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The presence of the two exhaust fans seemed to indicate that the hall could become crowded for air.

The forest had become an alien world where she strove, alone, unprotected, unguided, to deal with whatever hindrances were offered.

How far I knew will shortly become apparent.

When she would do these things, he would turn blind for an instant and become sick at his stomach.

She would look at Jack, with that hidden something in her eyes, and Jack would see the Woman and become breathless and a little sick.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

Since then, and since the pure grain had gotten him divorced from every decent -- and even indecent -- group from Greenwich Village to the Embarcadero, he had become a sucker-rolling freight-jumper.

Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.

The idea of national responsibility thus has become a common feature of the nations of the non-Soviet world.

Almost febrile in intensity, the principle has become worldwide in application -- unfortunately at the very time that nationalist fervors can wreak greatest harm.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

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.

Now we must become vague, for we are approaching one of the nation's most guarded secrets.

No, originally he had hoped to become a concert pianist and had even performed as such.

In the fall of that year the best musicians of the Berlin and Frankfurt Kulturbund orchestras joined under the combined efforts of Bronislaw Hubermann and Steinberg to become the Palestine Orchestra -- now known as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra -- with Steinberg as founder-conductor.

Seven years later he was asked to become director of the Pittsburgh Symphony.

My Pittsburghers have become real addicts to Mahler and Bruckner ''.

in 1950 it had become 47.1% urban.

Has the agrarian tradition become such an addiction that the switch to urbanism is somehow dreaded or unwanted??

It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.

In each case, the object, the color, even the percussive sounds of the electronic score were designed to become part of the theatrical being of the performer.

or it may involve more subtle distinctions: the sway may be gradually minimized or enlarged, its rhythmic emphasis may be slightly modified, or it may be transferred to become a movement of only the arms or the head.

Those who are sexually liberated can become creatively alive and free, their instincts put at the service of the imagination.