Word: moved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Five is death. This isn't a very easy thing for a fatalist to be obligated to Fatalism (that is, the belief that the "reasons" why things happen to us are a series of random events beyond our control) serves us particularly well as a transition--to, for example, move us philosophically from event to event in our existence. When someone's existence terminates in the book (and just about everyone who is introduced dies for us, too), Vonnegut says, "So it goes." A hundred and thirty-five thousand (135,000) residents of Dresden die in one sentence...
...think that if Harvard wants to tear this building down what we do wouldn't mean anything, a few isolated, poverty-stricken people couldn't do anything. I don't want to move into a housing project - I'll have nightmares...
...think that if Harvard wants to tear this building down what we to wouldn't mean anything, a few isolated poverty-stricken people couldn't do anything. I don't want to move into a housing project, I'll have nightmares... but it should be clean at least, don't you think...
...incident at the inauguration last January. As the Governor tells it, when he arrived at the box reserved for the Arkansas delegation, he discovered Hunt had appropriated one of the seats. "I told him I didn't appreciate his sitting there," said Rockefeller. When Hunt refused to move, Rockefeller grasped him by the arm and escorted him out of the box. Said Hunt: "I don't think Rockefeller likes...
People were sitting up in trees, we were all laughing, and then we heard what seemed to be a gun. A few seconds later, those in front of us began to move. It had started. The start has been compared to a rifle shot. The top runners, positioned in the first two rows, start up imme- diately, the bullet, leaving the rest of us, the rifle, behind...