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