| 单词 | unit |
| 例句 | Outside, kids waiting to board their buses formed an aisle that led to the rear of the EMS unit. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z They just moved me out of the recovery room into the trauma intensive-care unit, or ICU. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Each unit had an outdoor grill and picnic table, and they shared a swing set; inside, I was told, there was a television, a kitchen, and separate sleeping areas for kids and adults. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Surratt then went to England under an assumed name and later continued on to the Vatican, where he served in the Papal Zouaves, the pope’s infantry unit. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “The drones were unable to collect the underwater plants. So, the Collective will need to forage samples in person. Risk is high, so the Zeta unit will collect these among other specimens we need.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Our new social studies unit is on Europe. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z This room, this unit, it’s claustrophobic, but Ayesha shares hers with her brother, so the small space of my room gives her a sibling-free refuge. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z These are mas-sive human warehouses, two of the largest prison housing units in the world, containing over a thousand inmates between them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there appeared to be less common sources per unit volume of space for the nearby sources than for the distant ones. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Several park managers agreed that last year one in four new housing units in the whole country was a mobile home. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In health class they had done a unit on body systems, bones, nerves, and organs. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z THE committee was assembled in the hall with the high Gothic ceiling when I arrived, sitting in folding chairs around two small tables pushed together to form a unit. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Mendel did not give this unit of heredity a name, but he had discovered the most essential features of a gene.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Two years later, she and her unit were assigned at least one task that was utterly safe—creating new code systems for the Treasury Department. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Coming to New York had perhaps been an unconscious attempt to keep the old freezing unit going, but it hadn't worked; hot water had gotten into its coils. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he took the stairs to his second-floor unit, because the elevator, which was required by law, never worked. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z In one such case, the manager of a project grew suspicious when she saw a truck parked outside a unit rented by a young single mother. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In recent years, many of the stacks had grown to a height of twenty units or more. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z At first my unit was scheduled to go to Nam, but a doctor at Fort Devens had said that my knee was too bad for combat duty. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is the feed from Holly’s helmet unit. Here we are over Disneyland Paris....” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Okay, we are going to begin a unit on persuasive writing,” Mr. Daniels says. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z They didn’t question him about what had happened while he was a prisoner, just had him wait until someone came to drive him back to his unit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They were a special unit, provided as always by the Sisters of the Star. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z A bandstand had been erected at one end of the grassy rectangle situated in the middle of the motel’s chalet-style units. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “One of the other viable planets we’ve found is within two units,” she says, looking away. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The shuttle rotates away from the launch port and is lifted back to its docking unit. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Locals all knew what these clubs were: units of the Ku Klux Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z If Kyle was in the wrong place when a shelving unit came shooting in from the side, he’d be flattened like a pancake under a steamroller. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “Over the years military planners have arrived at a rule of thumb which dictates that functional fighting units cannot be substantially larger than 200 men,” Dunbar writes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was rare that there was such an age gap between children in a family unit. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z By June, William was a first lieutenant with the Army’s military intelligence unit. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I recognize it from my Faction History textbook, the unit on Erudite and medicine. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It’s an old kitchen from one of the former rental units, which they’re using until their new one is ready. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The Uplands became home to a thriving middle class, while the over 1,700 units in Cherry Hill became a breeding ground for poverty, drugs, and despair. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z So they opened another section, called the observation unit, where they could put a patient for half a day or so under the most basic care. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Natural selection was not operating on organisms but on their units of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It’s the story of three regiments of aviators, only three out of a thousand aviation units fighting for a common cause. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Never one to flinch from hard facts, she knew it was only a matter of time before they shut down her unit, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was extremely rude for one citizen to touch another outside of family units. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Now, with juvenile incarceration rates sinking, only half of the twelve thirty-bed units were open, and each of those was only half full. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She was asked to help record the unit’s history. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z While Katrina bore down on the Gulf Coast, a four-page document was apparently faxed and emailed to law-enforcement agencies in the region, and to National Guard units headed to the Gulf area. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Morgan and Sturtevant extended that anatomical strand in the 1920s, demonstrating that genes were material units, spread linearly along chromosomes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They place those leaves, a scoop of protein powder, and then a glob of what looks like Mom’s sourdough starter into a compression unit. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Moreover, all this applies only to units of time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I had to utilize all the commentaries this time and was able to finish explaining the thought unit a moment before the three o’clock bell sounded. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The Communist party fraction in the John Reed Club instructed me to ask my party cell—or “unit,” as it was called—to assign me to full duty in the work of the club. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z To their relief, Elizebeth’s unit felt the same way about J. Edgar Hoover and his men—and so did the U.S. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Third grade, we did a study unit. Lenape first settled what we call New York.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z The carbine fired again, this time dinging the artillery unit itself. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “We re not supposed to engage any large units,” Brunner said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The mobile unit pulls up beside us, and the crew scrambles for cameras and equipment to capture this beehive of activity. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Thus, Polynesian political units ranged in size from a few dozen to 40,000 people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Very funny. Look, I figure the taste test will probably be Tuesday or Wednesday. The unit is almost over.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Those complex political units are much better able to mount a sustained war of conquest than is an egalitarian band of hunters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By now, Norman Mackworth was the first director of the applied psychology unit at Cambridge. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z While in the elevator, on our way to the sixth floor of the intensive care unit, I thought about how my dad would look. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But perhaps in part because inmates cannot be “broken” as quickly as they used to be, their sentences in these segregation units now drag on and on, sometimes for years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the one hand, islands near one another might become combined into a single political unit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Were units of information guiding each of these processes? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Everyone feels that burden in their own way of trying to squeeze as much out of our brains per unit time as possible.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Now we’re going to have a school-wide tolerance education unit because of a piece of graffiti that was on the wall for about five seconds. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Better to eliminate all threats now for what may come, even if it is units and units away.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She glanced over to the gaping hole where the air-conditioning unit had been, and gasped. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The faded sticker on the metal bottom of the controller unit has the same numbers. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Composed of heat-resistant plastic and chemically treated cork layers, and equipped with a desiccating unit to keep the air bone-dry, the insosuits could withstand the full glare of Mercury’s sun for twenty minutes. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The writer’s challenge is to come up with a scheme to order these units of text—to turn a dangly mobile into a rigid tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “What do the guys in your unit call you?” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the people on the night crew had not even been given spouses because they lacked, somehow, the essential capacity to connect to others, which was required for the creation of a family unit. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The bigger the refrigerating unit for making beer, and the longer the assembly line for filling bottles with beer, the lower the cost of manufacturing beer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’m writing because I have bad news. My unit got called, and in a few days, I’m going”—Grandma paused—“I’m going into battle.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Come on, Comrade, tell me what unit you are in?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z You need intimacy to be a unit, and the seamless knowing Pet had of her made up a little for how much she missed the closeness she used to share with her parents. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “But to answer your question. There were five in my Epsilon unit.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Whether hereditary units were divisible or indivisible did not particularly bother him; what concerned him was whether heredity was actionable or inactionable: whether human inheritance could be manipulated for human benefit. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This was the unit that Marina Raskova would be commanding herself—she, too, had had to learn to fly the complex Pe-2 before she could lead her flight crews into battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z A single vertical mark represented a unit, while a heel bone represented 10, a swirly snare stood for 100, and so on. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For over sixty years, the official history of Elizebeth’s World War II unit was buried deep in the “sealed tombs” of the government archives. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z You won’t be leaving the unit anytime soon, except for court appearances, and the weekend visiting hours—three hours on Saturday or Sunday, parents or guardians only, no siblings. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Social distinctions and chiefly powers increased on high-density islands with large political units, being especially marked on Tonga and the Societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After years of working solo, she had convinced the Treasury Department to fund a larger unit. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The unit has been retooled into an office. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z These hallmarks of war in Yayoi Japan corroborate the earliest accounts of Japan in Chinese chronicles, which describe the land of Wa and its hundred little political units fighting with one another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Another was Oliver Strachey, a British cryptologist who ran a code-breaking unit in Canada that tracked spies, just as Elizebeth’s team did. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Within military circles, however, her unit received a measure of praise, and even some awards. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “There’s a directory in the media unit of the trailer,” Ayesha says, then widens her eyes in mock horror. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z No combat unit in the Army could handle this work. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day in third-period AP lit, I feel it as sure as I feel him shaking the whole room with his leg, making the heating unit jangle. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z He had three units to rebuild from the ground. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The boat assignment seemed tangible and undeniable evidence that what the sophomores had been speculating about was true—something was special about them, and Ulbrickson had unusual confidence in them as a unit. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The unit organizer, who had been dallying with his pencil, looked up. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The Holo’s an independent unit, a glorified map really, since it can neither send nor receive signals. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When I came to the end of the Mishnaic thought unit, I stopped, and reviewed it briefly, together with the commentaries of Rashi and the Tosafists. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z And, yeah, we did that Holocaust unit in fifth grade. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It sat outside the Hab like an AC unit might on Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Alchemy could not become chemistry until its fundamental units were discovered,” a nineteenth-century scientist wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They were state troopers, local police officers, deputy sheriffs, and what appeared to be part of a National Guard unit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As early as the 1930s, for example, his unit covertly read the telegrams of private citizens. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The Red Army closed down its women’s units, and women were discouraged from continuing or pursuing careers in the military. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The whole point of chest pain prediction is to make sure that patients who end up having major complications are assigned right away to the coronary and intermediate units. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I had broken up the passage into its thought units as I had studied it, so I knew precisely at what points I would stop reading and begin my explanations. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Instead they had emerged as the German national team through their obvious prowess as a unit. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We become, therefore, a mongrel unit of one under a single all powerful government... and we stand for everything ... and for nothing.... While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They might even steal their present back she thought, and realized with a pang how quickly she had reverted to thinking of them as though they were a single unit once again. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, our final assignment for the unit is to create our own paradox and be ready to argue it Socrates-style. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z He had seen their own RA units at work, tightly knit groups, working all hours, proud of the speed with which they could set up a line, and proud of their discipline, drills, training, teamwork. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Most likely scouts or drifters who had been separated from their unit. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z As with the adult Durham Klan unit, however, most of the Youth Corps’s work was focused on perceived local problems, and, given the tender age of Corps members, that meant problems in the schools. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A small army unit, based next to the train station, was out catching migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He’s in the cardiac-care unit, and no one can talk to him. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a rental unit, with four to six tenants at any given time. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z By the time the unit is halfway through, I’ll bet no one will even remember why we started it in the first place. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Having reduced matter into its fundamental units, they sought to reduce life to similar material units. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Special SS units massacred great numbers of the evicted Jews. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “As you all know,” the Chancellor continues, “Zeta unit has joined us.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Years later, when other men and women who’d served in the military in the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War referred to their units, they’d call them by their official name or by their regiment number. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z "An orphanage? Jeez. I see why you want to get out of here. But busting out of a locked hospital unit?" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There were eleven men sitting in two lines around him—his own unit and two others. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Military and naval intelligence units, he said, have the situation well in hand and are taking proper local steps to guard against saboteurs and spies. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She was tasked with sorting and classifying them, with her unit’s help. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I’m partnered up with Simone, athlete extraordinaire, for our weights unit, so there’s no opportunity to talk to Tats in class. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “You have two hours to get footage showing the damage from the bombing, establish that Thirteen’s military unit remains not only functional but dominant, and, most important, that the Mockingjay is still alive. Any questions?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The unit I was in was sent back to the little islands of Kwajalein and Eniwetok to the east of Guam. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z "And you'll see that it's best. The Brotherhood must act as a co-ordinated unit." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents are watching one of the approved TV shows on the media unit and trying to escape into another world. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The smallest unit was the cell, which in urban townships consisted of roughly ten houses on a street. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As the train trundled through the darkening fens, Bateson read a copy of de Vries’s paper—and was instantly transmuted by Mendel’s idea of discrete units of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Before I dazzle you with the symphonic sound of this unit, let me point out some of its less-appreciated features.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a unit in a brown brick building divided into four homes, with a chain-link fence, several feet of grass out front, and three steps leading up to a small cement stoop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In late 1791 the War Department put Major General “Mad” Anthony Wayne in charge of restructuring the army units under his command so they could function as irregular forces in Ohio. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “After a while, when I was deemed ready, I moved into the birthing unit.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Calories, like the calories in food, are units of energy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I looked, but all I saw was three people moving through the dark, carrying stuff from a pickup truck to unit 2D. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “That’s a rocket-propelled grenade. Stay away from them, too. If you have any more questions, ask your unit commanders when you reach them. Good luck.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A letter would have to accompany each newchild, a letter with instructions for the parental unit: feeding information, schedules, discipline reminders, health data, and observations about personality. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He had come to the slaughterhouse to recruit men for a German military unit called “The Free American Corps.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z How did Mendel’s abstract “unit of heredity” become manifest as a physical trait? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The gene—the fundamental unit of heredity—must also be made of subunits, he reasoned, and the structure of DNA should illuminate these subunits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A political unit’s population size interacted with its population density to influence Polynesian technology and economic, social, and political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Tomorrow's a big day for my family unit. Our sons a Twelve this year. Lots of nervousness and apprehension.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Smaller units do not voluntarily abandon their sovereignty and merge into larger units. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The cargo straps were cinched tight, and the doors to all three units were closed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One evening Farmer and I went to dinner at Pérez’s house, which was as large and well-furnished as a unit in a decent American housing development. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In the days before international standardization of such units, there were several candidates. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Below this threshold, communities, businesses, social networks and military units can maintain themselves based mainly on intimate acquaintance and rumour-mongering. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “The idea was that certain family units could accommodate an additional child.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “The atmospheric evaluation will require a...test subject. A chaperone of our own to explore the planet with Zeta unit.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Many units of the French army were mutinous. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z My mom is like a one-woman commando unit. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I later learned that the United Arab Emirates had offered the plane, which was fully equipped with an onboard medical unit. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Most of the ATA women were in units made up of both men and women at a dozen different airfields, although there was one completely female unit. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Even if he decided to split her unit up, she couldn’t stop him. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z We told her mom we were going over to my apartment, and I promised, as I always did, that I wouldn’t leave Maribel’s side the whole thirty-step journey from her unit to mine. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z When he fired his carbine to miss he was committing treason against his unit, and he didn’t care. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Handing out red, green, blue, and black markers, Miss Garcia asks, “How many social units do you belong to?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Their apartment is a middle unit in a triplex. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z "And I'm off to a good start getting assigned to you. You, Mr. Manhattan Doe, are becoming quite famous on this unit." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The girls glide down the front steps like a unit, like airplanes in formation. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z These units encode messages to build proteins—and the messages and proteins, in turn, enable the form and function of a living organism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z So rebellious, in fact, that she tried to put a stop to her unit’s transfer. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Until now he has seen radios only in glimpses: a big cabinet wireless through the lace curtains of an official’s house; a portable unit in a miners’ dormitory; another in the church refectory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Keeley’s footsteps pounded up the passageway on the other side of the shelving units to his left. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z He kept a close eye on his handpicked SIS unit as they fought to crack German, Italian, and Japanese systems, but for the most part he let them get on with the job by themselves. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Our trailer wasn’t as crowded as some of the other units in the stacks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If it took us five units to travel three hundred and eighty years...? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “They sent two units after you. Did you run into any trouble?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z C.P. knew the FBI had infiltrated his unit—agents once had the temerity to try to recruit him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “No. Let them. Give them two hours a day, deducted from their training time. A quarter-mile radius. With communication units and tracker anklets. What’s next?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The basic unit of measure in the solar system is the Astronomical Unit, or AU, representing the distance from the Sun to the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We were transfixed as we listened to newsmen describe the power of that very special military unit. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re starting a big unit on ancient cultures that will last until December. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z But then on the day of the team event, we competed as a unit—all for one and one for all. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In other words, androids equipped with the new Nexus-6 brain unit had from a sort of rough, pragmatic, no-nonsense standpoint evolved beyond a major—but inferior—segment of mankind. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Near the window, a central air-conditioning unit put out a steady rumble. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He preferred to view his men not as units but as human beings. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I called it the “gun,” although it had a fancier name: the hand-held maneuvering unit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “We may have been given only a glimpse of what this special unit did regarding this case,” he read, “but what we know is more than disquieting.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He opened his hand, revealed a tiny unit. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z On the other hand, single large rugged islands were divided into many independent political units. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And another steel shelving unit shuffled in from the side. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z After all the newchildren had been assigned parental units at the Ceremony, the Center was almost empty. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Until he and his dad were like one single unit. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z “If we go out the kitchen door, there’s a small courtyard, then the back side of another corner apartment unit. Were looking at an overview of the four streets that meet at the intersection.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But we made a pit stop in the dialysis unit first. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “There’s this girl at a burn unit way out at Foothill Hospital...and the weird thing is...she gave your name as her emergency contact. I think they might have the wrong Alyssa Morrow.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Here’s a map. There’s a file titled ‘Regulations’ on the home screen of your media unit in your dwelling. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z My roommate was from Brooklyn, and we were the only two New Yorkers in the entire unit. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Today we are starting our physical science unit, and we will begin with magnets'.” Mr. Neely said, trying to be chipper as usual. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Namely, the elevated tactical unit I built in the oak tree in our backyard. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Hazleton Research Products is a division of Coming, Inc. Coming’s Hazleton unit is involved with the importation and sale of laboratory animals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But they worked it out, all in a compact unit that a man could carry and operate with a hand pump. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “You may stay here tonight. I want to talk to you. But you must be quiet now, while I notify your family unit. No one must hear you cry.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “We just started a unit on poetry,” she tells me. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z There are more words on the other side of the wall, all having to do with the unit we are studying, “The Use of Human Subjects in Medical Research.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z “You are wrong. We do care. We care greatly for the greater good of a singular Collective. The Collective has made difficult choices over all these units to achieve this point.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It meant that all family units were to be dismantled to make way for barracks housing only single men and women working in the white world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The price tag was $14,600 a year, but Elizebeth was sure that the expanded unit would improve the Treasury’s bottom line. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A private developer wanted to build the new units on a twenty-two-acre site on Bacon Street in the middle-class section of Hayti. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z This left the younger boys to lead units of five hundred to six hundred boys. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Butler called nearby Klan units for photographs and other materials related to Klan life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As it turns out, the mere fact of having a unit to myself makes me an aristocrat within the Blue Haven community. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, on July 25, there was a lull in the action and our units were able to regroup. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It became one of the most decorated combat units in American history. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In political organization, Polynesian islands ranged from landscapes divided into independent tribal or village units, up to multi-island proto-empires that devoted standing military establishments to invasions of other islands and wars of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These terrorists “might even hope that National Guard and other units are less able and well-equipped to respond...because of deployments overseas.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It was not unlike his own family unit’s dwelling. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z If you remember every word in this book, your memory will have recorded about two million pieces of information: the order in your brain will have increased by about two million units. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Todd lived in the first-floor unit of the building, and had brought all of his possessions up to the second floor. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “You will remain together as a unit until you receive your assignments.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Once her unit was shifted over, an officer would be put in over her head, and she would have to follow his orders. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z And third, genes had to explain development: How could individual units of instruction prescribe the code to create a mature organism out of an embryo? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He memorized his own number and the number of the unit who had to be relieved. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shut up! Don’t you dare say my father is a rightist! Who says he’s a rightist? Why don’t you go to my father’s work unit and ask them?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Enormous ingenuity is apparent with some of the loners in placing the water supply higher than the unit and connecting it with plastic pipe so that a gravity flow is insured. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Badly enough to be put in a special unit, evidently. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Chad has twelve living units, only nine of which are currently being used. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The sergeant yelled to his unit as he walked away from us. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, the unit also incorporated enhancements developed elsewhere than the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z An elevated seating unit has been set up for prestigious guests, with the stylists commanding the front row. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z That is, there is no item in an outline, no branch of a tree, no unit of discourse that consistently corresponds to a block of text delimited by a blank line or an indentation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The only reason I noticed him at all was because he asked for help on the isotopes and half-lives unit. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Elizebeth and her unit were keenly aware of this, but they could say nothing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In any case, as we shall see below, there is good reason to think Eratosthenes used the Egyptian unit. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z My mother, father, and I were our own little unit. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Taken by ambulance to a San Francisco burn unit, Sasha will spend the next three and a half weeks undergoing multiple surgeries to treat second- and third-degree burns running from calf to thigh. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Though there was no longer any female air force unit for them to be part of, pilot Antonina Bondareva and two other women from the 125th continued to serve in a male regiment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But by nine-thirty in the morning all the armed units in the country were under the command of officers sympathetic to the coup. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On his first assignment, Allen was sent out for a night patrol with his unit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Militia units from the surrounding colonies piled into the city. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z When they returned from Hunt, they stayed for two days on Adnan’s floor in Baton Rouge, then moved into the studio apartment of their rental unit on Tita Street, on New Orleans’ West Bank. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z We have access to all the information of the biosphere, arriving as elementary units in the stream of solar photons. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Momly is who goes to pick Ma up, who takes her to the hospital's dialysis—another word with "die" in it—unit, where she gets the treatment, who then brings her back home. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “Okay, everybody, let’s get right to it. You all heard the principal, so you know what this is about. Our unit on tolerance education starts today.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z My mind runs through everything we learned about Nazi Germany these past three weeks of tolerance education, and during the Holocaust unit in fifth grade. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The walls and the windows of the first-floor units are covered in a layer of newly ground dirt. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The next day went by without the mobile unit moving its tanks or the government giving in to the workers’ demands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Every Talmudic passage is composed of what, for the sake of convenience, might best be called thought units. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z A new inmate arrived on W from the psych unit with one arm and no mattress—I’d have to make a few calls to straighten that one out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he had been drafted and fought for the 442nd, the combat unit made up of Japanese American men. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I ascended the narrow access ladder mounted between the adjacent rows of capsules, then stepped onto the short platform beneath the hatch to my unit. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She has worked high-stress assignments in telemetry— monitoring cardiac patients—and in the intensive care unit. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The Herman W. Block Memorial Library’s air' conditioning unit didn’t work very good, and there was only one fan; and from the minute me and Winn'Dixie got in the library, he hogged it all. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She tried to keep the unit running smoothly, but she questioned whether he was making the best use of her team. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The Nazis sent four special SS units called Einsatzgruppen, or Shock Troops, to deal swiftly and brutally with the Polish Jews. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z There is a light rain and someone named S. Godchaux in unit #21 reports a small leak in the ceiling in his bathroom. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The black community wanted the public housing units built in a different location, and virtually anywhere outside of the already overwhelmingly black section of Durham would have pleased them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Those classrooms were the most colorful part of the unit, the walls covered with posters, word lists, number lines—a visual vacation from the drab sameness of the rest of the unit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The Big House, the cookhouse, the stables, formed a complete unit. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mai has done a lot of talking, but it's the resident from unit #11 who makes the difference. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I spoke earlier of the emergence of the trailer home, the mobile unit, and of certain advantages to their owners. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Nurse Hickey is a hissing five out of five leaky air-conditioning units on the Ryan Dean West Global Hotness Scale. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Kabir, Soraya, and I had an additional reason to rejoice: Our little hospital in Rawalpindi had opened the week before, not the surgical unit, just the pediatric clinic. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I’m teaching a unit on journalism,” said Mr. Larson, “and some of the kids in the class have started a newspaper—sort of as a project. It’s good writing, don’t you think?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z One young guy asks which unit I’m in and then tells me he used to live in that very same one himself—along with two friends. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The rapidly growing Space Task Group was taking shape as an autonomous unit marching out in front of the space parade. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The gene was not a “purely theoretical unit.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She had far more experience and skill in code breaking than he did, and she had created the unit. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z If we bombard protons at high energies with other elementary particles—other protons, say—we begin to glimpse more fundamental units hiding inside the proton. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Adjoining the den was a furnace room, which contained a tool-littered table piled with some of his other works-in- progress—an amplifying unit, an elderly wind-up Victrola that he was restoring to service. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are five units operational here at the moment,” the officer went on. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Over the past 13,000 years the predominant trend in human society has been the replacement of smaller, less complex units by larger, more complex ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A few hours later, our unit, which included Wilsie and me, discovered what was left of the patrol. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And the prison was, above all, a storage unit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The atom—the fundamental unit of matter—was actually made of even more fundamental units of matter: electrons, protons, and neutrons. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I tug on a book that pulls back like a handle, and the entire shelving unit swings open. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Just like the day before, we attach our corpomonitors and comm units and exit down the ramp, but unlike before we no longer wear helmets. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Now in many cases a mobile unit takes the place of additional building. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I get a bad feeling the second Mrs. Fisher says, “Class, today marks the third day of National Poetry Month, and were going to form groups of two for our poetry unit.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Occasionally, however, a bug went off the deep end, and—particularly if he got suicidal—would be sent to the psych unit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then an announcement echoes through the valley: “Return to your Mercury Homes immediately. Await instructions via your media units.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z We started a puberty unit in health class this week and Mr. Quimby showed us diagrams of male and female bodies. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z More complex units don’t always conquer less complex ones but may succumb to them, as when the Roman and Chinese Empires were overrun by “barbarian” and Mongol chiefdoms, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These particle energies are usually measured in units called electron volts. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A second later, the unit beeped and he read off the information on its display. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z To Heth Lee said, “What units have you engaged?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Cultivating wheat provided much more food per unit of territory, and thereby enabled Homo sapiens to multiply exponentially. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If we’ve arrived, then each of their “units” is over seventy years. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The units of study this year will be “The Use of Human Subjects in Medical Research,” “The Rising Rates of Childhood Obesity,” and “The Environment, Climate Change, and Racism.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Guardsmen in another unit patrolling South Boston also opened fire, killing two people who had been tormenting them. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In Mater’s intensive-care unit I was hooked up to life support to make sure my heart kept beating and my lungs kept breathing. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “Zeta unit, leave your bags and exit the shuttle to the decontamination sector.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Equally, we can use a more convenient, new unit of length called a light-second. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "Amber Alert child spotted on Seventy-Fourth speaking to homeless man by someone living in the neighborhood. Any units in the vicinity, let's get out there and ask some questions." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Jones wanted the unit to focus closely on South American spies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Two children—one male, one female—to each family unit. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z "How'd you get off the unit upstairs? We keep some pretty tight security up there for the kids." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Virginia DiAngelo is reported in good condition this morning at Easton General Hospital, while Benjamin, who was flown to the pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital, remains in critical condition. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “Dèja, if home is about relationships, social units existing within larger units, how many do we share? As a class?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z His neutron’s weight directly contradicted the value proposed by the Cavendish, which was in the range of 1.0067 to 1.0072 units. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He hated to leave Boston to check up on his units because this would leave Catherine alone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z My parental unit who is at this moment violating my personal space and reading my text over my shoulder wants me to finish homework so I GTG. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I was at the end of the aisle, pretending to look at bunion pads to hide myself behind the corner shelf unit, but I saw that the bandage on her cheek was not small. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The unit had to be sent away for rebuilding, which meant taking down a wall of the building erected around it and returning it to the manufacturer by ferry. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The amalgamation of smaller units into larger ones has often been documented historically or archaeologically. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You ruined the exercise. You fouled up. You could get the whole unit binned. So you’d better start telling me what went wrong.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The need to break up a passage into its thought units is simple enough. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Did the soldier really mean that Zeitoun should paddle all the way to the intersection of Napoleon and St. Charles when the soldier could simply call another unit on his walkie-talkie? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z But for Mr. Larson and his students, it was the last lesson in a unit about the most interesting subject they had ever studied. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z From the beginning, settlers organized units of irregular fighters to terrorize and destroy Indigenous communities by killing unarmed women, children, and elders. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Rumors swirled about Union generals sending the colored units out to be massacred with inefficient gear and less pay than the white soldiers. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Shelving units were arranged in a square around an open area, maybe twenty feet by twenty feet wide. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The air that gets freeze-separated comes in through a single large vent on the main unit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But then one day he rejoins his unit in the bush. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Black units were always the first ones sent to the front in battle, to draw enemy fire and protect the white soldiers coming up behind them. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Godwin thinks it’s best if I don’t assign papers for this story. He thinks it’s best to just move on to the next unit.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The intensive care unit is this place where there are so many nurses, you can't hardly turn around without bumping into one, which I do as soon as we get there. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “I am not a rightist, and anyone who says I am can go to my work unit and confirm it. As for your Grandpa, he was a businessman and a landlord.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The intensive care unit is L-shaped and dim, a jumble of bleeping monitors and whirring machines. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I climb up the ladder to the next landing, as stealthy and nimble as Max was when she picked up the nurse's badge and freed us from the locked unit. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “If I die,” she murmured, “maybe I’ll be born again when the Rosen Association stamps out its next unit of my subtype.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Dad isn’t a fan of the new tolerance education unit—but not for the same reason as the kids at school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “We’ll be going into the Phuoc Ha Valley. The marine unit will move in first and clear the area,” he said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Temporarily he pushed away the specs on the Nexus-6 brain unit, took a pinch of Mrs. Siddons’ No. 3 & 4 snuff and cogitated. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I avoided unit meetings for fear of being subjected to discipline. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The bicycle, at Nine, would be the powerful emblem of moving gradually out into the community, away from the protective family unit. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to be a human GPS unit. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “The Director decides what news you get at Mobius and grants you access via the media units in your dwelling. All the answers you need will be given to you at the orientation.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I knocked on the mobile unit’s window, relieved when no one answered, and went inside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z When she debated the unit’s mission with him, he always overruled her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Each thought unit is a separate stage of the total discussion that makes up the passage. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Surrounded on all sides by the Red Army and by units of the KGB, West Berlin floated like an island in a hostile, turbulent sea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Beneath the dress, they placed anything.that could collect whatever rainwater fell through the fabric’s pores: empty coconut shells, high heels, and a jewelry cleaning unit they’d rinsed four times with seawater. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Be sure to draw the proper dose. We’ll start him off on one unit, once a day, either while he’s eating or after he’s finished.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z She works for free, from dawn until late at night, seven days a week, to obtain money for food, units of blood, medicine, prostheses, and a scrap of land to build a permanent shelter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The mobile units are by no means limited to the park communities. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But I did like the unit on poetry. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z We were supposed to be wrapping up our magnets-and-electricity unit, but really, there’s not much more to learn about magnets after you’ve been talking about them for almost a month straight. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Her scrubs have lollipops on them, even though this isn’t a pediatric unit. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, Inspector Bryant told us that. But you’re officially the San Francisco Police Department, and it doesn’t believe our unit is to the public benefit.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z They were autonomous units—material units—that carried information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “We’re starting the first unit of the Socrates Project in humanities next week, and I’m kinda excited,” I say. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “We fought in subway tunnels,” said Walter Knappe, a unit leader. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z As children, within the family unit, they had been required to tell their dreams each morning. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Oh, unit,” I was like, “is this malfunction?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the meantime, the unit remained in its longtime home in the Treasury Annex on Pennsylvania Avenue. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Let’s go inside so you can meet the parental unit.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z One was the designation of the Radiation Laboratory as an independent unit of the university, to ensure the “continuity and stability of the work.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She wished success for the young aviators and told them she hoped they’d earn the honorable name of “Guards” for their regiment—a special title awarded to elite military units. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z My father always claimed that a league wasn’t really a unit of measurement at all, just a way for farmers to attach numbers to their rough guesses. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Anna was my science partner for the plant unit, and I liked working with her. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Sasha had been taken to Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco so that they could be admitted into the Bothin Burn Center, a specialized unit that treats burn victims from around the Bay Area. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The only thing to distinguish each building is a number and a name; to either side of it are more units, absolutely identical, each three stories tall, arranged around a vast looping road. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They warned him it was the worst unit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She brought her knees together very firmly, as if to make herself a smaller, more compact unit. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z A cell steward would be in charge of each of these units. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Larger, more densely populated political units concentrated more authority with the chiefs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By 1920, he was heading up research into codes and ciphers for the Signal Corps, the Army unit in charge of communications. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He was glad his unit didn’t carry out “search and destroy” missions. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Effective this date, Dorothy J. Vaughan, who has been acting head of the West Area Computers unit, is hereby appointed head of that unit.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But the women who trained in the 122nd Air Group, though they split into three separate units when they went to war, would say that they belonged to “Raskova’s regiments.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Of course, the Klan opposed any changes in the status quo, but the Durham unit engaged in no actions in this period. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They need only enough for the unit and the right of passage to get to it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Nucleotides have been put together into strands of nucleic acid a few dozen units long. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We start our unit on the Allegory of the Cave. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z For example, those planning to join a Ranger battalion or one of the elite Army units like the 82nd Airborne Division needed to be qualified as paratroopers. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z With desalination units being set up along the coast, she figures there’ll be enough water for everyone soon enough, so why not be generous? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was his unit now, and it would focus on South American spy talk. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Again we find that only by looking at some of the smallest units of life, the cell and its chromosomes, can we find that wider vision needed to penetrate such mysteries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z People were already forming military units on their own, and the only organization that had the muscle to lead them was the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The “new country” demanded a new language: Mendel’s “units of heredity” had to be christened. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z What if he did dream—should he simply tell his family unit, as he did so often, anyway, that he hadn’t? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “He’s in the intensive care unit. He had a pretty serious stroke, but they are hopeful they caught it in time,” my dad answers. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “The unit had been given a critical responsibility by the president.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The building of organs and structures, Lewis concluded, is encoded by master-regulatory “effector” genes that work like autonomous units or subroutines. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The school nurse had come in and taught a first-aid unit to the sixth graders earlier that year, and Chess was proud of himself for remembering the symptoms. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z As the killings continued and the situation got worse, Arkansas’s governor asked the War Department to send in infantry units. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Later, though, when Hunter added solid military intelligence about British units, Washington began to trust him. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Turns out 9,308 blankets were sold before it was discovered that some percentage of the controller units had been manufactured with faulty resistors. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A unit of heredity must carry the code to build a metabolic or cellular function specified by a protein. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They’d just studied that unit in English class, so Aru could snap her fingers in rhythm and start shouting about neon fruit supermarkets, but she didn’t think that would be helpful here. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He said that some units were good, as good as anything we had to offer. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I had the suit off, I placed it inside the cleaning unit and laid my clean spare suit out on the floor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It certainly seems like he ought to be admitted to the coronary care unit right away. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Actually, some of the colored just stayed in the service: A few of the colored units were kept going and it was a paying job. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was afraid that I might look ungrateful to my uncle, who didn’t have to take me in, if I distanced myself from the family unit. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z After they built a step unit out of boxes, Kyle climbed up and examined the window latch. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The four of us moved together, as a unit, no one wanting to let go. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z But pretty soon what happened is that we started fighting about who gets into the observation unit,” Reilly went on. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z First, genes had to explain the phenomenon of variation: How could discrete units of heredity explain that human eyes, say, do not have six discrete forms but seemingly 6 billion continuous variants? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It’s likely they were so segregated from ordinary fighting units and considered so special that the women of these regiments were, to a certain extent, untouchable. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Dorothy updated her classes with a unit called Wartime Mathematics, teaching students to apply arithmetic operations to household budgeting and wartime ration books and updating classic word problems with airplanes instead of cars. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z On one occasion, the leader of Alfons’s unit became angry at the boys’ unenthusiastic singing. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I knew because she was my plant partner, and she helped me a lot during that unit. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Remember that the bigger the number, the smaller the risk, and that for every unit increase in the safety index, the risk declines by a factor of 10. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The evening proceeded as all evenings did in the family unit, in the dwelling, in the community: quiet, reflective, a time for renewal and preparation for the day to come. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z So all four women transferred again, this time to the 9th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, a special unit for elite pilots, who were of course all men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Ekman then began to layer one action unit on top of another, in order to compose the more complicated facial expressions that we generally recognize as emotions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As the head of the FBI's antisabotage unit, he worked six days a week, most evenings, and sometimes, he even worked on Sundays. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The filth seemed to erase identities, transforming the men into identical copies of a single soldier, which was exactly how Jimmy Cross had been trained to treat them, as interchangeable units of command. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Military units were stationed at the entrances and exits of townships. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1939, when Grotjan got a high score on a civil service exam, he offered her a place in his unit. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z My aunt’s trailer was the top unit in a “stack” twenty-two mobile homes high, making it a level or two taller than the majority of the stacks immediately surrounding it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “If you don’t come out voluntarily, they’re going to send the mobile unit in and drive you out with clubs,” the senator concluded. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They still look strange to me—a mother with a pierced eyebrow, a father with a tattooed arm, an initiate with purple hair, a wholesome family unit. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It’s really just the educational version of a double-wide trailer, and like all the portable units, it’s got a ramp. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Mr. Cobb sometimes subbed for their Social Studies teacher, and he always managed to slip in a story about the Vietnam War, even when their class unit was on ancient civilizations. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I just wish we could get his sleeping-pattern behavior squared away. If he's not ready to be placed with a family unit by the time of the next Ceremony, well...” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The government poured money into Turner Station, which began filling with one- and two-story housing projects, many of them pressed side by side and back-to-back, some with four to five hundred units. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It may be useful as an expression for the ‘unit factors’...demonstrated by modern Mendelian researchers.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They were given the special title “Guards”—the mark of an elite military unit. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He would continue to be nurtured at the Center and would spend his nights with Jonas’s family unit. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z With experience organizing Klan units in several Southern states, Stoner was as violent as Shelton, and would later be convicted in the 1958 dynamiting of a Birmingham, Alabama, church. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe, but then I’d be dragged by some unit into the field. As you know, Koch doesn’t like his affairs broadcast. This is private business,” I said, staring him down. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Before World War I was over, four other Russian women’s regiments formed based on Maria Bochkareva’s battalion, along with many smaller units. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Bletchley Park, the U.K.’s secret code-breaking center, was staffed with hundreds of mathematicians, linguists, and professors, and it had dedicated units that could solve Abwehr Enigma with pencil and paper alone. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The third, Eastasia, only emerged as a distinct unit after another decade of confused fighting. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Each family unit was allotted two children, one of each gender, and she had been the younger. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They had to learn to recognize the same sound or speech unit through all our normal variations in speech volume, pitch, speed, emphasis, phrase grouping, and individual idiosyncrasies of pronunciation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But in the 1980s and 1990s a gush of new information about the first Americans came in from archaeological digs, anthropological laboratories, molecular biology research units, and linguists’ computer models. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If I lashed them together, they'd fall off as a unit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a military unit, for example—they look like little more than kids. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Or the people could have united in larger and more disciplined social units for the sake of ambitious group efforts that no loosely organized tribal society would have been able to achieve. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z To Catherine, Mr. Edwards was as cold a business proposition as his units were to him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Rivera repeated “Thank you” anytime my mom gave her an opening, and finally my mom wrapped up by telling her our unit number and encouraging them to stop by anytime. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z An astronomical unit is the distance of the Earth from the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The toilets and sinks were a single stainless-steel unit, such as were found in most newer jails and prisons but not generally in Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had his finger sewn up and went back to his unit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Dad was injured at the Choke years ago, when a bomb dropped on his unit. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z It is wonderful the way a little town keeps track of itself and of all its units. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The only women in the unit were the secretaries—and Elizebeth herself. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They were no longer needed to create family units. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z They observe that, “surprisingly, strategists on both the left and right, despite their differences, converge on the individual as the unit of power.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Elizebeth and her unit were not the only Americans trying to uncover spies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z After my second abduction, I began hiding a duffel bag with spare clothes behind the AC unit under my bedroom window. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Moreover, as Lac had observed frequently since she had been transferred to his unit, she was gorgeous. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It can package ideas into bigger and bigger units, which the psychologist George Miller dubbed “chunks.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z At the beginning of the war, women who successfully signed up with the Red Army were only sent to the front as nurses, or in communications or antiaircraft gunner units. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Carlos lies in bed number 1 of the trauma unit at Hospital Civil in the town of Arriaga in southern Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z That unit of length, the distance light goes in a year, is called a light-year. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Federal authorities planned to pry the houses off their bases and send the units to “war-devastated populations in Europe.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The principle led to the much later adoption of Avogadro’s number, a basic unit of measure in chemistry, which was named for Avogadro long after his death. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She was in the intensive care unit bandaging a patient when she was called to the phone. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Each girl had received a DVD of the dance steps in her prep packet, but they’d never had a chance to rehearse it as a unit. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z There are bricks that hold down the corners of the tarps, and when we reach what is Dell's unit, I lift one. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I sit with the dorks in the center back, by the long, rattling heating and air-conditioning unit. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Washington wanted a special operations unit made up of volunteers who could both fight and gather intelligence “by water or by land, by night or by day.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a lot of talk about how well the other units in the outfit were doing. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside was one of the new video game console units. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z As Debbie and Karl stood at the nurses’ station talking with the burn unit’s director, a call came from the lobby. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They had to transfuse several units of red cells— How will I tell Soraya? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In return, the Navy promised that she and her unit would be kept together. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z These days the units are only half full. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Each column of hab-units was numbered, and the door of each capsule was lettered, A through J, with unit A at the bottom. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In those camps, researchers found, the “basic unit of survival” was the pair, not the individual. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Our heating unit busted right at the start of winter, and luckily we had enough to pay for it without my mom having to deal with another creepy guy. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Groves’s order to freeze the calutron design was honored only in the most general terms, and then only for the very first units to be shipped for installation at Oak Ridge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What my father aspired to be and what Allah had destined for him was nurtured chiefly by the fertile tutelage of his parents while his family was still together and thriving as a unit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to the money he brought me from Ashe I now live by myself again, as a “unit” not a “dependent.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Those weren’t the regular harbor lights; they were the twin lanterns of the plesiosaur artillery units. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z But it was not just because the new unit on my back was lighter that I ran so much faster. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered his mother taking the newchild, his sister; into her arms, while the document was read to the assembled family units. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The drones get even closer, moving south toward us as one tiny triangular unit. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There’s another startling pop as the cooling units shut off. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z From here on in, Army units would take over. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Klein studied nurses, intensive care units, firefighters, and other people who make decisions under pressure, and one of his conclusions is that when experts make decisions, they don’t logically and systematically compare all available options. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z At the very center of our community, this holy place tied us together as a working unit and made us strong. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Our unit's managed to avoid it thus far, but the Spanish influenza is taking its toll. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Especially compared to our unit on the seventh floor. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “In the meantime, call down to the blood bank. I need two units of O neg and keep two units ahead.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There were twenty-four “house” units, fifty men living in each unit, if memory serves me correctly. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Has job uncertainty anything to do with the rapid increase of these units?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A “gene for redness,” Beets understood, is a unit of hereditary information, and it is carried from a parent to its children in an indivisible form in DNA—in genes, in chromosomes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Near the bridge, in the willow thicket on the river bank, lay the broken-up machine with a black spider of a swastika on its tail unit,” said Nina. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Modern physics and chemistry have reduced the complexity of the sensible world to an astonishing simplicity: three units put together in various patterns make, essentially, everything. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The air-conditioning unit made its will known by a constant low rumble. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z My own family, after three years of mess hall living, collapsed as an integrated unit. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Julia’s unit in the Fiction Department had been taken off the production of novels and was rushing out a series of atrocity pamphlets. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z So desperate were conditions in the besieged city that, in the winter of 1941-2, police had to form a special unit to combat gangs involved in cannibalism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Everybody can do action unit four,” he began. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I opened the gate to our apartment complex and walked Abuela to her unit on the first floor. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Jones might be the boss, but she was still the unit’s best code breaker, and she knew the others looked to her for guidance. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Hank, down on his knees between two shelving units, looked up. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Ms. Sandnes picked out gifts from among the donated clothes and toys in the storage unit. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z We were scheduled to go at different times, not as a family unit, because the UN handles people who are over the age of eighteen as individual cases. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Listening to Ms. Freedman, the seventh-grade science teacher, describe the spring unit on the solar system reminded me that I was really going to be there for the entire school year. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Conformable to the Orgota law that each “unit” must have employment, I work from Eighth Hour to noon in a plastics factory. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z They were green and scared, and had no idea how to protect themselves or work as part of a unit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Nurses and aides came running, pushing a gurney along with them, and they lifted Charles Monet onto the gurney and wheeled him into the intensive care unit at Nairobi Hospital. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The job was often given to the new guy in the unit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z When he graduated, his name stayed behind, and from then on the close-up camera and its operator were a unit called Chico. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z These children now patrolled in special units, killing and maiming civilians. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I spent sixteen months on Okinawa, where I served with a unit of army engineers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z That’s why the British interceptors could listen to just a few bursts and say, with absolute certainty, “It’s Oscar, which means that yes, his unit is now definitely outside of Tobruk.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z There was no time to process them, note where the casualties were from, or even what unit they belonged to. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Her black men advanced across the plane, slowly marching to each successive level as a single unit. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z So the last dinner was just the three of them, she and the parental unit who had raised her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Each day, he saw colorful parades by SS, Storm Troopers, and Labor Guard units. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He shared a room with another man—there were four rooms per housing unit. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z That night, after I shut off the lights and disabled the security cameras, I unlocked my entertainment unit’s maintenance access panel and installed the flash drive into an expansion slot used for firmware upgrades. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Some American ambulance units were to be sent down and this hospital would look after them and any other Americans on service in Italy. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z In the Union Army that was the way it was: they fought a unit until it bled to death. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a murderous legion leaving the site of a massacre, the drones gather back into an organized unit. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A victory for nostalgic racists longing for the “good old days” of segregated units and separate bathrooms. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z But Mrs. Baker—the holiday-hating Mrs. Baker—had us open English for You and Me and start in on a new unit: “Strong Verb Systems.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Campbell was the inventor and commander of the unit, which was supposed to fight only on the Russian front. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was easier for me to run now because all us code talkers had the new lighter portable radio units. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A unit, membership in which is obligatory for all Communists, is the party’s basic form of organization. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The relevant area is not the area of an island but that of a political unit, which could be either larger or smaller than a single island. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My father’s bed was directly beneath a ceiling fan, which was circulating cold air from a stand-alone air-conditioning unit on a side window. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z As the tolerance education unit rolls into its third week, the only lesson anybody is learning is that you don’t have to be a racist to be sick of tolerance education. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I never ever had something in school excite me before, but the plant unit we did with Mr. T had me fired up. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z He probably should have brought up his feeling of bewilderment that very evening when the family unit had shared their feelings of the day. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Over the summer, it served as a storage unit. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z To all units: Be on the alert for banzai attacks. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The memories of old Christmases winged through the room like richly plumed birds and rested on the pungent branches of the tinsel-heavy tree the family as a unit had decorated. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When the unit switched off, I drove out into the lot and opened my window again to the sounds of chaos unfolding down at the Pagoda Mall, and I made my choice. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Link said, “Okay. Let’s . . “Drop it, units,” I said. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard one of the generals say that he never saw no unit, white or colored, fight as fierce as we did. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ford Taurus, I remembered now, had a GPS unit in it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Throughout the Farewell Address Washington had been exhorting Americans to think of themselves as a collective unit with a common destiny. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z At first, Morgan was not even interested in whether units of heredity existed or how or where they were stored. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I suction the tracking corpomonitor to the back of my neck, the comm unit behind my ear, and then plug both into my suit. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Soon, Herbert found his unit, about fifteen in all. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In January, all of Coach Reed’s classes were starting a new unit in PE: Physical Fitness and Endurance. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z A modular shower and toilet unit were embedded in one wall, opposite the small ergonomic kitchen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As a junior lieutenant I had been in charge of a small unit made up of boys to carry out quick missions. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Join us. Our Collective is stronger as a single unit. With your trust, we can erase the hurt and pain of the past. We will...” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “I’m gonna stay. For a while. Until they call me up. They put me in the reserve unit in camp. It could be months. Maybe the war will be over by then.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Rocks are divided into quite separate units known as systems, series, and stages. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He claimed the nickname came from the wood shelving units Clancy had built to store all of their books and schoolwork. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The mobile units are pretty close together, but a wide-open space stands between the last trailer and the garden. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Ms. Eisen informs us that we’re going to continue our weights unit until Tuesday, after which point whoever shows up for the last classes will play softball in the field. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I was instructed to give my unit a report of my activities, writing, organizing, speaking. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Of Marina Raskova’s original three regiments, there were men now flying and working in both the 586th Regiment and the 125th Guards, and those units were now led by men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Desperate for low-cost housing to replace their demolished units, blacks moved in and the lower-class whites who could afford to leave sold their property at a loss and fled to the suburbs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I attended the next unit meeting and asked for a place on the agenda, which was readily granted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was a North Vietnamese regular, from one of their big units, the 324th. They found his papers on him.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s always been this way, with every improved brain unit that’s come along. I remember the howls of pain when the Sudermann people showed their old T-14 back in ’18. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “People want to participate in our brand because we are an affordable luxury,” said Gene Dunkin, president of Godiva North America, a unit of the Campbell Soup Company. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Wes had his entire operation organized with the precision of a military unit or a division of a Fortune 500 company. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In social studies, in a unit on basic economics, Jake helped Mr. Lyons by describing the difference between satisfying wants and meeting needs to a group that just couldn’t grasp the concept. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “Fly to Seattle and talk with the Rosen people. Have them supply you a representative sampling of types employing the new Nexus-6 unit.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Oil promised money through work on drilling rigs and frac crews and acidizing units, and it meant people were willing to live here whatever the deprivation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When she completed it, William Friedman recruited her for his Army unit in the late 1930s. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z This means that the rational numbers take up less than two units of space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Holding the folder she had given him, he made his way through the throng, looking for his family unit and for Asher. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Each barracks was divided into six units, sixteen by twenty feet, about the size of a living room, with one bare bulb hanging from the ceiling and an oil stove for heat. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z North Vietnamese units were shelling the city from just two miles away. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She worked at Bayview Medical Center as a unit secretary in order to supplement the grant that was helping her pay for school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I learned, to my dismay, that the black Communists in my unit had commented upon my shined shoes, my clean shirt, and the tie I had worn. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Large, high-resolution monitors and quality speakers were turning their computers into sophisticated cultural centers in much the same way TV sets had morphed into family entertainment units. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Was the party so weak and uncertain of itself that it could not accept what I had said at the unit meeting? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They were offering the Zeitouns a free trailer, a two-bedroom portable unit that would be delivered to them at their request. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The unit’s only amenity was the entertainment console—a large, flat touchscreen built into the wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The first unit that captured him was ordered to carry the sentence out. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I eventually reached my unit, near the top of column number forty-two. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The three basic strategies underlying writing systems differ in the size of the speech unit denoted by one written sign: either a single basic sound, a whole syllable, or a whole word. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Holly was rushed toward the Mobile Ops unit, her feet barely touching the ground. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I assumed Johanna was fine, had passed her exam, but simply wasn’t assigned to a sharpshooters’ unit. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The general sent our colored unit up first to draw them out. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He talked about majors, semesters, units, and many other things I did not understand. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The foot as a unit of measurement is based, naturally, on the foot. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even though drummer boys couldn’t fight, they had to be close enough to the battlefield that the men in their unit could hear their drumbeat orders. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he would get letters from people in his unit or from the doctors and nurses who had worked on him after he was wounded. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The biggest political units could assemble large labor forces to construct irrigation systems and fishponds that intensified food production even further. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The only one we currently employ. The only one capable of distinguishing the new Nexus-6 brain unit. You haven’t heard of this test?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z When Abuela had moved in, my mom and dad had wanted to give her a quieter unit away from the gate so she wouldn’t have to hear everyone coming in and out. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “You know, what started it all. Just a few of the highlights of the tolerance education unit.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Holism” suggests something biologically transcendental because of “holy,” although it was intended more simply to mean a complete assemblage of living units. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were followed by a rough- looking militia unit that was trailed by a group of slaves carrying shovels and pickaxes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Each unit has thirty single rooms spread over two tiers, one upper, one lower. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Then I plug the control unit into the wall, right where it was plugged in on that Monday night. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ernst? He’s going with us, then rejoining his unit in Berlin. It’s a shame you never spent any proper time together...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Before that, African-American soldiers had separate sleeping places, separate units, and separate everything. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "Flaws. We want to see if this controller unit is working right. Because if it's not, it could be generating an unusual field." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I received an email from your math teacher. Ms. Finch said that she graded those unit exams. She listed the class averages for each period.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Maybe the female guards had been conscripted from some other unit. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Cut off from the rest of the hospital, the unit was patrolled by security guards. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Later, our hosts informed us that Sudani had been a legendary soldier, and had even reputedly captured an entire French unit single-handedly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was the worst thing I could think of. And even then I didn’t really understand how awful it was. Not until the tolerance education unit—and by then it was too late.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Dissolution of a unit, an organization, or a group of organizations. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z For more than a year I had waited at home, bored and depressed by all the news of fighting, and by the struggles at Mom’s and Dad’s work units. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The very long, very wide cellar was just as he remembered it: filled with tidy rows of floor-to-ceiling shelving units. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Her team hadn’t given up, had played as a unit, and had come from behind—a sign of toughness and resolve. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Then they had tied the VC up and threw him in the back of a jeep to take to an intelligence unit, and the captain gave Peewee hell for giving information to the enemy. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A large stereo system sat on a shelving unit next to a boxy television set. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Derek came back ashore with the radio—a small unit with a weatherproof seal and fresh nicad batteries. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z When it comes to putting the units into a left-to-right order, the rules of English syntax leave writers with only a few possibilities. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He swept the area, carefully studying every spot before he dared take another step, his head swiveling up and down, side to side, like some kind of robotic scavenger unit. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Aside from PE, which takes place in the gym down the hall, and a visit to the medical unit, everything you do you’ll do here, in this unit, with these same people. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But it samples the air from nine small vents that pipe back to the main unit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “We can’t hold these trucks up any longer, so you guys are going to have to chow down at your units,” he said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The unit’s training officer walked angrily over to him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z As long as I was understanding the lesson and moving along with the work, she’d test me at the end of each unit, rather than make me take all the chapter tests in between. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But it isn’t silly, this preoccupation with small time units. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She turned to follow Uncle Frank into their unit. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Some Hitler Youth did not realize the murderous work of the SS or that joining meant possible assignment to the notorious Waffen-SS—Death’s Head Unit—the unit that supplied guards for concentration-camp duty. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I finished the explanation of the Mishnaic text and read the next thought unit, which consisted of another Mishnah found in a different tractate from the one we were now studying. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Brian had become a decorated sergeant detective, supervising a special unit that investigated organized crime. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The team at the Mass General pediatric intensive care unit was waiting. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “They can’t find their unit so I gave them a ride.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Each colony is a family unit, comprising a single, egg-laying female or queen and her many sterile daughters called workers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was equipped with an excellent diaphragm, and the presence of overtones in the sound unit robbed him of much of that metallic flatness that marks the usual robot voice. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “You’re with me. It’s a special unit of sharpshooters. Join your squad.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Why does this property—being the least divisible unit of a larger form—imbue these particular ideas with such potency and force? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I had an identical backup suit hanging in the MoshWash cleaning unit in the corner of the room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But she didn’t know if she could push her luck with the parental unit. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I turn the light off in the unit and press opaque, hiding what’s inside. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Explorer I was launched with a scientific unit that discovered the magnetic radiation belts around the Earth, later known as the Van Allen belts. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z From the emergency room, Sasha was taken to the burn unit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Yes, English. Did you think I was Italian? There were some Italians with one of our units.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z They are a unit of malcontents, a troop of social misfits. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He planned to reorient his unit one step at a time. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the world’s hottest hot sauce without any extracts. It has over one million Scoville units!” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z After all, we were called Marines and were part of amphibious units. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Syllogisms and enthymemes can be understood as units of thought—that is, ways of articulating the relationships between ideas. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The mayor asked the governor to mobilize National Guard units to patrol the streets of Durham, a move that insulted the black community. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We’d stopped at my locker at lunch one day so I could switch out my books, and he waited for me, leaning against the wall of ugly metal units, occasionally peering into my open locker. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z When each of those action units had been mastered, Ekman and Friesen began working action units in combination, layering one movement on top of another. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Early on in his stay, Richard found himself sharing a fifteen-person living unit with the kid who had robbed him at gunpoint, the one he had thought of as a friend. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Another of my white buddies attached to our Signal Corps unit was there with me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The fundamental structural unit, on which the whole design is based, is the arch. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked for a transfer back to his old unit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Most guys in our unit outfit wanted to get into combat,” Horan said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Second, genes had to explain evolution: How could the inheritance of such units explain that organisms have acquired vastly different forms and features over time? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Still think you remember everything we covered in our last unit?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Instead, he told them how he was separated from his unit at the beginning of the retreat, during a Stuka attack. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Hardly a week after black schools reopened, units of the police and the army started raiding classrooms, arresting students. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “One of our units has just been successfully dropped on Japan.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I counted out the days in units of seven. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Then they had stepped down to make room for the next family unit. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z My parents are glued to the media unit, watching the latest announcement. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Our party became another shuffling unit in the shifting mass with every race on earth represented. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew not only the battles, movements, campaigns, but also the units involved, down to the regiments, their colonels, and where they originated. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Late at night on August 13, 1961, East German police and military units flooded the streets of Berlin's Eastern sector. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The answer lies in astronomical units of measure. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Fiona rolls me into a portable unit in the 200 Wing. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z We were scheduled to do the frog unit in April, but the frog company delivered our victims on January 14. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The top level or “roof” of the stacks was blanketed with a patchwork array of old solar panels that provided supplemental power to the units below. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The nurses in the intensive care unit couldn’t believe their eyes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I had to go to the storage unit and get some things. Thought you might wanna do some reading this summer.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z He had bound the might of units, only to find that it was assumed by pluralities. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Once in a while there would be mention of our own killed, but the numbers didn’t seem to even match the numbers I saw in the hospital unit. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing I didn’t like about our science unit was that we had to have partners. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Since the incident with the racist note segued into a unit on tolerance, I’m going to revisit and expand on that theme. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Notify the new Receiver’s family unit that he will be staying with me tonight, for additional training.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He claimed to have had at least one hundred boxes in his storage unit and maintained that what had been brought to him was only one percent of his belongings. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Indeed some units took pride in a sloppy posture. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In English, that meant: To all units: Japanese are booby-trapping personnel equipment, installations, and bivouacs. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A train wreck had killed off two units of four girls each. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Then there were a few rallies around the state to socialize with other Klan units. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He and his command Sergeant Major Harry Harris demanded excellence from every unit, every platoon, and every cadet. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z There were four Maritime Security and Safety Teams, the new Coast Guard tactical units that Homeland Security had formed as part of the War on Terror. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z June chattered on about how she was going to visit her old friends in California for a week this summer and how she loves the gymnastics unit we’re doing in gym class. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Cinder could see her gravestone from the window of the fourth-floor unit he and Miss Fran had lived in together, five doors down from where Cynthia lived with her mom. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z She also had to sort through the unit’s massive backlog of paperwork. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He talks about teamwork and hard work and how we’re going to become a unit—a family. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Today, my Fantasticos, we are going to jump from our social studies unit and talk a little bit about some famous people. People I bet some of you know.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z They pretended to be ignorant of what had happened at the unit meeting. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore the same bright outfits in the preemie ward, the kids’ cancer ward, the children’s burn unit. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z She made him speak in lines that were difficult to sound-bite, discrete units of ideas, notions. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivy read a few in her language arts class a few months ago during a poetry unit. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Subconsciously she has written it with the censor in mind, hoping to convey the idea that the Smith family is really a well-ordered unit: “Please do not judge us all by Perry.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z While the charrette was being formed, C.P. kept his Klan unit up to date with reports at the weekly Klavern meetings. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As a unit, the girls turned to gaze at the forbidding expanse of jungle. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z A few female pilots were transferred into Marina Raskova’s unit against their will. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z A call- up of soldiers had been announced, and units of the army had been mobilized and stationed in strategic areas around the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What made it fundamentally different from the other housing units of Sing Sing was that its inmates did not, as a rule, leave the building; in fact, they barely left their cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The dimensions of the Cosmos are so large that using familiar units of distance, such as meters or miles, chosen for their utility on Earth, would make little sense. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He died in the intensive care unit in the early hours of the morning. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By this time, you have begun to sweat, so you are hooked up through two hoses to an air-conditioning unit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As she had expected, a male officer was named the new head of the unit. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On the rooftops of beachfront hotels to the east, and in the gardens behind them, a half-dozen American artillery units drop incendiary rounds into the mouths of mortars. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I flushed the toilet: It was a steel commode/basin combination, just like the ones in the psych unit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted absolute control and ordered his own personal bodyguard unit, the SS, to arrest and execute them without a trial. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Thanks to the tolerance education unit, we’ve seen pictures of swastikas on flags, on walls, on hats, on cars, on banners, on armbands, and on book covers. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Someone who she hoped had been adequately and fairly punished, and who had been restored to his place: to his job, his home, his family unit. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Bitter and Aloe had decided as a unit of two—they could sit with their decision then, just the two of them alone. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z They could only afford a cramped two-bedroom unit with faded linoleum, brown shag carpet, and a cracked kitchen sink. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z When we got to the apparatus unit in the middle of November, Coach found out Joseph could do stuff better than any of the other eighth graders. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z The Nexus-6 unit which operated it blew into pieces, a raging, mad wind which carried throughout the car. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “I could still use your help with the poetry unit next week,” she told me. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Your exercise will take place on the triangular yard outside the unit—thirty yards by twenty yards by twenty yards, with a mural of wildlife hung above the basketball backstop. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Look at this yeye woman oh! I said we are from the special security unit!” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The Ekumen could not appeal to these people as a social unit, a mobilizable entity: rather it must speak to their strong though undeveloped sense of humanity, of human unity. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The Union cavalry unit galloping up the road is not there by accident. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z One year after he joined, Karl began to skip the mandatory meetings, a decision that angered his unit leader. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The sluggers turned as a unit to look toward the source of the noise, but Jesse hadn’t noticed and was still talking about memory, this time in rhyming couplets. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Hence the area of the political unit varied not only with an island’s area but also with its fragmentation and isolation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Fear is A.U. one, two, and four, or, more fully, one, two, four, five, and twenty, with or without action units twenty-five, twenty-six, or twenty-seven. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “It’s a grub and it’s packed with protein. My daddy said his unit had to survive on these for a whole month once. Who’s going first?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z We all did a Holocaust unit in fifth grade at Chokecherry Elementary. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z They were one of the first units to investigate one of the hospitals. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The inshore waters —the bays, the sounds, the river estuaries, the tidal marshes — form an ecological unit of the utmost importance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Marine Corps, air force, army, and navy units at various military bases around the country stood by to enact the commands of Red and Blue Team brass. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Wayne’s units entered what is now northwestern Ohio and established a base they called Fort Defiance in the heart of an Indigenous alliance that included Delawares, Shawnees, Miamis, and Wyandots. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He calls, “You are with which unit, Sergeant Major?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When he was separated from his unit and, what was worse for an infantryman, from his rifle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was “we,” the graduating class, the unit, that concerned me then. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z From this, linguists conclude that ten was the basic unit in the Germanic protolanguages that English came from, and thus those people used a base-10 number system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Now her legs were pinned under a gray-and-black steel air-conditioning unit that had fallen through the ceiling. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z We visited an army unit at the front, and at one point I took a pair of field glasses and could actually see French troops across the border. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, they had to figure out how to decompose a continuous utterance into speech units, regardless of whether those units were taken as words, syllables, or phonemes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “There were not any decent Experts until the removal of the Epsilon an entire unit ago. Let us hope these have impeccable knowledge and compliance.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Younger kids charged with serious crimes go into unit 4, one of two maximum-security units. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Somehow, Luma would have to find a way to get all these kids to play as a unit. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z But that's because Uncle Tony took off work—something that never happened—so that he could fill in for Momly and take Ma to the hospital dialysis unit to get her blood cleaned. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “British landing craft are engaged in combat with German naval units,” according to the BBC. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It was the job of parental units to protect their children from harm. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I’m not going to pass you for the unit if you don’t try,” he said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Each message her unit cracked was another window into the spies’ world. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Nearly a year later, French soldiers and their Indian allies ambushed a large British unit led by General Edward Braddock north of Great Meadows. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z All morning—from his strip-frisk outside the protective-custody unit to his handcuffing—he had been the soul of civility, and at the hearing he was no different. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The jail contains six cells; the sixth, the one reserved for female prisoners, is actually an isolated unit situated inside the Sheriff’s Residence—indeed, it adjoins the Meiers’ kitchen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In acknowledgment of the University of California’s tolerant hospitality toward a laboratory that was now devoted almost entirely to government work, Lawrence dubbed the new unit the calutron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Two plesiosaur artillery units had peeled off after her; she could see the glow of their lanterns shivering in the ocean breeze and hear their riders yelling back and forth. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Another of his units he lost to conversion when a small-town preacher suddenly caught fire and began igniting the townsfolk with his sermons. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s why no one ever wants the center unit. Workmen coming and going whenever and no second bath. But the rent’s considerably cheaper.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z As I climbed down, I paused next to the Airstream trailer three units below ours, where my friend Mrs. Gilmore lived. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Condemned prisoners on Alabama's death row unit are housed in windowless concrete buildings that are notoriously hot and uncomfortable. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Starting the second week of class, on Thursday afternoons, the teenage kids caught a bus to the school district main offices for Quang-ha's appointment in Dell Duke's windowless mobile unit. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “This is your study packet for this unit. Take a look at page one with me.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z “That was probably back when we only had one unit. Remember that, Elle?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The boy froze, torn between his duty to follow orders and his loyalty to Hans and his unit. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z You have to head for the front and hook up with an infantry unit and help spill the blood. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Jackson reaches for the unit, but I clutch it to my chest. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Eventually, though, I was assigned to a unit moving inland. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The head of the Information Services unit had asked him to replace a hard drive. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The rooms had all been converted into one-room efficiency apartments, and each unit had been modified to meet the very specific needs of a full-time gunter. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Today we are beginning our new unit on the pioneers of the American West.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But we were better off bored on shore than stuck on board like the other Marine units. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A month later the vase was left for safety in a farmhouse, and Lieutenant Tallis waded across a river in spate to retrieve it, returning the same way at midnight to join his unit. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She believed the “talents of the unit could have been better used on more important projects.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Included among their ranks were all-black units such as the Harlem Hellfighters and the Eighth Illinois National Guard that fought with extraordinary courage and great distinction. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Richard found it was easier to concentrate there than it had been at school, even with the chaos of the living unit occasionally erupting outside the classroom door. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z For Morgan, the principal mystery of organismal biology was not the gene but genesis: How did “units of heredity” enable the formation of animals and maintain the functions of organs and organisms? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z For small isolated islands without strong barriers to internal communication, the entire island constituted the political unit—as in the case of Anuta, with its 160 people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z An SS unit appeared and encircled us: one SS every three paces. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Between 1900 and 1910, as evidence for Mendel’s “units of heredity” mounted, biologists were confronted by the impact of the new theory. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z |
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