| 单词 | operate |
| 例句 | It was also why he had organized the house on an efficiency basis, so that it would operate smoothly without supervision; so that the older children would be responsible for the younger ones. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Forced to operate on a shoestring, one black school in Durham squeezed 51 students into a single classroom. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z There was the same operating table, the same glass syringes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I squeeze my legs together, the girlish fears still operating in me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Once the doctors had him on the operating table and opened him up, they saw that he had cancer. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z A doctor operated to save my life by inserting a drainage system beneath my scalp. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I reasoned thus: Though English was my native tongue and America my native land, she, an alien, could operate a store and earn a living in a neighborhood where I could not even live. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My mouth seemed to be operating independent of my brain. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In other words, I operate in society as a man. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But it had one overwhelming advantage: allowing people to operate without having to explain themselves constantly turns out to be like the rule of agreement in improv. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Inside the center there are also operating rooms and veterinary spaces. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But to be able to operate at a top level with both adults and children was admirable. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There were hundreds of corpse mines operating by and by. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “What was wrong? Why did he have to operate?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z In part, that was because the Mutual, operating in the vacuum of the segregated and underdeveloped South, quickly assumed a range of functions and responsibilities far beyond those of a mere insurance company. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z All the same, he was not doing what he wanted to do; the son of a farmer, he had from the beginning aimed at operating a property of his own. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In a small fraction of the time it took her to form her plea, Our Father irritably countered that the Lord operates in mysterious ways. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Fannie worked at one of two sweatshops owned and operated by the Marx & Haas Clothing Co., the largest clothing manufacturer in St. Louis. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Since the beginning, the army had allowed the laboratory to operate on the campus of the airfield. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Unregulated by the government, it had operated without rules or oversight, almost as its own country, and it had done as it pleased. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Law enforcement arrested more than a hundred people for operating laundries without licenses, and every one of the arrestees was Chinese. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “You can’t operate on him until I admit him,” said a clerk. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Did they really operate this deep in Georgia? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A hospital spokesman said later that it was about 3:15 p.m. when Malcolm X reached a third-floor operating room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Barriers to re-entry, specifically the myriad laws that operate to discriminate against people with criminal records in every aspect of their social, economic, and political lives, must be eliminated. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “We’ve been operating under a terrible time pressure from the very beginning. Just yesterday morning, for example, I was a hopeless drunk and Fezzik toiled for the Brute Squad.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It had been felt that the existence of a farm owned and operated by pigs was somehow abnormal and was liable to have an unsettling effect in the neighbourhood. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z But in his opinion, by the time the two surgeons operated on Garfield three weeks after the shooting, the harm was done. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They were still the only farm in the whole county—in all England!—owned and operated by animals. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “They want us to operate in burqa,” the doctor explained, motioning with her head to the nurse at the door. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It was his mission to upset, mash, and draw out the metal into the useful things that made society operate: nails, horseshoes, plows, knives, guns. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The Nexus-6 unit which operated it blew into pieces, a raging, mad wind which carried throughout the car. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “It’s where they operated on him,” she answered. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z So White decided that he would be the public face of the investigation, while most of the agents operated undercover. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Ten,” I say, looking past the anesthesiologist to the operating room wall, my eyes landing on a shape that’s oddly familiar. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He had supplied them with hand-held short-wave radios that operated on a military band. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A man said that he was operating a swan boat with a radio pressed to his ear; a woman had been baking rolls for her grandchildren. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He was opened up in the main operating theater at Nairobi Hospital by a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Imre Lofler. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the laboratory, which adjoined the parlor, Dad, his movie cameraman, a nurse, and Dr. Burton were converting a desk into an operating table, and setting up the cross-section background and lights. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It was crucial for him to know whether the Paravan had any political support or whether he was operating alone. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It further rankled the westerners that the prejudices of the East overwhelmingly prevailed in the national press, which often seemed to operate on the assumption that anything west of the Rockies was China. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He literally flung himself around in his seat, yanked the operating handle of the door, and a girl in a beaver coat climbed into the bus. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z She operated on automatic mode, rising each morning and chasing us off to school as if things were as they always were, but she could make no decisions. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Surgeons had operated repeatedly on his crushed leg, rebreaking it and resetting it, but it would not heal. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The operating room is small and crowded, full of blindingly bright lights, which highlight how grubby this place is. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Chapter 4 considers how the caste system operates once people are released from prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That they live in the catacombs under her great castle in the forest and operate her fell machines and stir her great cauldrons and do her bidding from morning till night. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Is that fact pretty well known in the neighborhood in which the drugstore operated? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s get home. I wouldn’t eat nothing outta one of them dirty wagons anyway. They all operated by a bunch of bums.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is now definitely cancer, she is already in the hospital and will be operated on shortly. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors decided the best time to operate would be when I was about four and a half years old. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z WL I was young, before I could tell numbers and operate a scales and so record the weight of my own excrement, the men of the house daily performed this calculation for me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For real news, people turned to Andrew Brown’s Federal Gazette, the only daily that operated without interruption throughout the crisis. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Rather, they put food on the table by teaching chess, giving exhibitions, operating chess parlors, selling chess sets, and writing books and magazine articles that received small advances. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The doctor, a great Jewish doctor, a prisoner like ourselves, was categorical: “We have to operate! If we wait, the toes and perhaps the leg will have to be amputated.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They also took turns operating the machines that pumped fresh air into the bunkers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The armorers operated in teams of three as they loaded bombs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z After he got out, Herbert reached in from the small side window to operate the lever that closed the door. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a sort-of attempt to make a distinction between figures and tropes—the former operating at the level of a phrase or sentence, and the latter being shifts in meaning for single words. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She found an ad that seemed a happy combination of factory and office; operating a machine in office surroundings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the operating room, Dr. Grossman shaved away at the burned, dead skin, cutting away thin layers until he reached bleeding tissue. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “It had been sent to another island to be repaired. So there was a notice to airmen that the glide slope was not operating.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z This may seem counterintuitive at first, but if you pause to consider how the system actually operates this fact becomes obvious. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “We do not operate well when the important facts, the essential conditions, which limit and determine our choices are unknown,” Oppenheimer declared. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Come on,” said the one who was operating the scanning device. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Transmission was dependent on spark-gap generators that operated at low power, produced copious interference, and failed utterly in damp conditions. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Although I was still groggy when I came out of the operating room, I had managed to squeeze Mom’s finger to tell her I was okay. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z All the seal-oil lamps were lit, making the hut as bright as possible, and the patient was laid on an operating table of packing crates. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z His father was the chief building engineer at the Institute, the man who repaired and operated the hot zones. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They banded together to create the “Wise We Boys,” a network of reporters and dockers operating in concert to catch Seabiscuit training. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Lister developed a device to spray the acid solution in the air around an open wound when surgeons operated and changed dressings. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Dr. Han didn’t answer her, concentrating on getting Mija into the small operating room in the back of the clinic. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z It’s owned and operated by the same people, so we don’t even have to go outside because there’s an entrance inside the restaurant. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It'll keep warm enough to operate in the short term, and it doesn't need air for anything. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A functional circuit of genes was switched on and off, as if operated by a common spool or a master switch. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The slave catcher shared rumors of a new branch of the underground railroad said to be operating in the southern part of the state, as impossible as it sounded. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She’d just have to hope she knew enough to operate them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As soon as we see the thugs preying on little old ladies and fleeing when the cops show up, we appreciate how an army composed of such men would operate. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When the Mayflower landed at Cape Cod in 1620, forty-one of the men on board wrote an agreement for how their colony would operate. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Will this do?” she said, showing him the card she used to operate the barrier in the car park. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But I'm tied to an operating table by a pair of belts. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z But Haie is rather the executive arm, operating under Kat’s orders when things come to blows. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would not have permitted a student to question the way Hogwarts operated in my day.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Maybe he wants to see if you actually know how to operate one,” I tell DeVante. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z It could also be kept up indefinitely, as long as the wizard operating the orb remained immobile and kept both hands on the artifact. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Recently, details were published about a group of suburban New York City white housewives and mothers operating as a professional call- girl ring. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The enlarger was brand new and far easier to operate than the one his father had had back on Shogund Street. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z They were stealing money and goods from the gas station, and they were operating in numbers that seemed designed to intimidate anyone, like Zeitoun, who might see them or try to impede them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It wasn't a big company, just a small rural enterprise run by a couple of brothers operating out of a low-ceilinged concrete building. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Good,” he said, “we are taking you to the operating theater immediately.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then again, when he had removed his black mask and she had tumbled to him, surprise had been operating, stunned astonishment as much as emotion. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The new racial caste system operates unimpeded by the Fourteenth Amendment and federal civil rights legislation—laws designed to topple earlier systems of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Should not engage in any strenuous activity or operate heavy machinery. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The MS control the tops of freight trains operating north of the Rio Suchiate, where many migrants going to the United States begin their trek through Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z There was a jam around the lifts with trolleys waiting to get to the operating theaters in the basement, and others still trying to get up to the wards. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She showed her that a magnet operates within a field, increasing in strength the closer one comes to its poles. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z In the operating room I was given anesthesia, and the next thing I recalled was waking up in a room with the doctor present. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These causes do not operate singly, and as a rule all four of them are present in some degree. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But his standard operating procedure is to ignore me. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z They work varied shifts, because the crow’s nest operates twenty-four hours a day. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Working as a lawyer in South Africa meant operating under a debased system of justice, a code of law that did not enshrine equality but its opposite. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He begged the doctors not to operate, even though they told him that it was a relatively simple procedure and cautioned him of the dangers involved in not operating. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Now that he can walk, we dance together to cumbia tunes on the stereo—which, like the television, I’m not supposed to touch, but could operate blindfolded. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want you all to get used to the idea of operating alone.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Already skilled at handling small guns, the boys quickly learned to operate the flak, the larger 88-mm antiaircraft cannon. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I was also operating, for the first time ever, without the tacit protection of my older brother. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In a matter of days Bush Hill was put into decent operating order, and the spirits of the patients began to improve. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z At first, my mom and I operate on our own schedules and in the evenings it’s like someone’s come in and divided the house with red tape. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z But for an outsider who had no idea how the system operated, it was next to impossible. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But who was it on the operating table? And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z After surveying the ground, Snowball declared that this was just the place for a windmill, which could be made to operate a dynamo and supply the farm with electrical power. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The Reverend Ralph Abernathy took the pulpit and read a resolution asking that all citizens refrain from riding buses operated by Montgomery City Lines, Inc. “All in favor of the motion, stand,” Abernathy said. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Wallace claimed it was his state’s constitutional right, not the federal government’s right, to operate Alabama’s public schools, colleges, and universities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I climbed the steep snow-packed street in dusk to the College and was admitted and shown how to operate the public-use transmitter. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Please understand, though, there’s a significant chance Robert could die while we’re operating.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z If the federal government was to continue to operate, then Congress would have to meet in Philadelphia, whether or not the deadly fever was still present. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Many doctors tested drugs on slaves and operated on them to develop new surgical techniques, often without using anesthesia. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Then again, the well-being of those who would operate the electric chair probably never entered the minds of its promoters. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Although we cannot yet be certain, the same processes that led on Earth to the evolution of life and intelligence should have been operating throughout the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same time, not unrelated, machines were being put to important scientific use: Researchers were trying to measure the ability of pilots and soldiers to sustain their focus while operating the advanced weaponry. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z How is the teahouse continuing to operate without raising alarm? The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It’s as if they operate in two realities simultaneously. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z This may be how everyone else operates, but this is not how I usually operate. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Originally operated by the Russian Air Force, Star City is now under the control of Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Most of all I remember the three of them operating during that time as if they were a single person, sharing a single meal, a single body, a single silence, and a single fear. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Epidemics are a function of the people who transmit infectious agents, the infectious agent itself, and the environment in which the infectious agent is operating. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like being on an operating table, in the full glare; like being on a stage. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole Institute was lit up with activity, all the hot labs full of people and operating around the clock. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The High Organ also operated a cell system, with each cell consisting of three members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Racism operated as a deeply held belief system based on “truths” beyond question or doubt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Initially, the surgeons hadn't wanted to operate on Garfield to search for the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z These poets assured me that the PG County police were not police at all but privateers, gangsters, gunmen, plunderers operating under the color of law. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Farmer was forty now, a medical superstar, and he had the credentials to operate in the way Hiatt envisioned, the way that Jim Kim liked to operate—on an executive level. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He even gave them instructions on how to operate a train engine, just in case. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I sent out my ambassador and drank a cup of coffee while I gave him time to operate. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes meet Gale’s for just a moment, but it’s long enough for two people who operate the way we do. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z My brain runs on a different operating system from other people’s. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z These were things that the doctors had to operate on him so that he could do them. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Pong could sit at the back of the boat and operate everything all at once. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The only people who aren’t white are the ones operating the elevators. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I had become a public symbol of rebellion and struggle; Walter operated behind the scenes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He would see her on the porch working at the sewing machine, which she had learned to operate with admirable skill, and he would not even speak to her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He required fine character and a tolerance for gloom to operate in this pit. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z With a steady hand on Doha’s back, father and son walked out of the office, past the family weeping in the operating room, and to the front desk where Nurse Cha was sitting. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z After we had taken off our shoes, he showed me to the bathroom, all porcelain and dark wood, with running water and a toilet operated by a pull chain. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Through a federally funded job training program operated by Goodwill Industries, McNair found a $9-an-hour job at a warehouse twenty miles—two buses and a taxi ride—away. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was as though the masked wizards on the ground were puppeteers, and the people above them were marionettes operated by invisible strings that rose from the wands into the air. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The Institute hired him to operate its electron microscope, which uses a beam of electrons to make images of small objects, such as viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We must cooperate in order that the system operate efficiently. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “You operated on my mother and saved her life.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The operating room is ready,” the doctor said in a low voice. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d usually come in a day or two before the procedure so doctors could check me out and make sure I was fine to be operated on. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Quentin walked downrange to operate the far theodolite, while the rest of us piled inside the blockhouse after running up our flag. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Tom Riddle, who confided in no one and operated alone, might have been arrogant enough to assume that he, and only he, had penetrated the deepest mysteries of Hogwarts Castle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He asked Curly if it was possible to operate the machines without driver’s seats. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But they bowed to Sproul’s judgment that losing Lawrence would be even costlier, and voted to cover all the annual operating and maintenance costs that Lawrence had budgeted for the Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Setting up such an organized hospital was hard enough; keeping it operating was even more difficult. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “You would not be in bed. You would first take a sun cure. Then you could have light exercise. Then when it was encysted we would operate.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Parents who spent their days designing, building, fixing, and operating machines of transportation signed their sons up and gave free rein to their own tinkering instincts. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z "But we wouldn't lose Hermes. We can remotely operate it. So long as the reactor and ion engines continued to work, we could bring it back." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors told Mom and Dad they wanted to operate again in the future, but the hard work had been done. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z It was a pity now that he’d taken the house’s intercom off-line, but it didn’t operate on a secure frequency. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z One must learn to manage one’s emotional state in order to consistently operate from a place of resourcefulness, thus producing desirable outcomes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z One seamstress who regularly cleaned the superintendent’s room was Park Choon Young, whom Shin knew from secondary school and who operated a sewing machine that he maintained. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In addition to himself there were five other employees at the show—two men to operate the swings and take tickets and three girls to manage the booths. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He has skills developed operating heavy machinery, laboring over a stew of molten bauxite at Kaiser Aluminum, once one of the best jobs in Spokane, Washington, a city of 200,000. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z There are rows of operating rooms, all full of sleeping people. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They are tools that exist as notations on the page and in my mind; like the abacus, they transform the way I operate on numbers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z On the way home, we swing by the Hob, the black market that operates in an abandoned warehouse that once held coal. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “It’s going well,” she said solemnly, as if she were a doctor who had emerged from the operating room to deliver an update. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Sure enough, a young American soldier is showing my sister how to operate a seat belt—something she's known how to do since we were tiny. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We were being separated from the rest of the outfit, which was supposed to be operating further north above Phuoc Ha. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He dragged out some communication device, pulled up an antenna, and got it to operate. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Ah! and the marvelous plant supplying power to an area larger than many towns—all operated by black hands. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wouldn't give him nothing, Lana. He’s operating some kinda shake- down racket, if you ast me. If this kid’s a orphan. I’m the queen of England.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Before he could get her on the desk which served as the operating table, she kicked him in the stomach. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z After Neala leaves, two men in green uniforms arrive and wheel me into the operating room. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Also in Detroit, Palmer’s agents, operating without warrants, had arrested every diner in a foreign restaurant and had imprisoned an entire orchestra. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Let me out here, please,” the woman said quickly to the girl operating the car. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z It’s just that Fatty Bolger seemed to be operating a different version of it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Surgeon Leigh Atkinson operated to see what was behind the tumor that had caused so many problems with my face. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The Congress of the People represented one of the two main currents of thought operating within the organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a sign I probably hadn’t suffered brain damage during the half day on the operating table. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z After a couple of years, the Captain raised Dad to section foreman, taught him how to lead men and operate and ventilate a mine, and instilled in him a vision of the town. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Not directly. I cannot do that—the surgeon might take it amiss and that would not do; he must operate on Mother.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Natural selection was not operating on organisms but on their units of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She had operated a candy store until she got sick, after which she mostly slept or sat by the window, looking frail and weak. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the last two decades, genetic technologies have advanced so rapidly that we can decipher how several of these genes operate in time and space to enable these complex functions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But the equipment wasn't operating as he expected. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “The Human Heart,” recited he bitterly as if from some damp Lesson, “is a Muscle that operates through Constriction.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Much to his chagrin, it was discovered that the speaker of the United States House of Representatives owned and operated an illegal still. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z But she also understood that sometimes the world was just a little bit more complicated and grown folks liked to operate in absolutes. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Paranoid got tacked on about a year later, after I verbally attacked a librarian for trying to hand me propaganda pamphlets for an underground Communist force operating out of the basement of the public library. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z By Christmastime, we were all operating at the edge. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z While he continued to operate his farm as such farms were operated in the neighborhood, he entered on a new career— that of the old soldier. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z These laws operated to create an all-white electorate because they excluded African Americans from the franchise but were not generally applied to whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It operated at warp speed and had massive storage capacity so that he could mine the scientific world on every front, synthesize the data, and adapt it to his needs. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Another fellow and I would drive out to Long Island where a big bootleg whisky outfit operated. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But the operating chieftain, with deference of course to the patriarch, was a fine-looking man of about thirty-five, broad- shouldered and lithe, with the cream-and-berries complexion of a girl and crisp black curling hair. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They believed the suspects were operating under the assumption that the girls knew more than they really did about the dead man’s drug dealings. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Myriad laws, rules, and regulations operate to discriminate against people with criminal records and effectively prevent their reintegration into the mainstream society and economy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Here’s another solution: We watched as the surgeon miraculously operated with a plastic spoon. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z British readers of The New Yorker who assume that this august publication is in constant ignorant error when it allows “1980’s” evidently have no experience of how that famously punctilious peri-odical operates editorially. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z He said: “There is too much work. But quite soon now I will be able to do some of it. Then you must show me how to operate the tractor.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z When Wharton finished, a nurse wheeled Henrietta back into the ward, and Wharton wrote in her chart, “The patient tolerated the procedure well and left the operating room in good condition.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It seemed inevitable that the government would ban the ANC, and many argued that the organization must be prepared to operate under-ground and illegally. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Correct: Miraculously, the surgeon operated with a plastic spoon as we watched. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I brought him the rabbit and he took it upstairs to the operating room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The war operated around the clock—three eight-hour shifts—and businesses sprinted to keep pace. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Another county heard from. Are we going to operate or aren’t we?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A third thing we hoped to learn from Project Gemini was how to operate outside a spacecraft. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He reported that the tracks were snow-covered and that the trains didn’t seem to be operating. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “A factory cannot run without a firm hand. You cannot show weakness. For a business to operate at its fullest potential, everything must be in top order.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z These applications operate like traditional software programs and can handle a wide range of business tasks. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “Emergency!” yelled the doctor.“Take him to the operating room! Move! Move! Move!” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “When do you think it can be operated on?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Much racial bias, though, would operate unconsciously and automatically—even among law enforcement officials genuinely committed to equal treatment under the law. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Inside they were operating on all the tables. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The farm and the adjacent ones operated by colored interests were too big, too prosperous. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He said that for the past few days he had been paying attention to how the caravan operated, but that he hadn’t learned anything new. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In principle, one expects the chain of causation to operate in both directions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Amanda stopped with a look of horror when they came to the door of the operating room: she had seen the instruments and the gynecological table. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides killing seven people, the Shuttle has been a disappointment in that it has been more expensive to operate than its fans had hoped. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother gave me the money to have my blue serge suit tailored, and I learned to fill out work cards, operate the money changer and punch transfers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They turned out to be a gang of junior-level crack dealers who operated out of the building, and they were not happy to see him. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z "Can his makeshift rover operate at twenty percent power?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Far from being a racist, Grabarek had begun his term of office with the best possible intentions—a decent man operating within a bad system. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But this was very different from the idea of a human body being operated by some kind of guiding spirit which controlled its activities from minute to minute. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “This is my last night in the machine shop. He reassigned me to the mine. I’ll be operating a loader on the evening shift.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The Dancing Trout Dude Ranch and Health Spa had been operating on the Devine estate up in Milagro Canyon ever since the early twenties. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was owned and operated by my uncles, but when they moved on to start a home-appraisal business, my dad bought them out. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It was an obvious evil and most of the games were operated by Chinese. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z This must be my cue to name a few names, because this is how Ted operates, my coworkers claim—through snitches and by setting up one woman against another. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she wasn’t tough enough to whip Mr. Griswald, but she could drive a dump truck and operate a bulldozer as good as any man. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Bentley told all: She named names, exposed her Russian contacts, and painted a shocking picture of a vast communist conspiracy operating in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Electricity, he said, could operate threshing machines, ploughs, harrows, rollers, and reapers and binders, besides supplying every stall with its own electric light, hot and cold water, and an electric heater. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The sound effects team operated their equipment from a spot where they could see Welles, too. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Equally important, though, the sole-factor test ignores the ways in which seemingly race-neutral factors—such as location—operate in a highly discriminatory fashion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Seldom if ever does Nature operate in closed and separate compartments, and she has not done so in distributing the earth’s water supply. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Bentley was in deep, a Soviet agent operating quietly in the heart of the world's most powerful country. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This was the beginning of a major change in the way farmers operated and the way we get our food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He was responsible for about fifty machines and the seamstresses who operated them. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z As long as the muvuki maintained his supremacy, he was quite willing to let a Catholic trader operate in the same area. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Surgeons continued the common habit of holding a knife between their teeth to free their hands while operating. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “I hear someone operating a candy machine in the subway,” said Ear. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The machine we rent requires real upper body strength to operate, especially when it is attacking hard ground. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Reckless driving: “operating a vehicle in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of person or property.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Here was a way to have a part in making the big decisions, of seeing through the mystery of how the country, the world, really operated. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The strain and pressure of operating Bush Hill might have driven less dedicated individuals to give up or ask for replacements. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The AEC chairman could not imagine how a bifurcated weapons program would operate or how the reduction in responsibility for the Super would affect morale on the New Mexico mesa. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Assumption Church, which at that time operated out of a small storefront on Hart Street, was still less than a quarter full. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Those of us in the civil rights community are not immune to the racial stereotypes that pervade media imagery and political rhetoric; nor do we operate outside of the political context. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But Papin had made and operated his first engine in Germany. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As the sentence stands, the opening word, miraculously, refers to the watching, not the operating. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I can't do this myself for all kinds of reasons, not the least of which is that you have to be eighteen years old to even legally operate the equipment. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z To operate it, a stone is put in the strap; the ends of the strings are held and whirled above the head. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His father was employed for many years at a manufacturing plant operated by Crown Cork & Seal, which makes beverage cans. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He was airlifted to Children’s Hospital in Phoenix, where he was operated on. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Doctors in sterile white, masked and gloved, already prepped to operate, go into action. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “And if you and your fluorescent uniform don’t get out of my way, I’ll yank your operating license and have you thrown into the cells for obstructing an LEP officer.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z When you picked up objects, opened doors, or operated vehicles, the haptic gloves made you feel these nonexistent objects and surfaces as if they were really right there in front of you. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He seriously talks about wearing one of those doctor masks over his face while we “operate.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z It explained that the latest operating system enabled owners to charge their phones by placing them in a microwave oven. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z All of his various bits were in good operating condition. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He wanted to stand, to open the door, but it was like four different people were trying to operate his body at the same time. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Back here there were fancy shops and high-toned bars, still operating. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But over the decade following the riot, gangs and organized crime continued to operate unchecked by the mayor, angering enough citizens that Thompson was voted out in 1931, never to hold office again. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Many cultures on earth operated not with two genders but with three. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Quite right, we’re operating to a very tight schedule,” said Dedalus, nodding at his watch and tucking it back into his waistcoat. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “And trying to figure out some dumb riddle. And Tee is acting the fool and making the rest of us cringe as per standard operating procedures.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I would never learn to operate those machines as long as those two white men in there stood by them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve had to operate in such secrecy—it hasn’t been safe for anyone to know more than one or two contacts.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I understand that the factory is not working at capacity currently, and I did observe that only one of these devices was operating, burning coal and what looked like one of the cutting tables. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he would come out of it, and the two would go out to dinner, then plunge into writing some program or into a long battle over which operating system was superior. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So you figured they must be gettin it on the operating table. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z If the computer’s operating system was rewritten, computer scientists realized, the machine’s time could be shared; the computer could be trained to handle hundreds of tasks at the same time. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z We’ll rig up an operating room in the laboratory here, and take pictures of Burton.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe your brain works on a different operating system from other people’s like mine and you’ve worked it out too. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don’t know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z When Napoleon was calculating how to get sugar without having to fight the English fleet, a couple of beet-sugar factories had begun operating around Europe. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “The first case operated on under the sterilization law” had gone just as planned, and the patient was discharged in excellent health, Bell wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They operated every night, but I never saw them because I went to bed so early and our block was well in from the perimeter. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z So he was back into the old mode by which the Congolese economy had operated for centuries, sticking near the shoreline and punting the pirogue. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton resisted the recommendation, arguing quite plausibly that such a specific proposal was inappropriate for an address designed to operate at a higher altitude. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The third supposition is, That these attractive powers are so much the more powerful in operating, by how much the nearer the body wrought upon is to their own Centers. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “I think it has to do with who they are assisting and whether that Holy Being operates during the day or night.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z And I say, Yessuh, and he say, Well, you better tell em he your high yellow cause that colored doctor won’t operate on a white boy in a Negro hospital. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “They say wounded soldiers will be brought via train if the railways are still operating. Several claim the Russians have already bombed the entire track.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Thirteen machines of thirty-five inches or more had been commissioned or were already operating in the United States by late 1939. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Someone who will not plead, or explain, or think he can alter my design with entreaties, because he alone really knows how I operate. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Shall I send for a technician to operate it?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Her mind functioned like a wooden mind, her body moved crookedly like a badly operated marionette, but she went steadily about her business. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z So that’s how the largest manufacturer of androids operates, Rick said to himself. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z But eventually she begins to respond to him, cackling when he tickles her stomach, or pushes her in a swing operated by a noisy crank, or when he cries out “Peekaboo.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Is it possible the same pattern of special opportunities operate in the real world as well? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “All right. Rain. I’m admitting you now. We’ll operate in the morning. And I’ll call social services to see what arrangements can be made for your grandson.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Block Two, we will walk back to our Mercury Homes together. Remember, we operate as a team.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He placed a cushion on the operating table, which was really just a desk repurposed from the former school, and I laid the bonobo down on it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z There are always better Net access, newer software, a continuous stream of updates, a more powerful hard drive, a by now incalculable inventory of gadgets and gizmos, programs, graphics, and operating systems. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before going into the operating room, George told his surgeons that he wanted them to take samples of his tumor, just as Dr. Wharton had done with Henrietta’s tumor decades earlier. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was like old Mission Impossible reruns on TV: Your mission, if you decide to accept it, is to get inside this computerized robot, discover how it operates, and neutralize its effectiveness. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z The VC operated as guerrilla fighters in clandestine, deadly efficient groups. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z By 1610 Britain alone had about two hundred vessels operating off Newfoundland and New England; hundreds more came from France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At the time, the ANC did not have a single full-time employee, and was generally poorly organized, operating in a haphazard way. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know how the world operated or how much things cost. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And then, in one last, utterly futile gesture, Carter ruled that the MIA car pool was illegal and must stop operating. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Alex hears more about the tedious details of operating a sailboat than he would ever care to know and sends back nothing but: cool. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Their nonworking lives completely revolved around the Net, trading MP3s, finding software, getting their hands on new games, trying out new operating systems. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And they were all operated by different people. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Other times, you have your legs on and operate the way the world intended, except when you stumble or your legs start aching fifteen minutes after you’ve put them on. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Apart from movies, weekends were constructed around some new Net or Web project—trying out a just-purchased game, downloading new software, collecting and listening to music, installing a new operating system. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctor had decided to operate and there could be no discussion. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course it is all right. Why should it not be all right? Dr. Snydman operated on it, and he is a very big man.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The still operates on the principle of distillation: sea water lying beneath the sealed cone on the black canvas is heated by the sun and evaporates, gathering on the inside surface of the cone. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z From across the street, he watched the cars drive by the manned security gate—a simple red-and-white metal arm, operated by one guard in a wooden kiosk. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I was raised in the belief that these were obscure little engines inside my cells, owned and operated by me or my cellular delegates, private, submicroscopic bits of my intelligent flesh. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. I haven't been anywhere. I've been here all the time operating. Look, baby, this is your old tooth-brushing glass. I kept it all the time to remind me of you.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z They want to believe that their language and culture are so unique as to have required uniquely complex developmental processes, unlike those operating elsewhere in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I say to Frank, who is sitting up on the catwalk operating the spotlight, “Frank, that baby is smarter than half of my humanities class. Is this how things have always been?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z An ice cream vendor near La Arrocera adds, “If you turn them in, they get out, and they come after you. They operate by light of day. There is no law here.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “We do not operate well when they are known, in secrecy and in fear, only to a few men.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I have the honor of serving as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization operating in every Southern state, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Once the battery runs down, the electronics get too cold to operate, and the whole system dies. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I could die on the operating table, a risk with all surgery. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Because civil penalties and sanctions imposed on people with criminal records applied only to a few, they never operated as a comprehensive system of control over any racially or ethnically defined population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The courtyard turned into something like an antechamber to an operating room. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you die on the operating table while you’re having a nose job.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z What it means is that our attitudes toward things like race or gender operate on two levels. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z But if I were to take it, I’d also need to operate from a position of strength, on terms that worked for my family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I was eating some corn chips at the time, so I was using voice commands to operate the image-analysis software. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “He was operating the loader that got buried.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was pretty difficult to get online without using a network they owned and operated. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They are rewarded in cash—through drug forfeiture laws and federal grant programs—for rounding up as many people as possible, and they operate unconstrained by constitutional rules of procedure that once were considered inviolate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z These Old World superstitions had been banished from my mother’s conscious mind, but they still operated in her dreams. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Doctors felt it was inadvisable to operate, so he was sent home with little hope of recovery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “That is a button, which is a knob on a piece of machinery that can be pressed to operate it.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Herbals operate by faith. You can’t put your trust in a doctor, then ask the Lord to heal you.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z ‘But mine works on a different operating system from other people’s. And my wiring’s different too.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Each screen could operate independently or as part of a spectacular whole. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z They all laughed at the sight of the two workers who had been operating the drill. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He owned and operated Griffin’s Saloon on Main Street, and on a Saturday night he might refuse to serve twenty men he thought had had enough. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If doctors didn’t operate, Gey knew he would die within months. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “To-day you must operate. I shall provide. You are weakened already.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I figured Mr. Stokely would be great at helping everybody do their jobs better, and I gave him the title of chief operating officer. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The prison continued to grow and operate around its historical core. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernest Orlando Lawrence, overlooking the 184-inch cyclotron at what is now Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. shaken off the torpor observed by Livingston in midsummer and were all operating again. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But while I think I had a sense of Foxface, who she was and how she operated, he's a little more slippery. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We set up and operated our own government, we controlled our own arms and we organized our trade and commerce. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he was sometimes forward and forceful with some of his neighbors, he mostly operated as if the town were just barely tolerating our presence. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In the realm of power, Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z To spare her the embarrassment of undressing before him and to spare himself the pain of seeing her in tht nude, he helped her lie down fully dressed on the operating table. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Incorrect: Miraculously we watched as the surgeon operated with a plastic spoon. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Another investigator then caught Davis taking a bribe from the head of a local gambling syndicate in exchange for letting him operate his illicit businesses. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The doctor started operating on me before the drugs took effect. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z After nearly six years of operating at full capacity, there began to be slow periods, nights when the place was only two-thirds full, or just half. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “They are much simpler tools than the Whisperer, hardly more sophisticated than metal brooms. Otherwise my Executives would be unable to operate them.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Genes that operated on the same metabolic pathway were physically linked to each other: if you worked together, then you lived together in the genome. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The Dark World operates by no rule except one: Stay anonymous. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The Occupy Mobius encampment is bright with car headlights and portable outdoor work lights operated by generators. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Epidemics, Zenilman’s map demonstrates, are strongly influenced by their situation — by the circumstances and conditions and particulars of the environments in which they operate. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 This was standard operating procedure; in a crisis, the authorities inevitably started a disinformation campaign to play one section against the other. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the license plate shop where our gang worked, he operated the machine that stamped out the numbers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Fairies had not operated in natural light for centuries. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “One will operate out of Corby’s Tavern, the other from the Highlander.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “And too much time has passed as is. We need to go to the operating room now.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I was in the operating room on a ship. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z How I managed to operate the car was a total mystery. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z In the first part of the tower, there was the steering room where the periscope was operated. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z It has the drawback, however, that it operates—at least at first—entirely below the surface of consciousness. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He had messed up his cartilage so bad that they had to operate. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d actually been operating on about two hours of sleep a night for the past week, and it was beginning to take its toll on me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The other machine was operated by an equally impersonal fellow in non-stainable reddish-brown overalls. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z His reputation was international: when the king of Morocco’s wife fell ill, he insisted only TeLinde could operate on her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “No, he operates out of South Kensington. Want me to call him?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Those space pilgrims, an initial group of forty-five people, gave the country’s first manned space program an operating plan and a name: Project Mercury. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “You can’t go around talking to everybody and cheering and waving like that. It’s not how we operate. You have to stay serious and focused here. Just concentrate on your own routine.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The one doctor who settled in Odessa during this period, Emmet V. Headlee, used the dining room of his home as an operating room. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A Communications Corporation offered to teach girls teletype machine operating and to pay them twelve-fifty a week while they were learning. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She said they had only two doctors and both were operating at the moment. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Nine rings of coyotes are said to operate in Nuevo Laredo. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I’m going to be a veterinarian and operate on the biggest animals on the planet—elephants, rhinoceroses, giraffes, hippopotamuses. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When I started to read the story, all of a sudden everything hit me: “I sat on the operating table, shivering . . . my stomach flipped as I lay back and placed my feet in the stirrups.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He described cover names, fragmentary messages, traces of the work of Soviet agents operating deep under cover in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The woman who had lived there before us left behind an old- fashioned sewing machine that you operated with a foot treadle. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z For many years Keith Waterhouse operated an Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe in the Daily Mirror and then the Daily Mail, cheered on by literally millions of readers. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z “The chance of Robert dying while we operate is as high as one in four,” the doctors said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z When working well, the entire boat operates like a well-lubricated machine, with every rower serving as a vital link in a chain that powers that machine forward, somewhat like a bicycle chain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Is he going to keep talking that way while I operate on him?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I resist such analogies, but it is my preferred mode of operating not only in draughts but in politics. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a man who needed plenty of space, a vast terrain in which to operate. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z My operating the crane was one of a hundred disputes between Dad and Shawn that Shawn won that summer. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Who did, Mr. Deckard? Animal thieves? We just got a report on a huge new gang of them, probably teenagers, operating in—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t trust any of them, I can’t stand most of them, and I’d rather operate with just the two of us.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Some aspects of Islamic law are observed in Iran's legal system, but today the country mostly operates under civil law, ratified by the parliament. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It’s a good thing Martha had us aim for ninety percent at Nationals, because we seniors definitely weren’t operating at one hundred percent. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In fact, only by standing on a wooden box could I reach the controls of the machine I was assigned to operate. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Just like you or me, it is bound by the laws of the countries in which it operates. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The CIA operated covertly in Vietnam, as it did in many countries, and let the Vietnamese generals know the Americans would turn a blind eye to their plans. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But maybe he was too tired to operate a computer properly. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z "You Mindy Park?" he asked with the scowl of a man operating on two hours of sleep. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I’ll get some of those men in the taproom to hold your arm still while I operate.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I never think. No, by God, I don't think; I operate.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z As Sasha and Malia grew, I found that the pace only quickened and the to-do lists only got longer, leaving me operating in what felt like a never-ending state of overdrive. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He died before the twins were born—on the operating table, while his gall-bladder was being removed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z However, a strong thermodynamic arrow is necessary for intelligent life to operate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The new tank changed the cyclotron’s reputation from a device whose efficient management was something of a black art, toward one that could be operated predictably under almost any condition. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When the horses stopped, Jake asked a few questions and operated the mechanism himself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “But I’ve never had a chance to operate before. Which one is the scalpel? Is this one the scalpel?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In the opinion of General Russell, this was a job for soldiers operating under a chain of command. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Modus operandi. That’s how we operate. Mom tunes out with her knitting and podcasts. And food shopping, apparently. Dad travels all the time, so he doesn’t have to see how depressed Mom is.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z This was how I operated, five things at once. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Doctors operated behind my ear—for nearly eight hours— trying to repair the facial nerve that had been cut by the bullet. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Until waterwheels and windmills began to replace Eurasia’s mammals in medieval times, they were also the major source of its “industrial” power beyond human muscle power—for example, for turning grindstones and operating water lifts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His mind, in the words of one biographer, was "always operating out towards the frontiers, as far as he could see, and that was a great deal further than most other men." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Third, Eurasian societies enjoyed a huge advantage in their sources of power to operate machines. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Computer programming didn’t operate as an old-boy network, where you got ahead because of money or connections. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He operated a small tannery in a town in Massachusetts, which made a comfortable, careful living if he worked very hard. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The refugee camps were run by foreign aid groups, but it was the government that permitted them to operate. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d rather go to a machine which knows me by some code word but on whose operating programs a team of software writers has painstakingly worked for months. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The medal ceremony took place under the Wonder Dome, which, to honor the idea behind the second game, was operating in its spectacular Dewey decimal mode. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The surgical cases were prepared for the basement operating theaters. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At the Rad Lab, it seemed, one could get away with a half-finished research project, but shirking one’s nighttime shift operating the machine was a sin. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But when the same propaganda reaches into the hospital clinic and operating room to jeopardize the lives of the sick and dying, it is nothing short of criminal. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The guardian whom McAuliffe suspected of killing his grandmother was a prominent attorney working for the tribe who never interfered with the criminal networks operating under his nose. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He could, of course; the spreader was simple to operate. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The operating room smelled like a super-clean bathroom and was just as bright. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z James went to watch the man with the cigar who operated the ferris wheel. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “All summer and all fall I’ve operated. I work all the time. I do everybody's work. All the hard ones they leave to me. By God, baby, I am becoming a lovely surgeon.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He brought Hugo back to the museum a few more times and explained how the mechanisms operated. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z If anything, Jesse spends more time online now; the things that draw him there—games, weblogs, chat and messaging systems, open source operating programs—have become far more advanced and compelling. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She quit the beauty salon, set up a messenger service as an operating front, and ran all of her business by telephone. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The Rad Lab was starting to operate on an industrial scale, with graduate students working in shifts to keep the cyclotron running round the clock. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Adding to the intrigue of the illegal speakeasies were the rituals that were part of their way of operating. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “You would have to do something eventually. Mrs. Henry is al-ready losing much of her strength. The sooner we operate now the safer.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Then I selected the Indentured Servant Observation and Communications Tag control settings submenu, which operated both my eargear and security anklet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Did the woman die? The shikse he was operating on?” another man asked. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z These committees, just like modern intelligence agencies, operated openly by holding anti-tax meetings or printing propaganda and secretly by running spy networks. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the old, dingy operating room, Laila lay on a gurney bed as the doctor scrubbed her hands in a basin. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He yelled a question to Eric about the new operating system. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z These laws operate collectively to ensure that the vast majority of people convicted of crimes will never integrate into mainstream, white society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z All that remained was to visit the target building under operating conditions. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The platform was brilliantly lit again, like an operating table, but the stadium was almost empty, a few curious stragglers still hanging around. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And wind and solar require almost no water to operate and thus do not pollute water resources or further deplete the water supply by competing with agriculture, drinking water systems, or other water needs. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z They also expressed apprehension that the committee operated so independently. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Yes. 1 can’t wait six months to be operated on. My God, doctor, did you ever stay in bed six months?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Far scarier than any of my ideas is the fact that, at the age of seventeen, I was probably operating at my intellectual peak. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z "German battleships and submarines operating in the Atlantic sank 367,800 tons of merchant vessels from March 16 through March 23," says the announcer. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Molly leaned over Ernest as he was being wheeled into the operating room and whispered, “I’ll be here when you wake up.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Time doesn't fly—it flaps, the numbers turning on a wheel that operates much like the gears on a stretching rack. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “He has more than seventy separate hexes operating on him. You ought to untie seventy knots.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z That is how the European tribes operate, she said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Over here,” Officer Crams said to Rick, leading him to a small white table at which a technician operated familiar equipment. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z This was the salon that their mother operated. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The patient was on an operating table in the foreground. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later I’m lying on the operating table, the room dim except for the blinding light directly above my head. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Dr. Loofah scoops the cat off the stainless steel operating table. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Once used for locomotives that no longer operate, the wires still carry 25,000 volts to prevent vandalism. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They instructed me to draw up a plan that would enable the organization to operate from underground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even basic spells are difficult when one is not operating at full strength. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Of course, I had the rebuttal ready: These men had all been operating under divine inspiration. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z There is a similarly operated boys’ camp not far from us on the other side of the rice field, with approximately another eighty boys supervised by their comrade brother, or Met Bong Preuf. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There at the corner, in the front rank of pedestrians, was a surgeon who had been operating all day. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Although I am sure that there are call centers that are operated like sweatshops, 24/7 is not one of them. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z It was one of the many small riverside farms operated by the descendants of Japanese immigrants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But for some reason, I suspected that Mr. Avenovich’s avatar looked and sounded just like the person operating it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But they worked it out, all in a compact unit that a man could carry and operate with a hand pump. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z We seem to be the Church for the Lost of Cause, which is probably not so far afield from what Jesus himself was operating in his time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Engines and men had scattered as the fire advanced and were now operating on their own, essentially trying to save individual buildings here and there. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z His parents had operated the copper shop on Main Street, but Sam chose a different path after they died. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It’s going to be hard for her to trust an entire town to operate properly without her here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It wasn’t there when I arrived this morning, so Mr. Spizz must have sneaked over when I was on the operating table. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Nobody explicitly gave me permission to do this, and they can't until I'm aboard Ares 4 and operating the comm system. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s nothing like on TV, where operating rooms are like pristine theaters that could accommodate an opera singer, and an audience. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He would operate a sort of lantern, flashing signals in Morse code. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But the panels might be okay, and Sojourner can operate directly off them. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I explained how I’d seen Jesse install operating systems, play online games from chess to Quake, use astonishing ingenuity to gather archived information off the Web. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Passing her finger over the name in gold, Shirley pictured herself as a grown-up, saving a life on the operating table, teaching a class, building a bridge. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z By January, the calutron had been modified so that each one could be operated with pairs of sources and collectors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I may not operate a motor vehicle on medication. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Do we all belong to separate worlds, operating simultaneously but autonomously, so that the links between any two people, anywhere in the world, are few and distant? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The lab had been operating virtually on a war footing for two years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Layla, please don’t give them an excuse to hurt you. This camp is operating outside the law. The attorney general can’t even control it.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z They operated in the shadows of fear and suspicion, and they served at her command. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Smith, who operated under the assumption that all easterners were up to no good, didn’t trust Workman anyway. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1886 in the Pall Mall Gazette Stead had warned of the disasters likely to occur if shipping companies continued operating liners with too few lifeboats. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One of the doctors put a mask over her face and I looked through the door and saw the bright small amphitheatre of the operating room. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Studies have shown that racial schemas operate not only as part of conscious, rational deliberations, but also automatically—without conscious awareness or intent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I did not! I marked her forehead so it appeared like she was operated on. I put her in the stables with Rosa.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby’s invention of a new chess clock that operated differently from those traditionally used in tournaments had to be specially manufactured for the match, and Vasiljevic had it made. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In that case, decided in 1886, the Court unanimously overturned convictions of two Chinese men who were operating laundries without a license. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But the other side of the coin is that the British Air Force is operating around the clock. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z "Come back this instant. You know your father operates in the afternoon; why don't you go to your room and work on stock market reports or whatever you do in there." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z In accord with the wheel’s operating procedures, the conductor had locked the door at the start of the ride. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Livingston threw himself into his new task with characteristic single-mindedness, even training himself to operate the tube on some early patients. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z How could the War on Drugs operate in a discriminatory manner, on such a large scale, when hardly anyone advocates or engages in explicit race discrimination? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Compton relayed Lawrence’s words to Bush the next day, repeating Ernest’s dreary assessment of Briggs as “slow, conservative, methodical, and accustomed to operate at peacetime government bureau tempo.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They went on serving chicken, trying to keep operating for as long as they could, figuring and figuring as they went. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the two months that the innovative device operated, it used at least a half-million pounds of ice. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The Internet—given that its tribes don’t have any geography to mark out their separate identities—sees decorum operating in a dramatically exaggerated way. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “People will never make that mistake. Without a doubt you operate the most dismal bar in the city. May I interest you in purchasing a hot dog?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For years it escaped detection, but in 1939, two birders, operating independently in different places, coincidentally saw a Bachman’s warbler within two days of each other. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She dropped the tray, saw her tunic flutter from interior force, and understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, over anything else. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, it was owned and operated by a gang of thugs and bullies from the Protectorate. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He came and started wheeling me into the operating room. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He had read extensively into law and politics and understood that political machines operated on a first principle of power: If you worked to advance the interests of the machine, the machine paid you back. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When I remember seeing black men operating their own communications agencies, a thrill still runs up my spine. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The largest semi-steerable radio/radar observatory on the planet Earth is the Arecibo facility, which Cornell University operates for the National Science Foundation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so good, in fact, that it became—and remains—the operating system on which literally millions of computers around the world run. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Unlike New York’s other major law firms, all of which have hundreds of attorneys scattered around the major capitals of the world, it operates only out of that single Manhattan building. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z My mother wants to have the dog’s tail operated on again, and if it doesn’t heal this time, she’ll have to be put away. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She wasn’t using a word-processing program of any kind—in fact, she was bypassing much of the operating system—and whatever formatting was imposing itself on the words, it wasn’t hers. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Migrant children say the jail, operated by Corrections Corporation of America, doesn’t feed them enough. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Finally he got permission to set up his movie equipment in an operating room. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if I were on the operating table again. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Wherever the skipper operated, the enemy was put off by his tactics. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Figuring out how, exactly, to do that is no easy task, however, when your felony record operates to bar you from any public housing assistance. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Forget the gold standard—the hood operated on the cheese standard. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Martha stood up on a platform at the adding machine show, and answered the problems quicker than the calculators could operate. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z They had moved the switchboard to Miss Lucille’s house so that she could operate it nights as well as days. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “And I’m the only one besides Leo who can operate it.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Laws that said nothing about race operated to discriminate because those charged with enforcement were granted tremendous discretion, and they exercised that discretion in a highly discriminatory manner. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Jimmy Chance operated heavy equipment, which is how he and Roberta had met. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z My skin and bones will not age—my Bio Gel will simply reach the end of its shelf life and cease to operate. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z To break my paralysis, I reminded myself that the person operating the avatar in front of me might not be a woman at all. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I operated mainly from Johannesburg, but I would travel as necessary. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It would all be simpler and less bothersome if he would have really operated Lew Pants and put in an eight-hour day as manager. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But problems that require a flash of insight operate by different rules. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I grab a handful of Cheetos and feed them into my mouth one by one as if I’m operating mastication machinery, contemplating how to tell Fizz about the latest development on the Jeremy front. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Strauss was saying: “The problem, Mr. Raynor, is getting sufficient funds to work on projects like these, without having strings tied to the money. When amounts are earmarked for specific purposes, we can’t really operate.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The father, Matthew Gordon, who is not living with his wife and daughter, now operates a barbershop in the Bronx. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z We can identify the chain of proximate factors that enabled Pizarro to capture Atahuallpa, and that operated in European conquests of other Native American societies as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Barack had a life in Washington now, operating with some of the gravitas that came with being a senator, but I was still me, living my same normal life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The other engineer was Virginia native Clarence Douglas, who would operate one of the two side-directed waist guns, behind the wings. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I’d begun writing for a new website, Slashdot.org, an intensely geeky techno/pop-culture site devoted to the open source Linux operating system and to the open source and free software movements. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My job is to operate six machines that make screws. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It isn’t necessary, then, to know much about how a surgeon operates in order to know his likelihood of being sued. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The White House, one learns, operates with the express purpose of optimizing the well-being, efficiency, and overall power of one person—and that’s the president. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z At any rate I didn’t miss a beat—this is how I operate. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But watching out for Wickersham wasn’t easy, because he liked to operate with stealth. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Although Dad made his living by redesigning complicated machinery, so as to reduce the number of human motions required to operate it, he never really understood the mechanical intricacies of our automobile. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the day I need to be operating at one hundred percent. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Bottom-up attention operates unconsciously, automatically, driven by sensory stimulus and contextual cues. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The system operates through our criminal justice institutions, but it functions more like a caste system than a system of crime control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z After two hours, one of my doctors greeted Mom and Dad at the operating room door. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Not the routine, not just the fitting together of things that no one had guessed at fitting, not the making of connections; these are merely the workaday details, the methods of operating. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Peck used to operate by a code with people like Rufus. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z There was silence, but I could hear her brain operating. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “But Stella—she points at the pre-op doors, where somewhere in the distance, Stella is lying on a table about to be operated on—“Stella is fighting for her life in there. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z PIH brought in engineering teams to stabilize the capital’s badly damaged general hospital, restoring its water and electricity; when medical supplies were trucked in, twelve operating rooms were quickly up and running. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The communists I'd known in the past had always operated on the assumption that come the revolution, they'd be the ones lying around party headquarters with clipboards in their hands. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They are janitors and construction workers and garbage collectors; they make fabric and operate trains and drive buses. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Although funds for chemical control came in never-ending streams, the biologists of the Illinois Natural History Survey who attempted to measure the damage to wildlife had to operate on a financial shoestring. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The open box—filled with what looks like a fluffy plush puppy—rolls down the conveyor belt in a noisy toy factory operating at full throttle. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z If the number rolled adds up to ten, eleven, or twelve, I die on the operating table. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z It has become apparent to me that this outfit is operating behind the power curve.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Shawn surprised everyone when he announced that he wanted me to operate the crane. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Well, then perhaps you should operate as if he is in danger.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought it was a decent punch, nothing special, just something to give me more room to operate, but the metal monster shrieked in pain and staggered back like I’d landed a haymaker. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z TeLinde set out to minimize what he called “unjustifiable hysterectomies” by documenting what wasn’t cervical cancer and by urging surgeons to verify smear results with biopsies before operating. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Never did I seriously consider the possibility that a new racial caste system was operating in this country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The 125th Guards operated in the German region of Prussia, flying aggressive missions along the southwest of the Baltic Sea from January to May 1945. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In operating rooms, limbs were being amputated without anesthesia. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Soon, with Gey anesthetized on the operating table, surgeons opened him up and found that the cancer was inoperable —growths covered his stomach, spleen, liver, and intestines. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Shin’s father, Shin Gyung Sub, told Shin that guards gave him Jang as payment for his skill in operating a metal lathe in the camp’s machine shop. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Constantine lived about a mile from our house, in a small Negro neighborhood called Hotstack, named after the tar plant that used to operate back there. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I do not know how I passed the hours, for my mind was in so great a tumult, it scarcely operated. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The bin had to be emptied, and I couldn’t operate the loader—a massive forklift with a telescopic arm and wide, black wheels that were taller than I was. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But for nine years, South Carolina has operated as if this law did not exist. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In short, I acknowledge that it is much more difficult to understand human history than to understand problems in fields of science where history is unimportant and where fewer individual variables operate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A different mechanism seems to operate in a number of patients, both in America and Great Britain, who are suffering from a chronic form of leukemia. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the operating room, the doctors are debating what music to play, just like we were in the car this morning. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he took the elevator upstairs to the emergency operating room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He sensed its inner workings and, if the statue of Hygeia operated on a similar schematic, Leo might have a chance . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I was operating on my cousin Bulelwa’s ear with a set of matches when I accidentally perforated her eardrum. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In the back of the aircraft there was a separate compartment for the tail gunner, whose other job was to operate the radio. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I am operated on and vomit for two days. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t operate on your time, Mr. Bolitar. The bell has sounded. That means you leave the room. You aren’t special.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z In an open letter to township residents and policy makers, he criticized “idiosyncratic alternatives” to public districts, many of them “owned and operated by large national corporations whose number one mission is to enrich shareholders.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But in the neighborhood where J. T.’s gang operated, the path to a decent legitimate job was practically invisible. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She tells him that she works for a small firm, a husband-and-wife team who operate out of a brownstone in Brooklyn Heights. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Only trucks are allowed to operate, to relocate people and carry weapons to silence any voices of dissent against the Angkar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The doctor, the professor who operated, he said your eye is healed?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Against the sound of the train clacking along, the waiters were jabbering the customers’ orders, the cooks operated like machines, and five hundred miles of dirty pots and dishes and silverware rattled back to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I had some idea of opening the store and operating it along the lines that Anne had planned, but I soon gave it up. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Its function was to produce ice, store the perishable goods of exhibitors and restaurants, and operate an ice rink for visitors wishing to experience the novelty of skating in July. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The committee and its many subcommittees were in place and operating smoothly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Some other theory that this theory depends on may be at fault, some fact that has been taken for granted may be mistaken, or some piece of equipment may not operate as envisaged. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Dr. Z and her army of associates had only a few days left to smooth out any kinks in the library’s complex operating system. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z My father operated from a practical place, sensing that resources were limited and maybe so, too, was time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Neither of them could operate their home, their company, their lives or days without the other. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Olmsted got wind of it from Harry Codman, who in addition to being his chief operating man in Chicago served as a kind of spy, keeping Olmsted abreast of all threats to Olmsted’s vision. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z All day long I think about Erin and how strangers are operating on her leg, cutting it open, inserting pins or whatever to mend the bones. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Technology came first, because it is possible to make machines by trial and error without fully understanding the principles on which they operate. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But Margaret had been trained as a surgical nurse, which meant sterility was her specialty—it was key to preventing deadly infections in patients in the operating room. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Necessity being the mother of invention, black people created their own transit system, an informal network of bus routes, controlled by private associations operating entirely outside the law. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The poor drill wasn't designed to operate constantly for so long. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It had never developed, however, into a comprehensive system—operating instead largely as a matter of custom, enforced with varying degrees of consistency. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Benny, however, was the only one who knew how to operate this register. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Earlier, I’d peeked in on Day as the doctor operated on his leg. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “That phony curse was just a way of covering her tracks in advance of murdering those ladies herself. Believe me, I know how she operates. She says one thing when she means another.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “And our passengers aren’t supposed to talk about how the railroad operates—it’d put a lot of good people in danger. They could talk if they wanted to, but they don’t.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Ishmael lost his arm on a shipboard operating table to a pharmacist’s mate who had done only four amputations in his career, all of them in the past few hours. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Even when Mami went back to school, first to get her GED and then to learn how to be an operating room technician, she and the girls did all the housework. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z An operating tank stood in the middle, the liquid drained out of it, tubes and electrodes hanging loosely in a puddle at the bottom. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z While the British knew a lot about how the machines operated, neither they nor anyone else could tell Elizebeth which of the many billions of Enigma settings the South American spies were using. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They moved slowly and carefully in their suits, as if they were wreck divers operating in deep water. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I came out and stood in the empty hall and watched the door of the operating room. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z With Henrietta unconscious on the operating table in the center of the room, her feet in stirrups, the surgeon on duty, Dr. Lawrence Wharton Jr., sat on a stool between her legs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I tried to make it clear to her that the feeling she had for that moment, we had been having for years because of the way in which her social group operated. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “They know we’re operating in the area, they can hear us, and they ought to be in their bunker. I’m not taking any unnecessary chances with my men.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She waited for the elevator to fill before she got in, not wanting to operate a new machine by herself. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We were taking on a huge issue, but now I had the benefit of operating from a huge platform. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “It’s standard operating procedure. Fostering trust speeds communication.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The engine was operating at full power on diesel fuel, and, Zeitoun realized in an instant, was generating all the electricity used for the station and the makeshift jail. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “We need to operate now to give her a chance,” he said. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A facially race-neutral system of laws has operated to create a racial caste system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They knew where he operated and could round up the shake-shake drinkers if they became too rowdy. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He explained that a couple of days before, he had been cleaning the operating room as they finished up with my surgery. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Darwin himself could scarcely have found a better example of the operation of natural selection than is provided by the way the mechanism of resistance operates. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I looked over at the campfire, where three party ponies were teaching Tyson to operate a paintball gun. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z But in all branches of industry—and death is an industry, my young friend, make no mistake about that—one makes one’s money from operating in bulk, from buying in quantity, from centralizing one’s operations. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Spacecraft that could travel at light speed were rare, and they required fuel to operate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Plus which, the oxygenator needs to be in a pressurized area while operating. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Or that the soda machine near the east wing hadn’t been operating for over a year. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The city’s emergency broadcast system, which was supposed to swing into action during a crisis, did not go on the air because "the Sunday-morning staff did not know how to operate the equipment." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z An English school in those days was purely a money-making business owned and operated by the Headmaster. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z This magic will cease to operate the moment that Harry turns seventeen; in other words, at the moment he becomes a man. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Washington learned from some of his agents operating in New York that “some secret expedition is in contemplation, the success of which depends altogether on its being kept a secret.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z For him, the world—and by that I must mean this very land, his chosen nation—operated on a determined set of procedures, certain rules of engagement. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z This is how having a funny brain that runs on a different operating system from other people’s helped me to figure out what had happened. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Therefore he was not technically a Hunt prisoner, and so was not bound by the institution’s standard operating procedure. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z And next thing I knew, I was right next to him at the operating table. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the first day, the girl was far from ready to operate her own machine, but Lyddie had run out of patience. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Jones was a valuable and mysterious secret agent operating along the watery borders between Union and Confederate territory. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The explosion vaporized the supply droid, along with all the avatars stationed on the platform, including the Sixer wizard who was operating the Orb of Osuvox. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Dr. Atkinson told Mom and Dad he needed to operate to see what was going on. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z My mom applied for a license to be able to operate a business on the property. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I would like her to be involved in a renewal of our essential agreements. That our family operates in the same way regardless of whether we are a merged entity or not.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z In the 1940s and 1950s, the old-line law firms of New York operated like a private club. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “It operates according to its own rules, without any interference.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The operating theaters were now in the basement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z What was on Division Street was Aunt Nancy, her husband, whom we all called Mr. Harrison, the bakery she operated, pushcarts, a matzoh factory, and Jewish boys. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z At ten o’clock in the morning, I was taken to the operating room. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They all want to touch the machine or push a button or try to operate it, but Catherine keeps them away and lets me do all the demonstrating. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Both floors had cages, or bubbles, in which one officer sat and operated the gates and cell doors by means of an ancient system of brass-handled levers that protruded from the wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Fort Hare doctor examined my heel and said he would need to operate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Many migrants look for trains operated by Ferrosur, one of three train companies that operate out of the station. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z "Your hand shakes. I wouldn't let you operate on me!" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Yes, you must go to the factory while your valve is operating,” the office manager said. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been operating in Quang Ngai and just southeast of Tam Ky, but the marines had beaten them pretty badly. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A famous brain surgeon came up from Boston and operated on him for three hours. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the tool was weightless in space, it was still difficult to operate, requiring the cosmonauts to expend a lot of energy with each movement. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Other smaller specialist groups existed, in which boys learned how to signal in Morse code, operate antiaircraft weaponry, provide first aid and practical field medicine, perform air-raid warden duties, and handle other weapons. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z |
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