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The Hitler File : A Novel of Fact

By: Sam Vaknin

...r, just the pervasive stench of aging urine. A river of human flotsam, its moldy delta the elongated metal sinks. We push and shove to wash at le... ...“I don’t understand” – I said and his head jerked up, his face a hostile mask. I forced myself to proceed: “Yesterday you told me that Russia w... ...Precisely!” – he bellowed triumphantly – “The Jews betrayed their own! This is what forced us to adopt desperate measures in the East! The Jews them... ...gave him the documents.” “That’s better” – sighs Himmler – “I hate it when people force us to behave in manifestly un-Germanic and uncivilized way... ... “Can I ask you some questions and can you try to answer them in a way that won’t force me to ask them all over again?” She giggled girlishly: ... ...an Chamber of Commerce and saying that Jews were safe in Germany. Even Goering was forced to apologize to German Jewish organizations for the truly...

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The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ality of the human ship of 7 billion from which some, deemed useless, were forced into madness by being discarded and left to drift aimlessly. ... ...mer in his midst, it seemed he would have gone for her with the fullest of force, there and then. Kenyon witnessed this adventitiously, acknowledged ... ...an and the woman to briefly escape their hours of vacuity, only with less force and greater ease. It importuned that she should walk into the feti... ..., and the thought of disrupting the tranquility restrained her demise. It forced her to relinquish such a peaceful, aquatic end rather with the supp... ...r thumbing of rosary beads, it did not. So indifferent were the governing forces of her having to make a living in society. So indifferent they were... ...ial angels. But her mind was like the inundations of the Mississippi Delta fomented in traffic, albeit the traffic of thought, and then interri... ... from an outdoor vendor rather than the more specialized varieties at the delta branch of the Baskin Robins, and she judged it to be a good sign. K... ...walk dementedly in one direction and then the other along the Mississippi delta, those with twisting bodies like mine, of course, and all the atrocit...

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... plan of nature could not have been in his control unless he had used some force on her, and that never happened despite what the police officers firs... ...ssed, he just lay there finishing his drink and waiting for the liberating force of sleep to deliver him. 2 A prodigious, big boned figure of a woman ... ...tenance there to befriend him once again, he gave thanks to the mysterious forces that had given him a life where he might make a living presenting hi... ...man not been repressed. Then, to further avoid summoning the word which he forcefully restrained into his subconscious muck like a Burmese refugee to ... ...ld as an amorphous blob that was continually being twisted by supernatural forces. Still, he could not quell this concept or misconception that if onl... ...again. He knew that he was making things worse. "Maybe they've been in the delta all along but migrate up the Mississippi River during abnormally warm...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...him as she felt the hot liquid trickle in her pants. She hung her head and forced her way into the toilet, where she stayed, sucking air, hiding in a ... ....” So Lacey slumped on the couch. The threadbare, grimy fur- niture joined forces with the silence to mock her as she relived the stinging taunts that... ...e on Saturday.” “That’s good. I did too. I wanted to phone you earlier but forced myself to concentrate on business calls. Things are start- ing to ge... ...lied. Now, I’m creating life for others in the books I write. It’s as if a force 56 SUSAN BRACKEN inside me is in charge and the stories all come tum... ...und and could feel her trembling. She put her hand out to stop him, but he forced it back and held her in a hard grip. He lifted her buttocks and 62 ... ...sense approach to describe various ways to end one’s life), Random House / Delta, 2002, 256 pp, HC & PB editions available plus 2009 Addendum. [Author...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...hen we have the Bible? Why consider us to be animals when we then may be forced to drop the idea of an afterlife? We think we know it all. And ther... ... meaning ‗in‘ is inserted, so it means ‗all in god‘. God is the animating force of nature, its soul. But god is not synonymous with nature. It is so... ... monotheistic, we can find evidence of panenthism, with a God that is the force behind all nature, in early orthodox writings and in later Reformed ... ...d more of them so they are becoming more of an intellectual and political force. It seems that as people become more aware of some of the sciences, p... ... Europeans said they believed in a God, 27% believed in some sort of life force, and 18% said they believed in neither. (23) There were huge differen... ... the West-- like the Nile carrying the nutrients from the mountain to the delta. ―The Asian ‗have nots‘ were being financially rewarded bey...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... find an entrance into Disneyland to which there where no security guards to force a departure. He searched though his billfold for a calling card. He... ...aduate school. But he could not take the stagnation that scholarly pursuits forced him to endure and became the animated billiard ball being shot fro... ...m sick to think that he had caused a woman to conceive and then had not been forceful enough with his will to ensure that the child would be born--no,... ...concept of God. She had been rolled on by a tank a second time and had been forced to reassess earlier conclusions. Motherhood was beginning to make... ...ted on the energy emanated by the sun and this link of themselves to natural forces prompted them to be more than ordinary men. The sun god liked thos... ...million years ago. The Mesozoic era was characterized by large seas, lakes, deltas with deserts, and occasional glaciers. If the owls came out of th...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...e to sign, what Stevens had called a 'Treaty', that the land would be taken by force. His people were not warriors like the Apache, though his brav... ...ul Bearer But his stubbornness and over-riding sense of obligation to duty had forced him further away from her, and above all, into be­ coming a cr... ...d in a clump of rocks. For a moment he stared, transfixed by the firelight. He forced himself to look away, his eyes adjusted to the night, and he ... ...n the narrow slits of the blinds. Richard groped for consciousness, try­ ing to force himself into some semblance of alertness. As he rolled off the... ...a computer. After a moment, she looked up and managed what Richard considered a forced smile, "May I help you?" "Yes," clearing his throat. "Dr. Ha... ...Pat Ryan' kept on going. It wasn't long before he became a legend in the Mekong Delta, even the Viet Cong heard of him, and put a bounty on his head... ...s to take out the enemy headquarters that controlled the supply lines along the Delta. Ryan took no precautions to go in quietly, on the contrary, h...

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When Serpents Die

By: Gerrie Ferris

...o face Jack, and, in so doing, saw the book on a small red-lacquered table. It was Delta of Venus by Anais Nin. She and Royce had discussed the b... ...vies,” Sammie said, her green eyes flickering as she shoved the nine iron a bit too forcefully into her bag. “I’m too jumpy up to play any more. I’... ...believed that Royce had planned on her witnessing the codicil on Monday, but he was forced to execute it Sunday morning instead. “Who’s the lucky ... ...dered two people and I’ll tell everybody I know that they murdered two people. I’ll force the state to come in.” Gerrie Ferris 158 His kis...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...hat makes everyone collect “specimens” of the war. Everywhere the souvenir forces itself upon the attention. The homecom- ing permissionaire brings wi... ...get a very good idea of the lie of the Italian eastern front. I was in the delta of the Isonzo. Directly in front of me were some marshes and the extr... ...Italian plain than Italy is near any practicable fighting ground for large forces; particularly is this the case in the region of the Adige valley and... ...ncible 5th Group of the Alpini. It was the old problem of the irresistible force in conflict with the immov- able object. And the outcome has been the... ...ar has been a shock to reasonable men the whole world over. They have been forced to realise that after all a great number of Germans have been engage... ...ncredible war. This man was, I suppose, a native officer of some cav- alry force from French north Africa. He was a handsome dark brown Arab, wearing ...

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Another Study of Woman

By: Honoré de Balzac

...tury, with powder, patches, high-heeled slippers, and stiff bodices with a delta stomacher of bows. Duchesses in these days can pass through a door wi... ...esented with his arms folded, and who did everything, who was the greatest force ever known, the most concentrated, the most mordant, the most acid of... ... ever known, the most concentrated, the most mordant, the most acid of all forces; a singular genius who carried armed civili- zation in every directi... ...e his brow was knit and the muscles of the middle of his forehead set in a delta, or, to be more ex- plicit, in Redgauntlet’s horseshoe. This mark was... ... or when he was excited, you cannot imagine, unless you had heard it, what force was expressed by this accent, which at Paris is so common. When the C...

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The Secret Agent

By: Joseph Conrad

...and weary voice, and pressing the tip of his forefinger on the papers with force. He paused; and Mr V erloc, who had recognised his own handwriting ve... ...d you called here on pur- pose to tell you this.” Mr Vladimir observed the forced expression of bewilder- ment on V erloc’s face, and smiled sarcastic... ...agent, so secret that he was never designated otherwise but by the symbol [delta] in the late Baron Stott-W artenheim’s official, semi-offi- cial, and... ...l, semi-offi- cial, and confidential correspondence; the celebrated agent [delta], whose warnings had the power to change the schemes and the dates of... ...he brought out ferociously. Once more Mr V erloc had to react with all the force of his will against that sensation of faintness running down one’s le... ...istory is dominated and determined by the tool and the pro- duction—by the force of economic conditions. Capitalism has made socialism, and the laws m... ...is the prisoner. Simple, is it not? What about those who shut him up there—forced him in there? Exactly. Forced him in there. And what is crime? Does ... ...ous, with the mysteriousness of living beings. The far-famed secret agent [delta] of the late Baron Stott-W artenheim’s alarmist despatches was not th... ... the old lot”—the humble guardian of society; the invaluable Secret Agent [delta] of Baron Stott- Wartenheim’s despatches; a servant of law and order,...

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Cratylus

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

... shaker of the earth, has been named from shaking ( seiein), and then pi and delta have been added. Pluto gives wealth (Ploutos), and his name means t... ...doctrine of flux is only the counterflux (enantia rhon): if you extract the delta from andreia, the name at once signifies the thing, and you may cl... ... cherdaleon (gainful) is called from cherdos (gain), but you must alter the delta into nu if you want to get at the meaning; for this word also sign... ...sal pen etration in the good; in forming the word, however, he in serted a delta instead of a nu, and so made kerdos. HERMOGENES: Well, but what i... ...try to explain. You are aware that our forefathers loved the sounds iota and delta, especially the women, who are most conservative of the ancient lan... ...f motion; here is another ill name given by the legislator to stagnation and forced inaction, which he compares to sleep (eudein); but the original me... ...ge; as the opposite is the most im perfect. But let me ask you, what is the force of names, and what is the use of them? CRATYLUS: The use of names, ... ...at, friend Cratylus, is no answer. For if he did begin in error, he may have forced the remainder into agreement with the original error and with him ...

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Virginibus Puerisque, And Other Papers

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...nd treat you to sour looks thence-forward. So, in one way or another, life forces men apart and breaks up the goodly fellowships for ever. The very fl... ...ot fancy the man who saw this effect, and took it on the wing with so much force and spirit, was what you call commonplace in the last re- 10 Robert ... ...that we had bet- ter leave these great changes to what we call great blind forces: their blindness being so much more perspicacious than the little, p... ...there are two sides to a question. His- tory is one long illustration. The forces of nature are en- gaged, day by day, in cudgelling it into our backw... ...rth. And this is an uncertain moment; for sometimes the con- sciousness is forced upon him early, on the occasion of some slight association, a colour... ...n full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas? When the Greeks made their fine saying that 77 Virginibus Puerisqu...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...tion that no government could be ordained that could resist these internal forces, when, they are directed to its destruction by bad men, or unreasoni... ...ts that have slumbered in the minds of the people until they were suddenly forced on our attention by unexpected events. In his introductory chapter, ... ...rsion of the races. He would find it in public opinion, which is the vital force in every law in a free government. This is a subject that our Constit... ...g de- scended with the family inheritance from generation to gen- eration; force was the only means by which man could act on man, and landed property... ...ims to power; the notion of Right is alike insensible to both classes, and Force affords to both the only argument for the present, and the only guar-... ...e green pastures of the prairie. From the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the delta of the Mississippi, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, these... ...e green pastures of the prairie. From the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the delta of the Mississippi, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, these... ...or if the fleets of Europe were to blockade the ports of the South and the delta of the Mississippi, what would become 430 Democracy in America of th... ... Indian tribes which dwelt be- tween the mouth of the St. Lawrence and the delta of the Mississippi were unaccustomed to any other tongue but ours; an...

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The Ball at Sceaux

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ng which Monsieur de Fontaine had on several occasions brought out all his forces, he believed that this time the procession of suitors would 18 The ... ...hile his valet was artis- tically decorating his bald yellow head with the delta of pow- der which, with the hanging “ailes de pigeon,” completed his ... ...casion to cry , ‘Beware!’ Remember that the making of peers is so recent a force in our government machinery that they have no great fortunes. Those w... ...d as she was to be the centre of her world, she was obliged to recognize a force that attracted her out- side herself; she tried to resist, but she co... ...raint under which the young girls of the upper class live gives incredible force to any explosion of feeling, and to meet an impassioned lover is one ...

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The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

By: H. G. Wells

...mmenting on the work of another indefati- gable lichenologist, such things force one to realise the unfaltering littleness of men. And withal the reef... ...larly and steadily: it was as if every living thing had just to accumulate force to grow, grew with vigour only for a time, and then had to wait for a... ...th that was now possible, to the More than Royal Institution of Primordial Forcesforces which had always previously, even in the growth of races, emp... ...retical result—a purely theoretical result. But, inci- dentally, we do set forces in operation—new forces. We mustn’t control them—and nobody else can... ...e to lose,” said Cossar, and shouted “Flack!” as he led the way. The whole force advanced towards the rat- holes, the man who had run away a little to... ... sewers, and now they were as much an accepted fact there as tigers in the delta by Calcutta…. The man’s brother had bought a paper in a heedless sort...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...m as to the impossibility of ever suppressing the antagonist party by mere force of arms. I am not meaning, however, to utter any opinion what- ever o... ...rses, usually taken from the plough, were harnessed on as leaders. By main force they hauled our wicked wheel- ers into the right direction, and force... ...or such a gallop as our Brobdignagian leaders could accomplish), they were forced into keeping it up. But, with- out rehearsing all the details of the... ...poor bishop, because it takes the shape of a confession ex- torted by mere force of truth from an else reluctant apolo- gist, that would most gladly h... ...a: the first in the Company’s army, the other upon the staff of the king’s forces in that country. Each, about the same time, made a visit to England,... ... 7.7 11.53 Gamma..... 150 10 100 50 6.6 3.4 10 10 15 Delta........ 140 12 120 16.66 8.6 1.4 10 7.14* 11.6 Epsilon....... ... ten men (namely, 140 quarters) went to wages; but the wages in this case (Delta) being 120 quarters, the true value on the principle of this table is... ...e case Al- pha the product is one hundred and fifty quarters; in the cases Delta and Epsilon, when cultivation has been com- pelled by increasing popu...

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Sons of the Soil

By: Honoré de Balzac

... said Charles, as they reached the portico at Les Aigues, “how much one is forced to distrust everybody and everything in the country,—espe- cially he... ...priates to his use, in all that serves him, he displays just the amount of force that is needed, neither more nor less; he attends to the essential an... ...t the door with an insolent air. “Vatel, my man, if you ever again dare to force your way into my domain, my gun shall answer you,” he said. “T o-day ... ... can do is to stay in our own parts, where we are penned like sheep by the force of circumstances, as our fathers were by the rule of the lords. As fo... ... you to stay here. If that damned Michaud of yours doesn’t change, they’ll force you to change him. There! that information and the otter are worth tw... ...the manor of the woods. This name indicates that a forest once covered the delta formed by the Avonne before it joins its confluent the Yonne. Some Fr... ...the long plain. The savage conqueror separated his vantage-ground from the delta by a wide and deep moat and made the position a formi- dable one, ess... ...nd the town lay a suburb. The lower town, covering the greater part of the delta, came down to the shores of the lake of the Avonne. Above the lower t... ...e the town itself. Gaubertin had built himself a house on the level of the delta, intending to make a place which should improve the locality and rend...

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Stalky & Co.

By: Rudyard Kipling

...rgeant,” shouted King. Evidently the Sergeant had surrendered to the major force. Beetle lay at full length on the turf behind the Lodge, liter- ally ... ...hanging in the balance. I see! Ah, I see! The old gang of criminals—allied forces of disorder—Corkran”—the Slave of the Lamp smiled po- litely—”McT ur... ... that West-African war-drum had been made to sig- nal across estuaries and deltas. Number Five was forbidden to wake the engine within earshot of the... ... “Ha! I said it would come to that,” murmured the Rever- end John. “—I was forced to send them back. Their moral influence was unspeakable—simply unsp... ...ond me.” “If you asked me I should say seek not to propitiate. When one is forced to take crammers’ pups—” “He was perfectly well at extra-tuition—wit... ...f uniforms loomed on the near horizon. If these were issued, they would be forced to wear them. But, as so often happens in this life, the matter was ...

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

... districts, and built up sand bars and forests in front of them. The town of Delta used to be three miles below Vicksburg: a recent cutoff has radical... ...les below Vicksburg: a recent cutoff has radically changed the position, and Delta is now two miles above Vicksburg. Both of these river towns have ... ...en faithfully standing up the middle of the river, fight ing the whole vast force of the Mississippi, and whistling the same placid tune. This thing ... ...ociation) that if any captain employed a non association pilot, he should be forced to discharge him, and also pay a fine of five hundred dollars. Sev... ...on. It is greatly restricted now. Next, boots began to appear. Not in strong force, how ever. Later—away down the Mississippi—they became the rule. T... ...o getting by it. It lay be tween the upper and lower divisions of the Union forces, and kept them separate, until a junction was finally effected acr... ...The crops were destroyed, houses washed away, and shelterless men and cattle forced to take refuge on scat tering elevations here and there in field ... ...is reduced to thirty five. It is a change which threw Vicksburg’s neighbor, Delta, Louisiana, out into the country and ended its career as a river to... ...some pilots, and they eagerly rushed it into print in the “New Orleans T rue Delta.” It was a great pity; for it did nobody any worthy service, and i...

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The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

By: Henry Fielding

...company, they must not find any fault; nay, on the contrary, good breeding forces them outwardly to approve and to commend whatever is set be fore th... ...of those inclinations to which she sub mitted. Tacit obedience implies no force upon the will, and consequently may be easily, and without any pains,... ...oor Jenny: some artful villain, I am convinced, hath betrayed, nay perhaps forced her; and I pity the poor wretch with all my heart.” Mrs. Deborah a... ...iry ought to be made into the whole matter, and that some people should be forced to produce the girl. These calumnies might have probably produced ... ...uncertain, and sense less laws of vulgar opinion, which owe as well their force as their foundation to folly.” Here Allworthy concluded his sermon,... ...ay, at the top of the house, was of a sloping figure, resembling the great Delta of the Greeks. The English reader may perhaps form a better idea of i...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...ca. Harris Coll. “Here they saw such huge troops of whales, that they were forced to proceed with a great deal of caution for fear they should run the... ...ther answer to a question not put by them, but the unsolicited an- swer is forced from Jonah by the hard hand of God that is upon him. “‘I am a Hebrew... ...an Roman. And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the sti... ...st there!” And running up after me, she caught me as I was again trying to force open the door. “I don’t allow it; I won’t have my premises spoiled. G... ...hat grand order of battle in which Captain Ahab would probably marshal his forces to descend on the whales, these three headsmen were as captains of c... ...purpose intensified itself. His firm lips met like the lips of a vice; the Delta of his forehead’s veins swelled like overladen brooks; in his very sl...

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The Argonautica

By: Apollonius Rhodius

...ock of Sarpedon, near the river Erginus, he wrapped her in dark clouds and forced her to his will. There they were making their dusky wings quiver upo... ...ks might be well com pacted by the bolts and might withstand the opposing force of the surge. And they quickly dug a trench as wide as the space the ... ...ft behind the river Halys, and left behind his that flows hard by, and the delta land of Assyria; and on the same day they rounded the distant headlan... ...pon the topmost sprays; but at night he rushed upon the sea with monstrous force, and with his shriek ing blasts uplifted the surge; and a dark mist ... ...fear of a horrible doom, were borne along by the waves helplessly. And the force of the wind had snatched away their sails and shattered in twain the ... ...n shall avail us, if we refrain from the war cry. And let us not merely by force, before putting words to the test, deprive him of his own possession....

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...t the same time protecting our country against future attacks.We have been forced to think about the way our government is organized.The massive depar... ...aps the terrorists stabbed the flight attendants to get a cockpit key , to force one of them to open the cock- pit door, or to lure the captain or fir... ...pepper spray, or some other irritant in the first-class cabin, in order to force the passengers and flight attendants toward the rear of the plane.The... ...ight be in danger, leading them to worry about a transcon- tinental flight—Delta 1989—that in fact was not hijacked.At 9:19, the FAA’s New England reg... ...nd regional office called Herndon and asked that Cleveland Cen- ter advise Delta 1989 to use extra cockpit security. 67 10 THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT ... ...d claimed to have a bomb.The hijackers were wearing red bandanas, and they forced the passen- gers to the back of the aircraft. 80 Callers reported th... .... Remembering the “we have some planes” remark, Boston Center guessed that Delta 1989 might also be hijacked. Boston Center called NEADS at 9:41 and i... ... might also be hijacked. Boston Center called NEADS at 9:41 and identified Delta 1989, a 767 jet that had left Logan Airport for Las Vegas, as a possi... ...as, as a possible hijack. NEADS warned the FAA’s Cleveland Center to watch Delta 1989.The Command Center and FAA headquarters watched it too. During t...

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The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By: The Manhattan Engineer District

...t cooperation from CINCPAC of the Navy and the United States Strategic Air Forces, he initiated promptly a cam- paign which included the preparation a... ... Mechanical injuries caused by collapse of buildings, fly- ing debris, and forceable hurling—about of persons struck by the blast pressure waves. D. R... .... This was done in close cooperation with the Commanding General, Army Air Forces, and his Headquarters. A number of experts in various fields assiste... ...E BOMB- INGS Hiroshima The city of Hiroshima is located on the broad, flat delta of the Ota River, which has 7 channel outlets dividing the city into ... ...more complete; the center of the city was hit and everything but the rein- forced concrete buildings had virtually disappeared. A desert of clear-swep... ... the spans were shoved off their piers and into the river bed below by the force of the blast. Others, particularly steel plate girder bridges, were b...

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Platos Timaeus

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

... from whom Solon heard this veritable tradition. He replied:—In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the river Nile divides, there is a certain di... ... unaffected by disease. Considering that if heat and cold and other powerful forces which unite bodies surround and attack them from without when they... ...the other, and the essence, and mingled them into one form, com pressing by force the reluctant and unsociable na ture of the other into the same. W... ...machine, scat tered far away from one another the elements most unlike, and forced the most similar elements into close contact. Wherefore also the v... ...mall particles), the latter continue to be dissolved until, being completely forced back and dispersed, they make their escape to their own kindred, o... ...into a vacuum, but into the neighbouring air; and the air which is displaced forces together the liquid and still moveable mass into the place which w...

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Caesar and Cleopatra

By: George Bernard Shaw

... veteran, tough and wilful; prompt, 4 Shaw capable and crafty where brute force will serve; helpless and boyish when it will not: an effective sergea... ...id—afraid of the Romans. CAESAR (as the conviction that he is really awake forces itself on him). Cleopatra: can you see my face well? CLEOPATRA. Yes.... ...at is it that I will not suffer? POTHINUS (suddenly exploding with all the force and emphasis of political passion). The King will not suffer a foreig... ...drinking from wooden cups. And their wrath be on your head, Caesar, if you force us to this sacrilege! CAESAR. Do not fear, Pothinus: the people know ... ...ller of victory? Did not I, as a Roman, share his glory? Was the Fate that forced us to fight for the mastery of the world, of our making? Am I Julius... ...o. Mithridates is marching by the great road to Memphis to cross above the Delta. Achillas will fight him there. CAESAR (all audacity). Achillas shall... ...Caesar. CAESAR. Who bade you, pray, thrust yourself into the battle of the Delta, uttering the barbarous cries of your native land, and affirming your...

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Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Volume III : The Third Ten Tales

By: Honoré de Balzac

...n, Petit does not laugh, he’s short of skin below the mouth.” But with his forced laugh Petit was all the more suited to his occupation of watching an... ...y, who would not allow them- selves to be robbed of their rights either by force or strata- gem. He was well pleased at the ecclesiastical schism, and... ...schism business, and that her advice was put an end by kindness and not by force to the difficulties arisen between the abbey and the domain of Cande,... ...st days? Am I so cold as to freeze the sun? Do you think that I embrace by force, from duty, or pure kindness of heart! Am I too hallowed for you to t... ...to her breasts, as only mothers know how to hug children, with a spiritual force that is felt only in their hearts. If you doubt this, watch a cat car... ...the foot of the ladder, he saw the twin charms of the lady, and the pretty delta that their confluent rotundities produced, the sight so much excited ...

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Salammbo

By: Gustave Flaubert

...from the sun; they were the debtors of the rich Carthaginians and had been forced to till the lands of the latter, but had escaped. Libyans came pour-... ...nd the sons of dogs! But for you (he said that!) the Republic would not be forced to pay excessive tribute to the Romans; and through your excesses yo... ...of harp of ebony wood, taller than herself, and triangular in shape like a delta; she fixed the point in a crystal globe, and with both hands began to... ...the desire to prove to himself that he was in good health, he cut into the forcemeats of cheese and marjoram, the boned fish, gourds, oysters with egg... ...a, Carthage has need that you should take the general command of the Punic forces against the Mercenaries!” “I refuse,” replied Hamilcar. “We will giv... ... of Eschmoun: “Luminaries of the Baalim, I accept the command of the Punic forces against the army of the Barbarians!” 123 Flaubert CHAPTER VIII THE ...

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Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

...ther hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What i... ...nt of the sunshine I need not your bask—lie over! You light surfaces only, I force surfaces and depths also. Earth! you seem to look for something at ... ...ndous breath, I buoy you up, Every room of the house do I fill with an arm’d force, Lovers of me, bafflers of graves. Sleep—I and they keep guard all ... ...rous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care. All forces have been steadily employ’d to complete and delight me, Now on thi... ...ays our old feuillage! Always Florida’s green peninsula—always the priceless delta of ouisiana—always the cotton fields of Alabama and Texas, Always C... ...ates, each for itself—the moneymakers, Factories, machinery, the mechanical forces, the windlass, lever, pulley, all certainties, The certainty of sp...

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