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Legrand, 56, does not seem the sort of man to drift about the desert on a camel. Dapper and urbane, he sports a neatly clipped little mustache and a lavender-scented breast-pocket handkerchief, confesses an abiding love for good Parisian food and old brandy. But he loves Morocco more and, except for annual business trips to Paris, plans to stay there. "There are two kinds of time," he explains, "European and African. In Europe you count time by the year; in Africa you count it by thousands of years. The land and the people of Morocco are primitive...
...wooden soldiers on my seventh birthday. Oh dear, you wouldn't imagine how pleased I was with them! I drilled them up and I drilled them down, and then one day I took them to the seashore and lost them. Bless my soul, how I cried! My little handkerchief was soaked. And when I came home to tea that night, blubbering and late, my dear old Granny-God bless 'er, her hair was white as snow and her soul whiter still-she says to me: 'Little Archie, cheer up!' she says. 'For God is good...
...dead, flat voice, Sanders recited his lesson: he had delivered espionage reports to British and American officials. Next day Vogeler took the stand. Dressed in neat black with a clean white handkerchief in his pocket, he stood for almost three hours .facing the judges with his back to the spectators...
...effect or patterns is the dominance relation between the stimulus and the conditioning environment. . . ." Vag reached in his pocket for another pencil to note this down; he didn't understand it, but it sounded like an important point. There were a number of things in his pocket--a handkerchief, some matches, a spoon he had absentmindedly walked off with from supper three days before--there were also two sharp pieces of cardboard which Vag was unable to identify--he brought them out to have a look. They were two rather battered ticket stubs...
...rare woman who will not feel indignant, though she will conceal her rage, when presented with a handkerchief. Luckily there are many alternatives near the Square like Harvard mascots, scarves and embossed jewelry. Band albums are wonderful presents and even a Harvard calendar can be useful...