Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

Greg climbed into the cockpit feeling as if he had never been in one before.

The clearly identifiable enemy continued on as if no one else were around.

The spokes were tight again, the iron tires gripped onto the wheels as if of one piece.

While his comrades cocked the trap, that one behaved as if it was some dull maneuver.

What if one or more of them turn irrational or suddenly, coolly, decide to clobber the Russians??

I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.

The Negro faces as much, if not more, difficulty in fitting himself into an urban economy as he did in an agrarian one.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

Even if men eventually find themselves able to look through walls and around corners, one may question whether this will help them to live better lives.

At one time it seemed as if the Soviet Union had done us a favor by providing a striking example of how not to behave towards other peoples and other nations.

but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.

At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;

if one shuns, they say it is because one desires ; ;

Institutions and organs of society often reinforce bullying, often by implying to or telling targets of bullies that they are responsible for defending themselves, and then punishing victims if they fight back.

Shi ' a sources, on the other hand, depict a lengthy, violent persecution in which roving gangs of armed bullies threatened Ali and his supporters with instant death if they did not submit to Abu Bakr.

Racing to the school with the mountain bikes to avoid a potential lawsuit, Skinner tells Willie if the bullies are dead, they make for Mexico.

It was around this time when the Spanish Civil War broke out, and the largely apolitical Ash, driven by a hatred of bullies and fascism, decided that if the war was still going when he was old enough to fight ( aged 21 ), he would join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

She opined that many people, once " the shock had faded ", thought " the United States had it coming ", and that " orld bullies, even if their heart is in the right place, will in the end pay the price " ( the so-called " Roosting Chickens argument ").

The bullies had asked him if he wanted to hang out ; he tells the gang he " shouldn't have said yes.

It's almost as if Seth represents bullies.

Robson then bullies a younger inmate named Carl Jenkins into killing Said by promising to initiate him into the Brotherhood, as well as threatening to sell him as a sex slave ( i. e. a prag ) to the Black inmates if he fails.

He is the host of the MTV reality series Bully Beatdown in which he challenges bullies to a fight with other professional fighters, and if they accept, they have the opportunity to win $ 10, 000.

Now he saw that both the man and woman were moving slowly and irregularly, staggering, as if they found it a struggle to remain on their feet.

He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.

`` Gyp'll be holdin' forth in some bar if he's here at all '', Cobb declared, glancing along the street as they stretched their legs.

It was as if they could hardly wait to get into their costumes, cover their faces with masks and go adventuring.

It was spoiled now for seed, and it would sour and mold in three days if they failed to find a place and fuel to dry it.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

Unanimously they believe that the world would become a safer place if more of us -- and more Russians and Communist Chinese, too -- thought about accidental war.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

They look as if they had been sculptured with an unsharpened chisel.

The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..

Thus, if corporations are not to run away with us, they must become quasi-governmental institutions, subject to public control and needs.

They have indicated the direction but they have not been explicit enough, I believe, in pointing out Faulkner's independence, his questioning if not indeed challenging the Southern tradition.

Perfect, complete entities, if they move at all, do not move towards what they lack.

New Nations, and others struggling with the problems of development, will progress only -- regardless of any outside help -- if they demonstrate faith in their own destiny and use their own resources to fulfill it.

As for missionaries, even if they succeeded in getting into the country they probably would not be allowed to preach the Christian faith to the Burmans.