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Why had he crossed the dark water, to bring back a group of reclaimed soldiers or to skulk in a foul-smelling hole??
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Why had not this success come to him before he had plunged into his Discourse, and before he had committed himself to a life of austerity and denial??
If the book itself, Animal Farm, had left any doubt of the matter, Orwell dispelled it in his essay Why I Write: ' Every line of serious work that I ’ ve written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly against Totalitarianism ... dot, dot, dot, dot.
Paedobaptists challenge credobaptists on this point: Why would a whole household be baptized just because the head of the house had faith?
In 1942 Lee had her first # 1 hit, " Somebody Else Is Taking My Place ", followed by 1943's " Why Don't You Do Right?
Richard Nisbett, another psychologist who had also commented at the time, later included an amplified version of his critique as part of the book Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count ( 2009 ).
University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt argues in his paper, Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do not, that available data indicate that neither stricter gun control laws nor more liberal concealed carry laws have had any significant effect on the decline in crime in the 1990s.
While Carl Bernstein has ascribed Felt's motives to truth telling and protecting the justice system against Presidential abuse, historian Max Holland in his 2012 book Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat claimed Felt planted the leaks to obtain the FBI director's job ( the leaks hurt L. Patrick Gray, Nixon's friend who had recently been chosen for the director's position over Felt ).. John Dean remarked that " Max has got it right — he nailed it ”.
Once a man asked her what the Astors had done for him and she responded with, " Why, Charlie, you know ," and later had a picture taken with him.
Drunk, Corso challenged Fonda, using a four-letter expletive: Why hadn't she addressed the shooting of four students at Kent State by the Ohio National Guard, which had just taken place?
In a 2002 retrospective, Roger Ebert, who " saw the original version at the world premiere in 1969, during the golden age of the junket, when Warner Bros. screened five of its new films in the Bahamas for 450 critics and reporters ", said that back then he had publicly declared the film a masterpiece during the junket's press conference, prompted by comments from " a reporter from the Reader's Digest got up to ask ' Why was this film ever made?
In 1995, Blackburn Rovers manager Kenny Dalglish had expressed interest in signing both Zidane and Dugarry, to which team owner and chairman Jack Walker reportedly replied, " Why do you want to sign Zidane when we have Tim Sherwood?
Some of the Italian groups who had national chart hits included Dion and the Belmonts in 1958 with " I Wonder Why ", The Capris with " There's A Moon Out Tonight " in 1960, The Demensions, The Elegants, The Mystics, The Duprees, Vito & the Salutations, The Gaylords, Johnny Maestro, and The Del-Satins.
Their work with the English Opera Group ( which they had founded with designer John Piper in 1947 ) frequently took them away from home, and it was while they were on tour in Switzerland with Albert Herring and The Rape of Lucretia in August of that year, that Peter Pears said “ Why not make our own Festival?
Louis-Dreyfus at the unveiling of her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, May 2010In 2007, Louis-Dreyfus reprised her role as Gloria on The Simpsons, which she had first originated in the 2001 episode " A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love ", in the episode " I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ".
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In 2000, the band crossed genres by working with trance producer and DJ Paul van Dyk, resulting in the single " Tell Me Why ( The Riddle )", with vocals by Cracknell.
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* In October 2006, the New Scientist headlined an article " Why the Loch Ness Monster is no plesiosaur " because Leslie Noè of the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge reported, " The osteology of the neck makes it absolutely certain that the plesiosaur could not lift its head up swan-like out of the water ".
* The Straight Dope: Why does the shower curtain blow in despite the water pushing it out ( revisited )?
In 1998 during the rule of Nawaz Sharif, Junoon was again banned in Pakistan, because they protested against the nuclear power tests in India as well as their own country by saying, " Why escalate the arms race when people still need water?
And a large multitude gathered and stopped up all the fountains and the stream that flowed in the midst of the land, saying, " Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?
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In the crime novel " The Redbreast " by Jo Nesbo, a senior Norwegian official concerned with preparations for a forthcoming visit by the President of the United States is depicted as saying: " Why does the President need to bring with him 700 people for a two-day summit?
Upon seeing the spirit of Samuel Saul fell with his face to the ground and Samuel asked Saul " Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up?
In the 1995 movie Mallrats, Jason Lee's character Brodie makes a reference to the show with: " Why don't they ever bring back or remake good shows, like ' BJ and the Bear.
Lady Wu questioned her relatives, asking " Why bring disaster upon yourselves for the love of one girl?
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