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Б. 1. The rejection of the Senate of a labour-supported proposal on so-called welfare «reform» was defeated 52-34. 2. So it was, with misgivings yet relentlessly, that he wished to distance himself from her more accusing image, from the cat-hugging Fanny of the patience-cards and the swallows, the last really humanly-present Fanny that he had known. 3. He had also added an ornate grass porch over the steps, a vast mushroom-shaped conservatory, and a red-brick kitchen annexe. 4. Within the house always seemed to Hugh to be both dark and damp, centred around the cold stone-flagged still-room, full of rain-soaked overcoats and rows of muddy Wellingtons. 5. The National Union of Public Employees’ leader said he was «extremely disturbed» to see that a union-sponsored Labour MP, Mr Ted Leadbitter, had also opposed the visit. 6. Emma had contrived to give the room an Edwardian look, and appeared in the midst of it, her voluminous nylon dress seeming like transparent muslin, her silver-topped walking-stick half lost in the folds, Edwardian herself. 7. The nearest he could come to his satisfaction was the guilty enjoyment of Lindsay’s dry-lipped kisses while Emma’s stick tapped slowly across the next room. 8. There is no inflation because the country has a centrally-planned, scientific socialist economy. 9. The New York State Department of Labor has been charged with discrimination against Spanish-speaking unemployment benefit claimants. The Labour-controlled Castle Point District Council was meeting in the small hours of yesterday when a message arrived from Occidental Oil Company’s Los Angeles office. The Council has been supporting a bitterly fought campaign by the Castle Point Refinery (нефтеочистительный завод) Resistance Group, which three weeks ago moved the pickets to an Italian-financed refinery which has been the subject of an inquiry. 12. From the reaction in the labour press, it appears that even some of the most conservative sections of the labor movement have become more appreciative of the peace issue, after seeing its influence in the election and in the victory of labor-endorsed candidates from the President down. 13. The voice that came back, welling up from the bottom of the stairs, was silly-young and self-amused. 14. On my way home 1 noticed a cab-driver crowd gathered in front of P. J. Clark’s saloon, apparently attracted there by a happy group of whiskey-eyed army officers. 15. As April approached May, the open-windowed, warm spring nights were lurid with the party sounds, the loud-playing phonograph and martini laughter that emanated from Apartment 2. 16. «Hello, Doc,«she repeated happily, as he lifted her off her feet in a rib-crushing grip. 17. Usually Riley wore a tense, trigger-tempered expression; but now he seemed relaxed. 18. Nodding dreamily, he gazed away from us, above us, his acornlike eyes scanning the sky-fringed, breeze-fooled leaves. 19. Our candle, as though intimidated by the incandescence of the opening, star-stabbed sky, toppled, as we could see, unwrapped above us, a late way-away wintery moon: it was like a slice of snow, near and far creatures called to it, hunched moon-eyed frogs, a claw-voiced wildcat. 20. Languid, banana-boned, she had dour black hair and an apathetic, at moments saintly face. 21. It is they who are playing more and more of a role in this struggle which is part of the world-changing tides of our times. 22. Dr James Colernan chaired a government-sponsored study group which produced the 1965 report «Equality of Educational Opportunity». 23. The Soviet proposed agreement would help to solve the problem of protecting the environment, 24. Both women lived in modest, book-filled apartments. 25. We have about 150 reform-minded members. Then we have about that many old-timers who are dead set against any reforms. 26. «That she has,«echoed the ladies in their choir-trained voices. 27. I took myself toward the jail, which is a box-shaped brick building next door to the Ford Motor Company. 28. In after years how often, trailing through the cold rooms of museums, I stopped before such a picture, stood long haunted moments having it recall that gone scene, not as it was, a band of goose-fleshed children dabbling in an autumn creek, but as the painting presented it, husky youths and wading water-diamonded girls. 29. With her kitchen-slopped apron she wiped my face. 30. We surveyed the view from the cemetery hill, and arm in arm descended to the summer-burned, September-burnished field. 31. British-seconded officers flying British-supplied planes and in command of Oman infantry units have been involved in the fighting for years. 32. He worked as a docker, although he had been college-trained in architectural science. 33. Doctor Winter repeated, «Eleven o’clock, and they’ll be here then, too.