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He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.
No one seemed to know for sure what had happened, nor was there any purpose or responsibility in the muttering feet and urgent voices behind the driver, beyond finding out.
Most of the time I get what I ask for ''.
However, in recent decades, for what doubtless are multiple reasons, an unannounced but nonetheless readily observable shift has occurred in both facets of national activity.
Among the policy makers, generals, physicists, psychologists and others charged with controlling the actions of the button pushers and their `` hardware '', the answers to my questions varied partly according to a man's flair for what the professionals in this field call `` scenarios ''.
No Southern novelist has done for Atlanta or Birmingham what Herrick, Dreiser, and Farrell did for Chicago or Dos Passos did for New York.
This confession serves to make clear in part what is behind this sexual revolution: the craving for sensation for its own sake, the need for change, for new experiences.
Such problems are of extreme interest as well as importance and are so much like fighting in a rain forest or guerrilla warfare at night in tall grass that we might have to re-examine primitive conflicts for what they could teach.
At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.
No consideration of risk urges itself upon him now: for this is what the mind does with the ideas on which it has not properly focussed.
To experience them, it is not necessary for a people to be actively aware of what is happening to it.
The response of reaction is dominated by a concern for what is vanishing.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.
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If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.
His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
And, for the sake of Julia and Susan, it had to be tried.
Hell, they were fightin' each other so hard they had no time for anyone else.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
He had been the auditor for the mining syndicate, and he had stolen fifty thousand dollars of the syndicate's money.
He had done time for the theft.
That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.
She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.
Never, he'd once told Joyce, had he encountered any man or situation that called for a gun.
A wildcatter had to be prepared for almost any emergency.
That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.
Tom had been laying for Aaron McBride for a long time, just waiting to catch him out of line.
He had a legitimate reason for wearing it.
Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.
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He had his chance the very next morning, for exactly the same thing happened again.
Before leaving for America, he happened to see his old friend Jean Arp and confided to him his new resolutions.
When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.
This refers to what had happened after the Earl of Warwick died in 1590, when the town petitioned Burghley for the right to name the vicar and schoolmaster and other privileges but Greville bought the lordship for himself.
Two things have happened in recent months to bring the Council into perspective: each provides a basis for renewed hope and joy.
When something unexpected happened, one always asked for water if one were a woman, brandy if one were a man.
but consider, if you can bear it, what might have happened if MacArthur, for some perverse, undaunted reason, had made the same remark to an Eskimo girl in Eskimo.
It happened at the St. Patrick's Day party, a big affair for a regiment which had gone into battle for over three-quarters of a century to the strains of an Irish march.
Drifts usually happened only with cattle, for hosses had 'nough sense to avoid 'em, and to find shelter for 'emselves.
But there is one small episode that a few New York fans who happened to sit in the cheap seats for one World's Series game in 1926 like best to recall.
It was so utterly unexpected that Marty stood for several moments with his mouth hanging open foolishly after it had happened.
The Board of County Commissioners, the Sanitary Commission, the Planning and Zoning Board and other county official bodies use recording machines for all public business in order to prevent law suits and other misunderstandings about what actually happened at their meetings.
One doctor made a careful survey of his patients and the reasons for their troubles, and he reported that 40% of them worried about things that never happened ; ;
Socrates happened to be the citizen presiding over the assembly that day and refused to cooperate ( though to little effect ) and stood against the idea that it was outrageous for the people to be unable to do whatever they wanted.
After he happened upon the chained Andromeda, he approached Cetus while invisible ( for he was wearing Hades's helm ), and killed the sea monster.
The Angles are the subject of a legend about Pope Gregory I, who happened to see a group of Angle children from Deira for sale as slaves in the Roman market.
The original antipsychotic drugs were happened upon largely by chance and then tested for their effectiveness.
" Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt called for a tax increase on such products, although this had not yet happened as of December 2010.
Regardless of whatever happened Accrington did not remain under monastic control for long before reverting back to the de Lacys.
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