WAS is the story of Dorothy. Orphaned as a child in the 1870s, she goes to live in Kansas with her Aunty Em and Uncle Henry. They face drought and poverty. They face each other.

... was just hoping she had no ani- mosity toward me and had grown out of her childish ways . " Hi , Kevin . ” She didn't do the roll - of - her - eyes thing , so I knew it was not a setup to respond . " What's up , Tracy ? " It was like at ...

... was cut in half and one piece was carried out behind the chicken house. Mom and Mother sewed it in a muslin sack for protection and Dad hooked it up to a rope and pulley he had fastened high up on a limb of the big oak tree. They simply ...

... was an endless strip of white jagged rocks that dissolved into the lake water before me. To my left was a large white building. Although there was no mid-high metal fence to block me, this was that coastline from my dream. And here it was ...

... was evident—a firm confidence in himself. He was liked by women and did not avoid them. Ere six months had passed after the death of his wife, he courted the daughter of an Ural Cossack. The father of the bride, notwithstanding that ...

... was going to pass out. It wasn't the tiny window. Or the bars that blocked my view. It was that if I wanted to see the sky—just the sky, and not the building being constructed just opposite—I had to press my stomach to the windowpane ...

... was his custom to do. Members of the party stood at attention while Adolf started to make his way to his table. When he was walking, he smiled at guests and stopped to shake hands with some of his generals and their wives. The band ...

... was another console at the back of the aircraft purely for evaluation work, which was another aspect of the FCS tasks. This console was used for equipment such as the Cossor GPS set-up. This was being examined in terms of comparison ...

... was a way of being alone that made you feel as if you didn't exist at all. That was too terrible. All these people in their black suits were squeezing in around me. It seemed as if all the people on earth were gone and all that was ...

... was the Atomic Era and the Cold War to make it all even more insane. I still smoked my Old Golds and my pipe, even ... was nothing left. I had tried it all. I was defiled. It was over. I had seen the essence of things and it was ...