When I was a child my father taught me five words that I’ve used all my life—in my acting career, as a mother, in my business activities. If I ___ that I was afraid of the dark, or if I seemed worried about meeting new people, Dad would say, “Stand porter to your ___....
Abubakar was finally reunited with his sons in Toronto at the end of December. “I was very happy. It was a great moment. I can’t even describe my feeling on that day. It was like a dream,” he said. “Even now we are together in Manchester, I still feel this dream is not ...
4. To put down in writing: take down a letter. take for 1. To regard as: Do you take me for a fool? 2. To consider mistakenly: Don't take silence for approval. take in 1. To receive (an amount of money), as from a business venture: The box office took in $30,000 in an...
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although i thought mother was rather unthoughtful, i caved in and took a few bites unwillingly in the end. later, when she pulled a grilled chicken from the oven and sang a merry tune, i somehow got annoyed again—...
Roll it and pat it and mark it with a “B,” And put it in the oven for baby and me. Top Learning Tip Switch out the letter for every new verse in order to spell out a certain word. Try spelling out your child’s name and then revealing it at the end. ...
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I went about, however, with a heart which was full of forebodings. “On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad that he should go...
“On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from danger when he was ...
Their FTC letter contains familiar elements: companies asking repairers to use only original parts, computer parts locking themselves to specific VIN numbers, and overstated or false “cybersecurity” concerns. But for some long-term anxiety, they look to telematics, installed in one-third of US ...