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was and tough
If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.
But Suvorov's face was also a theater of vivacity, and his tough, stooping little frame was briskness embodied.
He was smooth and civil spoken but it seemed to me there was something tough under his selfeffacing manner.
Carroll was sharp and military, but he was up against tough competition for that RA berth, and he wanted to play it cool.
In my day the first requirement for a cop was to look like the law, big and tough.
He could be lavishly generous with friends, cab drivers and bellboys, but with dealers he was tough.
He didn't know what was so tough about Vivian's world, slopping around Nassau with what's-his-name.
Garry Kasparov argued that Karpov would have had good chances, because he had beaten Spassky convincingly and was a new breed of tough professional, and indeed had higher quality games, while Fischer had been inactive for three years.
* Mike Fink ( c. 1770 / 1780 – c. 1823 ) called " king of the keelboaters ", was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
It was then known as Bill Haley's Saddlemen, indicating their definite leaning toward the tough Western style.
The steak was slightly tougher than prime veal, a little stringy, but not too tough or stringy to be agreeably edible.
Determining styles in capoeira is a very tough task, since there was never a unity in the original capoeira, or a teaching method before the decade of 1920.
Nicknamed the " godfather " by the tabloid press, he was renowned for his tough, uncompromising style and was feared by both crew and cast alike.
However, David E. Fishman, professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, states that, whereas the heder and yeshiva, the organs of Jewish education, " were banned by virtue of the law separating church and school, and subjected to tough police and administrative actions ," circumcision was not proscribed by law or suppressed by executive measures.
The PET computer line was used primarily in schools, due to its tough all-metal construction ( some models were labeled " Teacher's PET "), but did not compete well in the home setting where graphics and sound were important.
stood for " Mother Father Sister Brother "; to the tough black areas where they came from it was understood to stand for " Mother Fuckin Son of a Bitch ".
It was a tough and demanding shoot for the filmmaker as he recalls.
The socialist rule was violently ended in 1958 by the U. S .- backed military ruler General Ayub Khan who disbanded the political parties and took tough actions against the communist mass in both East and West Pakistan.
Later, he became a legendary figure and the model of a tough, courageous Roman, and was bestowed the honorific title, " The Shield of Rome " ( similar to Marcus Claudius Marcellus being named the " Sword of Rome ").

was and world
He hated them too much to understand -- the people of this isolated law-unto-itself world that was Lord's world.
He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.
What a spectacle he was, caked with dirt and sweat and blood, filthy as a pig and naked as an Indian, kissing the finest, the sweetest, the bravest, and absolutely the prettiest girl in this whole wonderful world.
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.
It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
This was particularly true in the world arena, which was an anarchical battleground characterized by strife and avaricious competition for colonial empires.
Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.
Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.
That world was in scale with my own smallness.
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
After that, he declared, `` to return to freedom was to fall to one's knees before the real world and adore it ''.
and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;
Years were to pass before these plans came off the paper, and Wright was justified in thinking, as the projects failed, that much of what he had to show his country and the world would never be seen except by visitors to Taliesin.
In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.
But by the time the papers were finally disposed of, the group had informed the world of its purpose, its recommendations, and its belief that Paul Bang-Jensen was not of sound mind.
When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.
The architectural feature, the caryatides upholding the portico, famous around the world as the Porch of the Maidens, was referred to airily by Mando as the Girls' Place.
The Acropolis was unique in the world and if that imcomparable work flooded by moonlight wasn't enough for both natives and tourists, then they were quite simply barbarians and the hell with them.
Greece was one of the highlights of our trip, but beginning in Greece and continuing around the world throughout Southeast Asia the treatment of animals was horrifying, ranging from callous indifference to active cruelty.

was and you
The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.
`` Well '', he explained, `` s'posin' you was a nester swingin' the long rope??
If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.
`` Damn you, Adams '' -- Jess was beginning to recover from his initial shock.
`` Jackson recruited his critters, and him and me fixed up his wagon while we was waiting for you to catch up.
It was you that tracked it down anyway, Stevens '', he pursued strictly.
`` You owe it to Penny to give her a chance to explain that she was defending you, really '', he observed mildly.
Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.
You thought I was a Mexican, didn't you, buddy ''??
`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.
In fact, I was watching you on that little seventeen-inch screen when you rang my bell.
Man, you rang -- it was in color, too, Miss, and Miss??
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.
So if all these beers was to get me in bed, man, you just spent a lot of money ''.
As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.
`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??
Ernie was screaming inside himself: No, damn you, you ain't gonna take my meal ticket away from me!!
Yet implicit in each movement was the death of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, perhaps you and me -- and the experts.
`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
His reply was, `` Everything that has been printed derogatory to you, purporting to have come from me, was a betrayal, and nothing yet has been printed which I have sanctioned ''.

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