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One and day
One day the dogs of Ireland will do that too and perhaps also the pigs ''.
One of the most distressing of these scenes occurred at Spring Green toward the end of the open warfare, on a beautiful day in June.
One day he followed the Irish Jasper Greens, the town band, to a picnic and spent the entire day listening, while his family spent the day looking.
One day in a bar, so the legend goes, someone put a beer stein with too much force on the monacle and broke it.
One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.
One day I tired of following the Hetman's advice of `` shadowing '' and of the `` ring-around-the-rosie '' approach to a report that Enrico Caruso had pinched a lady's hip while visiting the Central Park monkey house.
F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.
One day Alfred told him that he had decided to leave everything to me.
One day he was visited by a delegation of would-be imitators who wanted to know his secret.
Volumes One and Two, selected from the sound tracks of a television series, contain `` conversations with the elder wise men of our day ''.
One day over a year before, there had been a cocktail party in an apartment of a downtown hotel.
`` One day our species promises co-existence, and the next day it threatens co-extinction ''.
One day, the children had wanted to get up onto General Burnside's horse.
One day Maeterlinck, coming with a friend upon an event which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream, detailed the ensuing occurrences in advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified.
One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left, his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone, clasping him by the arm, whispered, `` I want a word with you, please ''.
One day, to everyone's astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.
One day last week, Nixon faced a painful constitutional chore that required him to officiate at a joint session of Congress to hear the official tally of the Electoral College vote, and then to make `` sufficient declaration '' of the election of the man who defeated him in the tight 1960 presidential election.
`` One, modern equipment -- much of it supplied under the Marshall Plan -- enables Fiat to turn out 2,100 cars a day.
One day, Korzybski was giving a lecture to a group of students, and he interrupted the lesson suddenly in order to retrieve a packet of biscuits, wrapped in white paper, from his briefcase.
A series of team-sponsored fan motorcoach trips from Tucson to Bank One Ballpark were inaugurated for the opening season and are still in operation to this day ( it is now known as the " Diamond Express ").
One now leads to Aberdour railway station, a beautifully kept and cared for example of a traditional station, in keeping with its role of transporting at least a quarter of the village's working population to their work each day.

One and Ching
One could interpret the Tao Te Ching as a suite of variations on the " Powers of Nothingness ".
The Tao Te Ching states that courage is derived from love (" 慈 loving 故 causes 能 ability 勇 brave ") and explains: " One of courage, with audacity, will die.
" ( literally meaning " Tao " is ever changing ) — Chapter One, Tao Te Ching
One direct response ( a mirror response in a sense ) to Mbeki's call on artists and thinkers to take up his utopian vision, was offered by Andre Venter who published I Ching for the ' African Renaissance ' in 2006.
One example was the Amalgamated Association of Street Car Employees ( AASCE ) in 1912 which, with the aid of Cyrus S. Ching as company negotiator for Boston's public transit system, reached a system-wide agreement for all transit workers.
* One cannot understand one thing unless he or she understands its opposite ( Tao Te Ching ).
From the Taoist classic Tao Te Ching, it was held that " The Tao produced One ; One produced Two ; Two produced Three ; Three produced All things.
The examples Aarseth gives include a diverse group of texts: wall inscriptions of the temples in ancient Egypt that are connected two-dimensionally ( on one wall ) or three dimensionally ( from wall to wall or room to room ); the I Ching ; Apollinaire ’ s Calligrammes in which the words of the poem “ are spread out in several directions to form a picture on the page, with no clear sequence in which to be read ”; Marc Saporta ’ s Composition No. 1, Roman, a novel with shuffleable pages ; Raymond Queneau ’ s One Hundred Thousand Billion Poems ; B. S. Johnson ’ s The Unfortunates ; Milorad Pavic ’ s Landscape Painted with Tea ; Joseph Weizenbaum ’ s ELIZA ; Ayn Rand ’ s play Night of January 16th, in which members of the audience form a jury and choose one of two endings ; William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter ’ s Racter ; Michael Joyce ’ s Afternoon: a story ; Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle ’ s Multi-User Dungeon ( aka MUD1 ); and James Aspnes ’ s TinyMUD.
' One instance of the language which he used to express his admiration of the master is as follows :-- The duke Ching of Qi asked Zi-gong how Zhong-ni was to be ranked as a sage.
One night, Ching is kidnapped by a mysterious man that seems to be an ally of Ling's.
D. C. Lau's translation of the Tao Te Ching 47, for example, states: " Without stirring abroad / One can know the whole world ;/ Without looking out of the window / One can see the way of heaven.

One and had
One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.
One girl describes her past, her succession of broken marriages, the abortions she has had and finally confesses that she loves sex and sees no reason why she must justify her passion.
One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.
One of the uniformed officers stepped in my way, demanding to know whether I had permission to enter Germany.
One of the girl students, sitting by while I ate the thick soup, asked me if I had a sleeping bag.
One fellow who had liver spots held out his hands to the great healer.
One had to find a donor, and usually very quickly, whose blood corresponded with the patient's.
One had it that a friend, protesting her snobbery, said, `` But, Gracie, you are an American, aren't you ''??
One soft evening -- that marvelous sea-blessed time when the sun's departing warmth lingers and a smell of spume and wrack haunts everything -- Amy had picked herself off the floor and begun to walk.
One had to believe in final events or one was stranded in the abyss of nothing.
One of the important and difficult decisions which had to be made in this budget concerned the role of the B-70, a long-range supersonic bomber.
One year I simply set the plants in the remains of a compost pile, to which a little sand had been added, and I had the most beautiful pansies in my, or any of my neighbors' experience.
One morning, we discovered not only that the pennies were missing from the idol but that a cigarette had been stubbed out in its lap.
One sample, which had been exposed to the atmosphere after evacuation at 375-degrees-C, showed the presence of adsorbed water ( about 0.3 wt ) ) as evidenced by a weak resonance line which was very narrow at room temperature and which disappeared, due to broadening, at low temperature.
One contained complete antibody and had a titer of 1: 512 in saline.
One prediction had been made about the difference in security or self-confidence between those subjects who shifted their Kohnstamm reactivity when informed and those who did not.
One subject spontaneously asked ( after her arm had finally risen ), `` Do you suppose I was unconsciously keeping it down before ''??
One Kohnstamm-positive subject who had both arms rise while being tested in the naive condition described her subjective experience as follows: `` You feel they're going up and you're on a stage and it's not right for them to do so and then you think maybe that's what's supposed to happen ''.
One result was to nationalize much that had been regarded as the law of nations.

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