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Besides, the heat beams are more local in effect. If we want to kill an enemy and spare his captive, we want a beam that will be deadly where it hits, not for fifty yards around." "Hold it a second," said Fuller wearily. "Now it's heat beams. Don't you guys think you ought to explain a little bit to the poor goon who's designing this flying battlewagon? How did you get a heat beam?"
They likewise allowed it to be just that Parembam should be forced to pay, and conclude a peace. With the Goon and Sibaduh Dyaks they had long been at enmity; but they agreed to make peace if Sibaduh would pay two gongs, formerly demanded, as the price of peace.
The professional labor leader evolved, motivated by his own interests and finally becoming, in his despotic control of the union, backed by goon squads and gangsters, as powerful a man as was to be found in the country. Seldom were strikes any longer held to better the condition of the individual union members.
But oor crack aye harkit back to the kirk an' the minister an' the catechism, an' a' thae deeper things o' auld lang syne. He said as hoo he had gane far bye thae things, livin' amang the stour o' a' his siller but he remarkit that he aften thocht o' the auld ways, an' the auld tunes, an' the minister wi' his goon an' bands; an' he said he was fair starvin' for a psalm or a paraphrase.
But I guess you'll have to get a hustle on mighty goon, though, from the look of things. I won't be able to indulge you in your idleness much longer." "Why, Dad, what do you mean?" Dick enquired. "You're not going to throw me overboard, are you?" "Oh, no, I won't do it. But there are others who will, or I'm very much mistaken." "Who why?" the young man stammered. "I don't understand you, Dad."
"'For I dare not seem precipitate in such a matter. But I have consulted my own heart, and have laid it before the Throne, knowing no earthly adviser." There was such a tremor in the hand which held him that Reuben's voice failed for pure pity. "Yes," said Ezra. "Goon." "'Dear Mr.
Mandel seemed to think had honored his girls by coming to see them, his curiosity was pricked as much as his pride was galled. "Well, anyway," said Mela, "I don't care whether Christine's goon' or not; I am. And you got to go with me, Mrs. Mandel." "Well, there's a little difficulty," said Mrs. Mandel, with her unfailing dignity and politeness. "I haven't been asked, you know."
"I was a boy when they brought me to the barracks. For breakfast I had blows of fists in the belly, till I fainted; for dinner fists in the eyes, till my mouth gaped; and for supper I had a head covered with wounds and almost split open. "Goon! let me tell how I made the campaign to Syria. Food and drink I had to carry on my back, I was bent down with weight as an ass is bent.
I sha'n't be happy till I see you back safe." "I say, Hicky, you've got a gun, haven't you?" said Tom. "Eh! A goon!" cried the wheelwright, starting. "Yes; you've got one?" "An old one. She's roosty, and put awaya. I heven't hed her out for years." "Clean it up, and bring it, Hicky," said Dick. "We may get a shot at something. I say, you'd lend me that gun if I wanted it, wouldn't you?"
You kidded them at first: "Well, believe me, Chuck, if you shoot the way you play ball, you're a gone goon already." "All you got to do, Scotty, is to stick that face of yours up over the top of the trench and the Germans'll die of fright and save you wasting bullets." There was a great knitting of socks and sweaters and caps.
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