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The editor came from the inner office, a straw hat awry on his brow.
Besides those I have mentioned, there was an extremely dirty lady with her bonnet all awry and the ticketed price of her dress still sticking on it, whose neglected home, Caddy told me, was like a filthy wilderness, but whose church was like a fancy fair.
It went from me with a shock, like a ball fired from a rifle: but the image of Agnes, outraged by so much as a thought of this red-headed animal's, remained in my mind when I looked at him, sitting all awry as if his mean soul griped his body, and made me giddy.
The LAT includes an "extra" front page that briefly notes Australian bus ticketing foul-ups and South Korean trial summonses gone awry but which declares above it all in large pitch type "Millennial Mildness.
Imagine a NASA astronaut having the nerve to say such things! You'll have to, because it's never happened, even when things went as awry as they did with the Challenger.
Unless something goes horribly awry during December, the 1997 Jets will set a record for the biggest single-season improvement in NFL history.
But the book's value lies less in the anecdotes than in what it has to tell us about how one of the biggest entertainment deals went awry at a time when the industry was consolidating everywhere, heading toward domination by a mere six or eight multinational companies--all of which face the headache of competing fiefdoms.
Its anti-hero, Hertz Grein, an erudite European refugee and serial deserter of women, turns his back on a secular life gone hideously awry and migrates to Israel, joining the most extreme sect of ultra-Orthodox he can find.
Mi NASA Es Su NASA Scott Shuger seems to have it wrong when he editorializes while reporting on coverage of cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliev's press conference in "Today's Papers": "Imagine a NASA astronaut having the nerve to say such things! You'll have to, because it's never happened, even when things went as awry as they did with the Challenger.
en held) both those who went away and those who remained behind felt, though they did not show it, that Moscow would certainly be abandoned, and that they ought to get away as quickly as possible and save their belongings.
It was felt that everything would suddenly break up and change, but up to the first of September nothing had done so.
As a criminal who is being led to execution knows that he must die immediately, but yet looks about him and straightens the cap that is awry on his head, so Moscow involuntarily continued its wonted life, though it knew that the time of its destruction was near when the conditions of life to which its people were accustomed to submit would be completely upset.
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