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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 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 struck
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 hope
and rely
on thy care
and assistance in this affair
and that thou wilt procure
and forward it
by the first good opp < sup > o </ sup > as our workmen inform us it will be much less trouble to hang
the Bell before their Scaffolds are
struck from
the Building where
we intend to place it which will not be done ' till
the end
of next Summer or beginning
of the Fall
.
We struck up some idle conversation

Landsknecht Paul Dolstein wrote
of the siege
of Älfsborg in July 1502
, fighting for
the King
of Denmark: "
We were 1800 Germans
, and we were attacked
by 15000 Swedish farmers ...
we struck most
of them dead ".

The Harvard Corporation voted unanimously to refuse
the offer
, "
We are unwilling to accept
a gift from one who has been
so closely identified with
the leadership
of a political party which has inflicted damage
on the universities
of Germany through measures which have
struck at principles
we believe to be fundamental to universities throughout
the world
.
We struck them down
, leaving no survivors
.
We might have gotten rid
of Willie forever if I'd only
struck him out
.

One former prisoner
, Henryka Ostrowska
, testified
, "
We always said blutige about
the fact
that she
struck until blood showed ," giving her
the nickname " Bloody Brigitte " ( Krwawa Brygida in Polish ).
We struck them down
, leaving no survivors
.

The Pan-Pac coins have
the distinction
of being
the first commemorative coins to bear
the motto " In God
We Trust ",
and were also
the first commemoratives to be
struck at
a branch mint
.
We struck almost instantly after making
the brake application
.
We struck up ' Kill Your Television '
and the entire field bounced in unison-absolutely awesome to see
.

* "
We just struck oil!
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 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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