| 单词 | West |
| 例句 | To leave West Virginia, even to leave Welch, would have been unthinkably disloyal, like deserting your family. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘He is often called that here. But I thought you knew enough Elvish at least to know dún-adan: Man of the West, Númenorean. But this is not the time for lessons!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But whereas every maneuver executed by the 332nd in their red-tailed Mustangs fed the headlines, the daily work of the West Computers and the rest of the laboratory employees was sensitive, confidential, or secret. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The FBI begins to round up members of the Japanese American communities on the West Coast. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Ha ha. This is the best you got, Bull? This muscle-bound abortion got me to Ravenel from the West Coast?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was spending money to put garbage cans around Key West? Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “Choose de battieship if dat’s whut you really want. Ah know where one is right now. Seen one round Key West de other day.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z In fact, a Sonny and Malik fight is one of the few things guaranteed in life, right up there with death, taxes, and Kanye West rants. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It was Sunday and an unusually warm evening for October eighth, so Daniel “Peg Leg” Sullivan left his stifling little house in the West Side of Chicago and went to visit neighbors. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Let’s take a simple playground rhyme as our material to teach West African musical and cultural values. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I pictured New York like West Side Story plus In the Heights plus Avenue Q—but really, it’s just construction and traffic and iPhones and humidity. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z There was a formal debate on the always contentious proposition that “the East is a better place to live than the West.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z West Virginia gave an annual college scholarship to the student who killed the most animals; other states freely distributed bounties and other cash rewards. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains, men-carrying, were plunging home through the rain from New York. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He has not checked his mail in over a week, and among two flyers and a paycheck and a single utility bill is a small package from a veterans’ service organization located in West Berlin. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was nearly twenty till eight, but the coachman assured us that he could get us to the Wild West Show only a few minutes late of the eight o’clock showing. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Southeast, and the Arawak languages of the West Indies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Singer said, “I’m going to cook you and eat you on Halloween, Ryan Dean West.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The bones were from digs he had done throughout the American West. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z We’ll sail south to the Canaries, then west to the West Indies, and then north to Virginia. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Last month, Iran abandoned preconditions for resuming international negotiations over its nuclear programs that the West had considered unacceptable. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When we enrolled in West Virginia, she’d vouch for our scholastic achievement, and once our new teachers heard us read, they’d realize we were all gifted. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z For the rest of their lives, the former West Computers reminisced with one another and with the East Computers and the engineers they worked with. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z These schools were called the East End and the West End. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I’d reached 67 by the time Daddy dropped me off at the front entrance to West Side Junior High. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone was too busy trying to make Key West shine like a new penny. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “It says here that this General Buckner and Grant was comrades at West Point,” he remarked, without lifting his eyes from the paper. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The money would be left to a friend who didn’t have much, a friend who was an orphan and had lost her college scholarship: Julietta West Williams. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Tea,” which had to be transported from Asia, and “sugar brought from the West Indies ... compose a drink cheaper than beer.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Key West was so broke that they let the inmates go home for supper because it was cheaper. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z One recommended improvements to the public health office, while another suggested that the fever had been imported from the West Indies by French immigrants. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The room is small, one of the lesser conference rooms in the West Wing. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z First Ladies had no place in the West Wing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “I guess everybody from the Upper West Side is here,” Alex said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The Gold lights of Chattana’s West Side twinkled across the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I couldn’t imagine living anywhere but Key West! Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ryans moved her to a little studio apartment they owned, a quiet walk-up just off West End Avenue. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The march wound its way from the West Side back into Central. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As for the West Computers’ erstwhile leader, Dorothy Vaughan found herself in a new seat in another brand-new building. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z At least that part of West Side Story was correct. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z At the same time, people began to move out of the old row houses in East and West Baltimore, as those began to deteriorate as well. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Camp 14 had cut Shin out of this propaganda loop, and he listened to the West’s counterpropaganda with the ears of a child— curious, confused, sometimes even bored, but always lacking in context. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He pushed his way through a crowd in the foyer, tore out of the Homestead and toward the West Door, sprinting. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Eastern horses rarely came to the West in those days, but the size of the purse had brought Rosemont over the Rockies. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1960, 500 people left East Germany every single day; that year, more than 180,000 people made the trek from East to West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was pointing to the West, and he seemed to shout the same thing over and over. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Coach West sets her elbows on the table and leans forward like she actually cares. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z After having adventures in the Wild West, he got back into the family business. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He also required integrity and sound credit: it wasn’t necessary that you pay as you played; you could pay West Indian Archie by the week. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Note that the rhyme itself is not from West Africa, but it is the process of aural transmission itself that is one of the main goals of the lesson. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z ‘Fear not! Not West but East does our doom await us.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Is it your plan, then, Sonny my boy, to disgrace the entire state of West Virginia with your confounded ignorance?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z On Zenilman’s map the neighborhoods of East and West Baltimore, on either side of the downtown core, tend to be thick with black stars. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nok kept her head down as she passed the men and women strolling along the quiet West Side canals. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z A whistle blows, and then Coach West breaks us apart. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Life on the frontier was difficult for both women and men, and communities in the West attempted to lure women there with the promise of political equality. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z East End and West End, black and white would begin only when the alarm clocks rang. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Eventually,” warns Tom Hombein, thirty-three years after his ascent of the West Ridge, “what happened on Everest this season is certain to happen again.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Coach West lets the question stretch out in the air between us. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “Well, that doesn’t surprise me at all. West Side Story's a classic.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I could help them get to Arizona, or maybe West Texas, and after a while maybe the patrols won't bother searching for them anymore. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z It poignantly brought home to me the Indians’ perspective on what I, like other white schoolchildren, had been taught to view as the heroic conquest of the American West. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was his first year at West Side, and he was young, almost as young as my older brother. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Little Clara was the baby of a couple vacationing in Key West. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z A strain of simian aids virus was recently isolated from a chimpanzee in Gabon, in West Africa, which is, so far, the closest thing to hiv-i that anyone has yet found in the animal kingdom. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By one account, the amount of oil money had surpassed the total value of all the Old West gold rushes combined, and this fortune had drawn every breed of miscreant from across the country. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Don’t ask me how, but I could tell we were at 40.19° North, 71.90° West, making eighteen knots, which meant the ship would arrive in New York Harbor by dawn. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He’d been in West Virginia long enough for our terrible stolidity to rub off on him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He reminded me of a beachcomber from Key West. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z On one such occasion, two years after Mary joined West Computing, Dorothy Vaughan sent Mary to the East Side, staffing her on a project alongside several white computers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Neville either ignored her or couldn’t hear her over the old funk song he was happily singing along to as they cruised down the West Side Highway. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z He told me about life in Texas and I told him more about West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z So I have to find my way through the exploding production lines of the Middle West while sitting alone beside a lake in northern Michigan. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The game plan was for Adah to ride over on the boat to Spain with the Land Rover, and drive to West Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He loves the American Wild West, its cowboys, the gunfights, the fistfights. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z We would attend the afternoon show, usually featuring films about the Wild West and gladiators. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We both head to the water fountain, and I’m wondering if putting deodorant on sweaty pits will keep me from being funky later, when Coach West walks over. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z If West Virginia agreed to vote for one or the other of the men, food was apparently going to come into the state in dump-truck loads. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Moscow officials reminded their West Coast agents that they’d been sent a list of scientists to cultivate. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach West sounds super serious, and I hope she’s not mad at me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Whatever happened on the bridge tonight, the people on the West Side didn't want to see it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Al Ulbrickson and George Pocock scrambled down from their balcony and began to shove their way through the crowds on the lawn in front of Haus West, desperately trying to get to their boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was no accident, but rather the result of long ages of experimentation by nature, that the great plains of the West became the land of the sage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The advisory committee transmitted its unanimous endorsement of the 184-inch machine to the foundation before leaving the West Coast. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They’d been missing for three and a half hours, and the entire West Coast air corps had been hunting for them. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z And Billy took a very short trip through time, made a peewee jump of only ten days, so he was still twelve, still touring the West with his family. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The story must have been reported in the Florida papers, but in Key West I was "too busy" to read one and didn't hear about the situation until after I arrived. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z When I was a college student, I had a job working as a musician in a black church in a poor section of West Philadelphia. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Kids ran barefoot all over Key West, and we didn’t care one bit that we didn’t have shoes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z About an hour after midnight the fear fell on them a third time, but it now seemed more remote, as if it were passing far above the clouds, rushing with terrible speed into the West. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Finally, around 1778, he was allowed to sail to the West Indies. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He had moved to West Texas in 1949 from California when the Snyder boom was on and had settled two years later in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In Paris and Western Europe, the story was “essentially a one-day sensation,” with the West German press handling it “as if it were in the Chicago gangster tradition.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he wasn’t yet forty, he was in danger of becoming a relic in a Wild West traveling show, living but dead. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Harry had caught Ron prodding Dean’s poster of West Ham soccer team, trying to make the players move. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z What I remember for sure is what I felt: rage and the old gravity of West Baltimore, the gravity that condemned me to the schools, the streets, the void. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “You mean hitchin’ a ride to Key West on that billionaire’s yacht?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Maine speech is very like that in West Country England, the double vowels pronounced as they are in Anglo- Saxon, but the resemblance is doubly strong on Deer Isle. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The revolts in the West Indies and disquieting incidents closer to home worried the local planters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z What the hell did people really mean when they said the West Side was on the decline? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And the one big thing he knew was that America’s future as a nation lay to the West, in its development over the next century of a continental empire. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He recalled the grave lines of the jockey’s profile from the days when they had crossed paths somewhere out West. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Minho headed straight for the Map Room as they came through the West Door. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Indeed, Amazonians typically do not make the distinction between “cultivated” and “wild” landscapes common in the West; instead they simply classify landscapes into scores of varieties, depending on the types of species in each. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Growing excitement lured my thoughts again and again to the West Ridge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “West Virginia,” Tex said as if that explained everything, and I guess it did. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Lord of easterly Rock, Warden of the West, Shield of Lannis- port, Hand of the King, husband, brother, father, father, father. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tywin Lannister, Lord of easterly Rock and Warden of the West, was in his middle fifties, yet hard as a man of twenty. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He had prized it from the fingers of a captain in the West Kents lying in a ditch outside—outside where? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The train now sat motionless, caught between the Embarcadero station and West Oakland, where both of them were bound. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z With a flurry of warnings and arm movements, Kathy herded the girls and their gear into the minivan and headed across the Mississippi to the West Bank. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z My uncle was right in one respect: in a typical household in the Kenema District of southeastern Sierra Leone, West Africa, my birth would not have been cause for celebration. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary Gearhart, a small, pleasant woman, worked at a number of restaurants before finding a job in a German hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Hitler knew it would be much easier for the West to mobilize against a nation of barbarians than a civilized nation. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was a propitious time for zero to arrive in the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price,” Lee said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z One man, George W. Gage, purchased the Gault House, the only large hotel left on the West Side, and began to furnish it. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “Good day,” Ash replied, and then, because it did not seem polite to watch her walking away, Ash turned down the path toward West Riding. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It says Congratulations in big curly letters, and at the very top is the address of Studio TV-15 on West 58th Street. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Halfway to the rural cemetery, I think of something, turn around, and run the mile to West Conesville. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But no one who wasn’t ready to die messed with West Indian Archie. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Soviet Communists saw the West as their prime adversary in the battle to win the hearts and minds of oppressed people everywhere; America viewed Stalin's government as an enemy of democracy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A lot of people in the state resented the fact that television reporters were flooding in and sending back reports about how ignorant, poor, and helpless everybody was in West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But as long as “West Computer” was still the unspoken code for “Colored Computer,” the decision to draw the curtain on Dorothy’s group would require more nuanced consideration. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There was a faint twang in his voice, a hint of a patois that might have been West Indian. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z In addition, just as Eurasia’s east-west axis permitted many of these Chinese animals and crops to spread westward in ancient times, West Asian domesticates also spread eastward to China and became important there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t have taken him more than an hour to return to the Wild West Show. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Chernenko, who had served in that position for a mere thirteen months, was virtually unknown in the West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Though groups like ACD and Reentry Physics still employed several of the former West Computers, Katherine and others found themselves the only black employees in their branch. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Turning towards it, he saw, beyond an arch of boughs, the road to Osgiliath running almost as straight as a stretched ribbon down, down, into the West. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Derring, along with the lab’s health officer, James Tingle, and Rufus House, assistant to Langley director Henry Reid, hustled over to the building, where several West Computers were anxiously waiting in the lobby. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The West End and Sunset each ran three movies and a number of shorts. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “I’m up at West Oakland High. We just met on the train last weekend.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z My acquaintance begins his new job in the West Country in two weeks' time.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Kind of stuff they do in the West Side Story movie. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Ryan Dean West was actually holding hands with a girl who wasn’t his mom. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Living in West Los Angeles means there aren’t a whole lot of people who look like me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Pay equalization might have been a battle in Virginia, but West Virginia got on board without a fight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z West Indian Archie cuts an imposing figure under normal circumstances—when he’s mad like this, he seems enormous. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z News of Fannie’s leadership in the garment workers’ union reached coal miners in Colliers, West Virginia, and she was asked to visit. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Here in Key West, we had it better than most. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Guillaume joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany and eventually became a trusted aide to Willy Brandt—who was first the mayor of West Berlin and then rose to become chancellor of West Germany. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She drove all night and reached the Upper West Side as the sun was rising. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The East and West Bedrooms on the second floor are generally reserved for the First Family. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I don’t know many people from the West,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Goooood morning, West Oakland High, and welcome to the start of a brand-new year,” he said, and with that, Moss tuned out. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Both schools could now count on tens of thousands of students, alumni, and excited citizens to turn out for their annual dual regattas in April, when they battled for preeminence in West Coast rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Most of the 176 other subfamilies are crammed into West Africa, a small fraction of the entire Niger-Congo range. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The crowd diverged at the bottom of the stairs, most heading to the World’s Fair, some going in the direction of the Wild West Show. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Custer is the youngest and most aggressive, a blond-haired dynamo—he had roomed with the Confederate Thomas Rosser at West Point. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Long after I had left the Wild West Show behind me, I could still feel the vibrations of those explosions, a thrum as steady as a second heartbeat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Before they could accept zero, philosophers in the West would have to destroy their universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Sure,” they said, “Grant looked pretty good in the West, but remember that out West he hadn’t met up with Bobby E. Lee.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Far West it was even worse. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Hell,” another miner shouted out, “West Virginians could mine anything!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Normal was different for Moss and everyone else who attended West Oakland High. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z From the moment I telephoned news of the catastrophe to West Egg village, every surmise about him, and every practical question, was referred to me. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “My name is Shawna Meyers,” she said, “and I also go to West Oakland High. I wasn’t there when Reg got hurt, but I was also a victim of my school’s policies.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A dark, businessman- looking West Indian often would sit at one of my tables. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When the downtown train reached West Fourth Street station, Clayton was the first to push his way through the doors. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z It was already nearly as hot as it had been the day before; but clouds were beginning to come up from the West. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I sat cross-legged in West Berlin and drank. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “West until the sun comes up. Then north.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Soon apartments originally designed for one family were being cut up into two- and three-family dwellings, and blacks, who had been confined previously to the West Forties, were allowed to move in. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The men of the West were trapped, and soon, all about the grey mounds where they stood, forces ten times and more than ten times their match would ring them in a sea of enemies. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Igbo Massachusetts Accountant’s rejoinder: “You have been brainwashed by the West. You should be ashamed to call yourself a Nigerian.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Even Central Park wasn’t as dangerous as people in West Virginia thought. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The United States was siding with West Pakistan, the Soviet Union with India and what was soon to be Bangladesh. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Only in the West. But still the ratio can’t widen in their favor.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you guys know that this weekend West is coming to my house for two days?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I think I shall trade, also,” said he, putting his thumbs in his waist-coat pockets, “to the West Indies, for sugar, tobacco, and rum. Also to Ceylon, especially for elephants’ tusks.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The three of us, leaving our differences behind, stepping on the plane together, sitting side by side, lifting off, moving West to reach the East. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I lived in West Helena an undeterminedly long time before I returned to school and took up regular study. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Professor Maurice Brooks of the University of West Virginia, an authority on the birds of the Appalachian region, reported that the West Virginia bird population had undergone “an incredible reduction.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, she returned several times to Europe, toured South America and the West Indies, and was one of the first Western artists to appear in Japan after the war. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “I have never before seen this part of the West Bank. I always wanted to see it.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It was so fun to imagine the possibilities—West Coast or East Coast? Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z In that land, there was no snowfall nor much winter nor any storm of rain; but from Ocean the West Wind sang soft and thrillingly to refresh the souls of men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “He made it look like we were a bunch of West Texas hicks, fanatics,” said Allen of Perot. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Now this tea shop was the only building in all that town which had an upper floor, except the Western Pagoda, which stood five stories high outside the West Gate. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z An enormous convoy of ships would be dispatched to the West. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z What would happen if I actually made it to the West? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z And that afternoon when I got on Bus 6 West, I felt nothing but relief. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z With some spare change from Ares’s backpack, we took the bus into West Hollywood. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z While Seabiscuit had spent the summer pillaging the West, War Admiral had been plundering the East with four triumphs in succession. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Problem was, most of my pals lived deep in the lanes, and the fire alarms were on the main streets of Key West. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z In the West End, even high-schoolers were known to crumble under the glare. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He never imagined a reality where these two groups of people would ever meet, but here they were, all to support Shawna and Reg and the kids at West Oakland High. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Jule West Williams spent December 24 on a nineteen-hour bus ride and fell asleep early Christmas morning in a Portland, Oregon, airport hotel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Just as he made it to the corner of West Oriole and the highway, the streetlights flickered on. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess it’s fair to say there were two distinct phases to my life in West Virginia: everything that happened before October 5, 1957 and everything that happened afterward. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z With East Area Computing gone, West Area Computing was boxed in on two fronts. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z One of them had been charged a year before with two counts of first-degree murder for separate shootings in West Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It was when I asked you--do you remember?--if you knew Gatsby in West Egg. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z When he returned from West Virginia she ambushed him in the kitchen, and after she gave him a tongue lashing a second time around I knew he’d be seeing me next. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Two of the most publicized demolitions — Lexington Terrace in West Baltimore and Lafayette Courts in East Baltimore — were huge projects, housing hundreds of families, that served as centers for crime and infectious disease. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We hadn't reached West Egg village before Gatsby began leaving his elegant sentences unfinished and slapping himself indecisively on the knee of his caramel-colored suit. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “My parents have a house there,” Hina explained, “and they’re waiting for us. The West Coast government isn’t going to turn us back over to the camps.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z That was the West Virginia way, and they were better at it than I was. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z America's leaders celebrated the Berlin Tunnel as one of the CIA's clearest victories in the Cold War—and evidence of the West's superior technological capabilities and spycraft. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The train came to a smooth stop at the West Oakland station. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Scalp hunters would sometimes take children and women captive to sell into slavery in the West Indies or elsewhere. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I told him good night and went through the hot street to Central Park West, starting toward Harlem. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Benedict Arnold points to John André’s boots, where André will hide the West Point plans that Arnold is going to give him. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind them, Nok saw the shutters of the West Side windows swinging closed, one after another, shutting off all that pretty Gold light. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Clayton walked the short walk to the West Fourth Street station and trotted down to the turnstiles. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Blanche’s absence left West Computing with an empty desk, but not a vacuum. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Though the West was afraid of the void, the East welcomed it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Arnold Jones had apparently forgotten one of the cardinal rules of survival in the West End: Never let yourself be near Finsterwald’s and high school kids at the same time. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Katherine Goble had fallen in love with her job at Langley virtually the moment she walked through the door of West Computing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “West is where the spirits of the dead walk. If the whites keep chasing us west, we’ll end up in the land of the spirits.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Along all the roads troops were moving; for the Captains of the West were advancing and the Dark Lord was speeding his forces north. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And, by the way, what did he mean with that “young Mr. West” comment? Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We were shoeless, like every other kid in Key West, and didn’t care. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The waxing moon sank into the cloudy West. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There was a company-store system in most of the towns in southern West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z West Egg especially still figures in my more fantastic dreams. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I knew that West Baltimore, where I lived; that the north side of Philadelphia, where my cousins lived; that the South Side of Chicago, where friends of my father lived, comprised a world apart. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Winter came to West Virginia late that year. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Let’s explore ways to utilize familiar pedagogies to approximate the core cultural values associated with music in West African culture. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z She was renowned for being the first in Europe to coax the West Indian pineapple to flower and grow fruit. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Alexander’s empire had collapsed into bickering states, and a new power was flexing its muscles in the West: Rome. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I myself tried to be mindful of that wall, learning from other First Ladies’ experience, taking care not to directly or overtly insert myself into West Wing business. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Her father sighed and looked behind him at the orderly teak buildings of the West Side. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Chuck did the same, and they headed for the West Door, the one leading to the Cliff. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Judging from his comments to his associates, his remarks about Chicago’s infernal July weather, and his general aversion to racing in “the West,” Riddle was almost certainly not considering the Arlington offer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He became a kind of prosecutor and bill collector for the Dutch West India Company, which owned and operated the colony as a private fiefdom. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She found it easier to sell printed material in the West than in the East because, she reported, “reading matter is so very scarce that everybody clutches at a book of any kind.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Not like this, in a West Wing briefing room, his dirty emails spread out between them on the table. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Just to the West of the southernmost slope there was a great ring, where the turf had been torn and beaten by many trampling feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The West Wind carried them into the sky above Split. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z For a month, unheard-of temperatures had been searing the West and Midwest. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z ‘They are sailing, sailing, sailing over the Sea, they are going into the West and leaving us,’ said Sam, half chanting the words, shaking his head sadly and solemnly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “My PE teacher is Black. She’s my track coach too. Coach West is really nice and totally beautiful.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z I bulldozed blindly through West Virginia, plunged into Pennsylvania and grooved Rocinante to the great wide turnpike. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Katherine could have been classified as a permanent member of West Computing, like the rest of the women who reported to Dorothy, available to rotate through other groups on temporary assignments. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The men's names were Miles and Cecil, and they knew all the words to “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Dancing Queen,” and every song from West Side Story. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He turned for the long, slow drive down the West Side Highway. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z They were at the highest point of Manhattan, not far from the river, in a little corner tucked away behind the West Side Highway. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “Well, not in general, but yeah. No one who goes to that market is going to care about metal detectors in West Oakland.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z After the weather got violent and the islands were battered, the West Indian population here had swollen. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She had grown up in West Texas, and it was obvious to her that high school football could galvanize a community and help keep it together. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A train with a more lighthearted cargo also headed for Chicago, this one leased by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West show. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Growing up, she’d worked at a grocery store in West Baltimore owned by an older black couple, Herb and Puddin Johnson. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The sorority had been a constant in her life since her days as a fifteen-year-old freshman at West Virginia State; she had spent more weekends than she could remember attending sorority activities or meetings. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z While the Methodists cast around for someone willing to come and serve in the wilds of West Virginia, the Coalwood Community Church, for the first time anyone could remember, was padlocked. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Good people of Key West,” Mr. Stone shouted. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The first samples were taken from forest areas in the West where there had been mass spraying of DDT for the control of the spruce budworm. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Let’s go. We're on our way to beat the hell out of West Charleston.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the porch ceilings in Key West were this color. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Nok's father's mouth distorted into a frown and he looked over his shoulder at the West Side with contempt. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Dad came bounding up the stairs two at a time, as excited as any time I had ever seen him, with the possible exception of when the West Virginia coaches came to see Jim. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z All of this is to say that I saw ways to connect with Americans that Barack and his West Wing advisers didn’t fully recognize, at least initially. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Logically, there has to be a point when this is physically impossible, but Coach West doesn’t seem to think so. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z I had to slow way down for a stop sign because the drivers in West Africa were turning out to be as bad as the ones in Brazzaville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The other was in the West, where Albinus was, who also aspired to imperial power. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Big Time Henson stood on the stoop in front of 171 West 145th Street and thought about what he had to do. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Physically, Dorothy and the West Computing office had never been closer to the high-speed future. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z From its heights, West Point looked down on smaller forts on both sides of the river. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s just that I have a connection of sorts to one of the people who runs West Oakland High,” she said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The West front did not sound so good. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z As we leave the bathroom, we run right into Coach West. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The lights of the monster shone brightly, casting an eerie yellow glow across the stone of the open West Door, where the Griever exited into the depths of the Maze. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z They fell in love, and before she headed off to West Virginia, they got married, telling no one. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z One day thirty ships arrived, thirteen of them from the West Indies, but no one was available to stop them from docking or discharging passengers. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z One of the few advantages West Coast crews were supposed to have over East Coast crews was that the easterners could not train out of doors during the winter when their home rivers were frozen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When Christianity swept through the West, it became closely tied to the Aristotelian view of the universe and the proof of God’s existence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z "How do you get to West Egg village?" he asked helplessly. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “We were just discussing what kind of defense West Charleston might throw up against us.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His winter victories said little of his quality, as they had been achieved on the suspect terrain of the West. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z China also transmitted West Asian wheat and barley to Korea and Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We’re not, supposedly, big on torture in the civilized West—though whether we can say that with a straight face is an argument for another day. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Just before seven o’clock, he went back to the West Division. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He had decided to enroll at Marshall College in Huntington, West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z During the day they used umbrellas to shield themselves from the West Texas sun. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe we didn’t need a miracle to save Key West. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1960, Langley had only just completed Building 1268, a West Side facility housing one of the most advanced computer complexes on the East Coast. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Coach West doesn’t make me take it off. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z He jogged past his regular bus stop and kept going, all the way to the one on West Oriole, Beatrice Leep’s street. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it faded into the West, and dusk came early, followed by a grey and starless night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I’m not surprised Coach West would know my costume is for one of the Black Panther activists. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z After two full years at West Oakland High, he’d stopped noticing how the lunch tables in the quad were splintered and falling apart. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Think of it. Dr. Rush has seen two or three epidemics in his life. The French doctors came from the West Indies, where they treat yellow fever every year. Surely their experience is more valuable.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were swimming and eating below the two falcons on the West Branch of the Delaware. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In the beginning, on a dog-day Monday in the middle of August when the West Texas heat congealed in the sky, there were only the stirrings of dreams. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of this, the West could not accept zero for nearly two millennia. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They were as numerous here in the East End as they had been in the West. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He'd told me all about human traffickers who offered to deliver people to the safety of the West—for a price. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z That pragmatic majority, the West Computers knew, were the ones who had the power to break down the barriers that existed at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z At five o’clock, when the offices closed, I walked a few more blocks to the gas company, which was on West Main Street. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “Or you can go on to the West Indies with us.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z What if the Nazis ban the Karl May westerns, what if they call them un-German because they are set in the American Wild West? The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z This might mean working with broad categories of Chinese, Indian or West African music, or narrow sub-cultures such as hip-hop music, Motown sound from the 1960s, or even the sound of an individual singer. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Sherman said his parents had come up with some money for him to go to West Virginia Tech, and he was going to work for the rest of it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z "You live in West Egg," she remarked contemptuously. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z A strong place and wonderful was Isengard, and long it had been beautiful; and there great lords had dwelt, the wardens of Gondor upon the West, and wise men that watched the stars. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The West Side of Chattana was also lit up bright as a sunrise, but with a difference. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Music pedagogy of West Africa compared to the U.S. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Usually it was the Southerners and the West Indians who not only managed to own the places where they lived, but also at least one other house which they rented as income property. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The prospect of flying West again, and for a whole week, was very inviting. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z From there, they could eventually reach the West Coast on a route that followed the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers, crossed the Rocky Mountains, and met the Columbia River road. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Stanton and Anthony stood fast as the battleground for suffrage shifted to the West. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Moss was on his bike and flying back to West Oakland a few minutes later. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z That was just about the truth for a lot of West Virginia miners. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He glanced constantly at the West Door, looking for any sign of Alby and Minho, Newt’s concern having rubbed off on him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It was a glossy light blue, about six inches wide, and painted on it was a big red cardinal, the West Virginia bird. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I asked her how she knew that I lived on the Upper West Side. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z When that pool’s numbers grew too small to warrant maintaining a section, the laboratory simply distributed the stragglers into other sections and passed their outstanding assignments along to West Computing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Do you not understand how our audacity will be perceived? Do you not understand, even now, what we have already accomplished, us coal miners’ kids down in deepest West by God Virginia? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Since those are the oldest West African crops, all modern southern Nigerian languages inherited the same original set of words for them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Cejas’s dream is to find her mother, in a place called Virginia of the West. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z After graduating from high school, de la O hung out on the street with the West Side Party Boys. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “We believe the safety of students at West Oakland High is of the utmost importance. Therefore, we wanted to let all of our students know that Officer Hull has been let go.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z There aren’t as many houses as before, and finally, I see West Chicago. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The section had outgrown its original room in the Warehouse Building, and in 1945, the group moved into “two spacious offices” on the first floor of the West Side’s newly built Aircraft Loads Division Building. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z People call from the West Coast, from Texas, from Michigan and D.C. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The West Computers watched their colleague remove the sign and banish it to the recesses of her purse, her small act of defiance inspiring both anxiety and a sense of empowerment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Maybe there just haven’t been a lot of people who have applied to those schools that come from West Oakland,” she said gingerly. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Apparently, they weren’t in on the doctor’s-appointment-early-return-day for Ryan Dean West, and I’m going to get a little sidetracked here, but I was always totally convinced that Mr. Farrow was completely gay. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z His target was the West German chancellor himself, Konrad Adenauer. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He plucked a beggar’s lice—endemic in West Virginia—off his pants leg and inspected the tiny fuzzy seed that hitched rides on anything or anybody who walked through the woods. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then he walked off into sparsely settled West Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A long-simmering labor dispute between nearly thirty-five thousand members of the International Longshoremen’s Association and steamship companies had flared up in port cities up and down the West Coast. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He pointed away over the land of Rohan into the darkling West under the sickle moon. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The soft and beautiful West Indian accent and way of speaking weren’t always dear. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The countries in the West, particularly the United Kingdom and the United States, wanted to reward Mr. de Klerk for his reforms, believing that this would encourage him to go further. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The more viable option was transportation to the unsettled lands of the American West, along the lines of the Indian removal program adopted over forty years later. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z So I caught a bus over to the West Side to first pick up my snacks, then meet Spoony at UPS, just a few blocks from home, so he could spot me a twenty. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He would be dropped off downriver from West Point. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z All the wealthy West Side women kept secret candles to burn for good luck, even though it was against the law. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Pyongyang was particularly enraged by South Korean and American initiatives that made it easier for North Korean defectors who had crossed into China to travel even farther, and settle in the West. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z As I turned the rental car onto Morrie’s street in West Newton, a quiet suburb of Boston, I had a cup of coffee in one hand and a cellular phone between my ear and shoulder. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There were probably many more Outsiders scattered about in the West of the World in those days than the people of the Shire imagined. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The Light Market was stocked with every color except Gold, which was sold only on the West Side. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I didn’t know how sad he really was, because now he could buy her house and move it to West Virginia. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Gullah was a language of English mixed with different West African languages. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Not that the West Computers were hatching plans to invade a neighboring table; they just wanted dominion over their table in the back corner. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Arthur gathers up his shopping bag from the Strand, where he bought magnets, postcards, and a Strand shirt, and now we’re riding the train uptown to his place on the Upper West Side. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “General Pickett’s record at West Point is still the talk of the army.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The last time I went two weeks without talking to Ellen was when her parents rented an RV and took her up along the West Coast. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The next day in the West Indian store I heard two teenagers saying that the kid had died. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When I left his office the sky had turned dark and I got back to West Egg in a drizzle. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The trajectories of so many people had influenced hers along the way: Dorothy Vaughan and the women of West Computing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Obiora looked up at him and intoned, “From darkest Africa now come missionaries who will reconvert the West.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Was I finally a good West Virginian, all stoic and stolid, filled everlastingly to my chin with guilt but not capable of showing it? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I keep thinking what an experience it would be to stay in it—go West and watch the building of the country, see how much of the Old West mythology is true.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z 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 In the mid-1990s, he points out, the city of Baltimore embarked on a highly publicized policy of dynamiting the old i96os-style public housing high-rises in East and West Baltimore. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve never been outside of West Virginia. Isn’t that sad? How about you?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I could only hope the stewardess in charge of feeding and toweling me off would be, well...five out of five steaming bowls of chowder on the Ryan Dean West In-Flight-Entertainment-Things-You-Don’t-Mind-Burning-Your-Tongue-On Heat Index. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z After Iran's revolution, the new regime was pushing hostile propaganda against the West. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z "I got to West Egg by a side road," he went on, "and left the car in my garage. I don't think anybody saw us but of course I can't be sure." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Both Senator Kennedy and Senator Humphrey thought they had the solution for West Virginia: active assistance from the federal government in the form of free food, with federal-government jobs to follow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z After the presentation, the women of West Computing walked over to the cafeteria. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z We are playing West Charleston High School and they think they’re coming down here to trounce the hicks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z From the West Indies, all the way from the dark continent, following in the wake of trade. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The farther we went, the better mileage we made, so that by the middle of June we were almost to the West Virginia state line. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Exalted Cyclops, a housepainter named Jack Murray, who had immigrated from West Germany, delivered long, wandering diatribes against the Jews, who, he claimed, had destroyed his first country and now were demolishing his second. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The boy had said his name was Alex—he’d declined to give a surname—and that he came from West Virginia. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind began to blow steadily out of the West and pour the water of the distant seas on the dark heads of the hills in fine drenching rain. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Instead of importing English-speaking slaves from the West Indies, who were more likely to be familiar with European language and culture, many more slaves were shipped directly from Africa. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Night after night, East Berliners surged into West Berlin, crowding its shops, restaurants, and cafés. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After Coach West says we’re done for the day, I head to the line at the water fountain to get a drink. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps you remember that time we went to see Howl’s Moving Castle on the Upper West Side. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The AT is no longer the longest hiking trail—the Pacific Crest and Continental Divide trails, both out West, are slightly longer—but it will always be the first and greatest. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Their grandparents’ store had the best fruit on the West Side of San Antonio. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “But you are a total liar about not knowing what was going on the other night, Ryan Dean West, and you know it.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Cowboy Charlie” Irwin ran two businesses: a raucous Wild West show in summer and an even more raucous racing stable in winter. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to peer toward the front of the train as it approached the West Oakland station, but the angle was wrong. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I lived at West Egg, the--well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “My dad is a professor at West Point,” she said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Where are you from, Sonny? Oh, yeah. West Virginia, I almost forgot.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He repeated those words as he walked up West Third Street. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z There it was, the West Virginia thing—the almighty job. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It is so weird seeing Coach West in regular clothes, shopping at the mall like a normal person. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Dandridge gave me a letter to take along with other necessary documents to the pass offices of the West Rand Board. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He whistled “I Feel Pretty” from West Side Story while he shoveled. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z That metal was also in short supply—except for the US Treasury Department’s monetary reserve, which was located in a vault at West Point. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Arnold had brought sketches of the fortifications of West Point, which André, as an experienced intelligence officer, memorized and handed back to Arnold. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “The West Branch will take us right through Delhi. Would you want to go through Delhi with a pig on a leash if you were Alice?” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z George Blake once referred to Harvey as a "Texan" with a "Wild West approach to intelligence." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The living room felt like a Key West bed-and-breakfast, complete with a stuffed sailfish mounted on the wall above a wicker sofa set upholstered in palm-tree-patterned fabric. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It is a good way round from the West Cliff by the Drawbridge to Tate Hill Pier, but your correspondent is a fairly good runner, and came well ahead of the crowd. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I had forgotten the rules, an error as dangerous on the Upper West Side of Manhattan as on the Westside of Baltimore. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z My heart was aching for Cletus, for I knew there was little in life he really wanted this bad, this chance to see the West Virginia State Capitol. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z “Because we want Key West to look hospitable.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I said, “No, ma’am, I was born free in the Buxton Settlement, in Canada West.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z We couldn’t eat these things ourselves—Mom’s West Indian culture viewed them as unclean—but we could turn a buck off of them. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, the lights and music of West Stave came into view, the canal choked with men and women of every class and country seeking diversion. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The standards upheld by the women of West Computing set a floor for the possibilities of a new generation of girls with a passion for math and hopes for a career beyond teaching. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Clay's announcement reflected simple geography: West Berlin floated like a tiny island in the sea of eastern Germany, a region completely controlled by the Soviets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Southern white illiterates brought their biases intact to the West from the hills of Arkansas and the swamps of Georgia. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Never been out West,” Mullet Fingers said, “but I know they got mountains.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Last in his class at West Point, he makes up for a lack of wisdom with a lusty exuberance. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes the West End would show a “colored” movie, one of the films made by black producers. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Trying to reclaim the drama of his gambling days, my grandfather started playing the West Side numbers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Nok's family moved to a bigger house in one of the West Side’s best neighborhoods. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Alex and Kevin walked back to West End, then down the few blocks in silence, lost in thoughts about their families and their needs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Maybe somewhere out West there really were Territories that he could light out to, where being a minister’s son wouldn’t matter worth a...well, worth a darn. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Definitely When I arrive home I look them up in the local phone book and there’s a Greene and a few Wests but none with a G or an M before it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Coach West might not like it, but I want to leave it on. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The proportional burden on South Korea, some studies have found, would be two and a half times greater than on West Germany after it absorbed the former East Germany. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z According to the West Virginia history books, no one had ever lived in the valleys and hills of McDowell County before we came to dig out the coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Across the West Virginia state line, in Pennsylvania’s Alle-Kiski Valley, known as Black Valley, some of the richest corporations in America piled up profits. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Open, open! he shouted, and followed it with the same command in every language that had ever been spoken in the West of Middle-earth. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The West has always helped to keep the Christian government in power. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The accent is West Indian, and a ground-level camera comes up on two dark, somewhat heavy and middle-aged WOMEN. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we watched Susan board a bus that would take her and eighteen other contestants to Phoenix West High School. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z It was on West Oriole Avenue, the same street as the bus stop where he’d first spotted the running boy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “So I picked you,” Davis said to Katherine that day outside her classroom; two men, then working as principals in other parts of West Virginia, would join her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The second reason had to do with Mrs. Dodson, the Wicked Witch of West Harlem. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Jessamyn West said, ‘Writing is so difficult that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.’ All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z While the restrictions were aggressively enforced in the South, they were also common in the Midwest and West. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I wished only to be left to my book, which was a deliciously scary one about some children who had been captured by a bunch of pirates in the West Indies. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But it does not, and while I couldn’t crunch the numbers or plumb the history back then, I sensed that the fear that marked West Baltimore could not be explained by the schools. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Each evening, when Donovan arrived back in West Berlin, he would dial a phone number and announce, "Jim D. is back." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But now Frodo often met strange dwarves of far countries, seeking refuge in the West. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z At that moment, I realized I had no idea what poverty was—even in West Baltimore we lived like kings compared with this. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The main county lockup was miles away in Key West. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z After World War II, when the jet age started, I was a student in college, at West Point. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a little like a party he’d once gone to on West Stave. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Rose’s was some building we had explored at 300 West 57th Street. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I had recently had a visit from Winnie and I learned that 8115 Orlando West, the house in which we had been married and which I considered home, had been burned down by arsonists. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Brilliant and ambitious, Claytor waited in vain to be recruited to join the country’s top math departments, but West Virginia State College was his only offer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She wanted him out of the way of storms, so she had a strong vault built in the cemetery at West Palm Beach. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z We got rooms in West Helena, and Aunt Maggie and my mother kept huddled in the house all day and night, afraid to be seen on the streets. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In West Helena we could have a home of our own, a condition that now loomed desirable after a few months of Granny’s anxiety about the state of our souls. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z West Virginia never left Katherines heart, but Virginia was her destiny. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Finally, we go under the highway and railroad bridge and come out on the flats of the West Branch of the Delaware. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Our track team isn’t all Black, not even close, but the girls’ relay team is, and they all exchange glances when Coach West asks Angie to help me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Head computer Margery Hannah went out of her way to treat the West Area women as equals, and had even invited some of them to work-related social affairs at her apartment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Second, that caused America to enter World War II. And third, more than 110,000 Nikkei—mostly American citizens—living on the West Coast had been imprisoned in ten different places, for no good reason. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And our inferior bodies could not possibly be accorded the same respect as those that built the West. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It was so plain and austere, very different from most West Side houses, with their gaudy furniture and show-off decorations. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “There was a rally at the West Oakland station for some dude who got killed, so the place was swarming with ’em. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z After the boy and the blue slush, after the strappy heeled shoe and the blood on the sidewalk, after that boy had fallen, Julietta West Williams had disappeared from the state of Alabama. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But, when Arnold told them that he was to take command of the fort at West Point, the British knew they had a man who could give them the most important military post in America. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She introduces herself with a thick West Indian accent. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z For four days in February 1962, Donovan shuttled between West Berlin and East Berlin, carrying messages between the two sides and carefully negotiating the terms of release. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The first story was about a kid accused of stealing from a store on the West Side. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Frodo could understand little of what was said, for the speech that the Silvan folk east of the mountains used among themselves was unlike that of the West. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The East versus West rivalry carried over to football with the annual East-West Shrine Game and added interest every January to the Rose Bowl—then the nearest thing to a national collegiate football championship. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The first enigmatic bargain concerned the expansion of slavery into the West and actually occurred in the Confederation Congress that was also meeting in Philadelphia. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Coach West puts her hand on my back. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The separate office remained, as did the segregated bathrooms, but in the Battle of the West Area Cafeteria, the unseen hand had been forced to concede victory to its petite but relentless adversary. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Many people in West Germany hated Wolf, but he was so secretive and elusive that few outside of the Stasi had ever laid eyes on him. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I was to deliver a sealed envelope to the West Side by sundown. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The upper wind settled in the West and deeper and wetter clouds rolled up to spill their laden rain on the bare heads of the Downs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I know Coach West just wants me to feel better. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Snowden was lying on his back on the floor with his legs stretched out, still burdened cumbersomely by his flak suit, his flak helmet, his parachute harness and his Mae West. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Bobby took the elevator to the thirtieth floor of the skyscraper at 110 West Fortieth Street, on the edge of the garment district, and when he disembarked, the elevator operator pointed to a doorway. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “It was absolutely striking,” Potterat says, of the first time he toured East and West Baltimore. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Said Sullivan, “It soon became noticeable that he was progressively and grossly apologizing to the Eastern men for the presence of their benighted brethren of the West.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I stop when I see the surprised look on Coach West’s face. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Zero conflicted with the fundamental philosophical beliefs of the West, for contained within zero are two ideas that were poisonous to Western doctrine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The road trips to Irving and Abilene and San Angelo in that endless caravan of RVs and Suburbans and plain old sedans rising forth so proudly from the bowels of West Texas. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I stayed with my girlfriend on West Ninth Street. We were together all night, and she’ll be happy to tell you that.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Maybe if you’re a West Indian and like to eat stuff that burns your mouth out it’s okay, but I don’t dig it. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z "If you go West, you risk your life." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Renowned educator Horace Mann saw phrenology as “the guide to philosophy and the handmaiden of Christianity,” and Horace Greeley of “Go West, young man” fame advocated phrenology tests for all railroad engineers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I love books and I wanna be around ’em all day, even if it’s in some dingy basement at a stuffy old university on the Upper West Side.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Why instead did the West slumber through a thousand years of darkness until Columbus and Copernicus and their contemporaries rediscovered the work done in Alexandria? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z However, when al-Khowarizmi was writing about the Hindu system of numbers, the West was still far from adopting zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He looked more like a cowboy than a West Virginian, with his horseman’s gait and his lean leathery face, but as soon as he started speaking, his voice was pure up-hollow. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “You committed an act like something out of the Wild West, and you didn’t even realize how outrageous it was,” the judge said. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Progress for the group meant a step back for its leader; Dorothy’s career as a manager came to an end on the last day of the West Area Computing office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I noted a deliberate change in his accent—the softened hiss of the consonants in his words, the dental chh of West Bengali softening into the sibilant ss of the East. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He has a light accent—he’s not from Oregon or Nevada or Arizona or New Mexico or West Texas or any other Republic state. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z West Computing no longer existed as a physical space, but its alumni pushed their minds and hands in the service of the space program— though in Dorothy Vaughans case, it was an indirect effort. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There is a hush on our side of the bleachers as everyone watches Coach West go over to her. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Hence the Andes, West Africa, and the Mississippi Valley were effectively rather isolated from societies with writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the decade following the first women's rights convention, other meetings were held throughout the North and West. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z For the first period, I had West Virginia history. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Just as Indian mathematicians accepted zero while Europeans rejected it for centuries, the East embraced negative numbers while the West tried to ignore them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Ah! But we shall not meet often, I fear, this place is at the West.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I almost made Selena the Wicked Witch of the West, but decided to give that part to Principal Rivera. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z But every few years, Bubbe goes to the West Coast for Thanksgiving. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z On the Ryan Dean West Stimulus-Satisfaction scale of things, it was without a doubt one of the best physical sensations of my entire, pathetic life. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z West Virginia’s Governor Homer Holt saw the writing on the wall: the choice was to integrate or, like its neighbor to the east, dig in and contest the ruling. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She laughed, and I said, “And, no, we are not even. Ryan Dean West has officially pulled into the lead.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z These were to be our last days together, at least in the carefree spirit that had marked our escape from the Middle West and the American culture it was so easy to be ambivalent about. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Can you get your mind off of heaven and back on the Upper West Side? Look up and see the ashes.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The Captains of the West were foundering in a gathering sea. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Communism was suspect not only in the West but in Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Today we are beginning our new unit on the pioneers of the American West.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Are you sure it was this Hall of Pillars? There is another on the West side of the temple.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve since thought that West Indian Archie may have been trying to scare me into running, to save both his face and his life. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “After the war, why did you come back to West Virginia if it’s so bad?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then Uncle Ob and Aunt May from West Virginia visited, and they knew an angel when they saw her and they took me on home. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z That night the weather changed, and a wind came from the West laden with rain, and it blew loud and chill, and the yellow leaves whirled like birds in the air. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He left West Boston and, skirting dirty Mill Cove, came at last into his own North Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We hustle and take our places on the hash marks on the ground so Coach West can take roll. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Howard much preferred that the race be held in the West. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The East Wind fought with the South, and the ill-blowing West with the North, and the waves rose up mightily. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They were looked upon with contempt, particularly on the East Coast, but a little of it must have seeped out to the West. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He cooked; he savored; he even named me Tandoori, after West Indian cooking that is prepared in a clay stove called a tandoor. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z I didn’t know if I would be discovered, but Key West certainly had been. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I was especially riveted by an amateur photograph in Herrero’s book, taken late at night by a camper with a flash at a campground out West. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Although he speaks softly in the unhurried cadence of the American West, his voice has an edge, and the set of his jaw betrays an undercurrent of nervous energy. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But Arnold, claiming that his old wounds still kept him from battle duty, successfully pleaded for command of West Point. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And those that were deepest and longest in evil servitude, hating the West, and yet were men proud and bold, in their turn now gathered themselves for a last stand of desperate battle. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z As the nation baked under the unrelenting sun, and violence spread along the docks and waterfronts of the West, the national political dialogue also grew heated that summer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Zeno was born around 490 BC, at the beginning of the Persian wars—a great conflict between East and West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For the West Computers, it was by mandate. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It was to escape that specter that their father had headed West. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, just two people other than Shin are known to have escaped from any political prison camp in North Korea and made it to the West. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I hear a loud whistle, and our PE teacher, Coach West, shouts, “Hustle on over!” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z He was in West Sacramento, California, a lawyer heading to his job at a firm that handled property-loss cases for State Farm insurance. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As he turned onto West Grand Boulevard, however, he saw a pillar of smoke rising into the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z With her fair skin and dulcet West Virginia accent, Katherine might have occupied a fluid racial middle ground, easing her acceptance at the center. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Hambro lived in the West Eighties, and once in the vestibule I tucked the hat under my arm and put the glasses in my pocket along with Brother Tarp's leg chain and Clifton's doll. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But it may also have reflected the fact that he already knew about the Alamogordo test, informed by his network of spies in the West. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Beatrice Leep’s bus stop, the place he had first spotted the running boy, was on West Oriole Avenue, just the other side of the main highway. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If her father had not brought Third Wife, who was not Chinese, back from his travels, my mother might have thought this orange creature with the great nose was a barbarian from the West. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was sharply different from the West where an evening was hurried from phase to phase toward its close in a continually disappointed anticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z As part of his candidacy, he had pledged to stop the expansion of slavery to the West. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z When I was younger, he'd lived on the West Side of the city and Craig and I had referred to him as Westside. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The whole valley, the whole West was that way. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Whether you were up meeting God, down in Brazil hating Yankees, or out West somewhere loving a Mexican woman, to those left behind, you had just plain disappeared. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z There was no evidence that anyone named Jule West Williams had ever lived in or visited the city of San Francisco. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I realized then that the Ryan Dean West Pie Chart of Brain Activity was an empty tin. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “When a European arrives in the West Indies and gets settled or set down for any length of time, he finds it necessary to provide himself with a housekeeper or mistress,” one eighteenth-century observer wrote. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Fate, it seemed, had brought me down to Key West. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Each time, the Nazi flag was raised in front of Haus West at the end of the race, and each time the crowd sang “Deutschland iiber alles” a little more loudly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z "There was no West Side back then. Just fields and fields of sugarcane." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z When three West Computers made the leap in the late 1940s to Cascade Aerodynamics, a group that studied the aerodynamics of propellers, turbines, and other rotating bodies, it caused a commotion. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Then we got a tip that they moved in with Johnny’s sister, Yvonne, in a project on the West Side of Chicago. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Volker Oldenburg paints modern art in a potato cellar in West Berlin. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z People said you could get away with anything in Key West, even murder. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z This is perfect for implementing one of the essential elements of West African dance and music, where people take turns “showing their stuff” in a playfully confrontational way. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z West of the lodges was the Long Knives’ place called Fort Robinson. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Coach West’s phone has been rattling on a bench for the last few minutes, but she’s been ignoring it. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z That night, Walter and I were in Orlando West on the fringes of a Freedom Day crowd that had gathered despite the government’s restrictions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In West Germany, the other three Allied countries agreed that West Germany needed to be rebuilt. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I hear Coach West shout out, “Go, Shayla! Go, Shayla!” and then Bernard says it too, with his deep booming voice. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z He hated the idea of the black inferiority complex and castigated what he called the worship and idolization of the West and their ideas. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The club decided upon a conference of all the left-wing writers in the Middle West. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z One was the son of a famous West Coast racket boss and the other was the son of a movie producer. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When Washington arrived at West Point, he learned of Arnold’s treachery. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Guess who actually is buying up all the Norvelt houses and moving them to West Virginia?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z West, he decided, for no special reason, and he began to walk that way, following the pathway nearest the north edge, where the gravel looked freshest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I decided I'd just see old Phoebe and sort of say good- by to her and all, and give her back her Christmas dough, and then I'd start hitchhiking my way out West. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Bernard looks like he’s going to cry, and his hands get all fumbly trying to take off the sock, so Coach West helps him. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The Cold War wasn’t happening just in the skies above Korea or in a Europe that was being divided into a Soviet-allied East and a US-friendly West. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Ibn al-Haytham was much more widely discussed in the Latin West than the Muslim East, but even in the West he was treated as a text, not as a handbook of experimental practice. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Seems a little too much like the “True Tales of the West” stories printed every week in the paper. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z That evening when Dad returned from West Virginia he came into my room. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Their mother stands alone by the deep end, sari-clad under the red monsoon umbrella she carries as portable shade from the West African sun. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “The West Stave delegations have started to arrive. We can get in.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Roulette wheels spun behind Lefty’s eyes as he sped toward the West Side. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Coach West comes over while I’m reading the engraving on the plaque below the statue. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The women of West Computing were the only black professionals at the laboratory— not exactly excluded, but not quite included either. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The outpost officer, who outranked Tallmadge, reluctantly agreed but insisted that a report about Anderson be sent on to Arnold at West Point—where Arnold was expecting a visit from George Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the man who worked in the West Indian restaurant on 147th Street. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1956, more black women were now working in other areas of the laboratory than in West Computing itself. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z During the trial the prosecutor called more than one hundred witnesses from all over the country, including the Transkei and South West Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma Sands must have seen The Wizard of Oz a million times because every time she laughed it sounded just like that Wicked Witch of the West. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the front porch of the late Reverend Young’s and the concrete steps of the West Virginia State Capitol, something happened to Ob to make him long for living again. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Montaigne was impatient with such an argument: did they try to sail East and end up going West? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Yes. They thought he was a traitor to Congo and an ally of the West. That he’s a puppet to American mining companies.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The nursing students, who are all West Indian like Nurse Monica, and young, unlike her, absolutely adore him and give him big smiles, which increases his activity. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z When they left, I rolled over on my stomach and wondered if I could get in touch with the Department of Interior and find out more about the public lands in the West. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z West African music also integrates literature, movement, body percussion, rhyme, and music, so the Orff approach is probably the most applicable teaching method. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z And I saw the squat man shake his fist angrily over the uplifted faces, yelling something in a staccato West Indian accent, at which the crowd yelled threateningly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach West wasn’t lying, because I drop the stupid stick almost every time someone tries to pass it to me, and Natalie sighs each and every time. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z West of the road were flint hills, grey and rugged, with tall watchtowers on their stony summits. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I had thought West Virginia was all white hillbillies, so I was surprised by how many black kids there were. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The West Oakland High administration requests your patience and understanding as we try to deal with this situation as best we can. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But the West Computers’ competence silenced most of the dissent; up close, it was difficult to object to good educations and mild middle-class manners, even if they came wrapped in brown skin. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z At West Jefferson High School, a tenth grader of Iraqi descent had been repeatedly harassed by her history teacher. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z These were not Bronx rules, these were West Indian rules. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z West Oakland High did not compare to where Esperanza went to school. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Orlando West was a dusty, spartan area of boxy municipal houses that would later become part of Greater Soweto, Soweto being an acronym for South-Western Townships. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was said to frequent The White Horse, a bar down on the West Side. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z By the seventh century, the West had withered with the fall of Rome, but the East was flourishing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In order to commute more efficiendy between their opulent Connecticut manor and an art-filled apartment on Central Park West staffed with uniformed servants, she and her husband bought a helicopter and learned to fly it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Visibly shaken, Lady Isobel called for Beatrice to attend them, and Ash wondered if it was customary in West Riding for the hunt to come in like that, all bloody and fresh from the kill. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And the price collapse began to spread to the Far West. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Coach West sounds excited, like she’s ready to find the next US Olympic track star. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “It’s public knowledge. It’s not my problem you just found out,” his mother is saying, pacing double-time down a West Wing corridor. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “The Wicked Witch of the West cast a spell on her!” said Frankie. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z “My brother William lives in Indiana with his family. But my sisters are here. One is at Crane College over on the West Side and the other is a teacher like me.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z He’s pushing in our door and singing, And if when all a vigil keep, The West’s asleep, the West’s asleep! Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Similarly, the people who first domesticated wet-country crops of West Africa spoke languages ancestral to the modern Niger-Congo languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Epidemics of yellow fever also struck numerous cities in South America, Europe, Russia, and West Africa. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I entered the World’s Fair through the side entrance across the street from the Wild West Show. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z With Byron walking around me like that we must have looked like we were in the Wild West and I was a wagon train and Byron was the Indians circling, waiting to attack. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z West Africa eventually did receive Fertile Crescent domestic animals across the Sahara, and later accepted Islamic influence, including Arabic writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Whirling darkness came up from the North Whirling darkness moved along to the East It came along the South It arrived in the West Whirling darkness spiraled downward and it came up in the Middle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It was September, and all across Key West, kids were bawling their eyes out. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I had that West Virginia need for a certain amount of space between me and a stranger. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z That was the word—“take”—that the hairdresser in West Philadelphia used. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “West Woodlawn. My mother and I lived on the top floor.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z It was the only ostrich on the West Coast. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “The Koran says Allah is the East and the West, therefore wherever you turn there is Allah’s purpose.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I was starting at West Side Junior High, and I wasn’t too excited about it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There was also a short article on rioting that the reporter claimed was “the direct result of escalating tensions between the West and East government on new birth legislation.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z His older half brother, Tony, spent most of his time with his maternal grandparents or with his father in the Murphy Homes Projects in West Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Wolf specialized in infiltrating the West German government, sometimes with "Romeo spies," who would strike up romances with unsuspecting single women—many of them secretaries to powerful generals and political figures. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was supposed to have a big deal going which soon would require his traveling a lot to the West Coast. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can vouch for that. I still remember that game against West Point when you were playing for Quantico.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On an afternoon a few weeks before Momma revealed her plan to take us West, Bailey came into the Store shaking. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Angkar says they are model citizens because many have never ventured out of their village and have not been corrupted by the West. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Farther along we come to the confluence of the Little Delaware and the West Branch, and Bando takes out his compass and map again. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1990, forty-five years after Germany surrendered, East and West Germany were united as one country. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Among the notes of the interviewers putting together a history of West Virginia, I came across this entry. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Zero had taken hold in the West, and despite the papacy's objections, it was too strong to be exiled once more. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Pong had never imagined that the first time he set foot on the West Side of Chattana, it would be under arrest. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Right before Tenth Street emerges onto the cacophony of the West Side Highway, I stop to get a latte, wrapping my cool hands around the cup for warmth. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z One Saturday evening not long ago, an improvisation comedy group called Mother took the stage in a small theater in the basement of a supermarket on Manhattan’s West Side. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She’d take it out past West Point, past Hermit, past Bald Head, and drift until she was alone with the whales in the open water. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z She was beyond his sight, cruising above the West Branch of the Delaware, looking for rats. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He went by his old West Baltimore neighborhood to pick up a package. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Once I passed Miami I began to see a steady stream of cars coming the other way, and I noticed no one but me was heading for Key West. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Once the Jordans took me to the Cave of the Immortals in the West Valley. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then all the Captains of the West cried aloud, for their hearts were filled with a new hope in the midst of darkness. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “My parents told me to go to West Side Junior High, so I went. Do you ever talk back to your parents?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Turning from the principal’s office window were two uniformed men, the patches on their arms identifying them as West Virginia State Police. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There was a gift shop there selling handmade items by West Virginians, and it was Cletus who said that Ob ought to be bringing in his whirligigs to sell. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Islam would take zero from India—and the West would eventually take it from Islam. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z On November 9, an East German government spokesman named Gunter Schabowski gave a press conference at which he stated that travel restrictions between East and West Germany would be eased. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I’d get on a ship, sail to the West, and the mission would be accomplished. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Got himself all involved buying up the new fairgrounds, getting folks in Amity Harbor to donate lumber and whatnot for the dance pavilion at West Port Jensen. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I’m sure they were enjoying their yogurt and talking about their classes, or about how Ryan Dean West got drunk last night and ruined his life. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The West End, a huge building of two stories, fronted with gnarled poplars, divided the play yards called girlside and boyside. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z To the Pythagorean mind, ratios controlled the universe, and what was true for the Pythagoreans soon became true for the entire West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They filled his biographical vacuum with suitably large Wild West myths: knocked-over banks, rodeo stardom, daring exploits in the Indian wars. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh. Please do, young Mr. West,” JP whispered mockingly from the other side of Annie’s desk, without turning to look at me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "I was living and working on the frontier between the totalitarian world and the West," he observed, "seeing both sides, and constantly angered by the contrast between the two." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Though Roosevelt went home to New York and eventually returned to a career in politics, he still kept some ties to the West. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z After roll call and stretches, Coach West yells, “Four laps, everybody!” and blows her whistle to get us going. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “Show them what West Virginians can do, Sonny,” she said, holding her hand out to me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then West Virginia went for McCain, and after that so did South Carolina. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Besides, it is dawning on me belatedly that Minneapolis is far vaster than Key West or Pordand, Maine, and that my two live job possibilities—Wal-Mart and Menards—are separated by about thirty miles. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I figure if I can get hold of him, he’ll hide me for a day or two, then take me to Key West, where I’ll get a boat to Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As Smith passed his days in the Unaweep, the West that had formed him was making a long, painful retreat. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, ships built and manned in Spain itself were able to sail to the West Indies; there was nothing equivalent to the Greenland bottleneck that had throttled Norse colonization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There is a dimension of time with which we are not familiar here in the West. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Westerners are shocked and confused by that, but really it’s a case of the West reaping what it has sown. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z As we walked rapidly along I abruptly resented the bell and my West Point stride and hurrying and conforming. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A strong wind from the West was now driving the fumes of Mordor from the upper airs. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Even Chacko had no really complete explanation for why the Communist Party was so much more successful in Kerala than it had been almost anywhere else in India, except perhaps in West Bengal. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As the Christian Crusade once went East, now the Islamic Crusade is going West. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he went on his first tour, playing in fourteen cities throughout the American West and Midwest. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As the fair fought for attendance, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West drew crowds by the tens of thousands. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then there are new islands of capital conquest: factories in the Middle West, food-processing plants, tool and die works, lumber and pulp. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Effective this date, the West Area Computers Unit is dissolved.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The broadcast cut to images of West Oakland High, the front steps cordoned off with police tape. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Pawnee Bill, the legendary Wild West showman and the onetime partner of Buffalo Bill, described Hale as a “high-class gentleman.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z My fingers were wrapped ’round the neck of the worstlooking snake in Canada West! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Yet in another way she was not surprised at all to find herself, at the age of twenty, pressing herself against Carl Heine beneath a cedar above the West Port Jensen dance pavilion. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z On the other hand, he had lived his whole life in West London and had visited the museum often enough. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z John Andre was captured while attempting to serve as a British spy in league with Benedict Arnold to produce a major strategic debacle on the Hudson River at West Point. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The day would come when he would leave West Virginia and move to Florida, where he would be electrocuted while cleaning a swimming pool. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I had pulled us over into Slaty Fork, West Virginia, if the road signs were to be trusted. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I took a small apartment on the West Side. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Marble fever was gripping Key West, and we were the best crew on the island. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z On the bus back to the West Side, he kept asking me about the game and what his team could have done better. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It is a great inlaid map, dating from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth centuries, reaching from West Africa to the Pacific Ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was nothing like the life I knew in the lanes of Key West. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach West has some of the eighth graders taking notes and keeping track of our times. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z He was to be that lieutenant, and gather all that remained of the West under his sway; he would be their tyrant and they his slaves. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z There might not be gold in West Virginia, but there were plenty of other ways to make your pile. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I was still so sick to my stomach from traveling all those curvy West Virginia roads that all I could do was swallow and nod, swallow and nod. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z I glance over at Yolanda and she gives me a little shrug, but she also smiles, so I think she’s okay with Coach West not asking her to join the track team. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z I knew the Gem was over on West Ninth Street. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Before joining the Four-Foot SPT, Kaz had worked as a member of the Nine- Inch Supersonic Tunnel research staff, which maintained an office in the Aircraft Loads Building, where West Area Computing was housed. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z If she drew herself right now, she’d use all the watery blues, her whole solid body dripping and melting into a puddle like the Wicked Witch of the West. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was only hours later, sitting in the kitchen, watching as the gray light of morning bled slowly through the West London streets, that Alex could try to make sense of what had happened. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The Griever holding Dave—a kid Thomas had never spoken to— was rolling along on its spikes toward the West Door, churning and whirring. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “Somewhere near the lovely city of Kingwood, West Virginia. Lee and Suzume are checking something out,” he said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Night in West Virginia is as dark as black can be. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, next year, Sir Thomas West, Lord de la Warr, will arrive to become our Lord Governor and Captain General. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z In the modern West, we’re confident that prevention is better than cure; that hard work deserves reward; that no means no; that you are innocent until proven guilty, and that all men are created equal. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The guy in the West Indian restaurant called me in and I shot him standing over the stove. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z An adopted extended family from the West Computing office stepped into the void left by the aunts and uncles and cousins in Farmville. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I knew the updates were coming from David Simas, Barack’s political adviser, who was monitoring returns from the West Wing and who understood the precise county-by-county algebra of the electoral map. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The Cedar Grove King Lords have been beefing with King’s set, the West Side King Lords, for a while now. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “Marlee, I’m afraid I have to tell you that Elizabeth will not be returning to West Side Junior High.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The West Virginia engineer she had met on day one played oboe in a local symphony. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He knew he had gotten me in trouble with Mom and so he quickly wrangled a construction job in West Virginia for a couple days of paid work. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Katherine always made sure that people knew she was from West Virginia, not Virginia. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z West Indian Archie had finished time in Sing Sing not long before I came to Harlem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z West Virginia’s hilly terrain offered cool evening breezes, whereas Virginia was sweltering and malarial. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Her older sister was in West Side Story, last year’s high school musical. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z West Africans were chewing the caffeine-containing nuts of the latter as a narcotic, long before the Coca-Cola Company enticed first Americans and then the world to drink a beverage originally laced with its extracts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I said, “Timothy, you can’t really believe in that” My father had told me about “obediah,” or “voodoo,” in the West Indies. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Dubonnet could have probably also stayed in West Virginia, but instead joined the Army. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The woman carried a letter to André, asking him to come to West Point disguised as a merchant named John Anderson. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, Penkovsky proved more adept than the Americans at finding a way to communicate with the West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Though the fiercest rioting was on the West Side, General Throckmorton chose to deploy his paratroopers on the East Side, calling this decision “an operational convenience.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The cheese bus—yellow and boxy like a block of government-issue cheese—picked kids up from Dundee Village and delivered them, twenty-five minutes later, to Perry Hall High School in West Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In 1890, for example, if you’d asked most educated people in the West to name a famous living composer, they would very likely have given you that of a Russian, Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was about 45 miles north-northwest of Key West and heading west. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She graduated from high school at fourteen and enrolled at West Virginia State Institute, a black college located just outside of Charleston, the state capital. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z We agree that swing sucks and maybe would have discovered a few more points of convergence, only I’m on what a certain Key West rock jock likes to call “a mission from God.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I’d say you blew it to West Virginia,” I confirmed. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Hidy, Miss Eggers,” he said, tipping an imaginary hat and sliding into the southern West Virginia vernacular. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She’d been four when we moved to West Virginia, and it was all she really knew. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the girls have finished, of course, and now it is just Coach West, the track, four more hurdles, and me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The Audubon Ballroom, between Broadway and St. Nicholas Avenue, on the south side of West 166th Street, is a two-story building frequently rented for dances, organization functions, and other affairs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re creating postcards and a brochure to advertise Key West as a tourist destination.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z They couldn’t even see the steps of West Oakland High, nor could they see a shred of the concrete path that led to the stairs at the front of the school. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z On that first day of housekeeping and last day—although I don’t yet know it’s the last—of my life as a low-wage worker in Key West, Carlie is in a foul mood. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I sipped my soda and wondered if Dorothy felt this way when she dumped the bucket of water on the Wicked Witch of the West and watched her archnemesis melt. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z This particular case study on West African music relies solely on aural learning, which means that a rote method is applicable to the music learning. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Against the odds and contrary to their expectation when they first walked through the doors at Langley, the women of West Computing had managed to turn their wartime service into lasting and meaningful careers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z With the last of her savings she’d headed over to the photography store on West 17th, where a young man sold her film and paper as she tried not to stare at his yarmulke. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Beside a mountain stream, O’Dell and I worked at a clear place, picking and shoveling rich, black West Virginia loam into the truck. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z On the Monday after the West Charleston game, Ogden Loring stopped in front of Ben’s desk, removed his glasses and began cleaning them with his silk paisley tie. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, I had been reading about the population explosion on the West Coast, but for West Coast most people substitute California. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Greenbrier. The Greenbrier in West Virginia. It’s very fancy and expensive.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Munching cabbages in someone’s backyard, apparently. The lady of the house is not amused. West side of the lot. Get her out of there before the cops come.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z They knew what was going on, and they got to watch the Ryan Dean West suicide mission from the front row. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The hippogriff gave one sweep of its mighty wings and they were soaring upward again, high as the top of the West Tower. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z In particular, Bantu farmers who acquired cows and sheep spread out of their homeland in West Africa and within a short time overran the former hunter-gatherers in most of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Charles here and I was waiting for our father to come back from the West, but ...” “Thee’s been alone all winter, just thee two children?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The side streets were like parking lots, and so were West End and Amsterdam Avenues, where the traffic went uptown. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Dr. Devèze had not only seen and treated yellow fever while living in the West Indies, he had contracted it twice. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Mom and her brother had each inherited half of the West Texas land that had been owned by their father. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In Manhattan, where we lived, Fifth AV was the divider between the West Side and the East Side. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z 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 Why did women in the West win the vote so far in advance of those in the rest of the nation? 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “I heard she was a mercenary for one of the West Side gangs,” said Tree. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The final Part of the Sun set to the West. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Poppy’s father had been a conch fisherman, like many others who had left the Bahamas to settle in the lanes of Key West. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandfather Southside had moved to our neighborhood after a fire destroyed his old house on the West Side, though luckily nobody’d been hurt. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was up to her, therefore, to make certain I would not embarrass Big Creek High School or, for that matter, the entire state of West Virginia in Indianapolis. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z On the night of May 16, 1977, police cars and a truck pulled up outside of the house in Orlando West and began loading furniture and clothing into the back of the truck. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Newt had just joined Chuck for breakfast at a picnic table right outside the Kitchen when a large group of Gladers got up and ran toward the West Door, talking excitedly about something. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z After all, I was supposedly on a mission to do just that—to reinvent Ryan Dean West—in my junior year at Pine Mountain Academy. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “They’re already discussing it in Washington! It would cost less money to close down Key West and move its citizens somewhere else than to try to save it.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z With East Computing’s calculating added to existing workload, Dorothy Vaughan and the West Area Computers remained in high gear. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He and Minho were stretching their legs by the West Door when Chuck walked over to say goodbye. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He and Mom still had the white van they’d driven up from West Virginia, and he started sleeping in that. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The companies not only advertised in the newspapers, they issued booklets and broadsides describing and picturing the beauty and richness of the West. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We had a million laughs in Hamburg and West Berlin and East Berlin and Vienna and Salzburg and Helsinki, and in Leningrad, too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Obviously, Charles Morgan Bloom had come out West in order to begin a new life. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “You two are the only West Indians sitting on these steps.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z There came at last a dreadful nightfall; and even as the Captains of the West drew near to the end of the living lands, the two wanderers came to an hour of blank despair. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Once the boys in East Baltimore heard that a West Baltimore guy was attempting to take over their corners, tempers flared. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z All of it was Lansing’s West Side or Roxbury’s South End magnified a thousand times. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I found him four hours after setting off, sitting on a rock by the turnoff for West Chairback Pond, head inclined to the sun as if working on his tan. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Mary Jackson— a former West Computer!—had faced down the brilliant John Becker and won. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Tourist season was over and Key West was sleepy again. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z West Virginia that excluding black people from jury service was unconstitutional, but juries remained all-white for decades afterward. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Dinka believe that the secret gift went to the people of the West. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But the East Enders stayed in the east and the West Enders stayed in the west, and the less they knew about each other, the more they invented. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I’m positive Coach West sent her to talk to me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z LeAlan: Do you see any gang activities here that you would see in the movies like West Side Story? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z These networks reached into what we know today as the Southwest and West Coast of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Those crops prove to be ones like West African yams, oil palm, and kola nut—plants that were already believed on botanical and other evidence to be native to West Africa and first domesticated there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “And we need new names. My parents know I have a friend named Marlee at West Side.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A great radioactive cloud was deposited on the tiny atoll of Rongalap, 150 kilometers away, where the inhabitants likened the explosion to the Sun rising in the West. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She looks a whole lot like the way Coach West was looking when she got that message on her phone. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Somebody said he went out West and married one a-them Mexican women, but we never knowed if it was so or not.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He spent much of his time in West Baltimore but had decided to try to open up a drug sales operation in East Baltimore as well. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z If the British held West Point, they could cut off the northeastern colonies from the others. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We ask, good Jesus, not that we beat West Charleston High but that we do our best before our God, our family, and our country. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Some African tribes in West and Central Africa love to eat chimpanzees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Then the king raised his hand, and with a rush like the sudden onset of a great wind the last host of Rohan rode thundering into the West. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Residents of the North and South, East and West were saddened and outraged by the assassination attempt. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Somehow it had felt like the problems belonged to West Eighty-eighth Street. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that’s especially true in the West. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Or maybe your dad will haul it off to West Virginia, where I bet they’ll rip every one of those letters down and toss them in a furnace.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But the differences between the number systems in the East and the West suggest something very different—that being good at math may also be rooted in a group’s culture. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Harriet sang: Of all the whole creation in the East or in the West, The glorious Yankee nation is the greatest and the best. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Even after crossing the highway to West Oriole, Roy didn’t slow his pace. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Groves, the son of an army chaplain, was a West Point graduate who tipped the scale at three hundred pounds and was not shy about throwing his weight around. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "Karl May is Hitler's favorite author, you know. Hitler likes the Wild West, too." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z From what I could tell, Dad was on track to become the best-funded lunatic in the Mountain West. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Here in the middle of the Middle West an escape route, a road designed by fear. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Fine’s office was located in a huge apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t the only person on the Upper West Side praying for food. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z While the turnout of West Oakland High attendees was higher than Moss expected, an unease crept through him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Now I go through the Morris West titles. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z They found Newt at the West Door, pacing, running his hands through his hair. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “If He does exist, He sure doesn’t spend any time in West Baltimore.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z They smoked in silence for a while, and the sun shone on them; slanting into the valley from among white clouds high in the West. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z West Charleston was warming up at the other end of the court. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In Key West, I earned $1,039 in one month and spent $517 on food, gas, toiletries, laundry, phone, and utilities. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And it sure doesn’t help when Coach West makes me and some of the other girls practice passing the stick with the relay team. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Russian soldiers patrolled the main roads and the train station, and the Jews of German-held West Przemyśl were expelled across the river. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Once you get your belly full, you can walk all over West Virginia before you’re hungry again. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I make the decision to move closer to Key West. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But this is a distinction so extremely hard to make that the West has not been able to make it yet. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z In the intervening years, the program had advanced a great deal, but it still got little respect beyond the West Coast. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The West Area Computers were ammunition for both fronts of the conflict, yet they were one of the best-kept secrets in the federal government. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The first was George Myers, my biological father, who had left West Virginia and settled in an apartment with his new wife and family in Harlem, a short distance from me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “You should ask Coach West if you can be on the track team too,” I say. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Operation Gold began in the summer of 1954 with the construction of a drab-looking warehouse sitting just over the boundary separating East and West Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z California racing rules mandated that no horse carry fewer than 100 pounds, and Seabiscuit was clearly more than 30 pounds better than most horses on the West Coast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach West says my long legs will really be an advantage once I get the timing down, and I don’t want to call her a liar, but... A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Then Coach West looks me up and down. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The Sahel, Ethiopia, and West Africa did yield indigenous crops, but many fewer varieties than grew in Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1957 southern West Virginia, you wouldn’t likely starve if you didn’t have any money. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z After giving Javier his number, Moss raised a hand to wave, then turned and walked north into West Oakland. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z His old poster of the West Ham football team was pinned right next to it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Every year around Thanksgiving, he went hunting in West Virginia, where he and some buddies rented a house for the opening of the deer season. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he remembered why he kept turning down that cushy West Side job. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Reluctantly Frodo turned his back on the West and followed as his guide led him, out into the darkness of the East. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Teeth were loosening and eyes were deep-sunken in their sockets when they made landfall on the green land to the West. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z When I was at West Street I saw an escape-attempt straight out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Coach West called an extra practice, saying we’ve gotten soft over winter break, and I’m dreading it. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z One of the reasons is that women played a much larger role in whites settling in the American West than the history books have led us to believe. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z On the balcony of Haus West, Hitler, Goebbels, and Goring pressed their binoculars to their eyes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The mighty Lannisters of easterly Rock, the Wardens of the West, had remained aloof from the struggle, ignoring calls to arms from both rebels and royalists. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Maniac wanted Mars Bar to see the best the West End had to offer. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The next thing I knew West Indian Archie was standing before me, cursing me, loud, his gun on me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z So I fall back on the support networks of my real-life social class, call the dermatologist I know in Key West, and bludgeon him into prescribing something sight unseen. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach West comes outside and herds us all together. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Frightful carried the food up over the West Branch of the Delaware. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In West Germany, the Americans got busy, putting the money to work. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Albury made the best divinity candy in all of Key West. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 In 1949, West Germany became an independent state, ruled by a democratic form of government modeled after those of the United States, Britain, and France. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Alex stared out the window at the apartments on Riverside Drive as the bus whizzed up the West Side Highway. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Instead of making a left on West Oriole, toward the bus stop, Roy rode his bicycle across the highway to East Oriole. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The man discovered that his new office mate was a fellow transplant from West Virginia, and the two became fast friends. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Went on the West Side by the Bulls’ stadium and showed Lloyd where my mother used to live in Henry Horner. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z On the balcony of Haus West, Hitler dropped his binoculars to his side. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Across the water, Pong saw the faraway firefly lights of the West Side. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Ryan Dean West would have undoubtedly made a perverted comeback to that, but, somehow, I just felt different standing there. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Now halting a few paces before the Captains of the West he looked them up and down and laughed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The biggest, blackest, worst cop of them all in Harlem was the West Indian, Brisbane. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z All that might be waiting for me in the West. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z West End — East End — they had poured from their houses onto the cool, damp sidewalks, and if they gave the worms any notice, it was only when they squashed one underfoot. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Since it was a political season, and Senators Kennedy and Humphrey were crisscrossing the state running for president, the glare of national scrutiny was settling on West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Several “Seabiscuit Limited” trains, packed to the doors, were already en route from the West Coast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone knew that her mother was an RN; in fact, she worked with Serena Wong’s mother down at the Cleveland Clinic, and her father managed a warehouse on the West Side. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Haus West would also feature a sweeping terrace on its second story. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We watch as drag queens every shape and size and color give it their all and leave everything they’ve got on that stage in this dingy little bar out in the middle of West Texas. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z All of us rocket boys would go to college, something not likely in pre-Sputnik West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Approach him like West Side Story, snap, snap, snap, snap. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z West Oakland High itself was a massive structure in the northern part of what was technically not West Oakland at all. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z By the dozens, then hundreds, then thousands, they began to assemble at the border crossings between East and West Berlin on the evening of November 9. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “When Father gets back from the West Indies, I want to surprise him.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z West Indian Archie’s known to be the meanest, most powerful numbers runner in the racket. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Sondheim had learnt his trade by writing lyrics for West Side Story, which opened in 1957. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The West might not be directly accountable for all of Iran's drama, but they definitely stirred the pot back in the early 1950s. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The signs and their removal were a regular topic of conversation among the women of West Computing, who debated the prudence of the action. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “You see, I have carefully studied the options, and I believe that we can turn Key West into a tourist resort!” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z That was how I began placing my bets with West Indian Archie. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “It bothers me to even look at it. It can’t support ten million people, and there they are. There they are, kidnapped from West Africa.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “I can make you. Sosie taunted. She snapped her fingers across her body like one of the Jets in West Side Story. “ Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Don’t even go there, West. You said we shouldn’t talk about JP to each other.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The West wind was sighing in the branches. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Not of the crowded corrals, but of the pretty West Side neighborhoods where wealthier Mexican families lived, their houses painted in yellows and oranges and pinks. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The Ohio license plate was tossed into the backseat, and in its place was a West Virginia plate. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z By the end of the month, half the steel industry, including almost all the mills in Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Wheeling, West Virginia; Lackawanna, New York; and Youngstown, Ohio, had shut down. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She thanked him and climbed on and watched as the village of West Riding receded behind them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The starship punched out into the dark, punched through the sky, punched out past West Baltimore, punched out past The Mecca, past New York, past any language and every spectrum known to me. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z There were no neighborhoods— even on the Upper East and West sides of Manhattan—that were safe. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z "He struck her!" a West Indian woman screamed into my ear. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The ten states with the highest average temperatures in the country that summer were all in the West. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The outline of the West African coast stood out vividly in his mind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Winning the vote for settler women in the West was one thing; winning it for women in the rest of the nation was something else again. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Was West Indian Archie, I began to wonder, bluffing a hype on me? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, Uncle Q. He owns Q over there on West Chicago. That’s his club, practically his block. That’s where he runs his business. And that’s where I first fell in love.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Now I began to experience a tendency in the West that perhaps I am too old to accept. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that you never saw a white in the East End or a black in the West End. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a spring afternoon in West Florida. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z It would be another seven centuries before zero reappeared in the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the service of saving Africa’s babies and extracting its mineral soul, the West has built a path to its own door and thrown it wide for the plague. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It represented a recognition in the West that our struggle was a moral one, one too long ignored by the great powers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m serious. Mr. Stone told me they might close Key West down.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z She and my mother, I had heard my mother say, were two of the four West Indians in that whole section of Michigan. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Lily had stopped to take out her compact and reapply her orange ice lipstick as if she’d already heard all about West Africa and Ghana and people from Ghana. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Once she sent away for voodoo dolls and carefully followed the instructions some witch doctor in the West Indies wrote about how to relieve Natalie’s condition. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Just before the train entered the fairgrounds, it passed the arena of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I’ll be one skip closer to the West Indies,” he said. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z My mother never speaks to me, but sometimes I sidestep along the beach until I pick up radio stations in Key West. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The very man who had accosted him in the West Oakland station raised his hand to Moss, and he lifted his chin quickly, a silent hello. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z During a couple of the worst seasons, Dad and Mom actually took in what they called West Bank refugees who could not get to their homes. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z There would soon be twenty-one thousand National Guard troops in the area, coming from all over the country—West Virginia, Utah, New Mexico, Missouri. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Note, though, that these weren't the huge herds of bison celebrated in the nineteenth-century West. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He went back to Central Park West, then walked south to the school, arriving there just before lunchtime. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “I told him this was a waste of time. They said Virginia, not West Virginia.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Jason Grace, the West Wind has been called many things...warm, gentle, life-giving, and devilishly handsome. But I have never been called startling. I leave that crass behavior to my gusty brethren in the north.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z If they prevailed in that race—and only if they did so—they could claim supremacy in the West. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Didn’t we walk around every day waiting for one of their H-bombs to be dropped on us out of the sky, even down here in southern West Virginia? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z One decision that would save or destroy the West. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z When the papers printed that Sputnik was going to fly over southern West Virginia, I decided I had to see it for myself. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Food production also arose in West Africa and Ethiopia, and by around 2500 B.C. cattle herders had already crossed the modern border from Ethiopia into northern Kenya. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Manly West was still a young suburb when I was growing up—especially compared to nearby Wynnum. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z He told me that West Indian Archie was sick, living up in a rented room in the Bronx. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But since the need was so urgent and the death toll so high, the West swallowed its disgust and delivered more than one billion dollars' worth of food to North Korea between 1995 and 2003. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Sherman was always wondering what it was like to live somewhere else other than West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Coach West comes over and helps me up. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “You are? You guys! Are you sure? It’s all the way in West Seattle. It’s raining.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Arthur gives Ma cookies from Levain Bakery, which is a tiny shop on the Upper West Side known for its huge cookies and long lines out the door. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The upstart West had the new Santa Anita Handicap, but the East, seat of racing’s elite governing bodies and home to all of America’s venerable old races and stables, had prestige. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then an astonishing thing happened when one old West Indian stood and began attacking me—for attacking America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When I went to Big Creek, Coach Merrill Gainer, the winningest coach in southern West Virginia history, took one look at me lost inside the practice gear and ordered me off his football field. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Like the outposts of the American West, Mir became a place for astronauts throughout the world to visit. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Then Poppy asked Omer, “What do your friends think about the West Bank?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It was nine years since West Indian Archie and I had been stalking the streets, momentarily expecting to try and shoot each other down like dogs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z On the flagpole in front of Haus West, a large white Olympic flag stirred lazily. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She was the meanest woman in Key West. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z For the infinite had already begun to gnaw at the roots of Western thought, thanks to Zeno of Elea, a philosopher reckoned by his contemporaries to be the most annoying man in the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “It’s got to be the greatest thing,” he said, “to work in the West Virginia capitol every day.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z These were the neighborhoods she'd been warned about by her parents, the places good girls from the West Side didn't dare set foot in. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Aunt Ivy had warned me a hundred times about the “wild men out West.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z In 1942, the entire family accompanied him to White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, renting a house in town that was close enough for Howard to walk to his job as a bellman at the Greenbrier. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Coach West is really serious about her safety rules. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Compared to some of the Olympian love scandals he’d heard about, the West Wind falling in love with a mortal guy didn’t seem very shocking. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The boys and girls who built them were, I realized, the competition we West Virginia kids were going to have to face once we went out into the world. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He had been a West Pointer, had left the army to become a lawyer, a prosecutor. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At the edge of the West Cliff above the pier I looked across the harbour to the East Cliff, in the hope or fear—I don’t know which—of seeing Lucy in our favourite seat. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Coach West watches as I struggle to get over the hurdles. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Near them a black and khaki army of labourers was busy revitrifying the surface of the Great West Road. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z But never in a thousand years did anyone in Midland, in Odessa, in all of West Texas, ever think that the bank would crumble. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1940s, thousands of African Americans left the region as part of the Great Migration and headed mostly to the Midwest and West Coast for jobs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Rain on Roke may be drouth in Osskil,” he said, “and a calm in the East Reach may be storm and ruin in the West, unless you know what you are about.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Following the slow tank at a discreet distance, I had ridden my bike from Indian Village on the East Side all the way to the West. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My real parents and brothers and sisters live far away—farther away than West Virginia or even Ohio. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “Those were the girls who lived in a garden at the edge of the West. With the golden apple tree and a dragon guarding it.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z West Riding, scarcely five miles from the Royal City, was known far and wide as the staging ground for the Royal Hunt — and hunting season had already begun. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dear son,” said Aslan, “I will tell you what you must do. Turn and look to the West and tell me what do you see?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Mary and her family had spent the years after the Riots in a house on McCulloh Street, one of the central arteries in West Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Mixed in with all the college students and farm boys and out- of-work loggers, there were grizzled hard-rock miners from all over the West. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I gunned my car and sped down the causeway, skipping from key to key until I arrived in Key West. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The boat shot forward and Washington narrowly eked out the West’s first IRA victory. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Well, certainly. The gods move with the heart of the West.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z At our next track practice, after we’re all stretched out, Coach West tells us what specific events she wants us to train for. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Coach West just smiles and pats my shoulder before running off to deal with some other runner. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The title of the book was East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The infamous tangle of narrow streets and minor waterways known as the Barrel was bracketed by two major canals, East Stave and West Stave, each catering to a particular clientele. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Everyone, and I mean everyone, is going to be there. It’s at this fancy loft in the West Loop.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “I’ve never seen you with gel in your hair, West,” she said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Everyone in Key West was crazy for it. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Key West’s best businesses were gambling and liquor. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The two professors run their speed-dating nights at the back of the West End Bar on Broadway, across the street from the Columbia campus. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z That’s what folks were calling Mr. Stone—the Kingfish of Key West—’cause he was so bossy. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have to move that house to West Virginia so I was just using it to practice my dive-bombing technique.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I began to wonder whether West Indian Archie might not be right. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z That is too weird to handle, West, and I'm not saying it was your fault or anything. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z More than most, they were open to breaking the color barrier by integrating a West Computer into their group. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The Andes, West Africa’s kingdoms, and the mouth of the Mississippi River lay only about 1,200, 1,500, and 700 miles, respectively, from societies with writing in Mexico, North Africa, and Mexico, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was going to bribe every kid in Key West with Mrs. Albury’s divinity. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Many families were opening their homes to receive West Bank refugees. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z But I really decided to go out West and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The students of West Oakland High converged on Reg, and before Moss could react, they had grabbed ahold of his wheelchair. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The bar has four taps, but I know which ale West Indian Archie likes. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z At West Virginia University, students cried in each other’s arms, phoned their parents to say good-bye forever, and hid in the dormitory basement. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z From my reading of Marxist literature and from conversations with Marxists, I have gained the impression that Communists regard the parliamentary system of the West as undemocratic and reactionary. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The only factor that prevented horses from spreading beyond West Africa was trypanosome diseases borne by tsetse flies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Four flagrant examples are the comparison of South Korea with North Korea, the former West Germany with the former East Germany, the Dominican Republic with Haiti, and Israel with its Arab neighbors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He had died of fever in the West Indies. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mingo was a stoutly made man of middle stature, with a West Indian complexion that was livened by his red checkered suit tonight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I remembered once he was involved with a pen-pal program and got a letter from some kid in Logan, West Virginia. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The West End had grades from third to eighth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Southern West Virginia society did not allow for barging in on strangers in the middle of the night, no matter what the situation. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Nalle was rapidly driven to Schenectady and from there he went on to the West—and safety. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z West Point guarded the Hudson River, a prize that the Americans held and the British desperately wanted. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Fully 70 percent of men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five in the impoverished and overwhelmingly black North Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side are saddled for life with a criminal record. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Hundreds of steel cylinders, each of them six feet in diameter, were manufactured specially in Virginia and then transported by ship to the West German port of Bremerhaven. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z What if the meanest grown-up in Key West was also the only one telling the truth? Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z He and the cop had somehow become a team; this was the fifth person they’d carried over from West Broadway. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The antiunion coalfields of West Virginia came close to the feudal systems of the Middle Ages, where the lower classes worked for landowners and remained indebted to them for life. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z In West Baltimore, white people were a rare sight, so White Boy took the brunt of constant teasing. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z For a moment it wavered, looking to the West; but out of the West came a cold wind, and it bent away, and with a sigh dissolved into nothing. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But I am realizing that, just as in Key West, one job will never be enough. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked down to a place called the Java Moose on West 43rd. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The Red scares and Communist hysteria of the late 1940s and early 1950s destroyed reputations, lives, and livelihoods, as Matilda West’s situation proved. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z British generals saw West Point as a key to victory. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “They also said there will be Carib Indians on the islands in the West Indies,” Richard continues. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z By midmorning they were within Oakwald Forest, the wood that surrounded Endovier and served as a continental divide between the “civilized” countries of the East and the uncharted lands of the West. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Try focusing on the first hurdle,” Coach West says. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z And she bought one from a Santa Fe gift shop during a trip the little family made out West during the Great Depression. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There were guidebooks to Key West but none of them gave his address. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z And few places in the country were as chaotic as Osage County, where the unwritten codes of the West, the traditions that bound communities, had unraveled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Coach West asks, like it is no big deal. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Born and bred West Virginians, it seemed to me, had a suspicion of anything that was too much fun, as if it were maybe a sin. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Buffalo Bill, resplendent in white buckskin and silver, was there to greet him, along with the rest of the Wild West company and ten thousand or so residents of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It’s called When the West Was Theirs, and I can’t wait to be a part of it. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We were in the West Coast epicenter of the military as they shipped men and equipment across the Pacific to Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z On his journey past Chattana City, Pong had gotten a brief view of the other colors, too: Blue, Amber, Jade, and—on the West Side—Gold. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Last year I was the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz” “But that’s a movie, not a book.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z She lives on some obscure street in West Amsterdam, and none of us know where it is. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z But their leadership voted not to challenge Roosevelt’s order allowing the government to “exclude” people—namely, Nikkei—from “military areas”—namely, the West Coast, where most of the Nikkei lived. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In the West End there was a room for each grade—third, fourth, and fifth on the ground floor, six, seventh, and eighth on the second floor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And this void, this despair, this torment is felt everywhere in the West, from the streets of Stockholm to the churches of New Orleans and the sidewalks of Harlem. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Then the taxi headed into the rural West Bank of orchards and tiny villages, each with its own minaret and perched houses. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z There were certainly colored bathrooms on the East Side, but with most black professionals concentrated on the West Side, and fewer new buildings on the East Side, Mary might need a map to find them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The kitchen crew, headed by a West Indian chef named Duke Vaughn, worked with almost unbelievable efficiency in the cramped quarters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z At the White House, Eleanor Roosevelt dashed off a letter to her daughter, Anna, urging her to get her children off the West Coast. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “They know that Mount Othrys is rising in the West. They know of Atlas’s attempt for freedom, and the gathering armies of Kronos. We have voted to act.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Sunrise was only an hour away, but the streets were crowded as she wended her way from East to West Stave. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The Panic of 1907 destroyed his Wild West and forced him to hire himself out to circuses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We must depart into the West, or dwindle to a rustic folk of dell and cave, slowly to forget and to be forgotten.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z You belong here, I told myself firmly as I walked between the small tents at the Wild West Show. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z West Indian Archie’s territory for sure, but I don’t figure it matters. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z We find Coach West and tell her I’m good to go. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z West of the stadium, a vast, flat assembly area, the Maifeld, had been leveled and a great limestone bell tower was being erected. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Coach West comes over and gives us a group hug. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “For heaven’s sake, Homer, remain calm,” I heard Mom tell Dad in the kitchen when the coaches from West Virginia University were there. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z For a black woman, there was exactly one track: it began at the back of the West Area computing office and ended at the front, where Dorothy Vaughan now sat. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And on the backboard of a basketball hoop at the West Side court, I suggested he write it in gang script. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z By securing jobs in Langleys West Computing section, they now had pledged one of the world’s most exclusive sororities. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But the driver, Michael, was a cheerful West Indian lad who took my case and made a fuss of sliding the front passenger seat forward for me. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Murray swore that Hollywood actors were visiting Key West. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z West Germans looking through a hole punched out of the Berlin Wall, January 5, 1990. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The House of the White Rose was one of the more luxurious establishments on West Stave. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The wind of the world blew now from the West, and the great clouds were lifted high, floating away eastward; but still only a grey light came to the dreary fields of Gorgoroth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They could move back to West Virginia or Phoenix. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z So the winds drove this wreck over the deep, East Wind and North Wind, then South Wind and West, coursing each in turn to the brutal harry. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Several days before the grand hunt, Ash began to see wagons full of crates and rugs and rolled-up canvases driving down the road from West Riding into the Wood. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Pained by what he saw as his country's decline, Gordievsky believed that his country's only hope for survival was to lose out to the West and to open itself up to democratic ideas. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Hull even had an office on campus, a place Moss had strenuously tried to avoid in his time at West Oakland High. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Coach West blows her whistle, and we all start practicing. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z All the land now brooded as at the coming of a great storm: for the Captains of the West had passed the Cross-roads and set flames in the deadly fields of Imlad Morgul. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “The law-abiding citizens of the West Side have shut their windows against you. If your cause has any merit, why do no people of worth stand with you?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He ran full speed downhill for the West Branch of the Delaware, looking at rocks and trees for white streaks of bird excrement that marked a peregrine falcon aerie. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z However, even those barriers between China and western Eurasia were at least partly overcome during the second millennium B.C., when West Asian wheat, barley, and horses reached China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Its reputation went far beyond the borders of the city; Chicago was known throughout the United States and the world as the Queen City of the West and the Gem of the Prairie. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z There were few, if any, marriageable white women, and as a result, the overwhelming majority of white men in the West Indies had black or brown mistresses. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Most of Pop Pop’s people are either down South or out West. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z While she spoke with a throaty German accent until her death, he had the choppy spouting speech of the West Indians. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Chinese Ambassador, Mr. Huang Ha, a most perceptive, and also most militant man, focused upon the efforts of the West to divide Africans from the peoples of African heritage elsewhere. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My “West Point stride” was intolerable; his right foot flashed into the middle of my fast walk and I went pitching forward into the grass. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z On the night of Ulbrickson’s talk, cold north winds blew enormous breakers in off Puget Sound, pushing salt water two blocks inland at Alki Beach and along the waterfront in West Seattle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They traveled West, toward the sunset, along a wide and dusty road. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z So even though he was a rising political star as a young state assemblyman, he packed up and moved to the Wild West, where he had bought a ranch. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Entering the waiting Langley shuttle bus, Dorothy Vaughan headed to her final destination in the laboratory’s West Area. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z After the race, Coach West comes over to talk to me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z ‘Were the breath of the West Wind to take a body visible, even so would it appear,’ said Éomer, as the great horse ran up, until he stood before the wizard. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I don’t even come close to catching Carmetta, but when I finish my mile, Coach West clicks her stopwatch and holds her hand up for me to give her a high five. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Two blocks out Central he turned left past the West End School. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “For Murder Capital U.S.A., it isn’t much—just a depressed oil town in an arid stretch of West Texas,” wrote Newsweek. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know what to do, but then Coach West rushes up, all out of breath. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z In West Virginia, they were always there, setting real, physical boundaries between the towns and the people. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “My father put me in the army, in the West, against the Indians.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Coalwood, West Virginia, where I grew up, was built for the purpose of extracting the millions of tons of rich bituminous coal that lay beneath it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I’m a newspaperman from New York City, here to do a feature about the Key West story.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “Besides, these are going to the Middle West to Northwestern University.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then when he got married, I used to play tennis with he and Mrs. Antolini quite frequently, out at the West Side Tennis Club, in Forest Hills, Long Island. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z At our house, number 8115 Orlando West, a large party of friends and family were there to welcome us back. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Based on the West Coast, the gang was headquartered in Vancouver, with two additional shore stations. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Dark lay the vale before them, for the moon had passed into the West, and its light was hidden by the hills. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The boys were stunned by the size and grandeur of the West End after their background in a one-room country school. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That night, when they woke me up, it was half a day beyond West Indian Archie’s deadline. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If there were still people living on the Upper West Side, they hadn’t left their apartments since Saturday. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z When Coach West notices me staring at them, she claps her hands at me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z I stayed there, sitting, like a bigger fool, with my back to the door, thinking about West Indian Archie. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach West grins at me, waiting for an answer. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Among an obscure tribe in a backwater of West Asia on the confines of a long- vanished empire? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think there’s any farm without something wrong with it. Out in the Middle West it’s locusts, someplace else it’s tornadoes. What’s a few stones?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Moss looked out the window, watched as they crossed over the highway, saw downtown Oakland change into West Oakland, a neighborhood that still persisted in the face of too many changes to recount. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z By morning, the small garrison of American and allied forces could only watch as all of West Berlin was sealed off. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The rest began their trek over to West Oakland High. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “She told us about this slave ship full of people from West Africa. They called themselves ‘Ibos.’” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I look around to see if Coach West is still around. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Lily’s husband was West Indian, and they were members of the Communist Youth Movement. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Serious history was the West, and the West was white. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z A quarter mile to the east, pinched between the Nuptse Wall and the West Shoulder of Everest, the Khumbu Icefall spilled through a narrow gap in a chaos of frozen shards. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z But British gunboats fired on the barge that was carrying Arnold across the river, and he was forced to return to West Point. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Noel was from the Caribbean, of West African descent, and had suffered several such episodes over the prior years. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He walked briskly up West Third Street, trying to ignore the hunger that had caught up to him. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z You did not bring home a carved seashell from Key West or a miniature of the CN Tower or a finger-sized bottle of sand from Martha’s Vineyard unless you intended to stay. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Frightful sat motionless on a tree stub above the West Branch of the Delaware. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z "I ought to have dropped you in West Egg, Nick. There's nothing we can do tonight." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Thanks to their wet-climate crops inherited from their West African homeland, the Bantu were able to farm in wet areas of East Africa unsuitable for all those previous occupants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But Coach West’s smile glides over me like sweet syrup and makes my head go up and down. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z While at Mecca, I reminded them that it was their fault, since they themselves hadn’t done enough to make real Islam known in the West. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the only sign in the West Area cafeteria; no other group needed their seating proscribed in the same fashion. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z To work the colonists’ farms, slaves were soon imported from different corners of the Dutch empire, from West Africa, Madagascar, and the East Indies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In the early days, I had worried that someone else would take our lobsters, but Osh said that the Elizabeths were like the Wild West, where stealing a horse meant hanging. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “West Oakland. Well, assuming we can even get to that station.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He told me that not long before, West Indian Archie had been there looking for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z At a distance, the war between East and West—between communism and democracy—might have seemed like a simple choice between good and evil, black and white. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I go to West Oakland High,” he said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But just thinking it was a mistake, because I suddenly couldn’t think of anything else and found that, once again, Ryan Dean West’s brain was strained to its capacity with thinking of...well, sex. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z According to one freight bill, the Underworld’s billing address was DOA Recording Studios, West Hollywood, California. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Well, what classes do you have this semester, West?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Zero was at the heart of the battle between East and West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I had no misgivings about the trailer park in Key West or the motel in Maine, but the trailer’s door had a bolt, and both had effective shades and screens. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom Smith and Red Pollard, just in from the West with Seabiscuit, were in the Belmont stands to see War Admiral’s epic performance. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a college out West in Ohio that took female students—a real college, not a young ladies’ seminary. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The East End was blacks, the West End was whites. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Out West in Utah. Broke my back. Then I got smart.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They believed, as did all little kids in the West End, that he carried a hundred Mars Bars with him at all times. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Roosevelt was also known as the guardian of America’s land—a cornerstone of his presidency that was influenced by his time spent in the Wild West. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z It almost fully makes up the difference in votes, with the West Coast still to go. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He had a map of Key West spread out on his desk. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “That afternoon. We did some work on my car, and had a bowl of chili at the West Side Cafe. It must have been around three.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom Geisbert lived in a small town in West Virginia, across the Potomac River from Maryland. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That bit of information did not help very much—until afterward, when Washington and others realized that the “secret expedition” was the seizing of West Point by the British as soon as Arnold betrayed it. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The man who reintroduced zero to the West was Leonardo of Pisa. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “The Oakland Police Department is also ceasing its pilot program at West Oakland High as of this morning. The metal detectors will be removed by the end of the week.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Oh! Yes, very nice place. Very far. In the country. Lots of cows and grass. Up, up, up 78 West.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Catching a British spy, militiamen grab Major John André, who carries plans for the defense of West Point, given to him by an American traitor. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The oil production industry in West Texas had collapsed. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead the heat scorched enormous swaths of the Intermountain West and even portions of the normally green Northwest. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The end of the West Area Computing section was a bittersweet moment for Dorothy Vaughan. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Mom had bought each of us a warm coat at a thrift store so we’d have something to wear in West Virginia, where it got so cold in the winter that it snowed. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The market-place was an avalanche, like a scene from the Wild West. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “We just got the news this morning. Starting next Friday, July first, there’s going to be a food distribution at Morse Elementary School, on West Eighty-fourth Street.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z West was an outspoken advocate for black empowerment and one of the leaders of the local NAACP. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “You are definitely a West Side girl. You ever been to Watts or Compton, or east of Arlington?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Zeitoun headed to the West Bank to get a look at the tangerine bathroom. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z As the story of sixteen-year-old West Springfield native Rashad Butler develops, the city seems to be split in terms of which side of the argument they fall on in this case. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I hold my breath, because I know Coach West has a way of fixing things. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The early-medieval Renaissance saw them translated back out of Arabic and returned to the West. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z In fact, as I watch the Wicked Witch of the West peer into her crystal ball, I realize it’s probably the most comforting thing I’ve ever known. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z That she, Petra West, had just as much right to the Miss Teen Dream crown as all these other girls? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z For a time the roads were endangered by a fantastic creature, half man and half ape, that a traveller to the West had captured and brought back to China in a cage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So he turned and started walking north on Hector, right down the middle of the street, right down the invisible chalk line that divided East End from West End. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Buffalo Bill’s Wild West may indeed have been an “incongruity,” as the directors had declared in rejecting his request for a concession within Jackson Park, but the citizens of Chicago had fallen in love. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Or that the government should have somehow foreseen the freak hurricane in the West Country that had caused so much damage to both people and property? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Again, after an undetermined stretch of time, my mother announced that we were going to move, that we were going back to West Helena. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Stone was making a Hollywood movie called Key West. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the hero of an action movie, Jule West Williams was the center of the story. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z So I took off my sunglasses and fanned myself with the map of West Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you, sir, will be hanged when we reach the West Indies,” Master Wingfield says coldly. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z According to their own tales they were the original inhabitants and were the descendants of the first Men that ever wandered into the West of the middle-world. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Lots of kids have stopped to watch now, and I don’t think Principal Trask likes that very much, or maybe she just doesn’t like Coach West calling her Dorothy. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “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 The articles said the West Virginia primary was going to be a battleground between the two men for the presidency. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It must be to West Virginia what the Parthenon was to the Greeks.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Like we were outlaws from back in the Wild West days. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The number includes very dangerous malaria vectors in West Africa, the Middle East, Central America, Indonesia, and the eastern European region. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But under the code, if West Indian Archie had gone out of the door, after having humiliated me as he had, I’d have had to follow him out. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z West Baltimore was one of the intellectual capitals of the East Coast in the early twentieth century. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z As long as the West Point complex of forts was held by the Americans, its guns would keep enemy ships from ascending the river. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I woke up to the scream of sirens speeding up Central Park West, maybe one of the most common sounds in New York City. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Most folks in Key West were on relief. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z She said, “The Upper West Side isn’t free, you know.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She felt almost frozen when she at last reached West Riding, but she did not stop at Quinn House even though her teeth chattered from the cold. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z At Yale, Lawrence’s closest research collaborator was Jesse Beams, another rural Midwesterner—his grandparents had migrated from West Virginia to Kansas in a covered wagon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Most of the rest, especially in the West, retreated to a sort of racing underground, a series of leaky-roof tracks scattered through Canada and the few American states where the sport had not been banned. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother’s products were being sold by nearly every midwife and natural healer in the Mountain West. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was a night flight and Bull Meecham had flown from Ravenel to Key West, an out and in flight that would satisfy the requirement of four hours night flying a month. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Snowfall is never known there, neither long frost of winter, nor torrential rain, but only mild and lulling airs from Ocean bearing refreshment for the souls of men— the West Wind always blowing. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she told me about some other guy, some West Point cadet, that was cutting his throat over her too. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z No one sat in the seat just below the map, so he leaned in to get a good look, and counted the number of stops before he’d reach West Fourth Street station. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z But in reality, an invisible line ran down the middle of Berlin, separating the communist East from the capitalist West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I had left the seashore and was in the Great West when my father finally came home in the late afternoon. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex has the East, across from the Treaty Room, and June uses the West, next to the elevator. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But thanks to the odd mathematical and philosophical properties of zero, it would clash with the fundamental philosophy of the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I’m always dodging the cops as it is, and now I’m dodging West Indian Archie on top of it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z And West Riding itself was a world away from Rook Hill, which was small and sleepy and content to be nothing more than that. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been interested in the West, but Maine...? Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Grandma Smith was a West Texas flapper who loved dancing and cussing and horses. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z As rock-ribbed a Republican as ever was allowed to take a breath in West Virginia, my father detested the Russian Communists, although, it should be said, not quite as much as certain American politicians. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And that tall monster that sits beside the highway to West End, past Turtle Lake. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z It rains very little in the Dutch West Indies unless there is a hurricane, and water from the few wells has a heavy salt content. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit may have been a public and media darling in the West, but in the prestigious eastern racing circles he still wasn’t taken seriously. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Lee before him, a former commander of West Point, a courteous man, military, a marvelous horseman, another gentleman. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That winter seemed to stretch on interminably, but spring finally crept back to West Riding to suffuse the meadow in a glow of pale green. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z West Fourth is one of those odd streets that break the New York grid, at least my newbie understanding of it, where streets normally run east-west and avenues north-south. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Today, I walk up West Fourth Street, then turn onto West Tenth and head for the river. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Many of the West Computers, including Dorothy Vaughan, were members of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the sorority that Mary had pledged as an undergraduate at Hampton Institute. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Nana filled the courtroom with stories about the time she caught a shark off the coast of Key West, and the time she single-handedly uncovered a plot to murder the pope. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “You two never saw West Side Story? Tony and Maria. The Sharks and the Jets. Two gangs. Can’t mix. Boy from one gang falls in love with girl from other gang.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “Nah, Upper West Side. Well, we used to live on the Upper West Side, but we just moved back in with our parents on Long Island.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z With Dad drinking again, and no money coming in, Mom began to talk about moving east, to West Virginia, where Dad’s parents lived. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The waxing moon was riding in the West, and the shadows of the rocks were black. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z With the adoption of this philosophy, the West had no room for infinity or the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z By half past two he was in West Egg where he asked someone the way to Gatsby's house. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z She did, and by the end of October, just before cold weather set in, she was on her way to West Virginia, which was close anyway, according to her geography book. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He tries listening in on his mom’s meetings, but they can’t hold his attention, and Zahra bans him from the West Wing. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Death, that strange being with the huge square toes who lived way in the West. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z West Indian Archie had the kind of photographic memory that put him among the elite of numbers runners. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the West African state of Maradi had a central administration with over 130 titled offices. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So after three died on the West Side, Colin's parents began to read with him, everywhere and always—primarily in English but also from French-language picture books. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Then Carmetta uses Coach West as a crutch and hobbles over to the sidelines. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z It was the golden age of rock and roll, even for us kids in deepest West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z On the third day the freight crossed the mountains, and that was the time for unseasonable warm weather throughout the Middle West. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But it was World War II that transformed southern California into the most important economic region in the West. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Then someone more exciting than any Hollywood actor or fancy author arrived in Key West. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if Mars wasn’t letting on, Maniac could tell he was pleased to learn his fame had spread to the West. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Stations of the former West Berlin passed one after another. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z So the King of the Mark came back victorious out of the West to Dunharrow beneath the feet of the White Mountains. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The first European settlements in the Americas, beginning with the one founded by Columbus in 1492, were in the West Indies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She remembered a verse from the Koran that Mullah Faizullah had taught her: And Allah is the East and the West, therefore wherever you turn there is Allah’s purpose . A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Smith was the last of the true frontiersmen; Howard was paving Smith’s West under the urgent wheels of his automobiles. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I was leaving the Mountain West that night. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z At the same time, Truman issued Executive Order 9980, sharpening the teeth of the wartime mandate that had helped bring West Area Computing into existence. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z This was especially true of the cases against Conexco—a shadowy behemoth that controlled the rumrunning traffic on the West and Gulf Coasts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Most Haitians, who trace their ancestry to West Africa, have been exploited for 250 years, no matter what government was in power. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “And do you know why your dad is buying and moving all the Norvelt houses to West Virginia?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In West Africa, rhythm is complex and highly valued, and involves communal/group participation, improvisation, and movement. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z During those chaotic years, as the basic functioning of Kim Jong Il’s government stalled, think tank experts in the West were writing books with doomsday titles such as The End of North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The arrival of the domestic horse in West Africa transformed warfare there and turned the area into a set of kingdoms dependent on cavalry. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In February 2011, days after his break with LiNK, Shin flew up the West Coast to Washington State. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I can get you into West Point. I have influence. I can get you discharged so you can enter West Point.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Two days later the army of the West was all assembled on the Pelennor. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And when, once or twice, I did hit, always just some combination, as I’ve described, West Indian Archie paid me off from his own roll. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Would Coach West have a problem with me wearing it? A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z True, the $30 slacks in Key West and the $20 belt in Minneapolis were extravagances; I now know I could have done better at the Salvation Army or even at Wal- Mart. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the rainbow chaos of the East Side, the charged orbs of the West Side were all Gold. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z But in the Key West tradition of nicknaming, everyone called him TooBad because he was terrible at marbles. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly fifteen months after my first night at West Street, I would be released. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z As Equiano explained, “These overseers are indeed for the most part persons of the worst character of any denomination of men in the West Indies.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She had heard stories about the cruelties of slavery from the older black people around Martinsburg, West Virginia. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “You look like the Wicked Witch of the West from that really old movie...” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Coach West claps for us when we’re marching and waves at me, and that’s when I see she is wearing a black armband too. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Mom made living in West Virginia sound like another great adventure, and pretty soon all us kids had signed on for the trip. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Like her fellow West Virginian John Henry, the steel-driving man who faced off against the steam hammer, Katherine Johnson would soon be asked to match her wits against the prowess of the electronic computer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The cab sped around the comer of West Broadway, and the gray lady sitting in the middle screeched, “Look out! Go left!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z There weren’t many cars in Key West; even the folks who owned them couldn’t afford gas. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “Local residents in West Oakland are concerned about the installation of metal detectors at West Oakland High after a malfunction in the equipment momentarily harmed a student,” the man said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He began by mentioning something else she had told him, about seeing a friend on the West Coast who had welcomed her warmly but who seemed to be living a rather empty life. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She is doing her Mae West imitation just as the yardboy comes in with a tray of rum and Cokes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Over the course of the next four decades, the national debate over slavery and its expansion into the West was often framed as an argument over the intent of the founders. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Geyer now felt a pressing need to talk to the hotel’s past manager and found him running a saloon in West Indianapolis. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For four straight years now, coarse outlanders from the Far West have 1 dominated the Hudson,” Joe Williams of the New York World-Telegram spat out the day following the Poughkeepsie races. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The hints included Be friendly to visitors, Keep Key West as quiet as possible, and Do not soak the tourists. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish you hadn’t decided to drop out of West Side Story after you got pregnant. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He felt unfriendly toward them and irritated by their West Country accents. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He joined the Wild West Show, and while they were entertaining kaisers and queens, he brought death and suffering wherever they went. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z New Guineans tamed sugar cane and bananas, while the first West African farmers made African millet, African rice, sorghum and wheat conform to their needs. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z West Virginia and Virginia aren’t all that different, even though Virginians would have you believe otherwise. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z They looked at apartments together in West Philadelphia, Ifemelu surprised by the rotting cabinets in the kitchen, the mouse that dashed past an empty bedroom. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Me and Kermit had dug through steaming piles of garbage from one side of Key West to the other, looking for milk cans. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “We actually went to high school together. West Oakland High, too. Solidarity is important,” Teresa said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Actors, dancers, a Komedie Brute troupe, and the best talent from the pleasure houses of West Stave.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Take “democratic” England—when 100,000 black West Indians got there, England stopped the black migration. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Who are you, and what are you doing in this land?’ said the Rider, using the Common Speech of the West, in manner and tone like to the speech of Boromir, Man of Gondor. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Perhaps the hard flat light of the West was blotting out his birthplace. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z So then, there seems little reason why I should not undertake my motoring trip to the West Country. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She informed me that he was in West Street—the federal detention center downtown. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z A small number of blacks who had grown up in either Africa or the West Indies had had the disease as children and survived. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Out on the plains of West Texas everyone knew how the Panthers routinely bludgeoned opponents from El Paso and Abilene and Amarillo. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he saw against the Sun, sinking blood-red into a wrack of clouds, the black outline of a tall ship with torn sails riding up out of the West. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Closing the border between East and West Berlin was not the idea of the KGB, the Soviet army, or anyone in the Kremlin: It was the brainchild of Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's hard-line communist leader. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As the star of the West sank below the horizon, another star was rising: Islam. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z May used to laugh about moving here to Deep Water, West Virginia. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z But like just about every industry in Key West, it had disappeared. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Far off in the West the full moon was sinking, round and white. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z As soon as he got the post, he offered to arrange the surrender of West Point to the British for £20,000, a sum equal to well over one million dollars today. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z With a resounding smack, Zahra slaps a stack of magazines down on the West Wing briefing room table. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Nearly to a woman, the West Computers had decided they were going to hold on to their seats, whatever it took. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Do I know any West—oh, Farm Boy, it’s you, how droll!” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In many of the countries of West and Central Africa, the people love “bushmeat. ” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z West, the cattlemen, sheepmen, and farmers all despised each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Around the same time, Dorothy Vaughans relative, Matilda West, possibly the black computer accused of disloyalty, was fired from her job at the laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z While the general made his way back to West Point, André set off for White Plains, New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z West Virginia miners lived in nearly feudal conditions—their homes, schools, churches, stores, and even their politicians owned by the mine bosses. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Grandma Sands laughed just like the Wicked Witch of the West and said, “Honey, we got to talk. You jus’ be patient and soon’s he gets up I want all of y’all to meet him.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “West. To the coast. Thirty miles or so.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The shuttle bus made the West Side rounds, stopping to deposit Dorothy at the front door of an outpost called the Warehouse Building. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Coach West is smart, but she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z What we may hear as music in the West may not be music to others. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z West whispered to him, “That was masterly, sir.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “The wind’s in the West,” she said slowly. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Though there were some bodies on West End Avenue, Kevin walked right past them. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z A client on the West Bank wanted a bathroom repainted. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He was an old man, but he was strong like some of them old West Indian brothers. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1880, the Supreme Court intervened, striking down a West Virginia statute that expressly reserved jury service to white men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I was just going to take a slice of mushroom and cheese casserole when Miss Volker came out complaining about how some people were selling their houses to Eleanor, West Virginia. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I didn't want to go into population—not after what I had seen happen to Lucas in West Street, and what I imagined was waiting for me in Ashland. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z A first-rate Russian might easily abscond to the more affluent West. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Together, they all went into one of the West Computing offices, where Blanche was standing in the middle of the room, preparing for a 10:00 a.m. meeting. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Outside, the August night was sweetly cool and serene with just a wisp of West Texas wind. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The West is lawless as all get-out from what the papers say. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “You West Virginia girls are one tough breed,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Some years he found work closer to home at the Greenbrier, the luxury resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, which was a destination for wealthy and fabulous people from around the world. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z After her return, Dad followed her out to the West Coast. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I drove to a hotel in West Los Angeles to vote for your president. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Moss pushed the envy away as he and Esperanza stood on the crowded platform at West Oakland station. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Longtime residents have not forgotten 1978s infamous Night of a Thousand Flames, when KKK groups from all over the West gathered in the county and ringed the foothills around Chokecherry with burning crosses... Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I know from my Key West experience to apply for as many as possible, since a help-wanted ad may not mean that any help is wanted just now. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not with all the flooding on the West Coast.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “Come on, West. Don’t get all I-can’t-take-a-joke on me. I’m just looking out for you.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z That’s all the media could talk about—that it was the Wild West out there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Many of them end up at its satellite campuses, or at West Chester, Bloomsburg, Slippery Rock, or other institutions in Pennsylvania’s network of publicly supported colleges. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z West of here, where the war is already, where the humans are killing each other, the land is completely ruined. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Every reporter and docker on the West Coast wanted to sit in on them, and Smith was determined to keep them away. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Moss picked at the steps again in front of West Oakland High on Wednesday afternoon. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “He has more empty houses to truck to West Virginia. And knowing him, he won’t pass up the chance to make this town disappear so he can fly out of here for good.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The old West Indian tried to express defiance of them, and in a sudden rush a group of students sprang up and were after him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Just past West Riding, as she was walking up the same road she had taken the night before, she heard a merchant’s wagon coming behind her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I meant Key West. It seems Mr. Stone’s little experiment might be working out. There sure are a lot of tourists.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Now in his midthirties, Woody lives in West Baltimore and has three children. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Other examples of complex technologies that diffused east and west in the ancient Old World, from a single West Asian source, include door locks, pulleys, rotary querns, windmills—and the alphabet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Langley added state-of-the-art facilities on the West Side like the Seven-by-Ten-Foot High-Speed Tunnel and the Four-by-Four-Foot Supersonic Pressure Tunnel, machines that could blast models with winds that approached or exceeded the mysterious speed of sound. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Using cardboard cutouts of cowboys, Indians, stagecoaches, and horses I’d glued to sticks, I projected a shadow show about a sheriff in the American Wild West who had to protect his town from bandits. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z In the alley that led from West Forty-Fourth Street to the theater’s stage door. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She knows better than anyone else how much he gets off on being this close to the action, and she’s bodily yanked him out of the West Wing on more than one occasion. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z By 1927 the Cal program had improved to the point that Berkeley could reasonably contend with Washington for West Coast supremacy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Anyway, it was status just to be known as a client of West Indian Archie’s, because he handled only sizable bettors. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z With just her lunch bag and her pocketbook to take along, Katherine “picked up and went right over” to the gigantic hangar, a short walk from the West Computing office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The West Door to the Glade towered over them and it was open. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Unless I was to spend all year in Old Karhide I must return to the West Fall before the passes of the Kargav closed. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He might have tried protecting me, and I didn’t want him shot in the head by West Indian Archie. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the West the dying sun had set all the fume on fire, and now Mindolluin stood black against a burning smoulder flecked with embers. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A few seconds later the helicopter was airborne, flitting past the West Shoulder of Everest like a freakish metal dragonfly. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The only other place he had been was West Lafayette, Indiana, doing a term of research at Purdue. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stalin wants to protect himself from the West.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He must have followed Grigori from the Wild West Show to the White City, or perhaps he had been lured there without even realizing it, like a bloodhound led to a pitfall. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Here we are, a bunch of gawddamned West Virginia hillbillies wanting to be Albert Einsteins.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Coach West blows her whistle, and we line up to pick teams for softball. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z He himself had visited Antigua in the West Indies, he had told her, and he was acquainted with some of the plantation owners there. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It was a dismissal that would shake West Computing to its core, with possibly career-damaging implications for Dorothy Vaughan as well. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z For a while now she had been examining the archives documenting the lives of French slave masters and their commerce in West Africa. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z To the right, in the smoky distance, the president saw the banners of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West flying over the arena Colonel Cody had built at Sixty-second Street. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It’s the one Coach West got for him. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Prior to the Civil War, when West Virginia was still part of the state of Virginia, these ancestors of mine were slaves on a plantation called The Bower, in Leetown, Virginia. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z But what hope had the West Computers of making a federal case out of something so banal as a cafeteria sign? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Moreover, vast tracts in the West had already been promised to the Indians, whose response to a population of black neighbors was likely to prove uncharitable in the extreme. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z West Texas had a history of staunch conservatism, not to mention a virulent dislike of government as practiced by Democrats. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And even though he still acts a little tough and dresses like a fugitive from West Side Story, he is at heart the kind of person your mother wants you to be friends with. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Hector Street was the boundary between the East and West Ends. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The neighborhood of Key West where the cigar factories were located was called Gatoville. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I was alone in my one-room job on Manhattan’s glamorous West Side and talking to myself. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z While the East Computers had flowed out of their office and into the larger operations of the laboratory like a river, segregation kept the outmigration of West Computing to a trickle. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Earlier in the afternoon, I had collected from West Indian Archie for a fifty-cent combination bet; he had paid me three hundred dollars right out of his pocket. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "Black men, I'm proud of you," the West Indian woman shrilled. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Cherrie and the others especially enjoyed Roosevelt’s ability to tell a good story, keeping everyone entertained with tales of his adventures in the Wild West, in Africa, and as president. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He reached into his backpack and pulled out a copy of West Side Story, some play his English teacher was about to put on in front of the whole school. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Amy walks him through the colonnade and up the stairs, saying nothing, and when they reach the hallway between the East and West Bedrooms, he sees them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Some of my coworkers, in Minneapolis as well as Key West, rode bikes to work, and this clearly limited their geographical range. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Midway through 2009, my small team and I began coordinating with West Wing policy people and meeting with experts inside and outside government to formulate a plan. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It was not the style of teenage West Virginia boys to wear a hat, except the black-felt kind with a feather in it, and then only at dances. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton had been born on the West Indian island of Nevis, the illegitimate son of a down-on-her-luck beauty of French extraction and a hard-drinking Scottish merchant with a flair for bankruptcy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Slowly the sun fell from the sky down into the West. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Same way I got here. There’s a freighter leaving Key West for Aruba tomorrow,” he said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z So he told the kid about his first day in the Minors, with Bluefield, West Virginia, in the Appalachian League. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The horse never became established farther south than West Africa’s kingdoms north of the equator. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Coach West does have us do some sprints, and that helps a little even though I’m not one of the fastest kids. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z After I came along there were seven of us in the house in Manly West, a suburb of Brisbane. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z If you tap it just right, you can peel it back enough to find a message etched underneath, with the tip of a key or maybe a stolen West Wing letter opener. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In 1949, however, an unusual and tragic turn of events would bind Dorothy to the West Area computing office for the next decade. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He sat down to help me draw up a list of intelligent questions so I wouldn’t embarrass myself in front of this greatest of West Virginia’s native sons. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, copper smelting had been going on in the West African Sahara and Sahel since at least 2000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the West it took another century of experiment and debate before this evenly spaced solution for twelve, not nineteen, notes emerged as the front-runner solution. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Since I hadn’t seen the Middle West for a long time many impressions crowded in on me as I drove through Ohio and Michigan and Illinois. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was shot and killed by the Oakland Police Department at West Oakland High during a peaceful walkout.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She to Virginia of the West, me to The Angels. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The Christian Democratic Union, a non-Communist party pushing for reunification with West Germany, emerged victorious. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Dad had helped haul another empty Norvelt house to West Virginia so he wasn’t around, and I always felt guilty in front of Mom so I avoided conversations with her. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was ready to cross over, to give everything he could to his new allies in the West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Already the hour had struck, and at his great Master’s bidding he must march with war into the West. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I had thought there were many of them in the East and the Middle West, but California spawns them like herrings. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They toured the southern states early in the year, performed at cities in the Midwest and Northeast during the spring and summer, and also had invitations from Canada and the West Coast. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z I’m sure Coach West sent her over to check on me, but it still feels nice for Angie to be sitting next to me like were friends. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z All afternoon, we walked back and forth across Key West, trying to sell our gum. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, there’s not a lot to do in West Texas,” he said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I bet that the whole world would want to visit Key West if there were sword fights.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember your grandfather coming to New York, taking me out for Ethiopian, after which I walked him to the West Fourth Street subway station. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z On one occasion, when her mother was visiting from West Virginia, she’d had to take her to the hospital. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Coach West talks to Carmetta for a while, feeling her leg and her ankle. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z When he returned to the West End, he heard in the distance Mrs. Pickwell whistling her children to dinner. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mellon family had financed a hospital called Hospital Albert Schweitzer, named for the famous German theologian and physician who had worked as a doctor in West Africa. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Why he at first refused to come to West Virginia with us and only at the last possible moment overcame his reluctance and jumped into the car. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He also wrote Elsie Lavender, a Gary High School classmate who had moved on her own to Florida, to come back to West Virginia and marry him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “So I suppose you’re going to tell me he caused the hurricane in the West Country too?” said the Prime Minister, his temper rising with every pace he took. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z After a few blocks we approached the Esso station on the corner of West Market and Park Street, generally recognized as a catchall place for men with too much time on their hands. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Great. He can be so hard to shop for. Well, thanks for letting me sit a spell,” Coach West says, gathering her bags together. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Throughout the West, frontier regions that had long revolved around the horse were now dotted with sleek, modern Howard dealerships. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as Moss had lived in West Oakland, he’d never tired of this specific view, so he pointed toward the windows. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The Blue Note was on one side of West Third Street and the Village Underground was on the other side. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z For five endless, unbearable hours, Alex is shuffled from room to room in the West Wing, meeting with what seems to be every strategist, press staffer, and crisis manager his mother’s administration has to offer. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Why didn’t he go back to Bridgeport or the West End, where he belonged? Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The relationships begun in those early days in West Computing would blossom into friendships that extended throughout the women’s lifetimes and beyond, into the lives of their children. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z On the West Coast, however, Ernest Lawrence was developing his own solution to the agency’s dilemma. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The West Coast went back to packaged English. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Zero came from the East, not the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The padlock on its double doors was huge, more suitable for the gates of heaven or hell, I thought, than a little West Virginia church. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When Dorothy and the other West Computers signed up for computation classes in the 1950s, they registered to attend at Hampton Institute. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Coach West blows her whistle again, and I for sure don’t want to get in trouble, so I give Yolanda a little wave and keep running. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z If Cal gave it up too, the stewards feared that Washington would have little justification for perpetuating its own program without a serious West Coast rival. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z After practice, Coach West tells us all to huddle up. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far West than Middle West. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Frankie didn’t release my elbow until we had found safe refuge in an alley several blocks from the entrance to the Wild West Show. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Mom heard you might get transferred to the stockade in Key West,” I said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z You may have seen the spangled palaces of sin and fancy dancing in the false West of the movies, and maybe some of them existed—but not in the Salinas Valley. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “The architecture is too monotonous. I prefer the architecture on Central Park West.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The suborbital flight in the capsule Shepard christened Freedom 7 lasted only fifteen minutes and twenty-two seconds and covered 303 miles, just about the distance between Hampton, Virginia, and Charleston, West Virginia. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Most of the buildings in town look like they’re from old-timey days, maybe when you were young, with those tall fronts that are just for show, like in Wild West movies. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “How about the striking coal miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Havel had said that people struggling for independence wanted money and recognition from other countries; they wanted more criticism of the Soviet empire from the West and more diplomatic pressure. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I wanted to ask him about Megan, but I knew those would likely be the final words spoken on this earth by Ryan Dean West. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z If you lived in West Africa you ate cassava, yams, beans, and millet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Some in the West saw the charter as empty promises, but not those of us in Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Brandenburg Gate, a monument to the city's former greatness, still stood in the middle of the city, in the midst of a no-man's-land between East and West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The entire Ryan Dean West universe instantly collapsed to the size of a five-eighths-inch metal cleat stud, and everything I knew, everything I would ever know, got sucked into that pinpoint of agony. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Did Coach West remember how much I struggled with that stupid aluminum tube? A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The culture of possibility that Daisy Ford embraced and put to use so brilliantly on behalf of her daughters was passed on to her by the peculiarities of the West Indian social structure. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z However, once the West embraced zero, mathematicians began to tame the infinite and ended Achilles’ race. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Coach West doesn’t have to lean down much to be face to face with Bernard. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z West of town, the Tapajos pours into the Amazon from the south, creating an inland bay that at high water is fifteen miles wide and a hundred miles long. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That’s how I found myself racing through the streets of Key West, trying out the route. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Born twenty years after Elizebeth, Davis had studied math in West Virginia during the Great Depression, then struggled to find a job that used her talents. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z ‘I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The press briefing room in the West Wing is ruled too impersonal, so they’ve called the press pool to the Diplomatic Reception Room on the ground floor. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But as long as we in the West place on color the value that we do, we make it impossible for the great unwashed to consolidate themselves according to any other principle. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Anyway, it might not have been West Virginia at all. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z We live on the Upper West Side, which is about a half-hour drive from Beecher Prep, but it felt like it took forever to get home. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z District Court in West Palm Beach on behalf of thirty-one Florida children, referring to most of the plaintiffs by their initials, although they used my whole name. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He’d wrapped his scarf around his mouth, and between that and the wind howling down Central Park West, it was impossible to understand what he was saying. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The next-to-last set of African crops arose from wild ancestors in the wet climate of West Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The leaves had begun to change color, turning the ride through West Newton into a portrait of gold and rust. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Caught up, she began cracking messages in real time, many of them from the West Coast. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He turned his face West and trotted towards the tombs. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He looked up at the castle and began counting the windows to the right of the West Tower. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Most of the houses in Key West were made of wood and built close together. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagined pouring my bottle of water on her and watching her melt, like the Wicked Witch of the West, until there was nothing but a pile of clothes and a candy necklace. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Every Saturday and Sunday, my brother and I drove to Mike Nevel’s house on West Donovan to pick up the keys and the truck. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The girls’ work was soon expanded to include the Danzig area in West Prussia and Upper Silesia. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z |
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