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A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.
It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.
Dr. Wilson C. Grant, of the Veterans' Administration Hospital, Coral Gables, Florida, and the University of Miami School of Medicine, set out to discover if avocados, because of their high content of unsaturated fatty acids, would reduce the cholesterol of the blood in selected patients.
Issuing the Balfour Declaration would appeal to Woodrow Wilson ’ s two closest advisors, who were avid Zionists.
By then Wilson was the last surviving member of Attlee's cabinet and the unveiling of the statue would be the last public appearance by Wilson, who was by then in the first stages of Alzheimer's Disease and who died in May 1995 after a decade of ill health.
In 2003, the director of Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre ( APNIC ), Paul Wilson, stated that, based on then-current rates of deployment, the available space would last for one or two decades.
Wilson said that should Carnahan be elected, he would like to appoint his widow, Jean Carnahan, to serve in her husband's place ; Mrs. Carnahan announced that, in accordance with what her husband would have wanted, she would serve in the Senate if he won the election.
Even so, he gave credit to Wilson for trying to forge something new and progressive, and observed that time would tell whether the ideals of the League would make a difference.
On 10 July, Wilson addressed the Senate, declaring that " a new role and a new responsibility have come to this great nation that we honor and which we would all wish to lift to yet higher levels of service and achievement ".
Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys ( whose much anticipated Smile project would not emerge until 2004 ), Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd were early " acid casualties ", helping to shift the focus of the respective bands of which they had been leading figures.
A 2008 study analyzing the sexual fantasies of 200 heterosexual men by using the Wilson Sex Fantasy Questionnaire exam, determined that males with a pronounced degree of fetish interest had a greater number of older brothers, a high 2D: 4D digit ratio ( which would indicate excessive prenatal estrogen exposure ), and an elevated probability of being left-handed, suggesting that disturbed hemispheric brain lateralization may play a role in deviant attractions.
By 4 January 1912, the last two four-man groups had reached 87 ° 34 ′ S. Scott announced his decision: five men ( Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans ) would go forward, the other three ( Teddy Evans, William Lashly and Tom Crean ) would return.
Polio's effects remained with Wilson throughout his life, usually manifesting as minor muscle spasms causing him to use a cane occasionally until 2000, when he experienced a major bout with post-polio syndrome that would continue until his death.
Wilson adopted his maternal grandfather's name, Anton, for his writings, at first telling himself that he would save the " Edward " for when he wrote the Great American Novel and later finding that " Robert Anton Wilson " had become an established identity.
For this reason President Woodrow Wilson would argue for the creation of self-determining states in the wake of the " Great War ".
Indiana was an important swing state, and Wilson hoped that Marshall's popularity would help him carry it in the general election.
He changed his mind after Wilson assured him that he would be given plenty of responsibilities.
Wilson and the bills ' supporters requested that Marshall put a gag-order in place to cut off debate, but he refused on ethical grounds, allowing a number of bills to be defeated in hopes that opposition would eventually end their filibuster.
Wilson, after deliberating, decided keeping Marshall on would demonstrate party unity ; thus in 1916 Marshall won reelection over the still divided Republican Party and became the first vice president re-elected since John C. Calhoun in 1828, and Wilson and Marshall became the first president and vice president team to be re-elected since Monroe and Tompkins in 1820.

Wilson and forever
In the words of frontman Robin Wilson at the time, " We always said our breakup wasn't forever and right now we're all feeling like we want to be Gin Blossoms again.
Wilson credits his reading of the work of Gertrude Stein and listening to recordings of her speaking with " changing way of thinking forever.

Wilson and recall
During the recall, Davis blamed some of the state's problems on his predecessor Pete Wilson.
* 1992-93 California Governor Pete Wilson was targeted for recall by the Bite ' Em Back campaign, which was a grassroots effort that came about as a result of a piece by San Jose Mercury News columnist Pat Dillon, in response to the then-ongoing California budgetary crisis.
The Cabinet eventually agreed to let Wilson recall battalions from Silesia, Malta and Egypt, mobilise sailors and an 80, 000 strong paramilitary “ Defence Force ”.
Other California governors, including Pat Brown, Ronald Reagan, Jerry Brown, and Pete Wilson, had faced unsuccessful recall attempts.
Wilson, human beings have an innate instinct to connect emotionally with nature, particularly the aspects of nature that recall what evolutionary psychologists have termed the environment of evolutionary adaptiveness, the natural conditions that the human species evolved to inhabit.
Russert does not recall stating to Libby, in this conversation, anything about the wife of former ambassador Joe Wilson.

Wilson and standing
John Francis Wilson thinks it possible to have been a pagan bronze statue whose true identity had been forgotten ; some have thought it to be Aesculapius, the God of healing, but the description of the standing figure and the woman kneeling in supplication is precisely that found on coins depicting the bearded emperor Hadrian reaching out to a female figure symbolizing a province kneeling before him.
When Wilson was eight, he visited London and a later-to-be-famous photograph was taken of him standing on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street.
Image of President Woodrow Wilson created by 21, 000 standing soldiers at Camp Sherman, Ohio | Camp Sherman in Chillicothe, 1918
Although some in the Conservative party agreed with Wilson ( and Jo Grimond, the Liberal leader ) that the Conservatives would have won the 1964 election if Butler had been Prime Minister, The Times observed, " it should not be overlooked that in October 1963 Home took over a Government whose morale was shattered and whose standing in the opinion polls was abysmal.
Wilson contemplated standing for Parliament.
Wilson was finally confirmed as Secretary of Defense by a Senate vote of 77 to 6, and began his duties in the Pentagon with his standing somewhat diminished by the confirmation debate.
Wilson also tried his hand at national politics, standing unsuccessfully as a federal candidate for the Conservatives in 1908, before managing to be elected in 1917.
Image: Henry Hughes Wilson, British general, photo portrait standing in uniform. jpg | General Henry Wilson
Clarke was the choice of both Woodrow Wilson and Attorney General James Clark McReynolds, who felt that the position required a " first rate appointment " to deal with the backlog in the court's docket, and that Clarke's high standing before the Ohio bar marked him out as a man of " decided ability ".
Wilson as a representativeAs of the 111th Congress, Wilson serves on three standing committees and various subcommittees overseeing specific areas of legislation.
Falkender claims that she first met Wilson when he offered her a lift when she was standing at a bus stop.
Wilson announced in February 2008 that she would not be standing for re-election in 2008, and was considering " academia " rather than a diplomatic posting.
Wilson initially gave the plan tepid support, but Garrison ran into opposition from both those who felt his plan went too far in creating a large standing army, as well as from those who felt it did not go far enough.
The leader of the Jokerz, Terminal, is actually an honor student named Carter Wilson, and Max's standing is higher than his, outperforming him academically ; at the current rate, she will be valedictorian instead of him.
The last visitors to the school while it was still standing were alum and long-time Uni teacher, Danny Wilson, accompanied by two of the students who had worked on the school's official documentary in the past year.
Brian stood instead for Bangor West seat on North Down Council, as an Independent standing against both his wife ( Anne Wilson, Alliance Party ) and the Green Party candidate.
Left to right: Wesley Merritt, David McM. Gregg, Sheridan, Henry E. Davies ( standing ), James H. Wilson, and Alfred Torbert.
At a meeting of the Monday Club in 1968, Donnelly received a two minute standing ovation, and then told members " Mr Wilson should resign and leave public life ".
The episode featuring Sally standing Brad Armstrong up on their wedding day earned the episode's writer Margaret Wilson an Australian Writer's Guild award in 2008.

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