| 单词 | operation |
| 例句 | To keep the Cambodia operation secret, the military prepared phony reports for Congress, stating that the bombs were actually falling on Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In 1957, when she knew she was dying, I was in hospital in Oxford having a serious operation on my spine and I was unable to write to her. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never administered anesthesia or performed a surgical operation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like going with someone to a nursing-home, someone who was to have an operation. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Basil decided that now was as good a time as any to put them into operation. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Lyra sat close to the anvil, where the knife lay cooling, and Iorek told her to bank the fire up and not let it burn down: there was a final operation yet. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It was such a rapid, methodical, and brutal action that it was like a military operation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Left alone with him for a minute or two, she chatted and made reassuring remarks about his operation. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And yet questions swirled around the operation's outcome. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “She had to be flown to England and have a bunch of operations, but she miraculously survived and recovered,” I continue. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z We shuffle to the dining room, where the gargantuan oval oak table is covered with evidence of a mass operation. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z That, plus the finger snapping, almost made me cancel the whole operation. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that the area was full of gunters, it became impossible for the Sixers to put their force field back in operation. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “It’s one operation, Robert. They have to do all the work at the same time.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Hoagland assumed I was stepping up the operation. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The cornerstones of this country’s operation are economic and political strength and power. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But to Harry’s and Ron’s utter amazement, stage one of the operation went just as smoothly as Hermione had said. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z It is far better for her to make her own adjustment before the operation than to awaken from the anesthetic and find it a fait accompli. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Gangs battled for market share, recruiting young boys to run their street-corner operations, which, while dangerous, was far more lucrative than going to school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Yossarian shook his head and explained that deja vu was just a momentary infinitesimal lag in the operation of two coactive sensory nerve centers that commonly functioned simultaneously. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z If the bottle could not be stuffed into the trouser leg, the pants were considered fourolds and treated with “revolutionary operations”— cut open. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Any attempt to approach him directly would put TRIGON, and the operation, at extreme risk. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Deane, despite his lack of training, managed to set up the most spectacular sabotage operation of the Revolutionary War. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Fearing more losses of precious assets, the CIA canceled operations. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘So this is why Annabeth is the brains of the operation, then?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z "My God, we don't have an operation here," George Kisevalter fretted, "we have a disaster in the making." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The engineer in the pit kept the wheel running until the failing light made continued operation a danger, but even then thrill-seekers clamored for a chance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I’d had six operations since I was born, but none was anywhere near as risky as this one. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Riots have almost always been the result of poor prison administration or operation, not inmate knowledge of our top secret aikido grips. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Bill Harvey spent the next three years in Berlin building BOB into a formidable base of operations for America's secret campaign against Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And Burnham had gained almost limitless power over the construction and operation of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The operation, under ether, had gone well and Codman was recuperating, but his recovery would be slow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z These were major operations, but I recovered quickly and was home in five days. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Of course, she must undergo an operation, and afterward—well, she would be her “old self” again. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z George Washington, true to the intelligence rule of keeping bits of espionage in separate boxes, was aware of Franklin’s operations but usually did not deal directly with him. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A brief nod to his wife was a secret signal that Ken was about to set his operation into motion. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “We would control the operation closely,” he said, “and take every precaution possible. Of course, we wouldn’t do anything without your permission, and Brian’s father’s as well,” Derek concluded. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Kill the monkeys—give them lethal injections— burn their carcasses, and drench the entire building with chemicals and fumes—a major biohazard operation. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Special operation had given them more than just terrible faces. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I started to wonder just how much they could do with the operation. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The elevators in the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, touted as one of the wonders of the fair, still had not begun operation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “The lesions aren’t an accident, Tally. They’re part of the operation, just like all the bone sculpting and skin scraping. It’s part of the way being pretty changes you.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Kate would have loved to sneak down to the culvert again, but this was not a clandestine operation. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z As the details of the operation buzzed around in her head, she could imagine why Shay had run away. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Walt had in fact visited Fairbanks during the start-up of the receiving station and had written some of the software crucial to its operation. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If the laws of science are unchanged by the combination of operations C and P, and also by the combination C, P, and T, they must also be unchanged under the operation T alone. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z An unaccountable serenity had stolen upon me; I felt the operations of my wits as clean and mechanical, aiming only at that which needed to transpire: the flight at the appointed time across the mud. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When Dad made a motion study, he broke down each operation into a Therblig, and then tried to reduce the time taken to perform each Therblig. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z In Vietnam, Meng explains, the human smuggling operation, or leaving the country without papers, is illegal. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But on patrol or during an operation, he was serious, and absolutely fearless. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “The doctors are really eager for the operation to go ahead,” Dad said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Claudia rushed in again with another explanation, “He had this beautiful daughter and she needed this operation very badly and you...” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z No one was blaming me for that—it had been a particularly untidy operation—but I wasn’t feeling great all the same. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Horrible about small problems, like missing a bus, or being ten pence short for the CD she wants, but good about the big problems, like when Mum had a big operation the year before. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z They would get top officials at the CIA to tell the FBI that Watergate had been an intelligence operation, a matter of national security. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z At no stage did they ask me whether the operation should be done. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z They reminded me of my parents, before the stillborn baby, before the operation. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z They were anxious to ship me to Milan where there were better X-ray facilities and where, after the operation, I could take mechano-therapy. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Usually there’s so much going on in the cafeteria that the adults haven’t noticed Sneaky’s operation. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z This was a ground operation, and Scruggs was carrying his Mid rifle through the dense jungle foliage. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He asked Mom if the washing machine was still leaking, and if Grandpa Kenneth had gone ahead with his double-hernia operation. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Annabeth went to join her brethren from the Athena cabin, who had set up a command tent and were directing operations. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “That’s another change that was made this morning, sir. All combat operations are now under the jurisdiction of Special Services. General Scheisskopf is our new commanding officer.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z My exhaustion seemed to vanish as I began to navigate through the entertainment center operation menus from memory, the fingers of my right hand dancing rapidly across the touchscreen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The operation, he told Julia, would take place on Christmas Eve. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Only one thing bothered me: Since I now knew that their real objectives were never revealed at committee meetings I needed some channel of intelligence through which I could learn what actually guided their operations. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I just wanted to finish up the operation and clean up my act before arriving in per-son. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Taken together, they laid bare the workings of Conexco’s day-to-day operations. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “At the hospital, when he had an operation on his face. My brother told me that the doctors wore green robes and masks over their faces,” she continued. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know he’s having an operation. I was just in the city with him.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Her wiry fitness from hard work at the Smoke hadn’t faded in two weeks, and the operation actually firmed up a new pretty’s muscles, at least for a while. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z After awhile we heard Dad and a nurse walking heavily up the front stairs, and we knew Anne’s operation was over and she was being carried to bed. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Tally wondered if this was someplace where people were taken when their operations went wrong, when beauty turned cruel. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells and the most convulsive plunges. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Otherwise, he noticed nothing unusual and foresaw no difficulty in improving the kiln’s operation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When they arrived at a clearing with a tiny pond, the redheaded satyr stopped and faced the others.“What was the idea, ruining our operation?” he asked. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The robot will be totally aware of its own operations. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched two operations, both of which he ran away from before they were finished. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Fewer operations meant better results and reduced the likelihood of complications. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Combined, the risks meant the operation could kill me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z They had removed a few small pieces of wire and silk that had failed to dissolve after my operation the previous February. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The man said, “There’s a problem with your operation. Come with me.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z From the moment Mr. Carter hired him and placed him in charge of operations, the Captain began to implement the latest in mining technology. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But before they could pull the trigger on the operation, German intelligence uncovered Haukelid’s crew of radio operators. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to have any more operations. Ever.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “Doesn’t matter. They got a new supervisor. He won’t know the difference. It’s a big operation. The important thing is, get my name checked off on the grid.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z When you have an infinity in an expression, or when you divide by zero, all the mathematical operations—even those as simple as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division—go out the window. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z All MK members were forbidden to go armed into an operation and were not to endanger life in any way. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A Charlie Foxtrot is an Army operation that winds up in confusion, with people bumping into one another and demanding to know what’s going on. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next eight months he worked in Zizmo’s rum-running operation, observing its odd hours, getting up in the middle of the night and having dinner at dawn. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I arrived, like, an hour before they said the operation would start, but there were already lines up and down the beach and boardwalk, past the movie theater, running down all the side streets. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Hundreds of hours’ night flying required, and fluent French, and though they could only take volunteers, they were such a secret operation that they weren’t allowed to actively recruit anyone. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z As president of the committee, Clarkson presided over its daily meeting and helped organize its operation. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z About an hour later I found myself lying upon that same nursery table my ancient sister had occupied some months before for her appendix operation. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother says books books books, he’s ruining his eyes with the reading, he needs an operation to straighten them but who’ll pay for it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “He’s very nice. There’s a new kind of operation they’ll be doing on his eyes. He was in an auto accident, and his mother was killed.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1941 Grandma got sick and had to have an operation, so my birthday passed with little celebration. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Those rogues were protecting their underhanded operation more than you,” Grandma huffed. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The answer was an operation, which would remove the growth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Napoleon’s surgeon, the baron Dominique Jean Larrey, performed the first operation. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Nearly a decade would pass before the United States regained the know-how or the will to launch espionage operations on Russian soil. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z His father died and the smith down the road assumed his operation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “There’s another official report that says you were stabbed by an innocent girl in the course of extensive black-market operations involving acts of sabotage and the sale of military secrets to the enemy.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z There was talk of performing an operation on him later, one which might improve the circulation of blood to his brain. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She rushed Louvenia to the colored hospital when the first call came about Robert and waited there six hours with her, until the operation was over. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Seldom is any mention made of an operation which is non- associative, so the definition seems unnecessary at best. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you had the operation, they did something to your brain.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They are large pebbles or chunks of rock that show the marks of repeated use for the same operation, whatever that may have been. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She wished me a lot of luck with the operation and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “He watched the video you sent a million times. It was all he talked about the day before the operation. I know we are going to be hearing this song a lot too.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z By the summer of 2004, Reuters had grown its Bangalore content operation to three hundred staff, aiming eventually for a total of fifteen hundred. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z But when a person has an operation it has a picture in its head of the hurt carrying on for months and months. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence and the Rad Lab, he observed waspishly, had “absolutely no experience in reactor design or operation.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He spent much of his time in West Baltimore but had decided to try to open up a drug sales operation in East Baltimore as well. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Any operations done on my bones might stop them growing properly and mean the whole thing would fail. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I mean, said it sometimes cost him ten thousand dollars a week to run his operation. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z But my brain isn’t big enough to run such a huge operation. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Were they really asking me to decide if I should have an operation? Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “That’s the thing about the cell house library,” I say, “it’s a high-risk operation.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The only problem being, of course, that whenever you ran an operation that was not aboveboard there was a certain risk of it backfiring into a worse situation than it had been before. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was eating fast and talking with one eye out of the door on the operations. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z He explained that he needed to take moving pictures of five or six operations, all of the same type, so that he could sort out the good motions from the wasted motions. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Tally remembered that first terrible morning, yanked away from the promised operation, flown out to be interrogated, her future pulled out from under her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Twig always provides the momentum behind our operations. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The scanty group of strikebreakers—the first of many, I was sure—wouldn’t be enough to keep a slaughterhouse of this size in operation. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But they were not going to do that operation just yet, it seemed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z No sooner had Louella proven itself a success than I had to abandon the day-to-day operations of the company and let my family handle the business full-time. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Obviously, it was not a planned operation—how could it be?—but the effect was the same. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Ken understood that no level of preparation could eliminate the risk of an operation under such extreme conditions. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Robert,” Mom said, “you know we’ve been talking about you having another operation on your face. A big one.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z She wondered if there was some operation that could make her back into a littlie again, forever. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z My parents went on to explain the operation in detail. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Shay sometimes claimed that she didn’t care if she ever got the operation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z There followed, of course, the usual gallbladder, spleen, and kidney operations. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, they had been top secret operations planned by the CIA. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Billy had heard from a nurse that children who had had the operation were often taken to hostels further south, which might explain how Tony Makarios came to be wandering in the wild. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z More and more it is Janice who is directing the daily operations, actually there at the house urging the rest of us on. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z One Saturday morning after cartoons and Corn Flakes my parents sat me down at our kitchen table and told me about a new operation the doctors had planned. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z That was one of the reasons they’d come up with the operation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Some of them were on regular runs back and forth while others moved over single operations. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z During the operation, the muscles of the chest and abdomen were severally exercised. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z How could Shay not understand that she’d been changed by the operation? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Toward the end of his year in Vietnam, de la O was no longer put on long operations. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z My mother had two operations in the next two days. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Now it seems he has to go to the hospital for a very difficult operation on his stomach, and will have to stay there for at least four weeks. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She’d only seen him once since the operation, and that was coming out of the hospital, before the swelling had subsided. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A new business emerged—cattle, pigs, and chickens started being stuffed full of corn in large factory-type operations called feedlots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Instruction number seven said: “Attach handle ‘H’ here for manual operation in case of power failure or in areas where electricity is unavailable. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z For covert operations, Franklin became convinced America needed to have representatives in France. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The samples come from routine medical procedures, tests, operations, clinical trials, and research donations. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Almost as much as you had with your first big operation when you were four.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z With impressive precision, he explained the operation of bombs, land mines, and grenades, and how MK worked from underground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Another operation had been advised by the doctor and there was hope for recovery. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dr. Cable was already working on ways to change memories, a way of erasing the Smoke forever from people’s minds. When they took my father for the operation, he never came back.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z As editor of the National Gazette, Freneau struggled as much to keep his paper in operation as he did to avoid the fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z An operation would have been no earthly use at all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But there she was, smiling and proudly baring her body, as if she’d just had the operation and didn’t realize they’d sucked out way too much fat. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “No wonder she was ill, the child was the wrong way round and she had to have an operation which entailed turning the child with forceps.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I left the hospital three weeks after the operation. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The first was that they wanted the doctors and medical staff who had performed the operation, and all of the staff at the hospital, to receive some recognition for their efforts. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “Let me show you the operation we got going,” Sister Wanda said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As the plane taxied toward the operations tower where the family waited, a fuel truck sputtered into life by the hangar and rolled slowly toward the plane. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I screamed, and she turned to a nurse and told her to schedule an emergency operation. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z William was not closely involved in Purple operations at the time, so he couldn’t say for sure. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Washington ordered Major “Light Horse Harry” Lee to take charge of what today would be called a special operation: the kidnapping of Benedict Arnold. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Only later did Washington learn that Franklin and Morris had not told him about their operation. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Like I would have an operation with phases. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z But now that the operation was only a week away, time seemed to be moving too fast. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “I snuck into New Pretty Town. That’s where you live right after the operation, having fun all the time.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z "Tonight they'll take me down there for my special operation. The next time you see me, I'll be new and improved." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z The New Mexico team arrived a few days after the storm, were sworn in as deputies, and began to assist with search and rescue operations. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z When any large operation is undertaken, it is usually a surprise attack against an ally. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “The major point of the reinsurance operation is that they are banking on disaster,” he said. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Around the same time, Mom was contacted to see if she and Dad would be interested in having a journalist from the Australian, a newspaper, do a story on me and the operation. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Snowball, who had studied an old book of Julius Caesar’s campaigns which he had found in the farmhouse, was in charge of the defensive operations. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I had my first operation when I was five days old. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z He hadn’t known any of the others before their operation. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The operation to investigate the infection was very short. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Many more questioned his motives; after all, Kalugin was a retired KGB general and had once directed the spy service's counterintelligence operations inside Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Probably better that way. But for now, let’s pretend that you did sneak it away and that your covert operation was a success.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z These may hamper the operation of farm machinery. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In fact, the Army had never before organized a major field operation against a hot virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Nature, at least, didn’t need an operation to be beautiful. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Morning operations were the best, because you weren’t allowed to eat for hours and hours beforehand. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Not long after Henrietta’s death, planning began for a HeLa factory—a massive operation that would grow to produce trillions of HeLa cells each week. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z By the second week we had sold most of the hash and the operation was winding down. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The laws of science that govern the behavior of matter under all normal situations are unchanged under the combination of the two operations C and P on their own. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One hundred souls was a sturdy number to stop at—a fantastic figure by any measure—and that didn’t account for the colored farmers who’d purchased adjacent land and got their own operations going. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Mr. MacGregor excused himself because he had to rest up for an operation. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Virginia Tucker before her, Dorothy Vaughan now presided over an appendix, still attached to the research operation but whose function had attenuated over time. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The Army saddled him with writing an official account of their wartime code and cipher operations—“all the histories and data and things—the final say.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z As long as the bullet wasn't causing problems, they didn't want to create new complications by performing a dangerous operation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She thought about what Shay had said about the operation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A military biohazard operation was about to go down in a suburb of Washington, and he sure as hell didn’t want the Post to find out about it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Supervising this entire phase of the operation was a medical officer with a flair for accounting who okayed pulses and checked the figures of the tally clerk. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Only a month before, my ancient half-sister, who was twelve years older than me, had actually had appendicitis, and for several days before her operation I was able to observe her behaviour at close quarters. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anywhere. Ruins, the forest, the sea. And... you never have to get the operation.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But what if the woman kept her promise, and Tally never got the operation? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “I would advise a Caesarean operation. If it were my wife I would do a Caesarean.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She always had a chip on her shoulder about the operation, like someone was making her turn sixteen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z At the border and inside the country, the North Korean government has tried to crush these smuggling operations—and periodically it succeeds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z About fifty of us were part of the operation. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Carrie Buck was asked a single question during the inquisition: “Do you care to say anything about having the operations performed on you?” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z North of New York, Canada was a major base of operations for the Confederate Secret Service. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole operation had cost less than a penny per acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I’ve been looking forward to knocking the rust off of these hands and performing an operation to keep your blood from flowing,” she continued. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z To be fair to me, he said, to save me from being rejected by society, the operation should go ahead. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z A further operation had been performed on him at the Emperor’s command that had had a distinctly calming effect. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “At the St. Francis. It’s the only halfway decent hotel still in operation in the Bay Area.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I have never really been satisfied with the operation of my brain, and it might be fun to try running it myself, just once. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She was just showing him how strongly she believed that the operation was worth the risk. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The resulting “interviews” of passengers in these dragnet operations usually culminate in a request for “consent” to search the passenger’s luggage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For Mom the move from Texas to Florida was a military operation, like the many moves she had made as a child. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the square there by the docks, we formed, an operation carried out not without some error, we being little acclimated to the choreography of street-fighting. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The operation is to go ahead as planned—they’ve got the equipment, they’ve got Verity, the contacts are all in place. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z If eugenics was becoming a cottage industry in Germany, it was already a full-fledged national operation in America. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “We didn’t want them even to speculate,” said Tibbets, “or to give out a hint that our operation was different from any other.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors used much sharper and bigger knives in the operation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He built and ran an intelligence operation that helped him outwit his foe and win the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But he got his order of operations wrong. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Half of this biocontainment operation was going to be news containment. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They could report to the White House with confidence that the operation to destroy Daniel Ellsberg was most definitely feasible. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z With the operation over, the exhausted men had put the unused mortar shells back into the cases, stacked them in the truck, and driven back to the base. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It soon grew, thanks to Harvey's stubborn determination, into the largest and most expensive espionage operation ever launched by the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Having an operation in the late afternoon meant having to skip breakfast and lunch. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Four months later, in a hospital in New York, after many X rays and tests, I had the first of three operations. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z One lunchtime I sat chewing a ham and cheese sandwich and talked about the operation with one of my classmates, Matthew. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z For years, the Green Berets had been working for the CIA doing covert operations. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “We need to find this spy before we plan our next operation. Blowing up the Princess Andromeda won’t stop Kronos forever.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Pushed out of the daily operations at the Zebra Room, my grandfather began to spend his days driving around the city. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Hoagland oversaw the operation from our modest offices in Westchester County. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A prison report said, “He does high grade work caring for stock, and is able to do such operations as opening of abscesses and castrating of animals.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “The entire operation was proceeding exactly as planned, until your female attacked our deputy.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Regina remained adamant and had the operation anyway. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Some were subjected to unmatched blood transfusions, limb amputations, or operations without anesthesia. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Mpandhlani and his clique, though while the compound was in operation never went hungry, fell on hard times when it was suddenly closed down, and the clique broke up. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And not just any old operation—a massive one that might make me look normal? Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Suburban homemakers could have been placed under surveillance and subjected to undercover operations designed to catch them violating laws regulating the use and sale of prescription “uppers.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Of course, Charlie. But I wasn’t referring to now. I meant before the operation.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She wondered how long it would take after the operation, before she would stop missing David. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Chlorides, chlorates, salts of phosphonic acid, fluorides, and arsenic had been discharged from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal into holding ponds during the years of its operation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If he did not wake until the operation was over, he would be bound to fall in love with you. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For the operation, Lee picked his sergeant major, John Champe, a man “full of bone and muscle” and “tried courage.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But with the gate out of operation, the courtyard battlements were as deserted as the rest of the building. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The night before the mass operation, Martha was told she would sleep at the house of Dad’s oldest sister, Aunt Anne. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z They said at school that they could make the operation work on fifteen-year-olds now. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was a script for a biohazard operation. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In 2000, Korean Air finally acted, bringing in an outsider from Delta Air Lines, David Greenberg, to run their flight operations. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I tried to imagine the new face the doctors would give me, thinking about what the operation could mean for my future. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z When the operation was over, Dad and the nurse carried Ernestine upstairs. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Some species — those existing at the limits of their natural range — might never be able to re-establish themselves, and the others could do so only with the aid of extensive stocking operations by the state. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Probably it was better to get the operation over with all at once. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z While Mom waited in the Stevens Clinic waiting room, the Captain was allowed to watch the operation. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There is one valve closed by a weight, although it is not in this case a safety valve; however, Papin describes the operation of such a valve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The hoverboard’s operation light was green, and her knapsack, dusty but unharmed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The news that they had the green light for a biohazard operation spread instantly through usamriid. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The more I thought about the operation, the more I wondered how much difference it would make to how I looked. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z When a calculation is complete, all the user has to do is look at the final position of the stones and translate that into a number—a pretty straightforward operation. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Even before the change of operations, however, mysterious reports had begun to come in. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A private doctor donates his time to reconstruct a boy’s foot if Olga provides the materials for the operation. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z "A most brilliant, operation," Brother Jack went on, smiling now. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A tall, skinny man with a thin mustache sits in Papi’s chair, directing the operation. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Two days after my operation, my temperature soared to 106 and I started convulsing. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Coveting the directorship as a way to build his own bureaucratic empire, Hoover concealed from Stone the extent of his role in domestic surveillance operations and promised to disband the intelligence division. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I had an operation on my eyes yesterday for cataracts.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence escorted Groves around the Rad Lab, showed him the calutron in operation, and explained its virtues so convincingly that the general was carried away. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The entire operation was so valuable that its insights were code named Magic, and over the course of the war it saved many American and Allied lives. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I consulted with my family and decided to go ahead with the operation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, Newcomen could have invented all this and more; after all, he worked on his new engine for some fourteen years before he was ready to put it into public operation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To add insult to injury, she then turned out to be better at counterspy operations than the FBI was. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Dr. Cable would never come here now, and no one could ever take her away from David or the Smoke, or do to Tally’s brain whatever the operation did to pretties’. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The largest liners actually had their own shipboard brewery, which they put into operation during those times when, instead of engaging in a transatlantic voyage, they were engaged in a four-day “cruise to nowhere.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “When we went out on operations, you knew not everybody was coming back,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It is, however, quite bad form in biological circles to put it the other way round, to imply that the operation of insect societies has any relation at all to human affairs. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His skills were recognized by none other than Major George Beckwith, the head of British intelligence operations in America at the end of the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z These revelations were added to the recent evidence implicating the police in murders in Natal and suspicions that the Department of Military Intelligence was con-ducting covert operations against the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even getting her into the bush to relieve herself was an operation in patience. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He became a partner of spymaster George Washington by serving as a covert operations manager. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The bosses had decided the Pentagon Papers were too hot to handle in the Times building, so Sheehan had moved his operation to the Hilton. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Despite the deep divisions in the country, Nixon moved forward with military operations in Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “We were preparing for a Morphological Congress. That’s when all the cities share data on the operation.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The company had constructed it shortly after the contest began, to serve as IOI’s online base of operations. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Creating a Supply Chain By the fall of 32 BCE, Mark Antony and Cleopatra had moved their base of operation to the coastal city of Patras near the Gulf of Corinth. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z As Golos's lover and his main espionage protégée, Elizabeth Bentley quickly became indispensable to Stalin's underground operation in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z All through the operation the door leading out of the kitchen to a back room had shaken and rattled to the accompaniment of piteous whining. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In short, Polynesia furnishes us with a convincing example of environmentally related diversification of human societies in operation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But when he explained the details of the operation, I began to see that the idea was simply too preposterous to have been made up. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Forestry officials, fearing that another season’s defoliation might result in severe loss of trees, decided to carry out control operations in 1957. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All the while, little cytoplasmic factories work 24/7, cranking out sugars, fats, proteins, and energy to keep the whole thing running and feed the nucleus—the brains of the operation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He performed the operations while his wife administered the anesthetic. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in the bed nearer the door, separated by a curtain from his roommate: the Hampden County postmaster, as we later discovered, who was in for a prostate operation. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I was a person before the operation. In case you forgot—” “Yes, of course, Charlie. Don’t misunderstand. But it was different...” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Upward mobility was more difficult to achieve in the larger, more bureaucratic operation at Mother Langley, with a well-developed management structure. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “That’s all very well,” said Doli, whose curiosity had got the better of him, and who had come to observe the operation. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Fela had moved her operation down the road to what was probably a better spot—an abandoned storefront on the bus route to Salcedo. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Following standard procedure for covert operations, Barker had held back key information until the last moment. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Now, the truth is they earn their living because you found them work, and that brings up a second consideration of this phase of your operation.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Without missing a beat in his Senate duties, he’d have to build and maintain a coast-to-coast campaign operation, develop a policy platform, and also raise an astonishing amount of money. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But after the third operation, when the bandages came off, I could see again. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z While the East Computers had flowed out of their office and into the larger operations of the laboratory like a river, segregation kept the outmigration of West Computing to a trickle. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Ten thousand lousy dollars! Ten grand—that’s what he makes in one stinking night off that casino operation. It’s a joke, son. It’s chump change to a rich maggot like that!” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I’ve gone as far as I can on a conscious level, and now it’s up to those mysterious operations below the level of awareness. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Washington wanted a special operations unit made up of volunteers who could both fight and gather intelligence “by water or by land, by night or by day.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 In the school’s first year of operation, 167 students arrived for classes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z On one long operation, Allen was burning up with thirst, his mouth parched dry, his tongue swollen. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z "I wish! But it's just me. It's a tiny operation." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Doctors would fill the gaps in my skull from previous operations. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “You let them go? When they don’t even know what the operation really means?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In the afternoons, the sun sapped energy and goodwill and the soldiers quarreled and played Biafran whot and spoke of the vandals they had blown up in past operations. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z With all the mining operations around the area, dynamite was easy to come by and hard to trace. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was the biggest military operation I’d ever seen at camp. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Even the dearly loved spectacular sports are run almost like military operations. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I wrote that MK was not ready for such an operation; even an elite and trained force would probably not be able to accomplish such a mission. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You weren’t supposed to have food or water for sixteen hours before the operation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Sometimes, Tally wished that they could do the operation gradually. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Move entire homework operations center to different room. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “In short, if fighting breaks out, everyone must act on CO . his own initiative in order to complete the operation.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But secrecy was an essential element of military operations, and Ellsberg was not one to blow the whistle. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Whenever Scruggs was handling explosives or firearms or out on operations, he stayed stone-cold sober. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z On the shore was a canoe rental operation that was closed for the season, but I left a stack of golden drachmas on the counter and a note saying IOU two canoes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Dad sort of elbowed Mum out of the rescue operation. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Everyone knew about uglies-for-life, the few people for whom the operation wouldn’t work. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They always explained in school about how uglies who didn’t have the operations eventually became infirm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The Home was a misfit operation, lost over the years in a larger system. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z A small crowd had gathered to see the operation, but Abbey and I stayed off by ourselves, on the far side of the basin. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He still directed philosophic operations, but it was clear to all that he was answerable to Mr. Sharpe, who lived in his house, apparently as a guest, but verily, as a master. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This gave them an easy supply of water and an out-of-the-way location to run their operation. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She also liked the idea of passing it on as a gift after a successful operation—a variation on the Aerodrome Drop-Off Principle. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She was seventy-seven and thinking of having an operation, and she wanted it performed in the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The cautious Weaver, adding an expansion factor for Ernest’s ambitions but still thinking too small, had privately recalculated the budget at $ 1 million for construction and another $500,000 for ten years of operation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That, plus the fact that her earlobe was sore from the operation she had performed on herself, had her near hysteria. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It was major surgery: a type of operation hardly ever performed anywhere in the world, let alone a nation as small as Australia. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “If he doesn’t have this operation,” the Capital City doctor told them, “your father will be dead before six months are out.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Holmes offered Julia a cheerful “Merry Christmas” and gave her a hug, then took her hand and led her to a room on the second floor that he had readied for the operation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "We’ll soon put that right,” he tells them, "we will just do a small operation, and then you will have perfectly sound feet. Enter them down, sister.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “I knew Bull Meecham long before he had his sex change operation.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The opiate worked itself off towards dusk, and she waked naturally; she looked a different being from what she had been before the operation. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It’s a quick operation, and I’ve done a million of these, adds the doctor as the orderlies roll you into the room. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Uncle Edward arrived from Carters to take my mother to Clarksdale for the operation; at the last moment I insisted upon being taken with them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She bit at one of her fingernails, which was one of those bad habits that the operation cured. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I went down today to talk to Lord General Baligant about the operation. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the Party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It had never occurred to me that I had been through an operation. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Aunt Helena is fat, she once headed a Weight Watchers’ franchise operation in Iowa. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The Central Intelligence Agency was created in September 1947, its mission to combine all the nation's overseas intelligence operations under one roof. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He quickly scanned its operation, then pulled the red lever and swung the door open into a bright sunny morning. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z This would be “the big one,” they said—the operation that would make everything right. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z In one case the arsenic came from the slag heaps of mining operations, in the other from rock with a high natural content of arsenic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, relations between the landlord and Hazleton did not flourish happily during the Army operation and the second Ebola outbreak. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt remembered Mr. MacGregor and El Patron sitting in adjoining wheelchairs after their operations. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “They don’t want people to know what it was like before the operation. They want to keep you hating yourselves. Otherwise, it’s too easy to get used to ugly faces, normal faces.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Or that you are so befuddled by the complexity of their operation that you wouldn’t know what to do with the information if you had it. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “It’s a new kind of operation,” Billy said, turning his face in my direction. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He said that the 450 acres of forest were also an important part of the farm operation. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He loathed the clatter and smoke of steam launches; he wanted electric boats designed specifically for the park, with emphasis on graceful lines and silent operation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He wanted the president to expand ground operations into nearby Laos and Cambodia, and massively increase bombing of North Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “The features that we take from our parents are the things that make us different. A big nose, thin lips, high forehead—all the things that the operation takes away.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Although Nixon insisted that this was not an invasion of Cambodia but just a military operation, the announcement galvanized the antiwar movement. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Well,” she said, “this decision isn’t up to us. You’re fourteen, and we think you should decide whether the doctors do the operation or not.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Richard Nixon would later call the Watergate operation “a comedy of errors.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Traps at different levels in the marsh came into operation as the water level rose and fell. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Within a few days after the dusting operation, the Detroit Audubon Society began receiving calls about the birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I’d been banned from swimming while I was having all my operations. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The arrangement is that of an ecosystem, with the operation of each part being governed by the state and function of all the other parts. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Arnold made an offer on the building he thought I should buy to house our operations. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A scar wound down her right forearm, jagged, like from a knife, not clean like from an operation. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z They are simply mathematical constructs that make the mathematical operations in string theory work in the manner that they have to. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z After some wrangling, J. T. promised Venkatesh unfettered access to the gang’s operations as long as J. T. retained veto power over any information that, if published, might prove harmful. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Without that as a given, such an operation would be pointless and unthinkable. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z With his engineer’s soul, Brobeck could not help but be offended by the Rad Lab’s slapdash operation and maintenance standards. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z With its many new facilities coming into operation, the laboratory again cast its net for the female alchemists who could turn the numbers from testing into aeronautical gold. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z That is the darkest hour of any organization and in that hour a major operation may be the only hope for its salvation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Operation Mayibuye sketches out in general form the plan for the possible commencement of guerrilla operations, and how it might spark a mass armed uprising against the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Send the attendant away. We must be alone with him when he becomes conscious, after the operation.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He could tell from Ron’s and Hermione’s faces that they were scared; he was not particularly confident himself, and yet he was sure the time had come to put their plan into operation. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z As Nichols understood, once the plant entered the production phase, what was needed was unquestioning operation, not ceaseless tweaking. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The entire operation was not unlike the digging of a trench in one's yard. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z To downplay accusations of being an outside agitator, she ran her operation out of her hotel room, offering direction to state and local suffragists. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He was definitely of middle age, but whoever had done his operation had botched it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Every Thursday Art mounts a carefully planned military- style operation. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Of these, two pick up and deposit mail—an operation that, as the person in charge of it fervently explains, has its tricky side. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone, possibly an American officer spying for the British, told Marks enough details about the operation for Marks to be able to seize Brewster, Austin Roe, and two other Patriots working with Roe. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In the twenty-four years since the Langley laboratory had started operation, the glitterati of the aeronautical world had made pilgrimages to Hampton. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z So how could you tell how much was the operation and how much was just people going along with the way things had always been? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “That doesn’t matter. Look how you are wounded. Look at your valorous conduct in asking to go always to the first line. Besides, the operation was successful.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Why is he issuing orders to us if he’s still in Special Services and we’re in combat operations?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “But I can’t really blame him. I won’t. This is a business, Lee. Research and reports are fine. But if we don’t generate certain material there’s no operation. The thing doesn’t work. It seizes.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The operation had failed to achieve its most important goal, which was to show that radioactive fallout from weapons tests could be confined to the test site. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “It’s always good to have a little something in your stomach before an operation,” she suggested. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z More immediately, in New York City, where I would naturally base any operation, I had a large, direct personal following of non-Muslims. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Some cities allowed exotic operations—for new pretties only— but the authorities here were notoriously conservative. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was not true that he wrote memorandums praising himself and recommending that his authority be enhanced to include all combat operations; he wrote memoranda. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Peewee had another operation on his stomach for something called adhesions, but he was still scheduled to leave with me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But she felt that it was her duty to go through with the operation. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Well it is pretty scary," I say, "getting an operation to give you a whole new body." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Here, where he was out of range, he could direct the entire operation. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “They took me to this doctor in New York. He wanted me to have an operation.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z By war’s end, the Coalwood mine was a lucrative little operation, envied across the county. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He maneuvered the machine as delicately as a surgeon performing an operation. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I wished he would quit talking about my “operation” and its “phases.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z “The taint,” said Dr. Trefusis, “is not a stain upon us, but is, I believe, our primary operation. It is not simply a mark upon our skin.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z If I’d had my tubes tied years ago, I wouldn’t even have needed the operation. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Any operation on the face also means lots of bleeding. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z If I were to be caught and questioned about Mr. Kreuk’s operation, I could say that I didn't know if he'd involved anyone else, and that would be telling the truth. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z A million machines were sold that year, and by 1989 two million new machines had gone into operation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What I was learning, too, was that in the eyes of a campaign operation, any minutes or hours a candidate spends privately with family are viewed basically as a waste of that valuable time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It’s like one of those operations where they save your life but take out some big part of you. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “For six months and then have an operation?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z It was shortly after the measles epidemic that Dad started applying motion study to surgery to try to reduce the time required for certain operations. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The dog watched this operation, and then, yawning, he was suddenly bored. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The papers had much to say of the operation around Vicksburg. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z It relied upon an illegal mathematical operation, but it had one huge advantage. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There was one major difference between Dusty Muleman’s operation and the gambling cruises up in Miami: The Coral Queen didn’t actually go anywhere. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z White took over as the warden of the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, where he led an undercover operation to catch officials who, in exchange for bribes, were granting prisoners nicer living conditions and early releases. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z One new legend towered above all the rest Maddy had decided that the brain lesions couldn’t be kept a secret anymore; every ugly had the right to know what the operation really entailed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Only a handful of people in the CIA and MI6 knew about the operation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Six months later, when the Long Island station was finally shut down, Elizebeth learned that the FBI had actually been running it as part of a sting operation to catch Nazi spies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They used leftover pieces to smooth out some other small gaps and bumps in my face and prepared it for the next operation in a few years. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The streams were also crisscrossed by rotting trees and logs that had been felled by age or by extensive logging operations. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Donald was dead, but Ridgeway wanted to get a sense of the man’s operation if he could, to understand the workings of the larger conspiracy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "You laughing yet? You failed to consider that in the British navy an officer has the right to execute a sailor who is a danger to an operation." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Because Thanksgiving was going to happen while we were doing surface operations, and NASA's shrinks thought it would be good for us to make a meal together. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Lorraine’s nervous radar was in full operation, and I could tell it made her sad to look at the old man. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z It’s been ripped out, ripped open, and lies dead on the dining room table like a patient that didn’t survive the operation. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But the most amazing part of the whole operation—V remembered the stories distinctly—was that the factory’s owner, the maker of every jar of peanut butter the place produced, had been Fair. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Yet this substanceless number threatens to undermine the simplest operations in mathematics, like multiplication and division. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Don’t even worry about it. I’m bankrolling this operation.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It was partly because of our complaining, and the desire to show us how the Spartan boy would have had his tonsils out, that Dad decided to have only a local anesthetic for his operation. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The overall average of human facial characteristics was the primary template for the operation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z With a sigh, he’d close his eyes, waiting to feel Craig’s hands hook themselves solidly beneath his shoulders to start the rescue operation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In fact he was about to go on a drop-off and pickup mission that night, a “double Lysander operation,” as they called it, two pilots flying two planes to the same field. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “No operations,” Yossarian said, opening his eyes and trying to sit up. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z What if she’d ruined everything tonight, and Peris would always see her like this—squinty eyes and frizzy hair—even after she had the operation? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In her first year of operation she had produced two volumes of poetry, written by men known mainly for their violent tempers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Grace said, "Doctor Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The bodyguard rarely had time to visit since El Patron’s heart operation. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For the previous three days, he had done nothing but study every step of the operation he was about to perform. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Earlier than that, there was a real-estate office there, and even before that, some gypsies used it as a base of operations. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d already closed down most operations at Louis Armstrong International Airport. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Before the storm, the committee wrote, the terrorists would be most likely to use the occasion “to observe precautionary measures to gauge emergency response resources and continuity of operation plans at critical infrastructures.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “My last operation didn’t make that much of a difference,” I said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The luxury underground fortress remained operational and ready to receive its political guests until a 1992 expose by Washington Post reporter Ted Gup blew the operation’s cover. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z To have the director of Mars operations visiting SatCon was unusual. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Dismantling East Computing had been a simple matter of operations, of supply and demand and expedience. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z An operation like that would take months to organize. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Shawn wanted to professionalize the operation, to invest the profits from the Malad job in new equipment; Dad wanted things to stay the same. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z "That is one operation that has yet to be performed." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned to his director of Mars operations. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t want to talk about the operation with each other or with their officers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time Shin hit the road, defectors themselves, many of them former North Korean military and police officers, had taken over the trade and were quietly running for-profit operations. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The operation was canceled, and Allen’s company was sent back to base camp. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It occurred to him that the operation was hopeless, that Trucho had set it up all wrong, but there was nothing he could do about it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to have this operation,” I told my parents. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The operation they proposed was a major one. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The carefully planned operation quickly turned to disaster. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She sounded sort of like Mr. Johnson in apartment 4Q who’d had some kind of operation and talked through a hole in his neck. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “This problem,” Rick said, “stems entirely from your method of operation, Mr. Rosen. Nobody forced your organization to evolve the production of humanoid robots to a point where—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Sneaking back there was a tight fit for us, but we needed to practice undercover operations. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She’s supposed to be the central link in this operation, the informer, the German-speaking translator moving between the town hall and the Gestapo HQ. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z David from school, he went into hospital to have an operation on his leg to make his calf muscle longer so that he could walk better. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And then Dulles handed Harvey a plum: control of Division D, putting him in charge of the CIA's covert operations around the world. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’m glad I don’t have to have an operation, in a hospital,” she says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve got an operation going at the face today,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z For more than a decade following Penkovsky's arrest, Moscow had been a virtual no-go zone for CIA operations. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Jinx had been the face of the whole operation, and not one to pass blame, he took full responsibility and promised to make amends. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Then she signed a form with the words operation permit at the top of the page. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Allegations of racial profiling in federally funded drug interdiction operations resulted in numerous investigations and comprehensive data demonstrating a dramatic pattern of racial bias in highway patrol stops and searches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As part of the operation, I had splints stuck in my nose. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The Battle of Kursk was a huge operation, and they felt that they were making a difference. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Fifteen years after Independence, in 1975, a group of Senators called the Church Committee took it upon themselves to look into the secret operations that had been brought to bear on the Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Only Indian tribes are allowed to run casino operations in Florida, so Dusty somehow persuaded a couple of rich Miccosukees from Miami to buy the marina and make it part of their reservation. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He needed a lot of operations, because, just like with breathing and swallowing, there were other things that didn’t come automatically to him. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “Sounds good,” Tally said, but she wondered if that would be soon enough to save anyone from the operation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Accordingly, Langley centralized its computing operations into a group named the Analysis and Computation Division, created to service all the center’s research operations, as well as to provide computing to outside contractors. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “The operation proved ” “I do not want to talk about it,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The actual operation of drug forfeiture laws seriously undermines the usual rhetoric offered in support of the War on Drugs, namely that it is the big “kingpins” that are the target of the war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When he talked to the Washington Post reporters, he was careful not to discuss the more dramatic aspects of the operation. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1950s, most of Langley’s test data was still processed by hand; the NACAs entire research operation had evolved with the women’s work as its engine. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Dr. Cable wanted to turn them all, but she was worried that Mom and Dad might talk about the brain lesions, even after the operation, because they’d been focused on them for so long.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z "The thing is, I had an operation very recently." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Texas Instruments alone has had 225 U.S. patents awarded to its Indian operation. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z After all, this hospital is full of people having poisonous chemicals pumped into their veins or submitting to horrible operations all so they can stay, but some of them will die anyway. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anyone suffering from a hereditary disease can be sterilized by a surgical operation,” the law mandated. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Maybe the principal characteristics that made Coke distinctive, like its bite, consumers now describe as harsh,” the company’s head of American operations, Brian Dyson, said at the time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He was a slippery man, and his Black Chamber was a shady operation. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A few days after the operation, the doctors were ready to take off the bandages. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z But President Eisenhower had insisted that the nation’s first foray into space be presented as a peaceful effort, rather than an explicitly military operation that risked triggering a dangerous retaliation by the Soviet Union. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Will had pulled his lip, rubbed his eyebrows, scratched his nose, cleaned his glasses, and made a major operation of cutting and lighting a cigar. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence exploited to the limit the free labor of graduate students, an important key to low-cost operation of the enormous piece of capital equipment he was erecting. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She was sure by now that they weren’t going to perform the operation on her yet, and sure too that her disguise as Lizzie Brooks was secure; so she risked a question. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The doctor gave Mom a price and I could tell by the disappointed way she said “I see” that she couldn’t afford the operation. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Tally thought of her friendless days after Peris’s operation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But in terms of the center’s computing operations, Dorothy’s pool now existed on the periphery. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In the morning he would inspect the northern half to bring the operation in harmony with how things were done in the southern half. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It’s the test with the inkblots, the one I took before the operation. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It would ruin the whole point of the operation if the people from one city wound up prettier than everyone else. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The tooth was a hard one to get out, and the Doctor let Stuart sit on his instrument tray so they could talk during the operation. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z "Your Honor," Tepper started, and he went on to once again give an outline of the operation. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Vast numbers of people are swept into the criminal justice system by the police, who conduct drug operations primarily in poor communities of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As far as I can tell, in the days before the operation, I never really understood what planes were. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Once they passed a snow machine in operation, with the Cloud-Men turning the handle and a blizzard of snowflakes blowing out of the great funnel above. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z When Bobby was five, a botched operation on his appendix nearly killed him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I’d known for years that my surgeons wanted to do another major operation. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z With more than one operation going on at times, someone had to decide which wounded to pick up first, and if an area was secure enough to get in and get out. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The operations the doctors had done on my face over the years started to pay off. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “The doctors say they need to do this operation to prepare for that big one,” he said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z He’s torn between having an operation and letting matters take their course. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “He doesn’t need an operation,” complained the other. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Hall ran the tightest, safest operation on the mountain, bar none. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It was that same warmth she’d felt talking to Peris after his operation, or when teachers looked at her with approval. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z That some nationally famous politician will undergo a sex-change operation, as a newspaper astrologer- psychic recently predicted, is considerably more likely than that New York’s Mayor Koch will. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The historical record makes it perfectly clear, to be sure, that Jefferson was orchestrating the campaign of vilification, which had its chief base of operations in Virginia and its headquarters at Monticello. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “No operation to make Robert look better is worth a one-in-four chance of him dying.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z It was a relatively uninvolved lone-wolf type of operation, and one in which I could make money immediately. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And in that time, I’d been shot, I had an operation, had nearly died, and had been flown to the other side of the world. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I’m not interested in those kinds of operations,” she said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Whatever Zero’s doing, it is a global operation. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Dad had wanted her to watch the operations, but she said she couldn’t. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Virginia Tucker, who had ascended to the position of head computer, ran Langley’s entire computing operation of over two hundred women, and supervised Margery Hannah and the other section heads. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The new scheme must have been already in operation. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Were they all so busy dismantling operations that they didn’t have time to get in touch, or were they all mad at me and did they never want to talk to me again? Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Over weeks of secret interviews, Blake and the KGB came to an agreement: He would provide the Soviet Union with information about any MI6 espionage operations, whether against Russia or its allies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The operation takes him no more than fifteen seconds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I emerged from the operation a very different little boy. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Hence, though a small-time operation, like everything else Ruby tackled, the Body Shop and Pipe Queen was the best operation of its kind in the county. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “You grew up because of an operation? Doesn’t that strike you as weird?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Gaskets had to survive extreme temperature changes and maintain their airtight seal over long periods of constant operation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Kennedy also found the Klan to be a slick money-making operation, at least for those near the top of the organization. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He mentioned an operation of some sort, but he didn’t know. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Hunt was set; he had these things from previous operations. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was a well-rehearsed operation and each of us knew exactly what he had to do. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Holmes denied that he and Julia had ever engaged each other physically, or that she had undergone “a criminal operation,” a then-current euphemism for abortion. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They unclipped the spool and rolled it over to where they’d set up their stripping operation near the oil tanker’s prow. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z For most of its existence a small and contained operation, the NACA’s flagship laboratory was now a many-layered bureaucracy flush with new faces. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “But how would that be possible? So many people brainswept in so short a time? That’s a major operation—it would take ages to prepare for it.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “I found that there were complications from the anesthetic used in the operation. Tiny lesions in the brain. Barely visible, even with the best machines.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z One person, instead of a team, could oversee the operation, and far less heat would be needed, since the heat could be transferred from one pan to another. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Tally wondered which had come first: the operation or the lesions? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “You wait until the next operation,” de la O said, “and then you go out again.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z As of 1492, all of those operations to which animal, water, and wind power were being applied in Eurasia were still being carried out by human muscle power in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Each crew member had two space suits: a flight spacesuit to wear during descent and ascent, and the much bulkier and more robust EVA suit to wear when doing surface operations. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Satisfied that at least some cell towers are still in operation, I try one more call. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z All three got into a car and drove around Washington, Hunt and Liddy pointing out locations of potential “entry operations,” as Liddy called them. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As far as he could tell, his was the only cigarette holder in the whole Mediterranean theater of operations, and the thought was both flattering and disquieting. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z We talked about how they’d do the operation at the end of the school year and hopefully have me back with my friends in January, new face and all. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The Rockefeller Foundation grant required the cyclotron to be completed and placed in operation by June 30, 1944. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A formal operation was in progress at the port, but specific details had not yet been revealed. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Wes had his entire operation organized with the precision of a military unit or a division of a Fortune 500 company. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The operation would be carried out near children. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z With enemy forces advancing, the Joint Chiefs requested permission to broaden the mission from merely guarding the base to engaging in what was described as “limited offensive operations.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The type of operation they were planning was only just starting to prove successful overseas, in Mexico and in France. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Tomorrow, when the operation was all over, her parents would be waiting outside the hospital, along with Peris and her other older friends. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Would you like some cookies before your operation?” she cheerfully asked, and nodded toward where she had a package of them spread out across the kitchen counter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Then she must have had one operation too many and crossed the line into repellence. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The KGB had just promoted him to rezident of the KGB's London station, putting him in charge of all spying operations in the British capital. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The cave-in that had so distressed Cora was a ruse to camouflage the operation below. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Of all the deals that Aaron Giebel had made from his base of operations in Midland during the boom, the hardest part, by his own account, was figuring out which one was the worst. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, with no warning, he’d develop a high fever, and pus formed in angry bubbles along the scars left by many operations. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Was it only because since his operation they had lived in different worlds? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Hartshorne and May, in other words, had set up a sting operation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The operation had covered him over with a veneer of education and culture, but emotionally he was there— watching and waiting. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The head of the entire Hatchery operation, Dimitri was an upper-level worker; he was older, and had studied science intensively. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I beg your pardon?” he asks at the end of this operation. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “They’ll take her if we do a cataract operation on her right eye. On a hippopotamus! What next? Nose jobs on the rhinos?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Every particular detail of these operations was known and approved by the highest authorities in Washington.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But the mystery lay in the fact that no 2,4- D had been manufactured at the arsenal at any stage of its operations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She would have to do the operation in stages. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z An operation to fix my face would mean leaving behind this horrid, bumpy, uneven, unequal, disquieting, disfigured, disturbing face that made me who I am. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I want to think tie is involved in some type of illegal drug operation that is about to be exposed, bringing national attention to Paintbrush Falls. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z But one wouldn’t be enough for the operation they hoped to have up and running. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Kahn sent me to visit a large organic farm operation called Greenways, in California’s Central Valley. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Do you remember anything else from before your operation?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z If operations are to be conducted in a smoothly coordinated way, it is surely obvious that the butler's pantry must be the one place in the house where privacy and solitude are guaranteed. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z It was red-hot, and a puff of smoke rose from what I guessed was a little scrap of human tissue that had been stuck on the blade from her last operation. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Most of my time since the secret hazmat operation has been spent vicariously absorbing Cabo through my class mates’ Instagram Stories. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z When the operation was half over, he had come out into the ante-room, grinning and waving one tonsil in a pair of forceps. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He now regretted letting me have the big operation, because it seemed to him that afterward I was constantly ill. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z All those appointments and operations, all the time spent sitting and waiting—and the one major achievement I had to show for it was being taken away. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The board’s operation fight turned yellow, and Tally looked closely. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z All this is of much more than academic interest, for the new and economical “gyplure” might be used not merely in census operations but in control work. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Maybe after the operation kids wouldn’t call me names so much. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z "I'm not in the mood, I just told you. I just had an operation." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z In October 1958, with Mother Langley as the nucleus, the US government fused all the competing operations, along with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, into the NACA. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Dorothy updated her classes with a unit called Wartime Mathematics, teaching students to apply arithmetic operations to household budgeting and wartime ration books and updating classic word problems with airplanes instead of cars. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The other women assured her the operation is completely discreet and safe. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time I turned three, my doctors recommended that I undergo a major operation to fix my face. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Carrie Watson, Chicago’s foremost madam, decided her own operation merited a little sprucing up. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z DELPHI: In fact, technically I’m endangering our entire operation . . . which is not... well, I’m not a natural risk-taker as you know. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z “No. I have handled him and gentled him. Also, he’s not feeling very fierce just now because of the long journey he’s had, and the operation. Do you like him?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z On August 11, he drafted a memo to John Ehrlichman recommending: “A covert operation be undertaken to examine all the medical files still held by Ellsberg’s psychoanalyst.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Setting up what I wanted to be the perfect operation, I thought about pulling the white girls into it for two reasons. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have to agree on who is going to be in charge of this operation,” the general continued. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides running covert operations, including dirty tricks known as sabotage, Franklin’s work would include gathering intelligence, sending out counterintelligence agents to hunt for moles and British spies, and using propaganda against England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It turned out that we were selling CDs and DJing parties in order to capitalize a payday lending and pawnshop operation in the hood. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “That’s some operation,” Frank says, placing his earmuffs on the kitchen island. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z And what Korean Air did, when it finally turned its operations around, was give its pilots the opportunity to escape the constraints of their cultural legacy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The trouble was that if the two halves were not aligned exactly, it would snap forward but would not lock, and then it would have to be recocked—a two-handed operation. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether there is some transmission of knowledge through the ether, or whether physiognomy and expression have some linguistic virtue so subtle that we do not remark its operation, the eyes may indeed speak. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z To assure maximum attendance, Mayor Harrison had signed an official proclamation that urged every business to suspend operation for the day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z ‘Here I am trying to get something out of Mr Corrado’s eye and in you burst and disturb the whole delicate operation!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z On every hand there is evidence that those engaged in spraying operations exercise a ruthless power. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He could bomb, put US forces in Vietnam, and initiate large-scale combat operations, all without consulting Congress. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Since the day she’d gone to get her operation, she’d felt the massive weight of the city looming over her, and had learned firsthand how much places like the Smoke threatened people like Dr. Cable. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z There was no possibility of an opiate just at present, and no need of one; and so, without a moment’s delay, we began the operation. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z ‘We are dealing with a lunatic! I want nothing more to do with this ridiculous operation!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He belonged behind a desk, not running a big operation like a prison. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “I’m going to give you my home phone number. As soon as the operation’s over—whatever happens—call and let me know. I’ll be waiting.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Back in the days before the operation, Tally remembered, a lot of people, especially young girls, became so ashamed at being fat that they stopped eating. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z As he later recorded in his diary: All operations other than feeding, observation and cleaning were to be suspended. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It took the arrival of two nuns in 1998 to bring some order and rules to the padre’s operations. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z As to whether the operation was safe, the only way to know was to try it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "The accused has not cooperated in the ongoing investigation of others involved with this international operation. It is our belief that he is withholding information, and our office is in favor of incarceration." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z While the idea of another big operation had always been in the back of my mind, I hadn’t really given it much thought. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z She timed this operation very carefully, applying the glue just as her father was getting up from the breakfast table. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z "It's me. I have to have this operation." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “No uglies did. They were definitely a result of the operation.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Since its establishment in 1917, the laboratory’s operations had been concentrated on the campus of the Langley Field military base on the bank of Hampton’s Back River. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Handling an unconscious monkey in Level 4 is a tricky operation, because monkeys can wake up, and they have teeth and a powerful bite, and they are remarkably strong and agile. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The story talked about my birth and my parents’ roller coaster of emotions, but focused mainly on the planning of the operation and the procedure itself. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z "I am rather of the opinion," said Rabadash, "that it has come about by the alteration of the stars and the operation of natural causes." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Was that why I had agreed to the operation in the first place? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z That’s essentially what the doctors at the Mater hospital told my parents when they discussed the operation they were planning. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “Asked the attendant about it, and he told me the thing’s still in operation. ‘Oldest coaster in the park!’ he said. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z It was in such an advanced stage that an operation was pointless. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He was also receiving daily written intelligence briefings, suddenly privy to the nation’s heavier secrets—the classified threats, quiet alliances, and covert operations about which the public remained largely unaware. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Despite these daunting conditions, the scale of the operation quickly grew into an enormous enterprise. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z An operation is performed within the month, at Staunton, but he begins to hemorrhage. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z So the madam was safeguarding her growing operation by offering me a steer- er’s job. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "This case is a lock. I have a statement by everyone popped that Gantos was part of the operation. Not to mention that Rik—who hired him—is set to testify." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z It seemed to us, watching the moving pictures, that the doctors did a rapid, business-like job of a complicated abdominal operation. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z If we are caught being part of the operation as either an abettor or a refugee, the Vietnamese government could take our gold and throw us in jail for five years. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the late 1990s, the overwhelming majority of state and local police forces in the country had availed themselves of the newly available resources and added a significant military component to buttress their drug-war operations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The cost of operations to restore Cowie’s eyesight was eventually covered by the Carnegie Institution. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z No wonder some twenty-eight hundred Japanese companies have set up operations here or teamed up with Chinese partners. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z She had to be rushed to the hospital for an operation. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Bingham had never before sold to an individual company, let alone a shoestring operation on Sheriff Street. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but not one of them could be prideful of their labor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z For immigration agents, squeezing cash from migrants is central to day-to-day operations, helping underpaid agents buy big houses and nice cars. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Well, first let’s look at your personal gross income from lawn cutting, shall we? It’s really the only figure that counts for this aspect of your operation.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z This complex and exceedingly efficient government operation was completed while residents of New Orleans were trapped in attics and begging for rescue from rooftops and highway overpasses. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “What could be more dangerous than a fake quarantine and a town-sponsored bootlegging operation?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I can probably force them to abandon manufacture of their Nexus-6 types; what I do during the next hour will affect the structure of their operation. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z This mole had provided the KGB with detailed knowledge of the very operation that Bill Harvey had worked for months to keep hidden. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He scarcely read the telegraphic dispatches that reported routine operations. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z And as he had now finished his operation, he adjusted the pillow to the patient’s head. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z In winter, the company picks up and moves its operation, and many of its employees, south to Yuma, Arizona. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Even Napoleon, who was directing operations from the rear, had the tip of his tail chipped by a pellet. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “If you know what clue words to look for in the word problem,” Auggie explained, “you know what operation to use. Like ‘per’ or ‘each’ or ‘equally’ means you have to divide. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I decided right then that I was not going to have that operation. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Doctors had done a small operation just after I was born to remove the tumor that split the middle of my face and caused my facial deformities. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Doctors performed the operation while he was in the incubation period after his exposure to Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It took time to prepare subjects for the operation, especially if they were older than sixteen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Give me those disks!” he roared, pinning Foaly to the operation’s shuttle. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The “M & M” in “M & M Enterprises” stood for Milo & Minderbinder, and the & was inserted, Milo revealed candidly, to nullify any impression that the syndicate was a one-man operation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I was way more worried about the operation itself. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z As soon as he completed his thesis—“An Analysis of Conical Helices”—he transferred to Hughes’s big California operation, where the real action was, eager to make his mark in the race for space. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the midst of the controversy, an outside audit of Korean Air’s operations was leaked to the public. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z "Is there any spending limit to this rescue operation?" another reporter asked. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes, they did. It seems your battalion thought you had died during the operation.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z So more surgery was scheduled—three operations all at once. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He no longer lived there, but he had a little operation there—he would bring drugs into the county because he could sell them for a higher premium than in the city. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Both pleaded for their absent spouses— "Emergency operation," "My wife doesn't even speak English"— to no avail. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Once numbers shed their geometric significance, mathematicians no longer had to worry about mathematical operations making geometric sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In a few hours she’d be eating breakfast alongside Shay and Croy, and everyone else she had almost betrayed, almost condemned to the operation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Some people needed the operation more than others. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the nanoseconds used up in a simple computer operation do add up to lengthy bottlenecks on intractable problems, many of which would require millennia to solve in general. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone had to put that factory out of operation. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When it first went into operation in February, Haldeman asked Nixon if he wanted an aide to type up transcripts of the recordings. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “The Darlington Peanut Butter Factory, back in operation. How could you not want to be a part of that?” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The operation took more than a year to plan. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “People like me are always thinking about still having an accent,” I said, trying to remember the operation of the salt, the liquor, the lime. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z That was how we would get back to Hermes after surface operations were complete. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When one of them said, “Our next operation will be very soon!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This was the time when things traditionally went wrong for kidnappers—the third quarter of operations. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z This so-called Indian business, as White discovered, was an elaborate criminal operation, in which various sectors of society were complicit. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Iorek continued to build the fire, and made the children take two more trips down the path to ensure that there was enough fuel for the whole operation. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He pays for her operation, and for the first few months Theo is consumed with taking care of her. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z After the glowing news—Biafran troops were flushing out the last remnants of the enemy, Nigerian casualties were high, mopping-up operations were concluding—he would fantasize about joining the army. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Future operations would do even more to improve my looks—fix up the bumps and scars they had been unable to remedy this time. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “Well—I could get it for six hundred bucks. The ol’ people that owns it is flat bust an’ the ol’ lady needs an operation. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole operation took just under an hour. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z A strange thought crossed her mind, and Tally said, “I’d hate it if you got the operation.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She spent the next two years as a courier, go-between, and manager of World Tourists, Inc., a travel business run by Golos that was actually a front operation for the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “If only I knew how much the operation costs,” says he. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Modern computing was in its infancy, still used only by corporations and the military, or other huge government operations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And by that I mean are you a human female who has never had a sex-change operation? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I wonder how large an operation the Patriots are. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z In the firelight, the handsome features of the second operation were obvious: broad shoulders and a firm jaw, a sharp nose and high cheekbones. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A total of fourteen unmanned missions deposited everything we would need for surface operations. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And they say the operation hasn’t even truly begun. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Among the key figures in the dealings was Arnold Rothstein, who would become further notorious as arguably the chief financier of the smuggling operations that took place during Prohibition. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z But we spent the night there, turning the pagoda into a little fortress, and then for the next seven or eight days we used the place as a base of operations. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z With prisons so much in the news, costing so much money, and confining such unprecedented numbers of people, it seemed to me that their operations should be completely transparent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Damon Hininger, the president and chief operations officer of Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private-prison operator in the United States, is thoroughly optimistic. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Initially, he penciled out a construction budget of $500,000; by the end of the year, the budget for construction and ten years of operation looked more like $2 million. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “You mean, they never did the third operation? They still look middle, even though the/re crumblies?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I told him briefly, and added that we expected he would recover consciousness after the operation—for a short time, at all events. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I looked about the room and saw on the table the instruments that had been used for my operation. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z With a quick motion Emily stabbed it, and while Shirley stared at the blood oozing out, her friend performed the same operation on her own finger. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “I just...I’m not getting how you know what operation to use. When do you multiply and when do you divide. It’s so confusing.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z As the aeronautical laboratory expanded west to meet the demands of the war, its twin, Langley Field, sought to grow in order to accommodate the Army Air Corps’ booming operation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I’m the descendant of a smuggling operation, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I can tell. It’s not just a trick to you, like it is to most runaways. Even Shay, who really believes the operation is wrong, doesn’t get how deadly serious the Smoke is.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was then used in traps set for the males in census operations along the fringe of the insect’s range. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and I am sure he will perform it admirably.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z His parents had founded the Smoke, and they knew the secret of the operation. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He must have seen the media coverage of my big operation when I was four and known that the doctors had made me a nose out of a toe. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Gerber was director of operations in the Soviet Union and Europe, the man in charge of all the Agency's spies in those areas. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Despite the lack of justification the program was launched, with the state providing the manpower and supervising the operation, the federal government providing equipment and additional men, and the communities paying for the insecticide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “No operation is ever easy, Robert,” Dad said. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z James left the daily operations to his man Connelly and rarely visited. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Our lawyer, our teacher, and Carol are all here to make our book “an all for one, one for all” type of operation. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Naw,” said Mr. Hundy, “didn’t see Willard Scott. Reckon I wouldn’t have known what to say if I had. It’s a big operation they got there, course it don’t look so big on the TV.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z On this occasion, I can remember lurking in the corridor outside the nursery while the operation was going on. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a military operation, it had many troops but only one commander. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “The bad news is you have to have a litde operation. Very minor. ‘Operation’ isn’t really the right word. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Exit, enter, exit, enter - it was a smooth operation. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z With no companies like GE buying scrap for their manufacturing operations, or shipping companies like Patel Global Transit looking to buy scavenge to sell overseas, the ship-breaking yards were idle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It was as if the entire operation, this bus station-turned-military base, had been arranged for them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They had halted the rotation of the ship in preparation for the upcoming operation. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Haas, an archaeologist at the Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, had plucked the fabric from the earth minutes before, two graduate students immortalizing the operation with digital cameras. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When I was awake after the operation I had not been away. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Their noses wrinkling in disgust, yet enjoying their inclusion for the first time into this forbidden bacchanal, Karen and Matt watched each detail of the operation with the keenest interest. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Milo supervised the whole expanding operation by himself. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z For nine years, Ames delivered to the Soviets a steady stream of secrets, betraying more than one hundred CIA operations against the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Nice words from the director of Mars operations wouldn't bring him back. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z An operation on my right ankle hadn’t worked. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “We’re sorry for frightening you, Tris,” another voice says, “but anonymity is integral to our operation. We mean you no harm.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z 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 According to the city manager, police operations were "crippled” and "paralyzed.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z If Tally showed up too long after her birthday, Shay might realize that her operation had been delayed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z |
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