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And, since he was the ranking Exec, he was expected to give some sort of answer. This one seemed even more complex than the others, and none of them had been simple. He forced his eyes to read the print, forced his mind to absorb the facts. These were not clear-cut problems of the kind he had been dealing with all his life.
"Well, you're pretty long-headed, and until you do see reason to change 'em let 'em stand and quit pestering me. You're the Exec. on this ship until I see fit to appoint a new one and when I think of doing that I'll give you due notice." But Mammy would have exploded had she not expressed her views.
The Guesser thought. So incredibly easy! Even the captain of the ship would only be a Class Two Exec. No one would question him no one would dare to. A lieutenant looked up, startled as he entered the ship itself, and saluted hurriedly. "It's an honor to have you aboard, great sir," he said apologetically, "but you realize, of course, that we are taking off in a very few minutes."
Published in Columbus, in 1860, for campaign purposes, from copies furnished by Lincoln; see his letter to Central Exec. Comm., December 19, 1859, on fly-leaf.
A ship's captain, if he has a good exec, as all of them had, needs only sit at his command-desk and look important while the ship is going into and emerging from a long jump; the rest of the time he can study ancient history or whatever his shipboard hobby is.
She had been seen wandering about the campus with other youths at odd hours of the evening when young-lady students were supposed to be safely within college halls or properly chaperoned at some public gathering. The "student exec" had had her in tow for several weeks, and she had already received a number of reproofs and warnings.
He remembered that when he was a boy, he'd heard a Teacher Exec talk about the Geological Ages of Earth and the Teacher had said that "cave men were not contemporary with the dinosaur." At any rate, the process had gone along smoothly, even as the present process of using Class Sevens and Declassified citizens did.
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