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Updated: June 8, 2025
He had slept longer than he intended and though he had asked Bessie to call him when she came back on duty two hours earlier, he had not been called. "You needed the sleep, captain," she told him unrepentant. "I checked with the Cow. The flare's predicted to continue for another eight hours. We're simply in standby." However, various observatories on Earth had not been asleep.
If I could get the management of one of those campaigns, I would know what to do, for I have studied the Boer. He values the Bible above every other thing. The most delicious edible in South Africa is "biltong." You will have seen it mentioned in Olive Schreiner's books. It is what our plainsmen call "jerked beef." It is the Boer's main standby. He has a passion for it, and he is right.
"That's why I was doctoring her now while the snow is too deep. But I still have old Standby and the sleigh. I'll start back with you in a few minutes and we'll lead the mare. The exercise will do her good. My! What a handsome creature she is." "Yes, sir.
"Ah," exclaimed the poet as he took up the axe, "you shall have it, comrade have it good and plenty." He laid the poem in the white birch frame against a stone and proceeded. We moved away, every man to his own place. In a community where the communers have to chop the fire-wood, canned salmon is a good standby. That day we had salmon for dinner.
'Cheer up! said the Captain, laying his hand on Mr Toots's shoulder. 'Stand by, boy! 'It is my intention, Captain Gills, returned the spirited Mr Toots, 'to cheer up. Also to standby, as much as possible. When the silent tomb shall yawn, Captain Gills, I shall be ready for burial; not before.
Then, the next night, he walked down Philmore Street, and shied the package onto the lawn so that it would be near the door. Next day the paper announced that the police had a clew they knew that the burglar was in town. However, they didn't mention what the clew was. At the end of a month "Burglar Bill of the Silver District was the nurse-girl's standby for frightening children.
After what seemed a long, long time, somebody sighed, somebody else stirred in his seat; presently, the men dropped into a low murmur of confidential talk, each with his neighbor, and the incident was closed. There were indications that that man was fond of his anecdote; that it was his pet, his standby, his shot that never missed, his reputation-maker. But he will never tell it again.
The fruit is not of any great value, still, as it is so easily grown, it finds a place in most gardens, and in time of drought the leaves and young branches are readily eaten by all kinds of stock, so that it is a good standby for stock as well as a fruit.
This means more base facilities and standby crews. We must maintain deterrent retaliatory power. This means, among other things, stepped-up long range missile programs; accelerated programs for other effective missile systems; and, for some years, more advanced aircraft. We must maintain freedom of the seas.
Days after the common statement, the IMF considered by some to be a long arm of America's foreign policy clinched a standby arrangement with Macedonia, the first in two turbulent years. On the same day, Bulgaria received glowing and counterfactual reviews from yet another IMF mission, clearing the way for the release of a tranche of $36 million out of a loan of $330 million.
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