"Elephants," he whispered, and there they were, two of them, right above us – we had all but stumbled upon them.
I'm not condoning the three rent-stabilized apartments... but he's getting rid of two of them, right?
Not many artists have one scene-defining hit in their career, let alone two of them right out of the gate.
There is no shame in being one of them, right?
At this writing, May 15 , 1956 I have lived seventy-six yearseventy-fourour of them right here in Gilead, Iowa, excepting study at the college and at seminary.
The night before, camped out on a platform in the middle of the Okefenokee Swamp, I had contemplated the stars to the accompaniment of a million or so pig frogs croaking, three or four of them right under my platform.
Each of those really nice cars represented at least one really good white-collar job, and there must have been a thousand of them right here, smack in the middle of the pumpkin field that backed up against Fairbanks Boulevard.
Photographs taken before the restoration show what once had been his garden in several other incarnations: an uncared for grassy expanse, a cutting garden and, most shocking to Mr. Hatch, "an asphalt parking lot of three levels, one of them right in front of the house".
We slow now and then to let the teams behind us stay close, and when we do, the dogs seven of them, right and left of the gangline hooked to their harnesses look impatiently at us, haunches quivering, ready to pull and pull again.
There are many reasons why so many British emergency doctors want to leave and work abroad (recent figures from the General Medical Council show that there has been a 20 per cent increase in doctors applying to practice abroad in the past five years), but that's one of them, right there.
For all the talk about shared values between Israel and the United States, democracy is sadly not one of them right now, and it will not be until Israel's leaders are willing to recognize Palestinians as equals, not just in name, but in law.
