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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 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 blushed
and were flustered
, and it turned out
to be the fleetest brush
of lips upon cheek
.
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 requested

Later
, after Sokal's self-exposure
of his pseudoscientific hoax article
in the journal Lingua Franca
, the Social Text editors explained
in a published essay that they had
requested editorial changes that Sokal refused
to make
, and had had concerns about
the quality
of the writing
, stating "
We requested him (
a )
to excise
a good deal
of the philosophical speculation
and ( b )
to excise most
of his footnotes
.

The original
group members
were reunited
in 2011 on Oprah Winfrey's " Women Who Rock " episode
, highlighting their "
We are Family "
as one
of the most
requested songs
of all time
.

There is an old inscription on
the wall: "
We, ploughmen
and women living at
the porch
of this house
, built
in 1407
, are requested to say every day an ' Our Father
and an ' Ave Maria ' praying God that His grace forgive poor
and dead sinners
.

"
We have
requested that Sega return our confidential information
and technology
and they have failed
to honor that request for one month now ," said Ms
. Onopchenko
, a reporter for
the online technology journal Pahkasika
.
We want freedom
of meeting
, freedom
of the press
and freedom
of brings back consciousness ;
and we requested respect
to the inalienable rights
of the man
, foundations
of the independence
and the greatness
of the towns
.

As Paul Bloland ( 1979 ) wrote
in an article
in the NASPA Journal
, “
We have cultivated an expertise that was
not requested, is
not sought out
, and for which there is little recognition
or demand
.

The prosecution
requested that
the Court impose
the maximum statutory penalty
, saying
, "
We hope that this sentence
of 30 years will
not only punish Stewart for her actions
, but serve
as a deterrent for other lawyers who believe that they
are above
the rules and regulations of penal institutions
or otherwise try
to skirt
the laws
of this country
.

It featured
the hit single "
We Want Your Soul ";
with his remix
of Sarah Vaughan's " Fever " nominated for
a Grammy Award ;
and his personally
requested mix
of The Doors " Hello
, I Love You " receiving critical acclaim
.

The advertisement also
requested donations for
the We the People Foundation
.

Roosevelt had specifically
requested Saint-Gaudens
not to put " In God
We Trust " on
the new coin
, feeling that
the motto's presence on coins was
a debasement
of God's name
, as the coins might
be spent
to further criminal activities
.

"
We learn that
in ancient times there have been cases
of troops
being asked for
and assistance
requested:
to render help
in emergencies
, and to restore that which has been interrupted
, is
a manifestation
of ordinary principles
of right
.

"
We are really prepared
to operate on all fronts
as requested and as co-ordinated
by the United States ," said Prime Minister Paul Martin
.
We and by
We began
by declaring that all men
are created equal
.
We consider
a rural community
as an assemblage
of inhabited dwellings whose configuration is determined
by the location
and size
of the arable land sites necessary for family subsistence
.
We are tempted
to blame others for our problems rather than look them straight
in the face
and realize they
are of our own making
and possible
of solution only
by ourselves
with the help
of desperately needed
, enlightened
, competent leaders
.
We note
the use
of rhetoric
as a weapon
, the manipulation
of the masses
by propaganda
, the `` mobilization ''
of effort
and resources
.
We are also struck
by the fact that this story
of a boy's love for his mother does
not offend
, while
the incestuous love
of the man
, Paul Morel
, sometimes repels
.
We feel uncomfortable at
being bossed
by a corporation
or a union
or a television set
, but until
we have some knowledge about these phenomena
and what they
are doing
to us, we can hardly learn
to control them
.
We must meet this situation
by promoting
a rising volume
of exports
and world trade
.
We attempted
to conclude this
, and did so
by having
the papers burned
.
We must avoid
the notion
, suggested
to some people
by examples
such as those just mentioned
, that ideas
are `` units ''
in some way comparable
to coins
or counters that can
be passed intact from one
group of people
to another
or even
, for that matter
, from one individual
to another
.
`` We are menaced for
the first time
in the history
of the Republic
by the open
and unblushing effort
of a multi-millionaire
to purchase
the Presidential nomination
.
We stopped first at
the amphitheater that lies at
the foot
of the height crowned
by the Parthenon
.

There is
, of course, nothing new about dystopias
, for they belong
to a literary tradition which
, including also
the closely related satiric utopias
, stretches from at least
as far back
as the eighteenth century
and Swift's Gulliver's Travels
to the twentieth century
and Zamiatin's
We, Capek's War With The Newts
, Huxley's Brave New World
, E. M. Forster's
`` The Machine Stops ''
, C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength
, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
, and which
in science fiction is represented before
the present deluge
as early
as Wells's trilogy
, The Time Machine
, `` A Story Of The Days To Come ''
, and When The Sleeper Wakes
, and as recently
as Jack Williamson's
`` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 )
, the classic story
of men replaced
by their own robots
.
We believe that
the list
of vital things left undone
to date
by the Eighty-seventh Congress should have included repeal
by the Senate
of the Connally amendment
.

If
it is
not enough that all
of our internationalist One Worlders
are advocating that
we join this market
, I refer
you to an article
in the New York Times' magazine section ( Nov. 12
, 1961 )
, by Mr. Eric Johnston
, entitled
`` We Must Join The Common Market ''
.
We would
be crippled
by reduced output
, industrial decline
, widespread unemployment ''
.

Once
, Andrus walked
by it, hastily scanned
the bold black headline
and the five-column lead
of the article (
by Duane Bosch
, staff correspondent -- age
not given )
, and muttered:
`` We a buncha national celebrities ''
.
We also continued
to run
a series
of ads featuring endorsement
of Rhode Island
by industrialists who had recently established new plants here
.
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