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nineeleven

The Sudan regime changed at the same time.

At the same time, the Sudanese regime began to change.

facetoface

My dad never wanted me to do that.

I did that because that's what my dad wanted me to do.

facetoface

She said because of all of you we're going to live!

she said to them, because of you we're going to die too, through no fault of our own!

facetoface

You didn't even try to remove the tar.

And you said, How do I get this tar off of me uncle?

nineeleven

He is down.

Yeah, he's down.

verbatim

Their lawyers were not the best when preparing various documents.

The first is that I find their interpretation of the evidence often skewed; the second is that while adjustment to lexicon, which they have always strongly advocated, is one thing, modification of grammar is another.

nineeleven

A manager at the New York Center gave the report that follows while the controller was still unable to find American 11.

At 8:48, while the controller was still trying to locate American 11, a New York Center manager provided the following report on a Command Center teleconference about American 11:

facetoface

We have so much left to cover.

Not really, that's all.

nineeleven

al Qaeda's first major terrorist operation was due to Bin Ladin losing his base.

Not until 1998 did al Qaeda undertake a major terrorist operation of its own, in large part because Bin Ladin lost his base in Sudan.

facetoface

We never had a book of Grimm's Fairytales.

We had a great big book of Grimm's Fairytales, and looking back on that they were grim!

nineeleven

The words were garbled and the controller couldn't understand them.

The controller only heard something unintelligible; he did not hear the specific words we have some planes.

nineeleven

The transponder code on United 175 changed and the controller tried contacting them.

At 8:51, the controller noticed the transponder change from United 175 and tried to contact the aircraft.

nineeleven

Wait a second.

Hold on a second.

facetoface

So it was nothing like what you enjoyed reading?

So in some ways it was very similar to the space exploration that you were so interested in?

facetoface

They didn't care about keeping the studio looking good.

They, they definitely had a lot of pride in, in the appearance of the studio and how well it was maintained, which was nice.

verbatim

The baseball player is happy to be removed by the manager.

When a baseball player is removed by the manager, the organist plays Auld Lang Syne.

nineeleven

He could be a token of resistance to the Western World.

He could stand as a symbol of resistance-above all, resistance to the West and to America.

facetoface

The doctor cancelled my appointment before I got there.

The doctor got, did some tests and uh, done some tests.

verbatim

The usage notes in L are overly short

There are lengthy usage notes and synonym studies in W that do not appear in L at all or in greatly abbreviated form, sometimes mercifully so, for W occasionally succumbs to prolixity.

facetoface

How many years have you been here?

And so what year does that make you, are you a--?

verbatim

It was too cold for anyone to be outside.

One day when the wind chill factor was nearing absolute zero, I took shelter in the service club.

nineeleven

We are flying low to the ground.

Sweeney We are flying low.

facetoface

She always loved my mom and was always nice to her, even before we kids were born

Um, she pretty much showed a lot of disinterest at best and, and outright hostility at worst towards my mom until we the kids came along.

facetoface

When you open the back door and you get off, people would laugh at you for having such an ugly car.

You would open the back door and you felt like you were big stuff.

facetoface

What is your least favorite subject?

And what's your major?

nineeleven

The officials in the U.S. knew of the discussions by March.

U.S. officials became aware of these secret discussions, certainly by March.

nineeleven

The Vice President was informing the President.

According to contemporaneous notes, at 9:55 the Vice President was still on the phone with the President advising that three planes were missing and one had hit the Pentagon.

nineeleven

Defense Department officials relied on the NMCC's air threat conference which didn't include the FAA intially.

But the highest-level Defense Department officials relied on the NMCC's air threat conference, in which the FAA did not participate for the first 48 minutes.

verbatim

Philip Gove is a linguist with a masters degree in Foreign Language Studies.

Language appropriate to a basic ability to read and write, followed by the capacity to handle abstract usage, and, at a higher level, to be at ease with what Philip Gove in Webster's Third called ISV, `international scientific vocabulary.

facetoface

They have never had a boy on my father's side of the family.

Like because my dad always treated me like a boy because I was like I was the first girl on my dad's side of the family in like, four generations or something like that.

facetoface

I always worked less than 20 hours a week.

I had, had put in several weeks that were between 60 and 90 hours a week.

facetoface

I was too young to understand what was going on.

I was old enough at the time that I knew what was going on.

nineeleven

They succeeded in penetrating the defenses of the security system.

By 8:00 A.M. on the morning of Tuesday, September 11,2001, they had defeated all the security layers that America's civil aviation security system then had in place to prevent a hijacking.

nineeleven

The strikes in New York caused those precautionary measures to be put in place.

These measures were precautionary steps taken because of the strikes in New York.

facetoface

Supervillains like Captain marvel, Superman and Batman.

Oh yeah, superheroes like Captain Marvel, Superman, Batman and all of them.

nineeleven

The intent of the passengers was described in five calls.

Five calls described the intent of passengers and surviving crew members to revolt against the hijackers.

nineeleven

You should stay still if you want to keep safe.

If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane.

verbatim

Semantic Clue elements are a special-case class.

They make up the class of Semantic Clue Elements.

facetoface

My progress is halted.

I've been going up as a progress in school, so I, it will be a good change for me.

verbatim

Socrates wrote extensively about the god Apollo.

And, where the reference is made in the first paragraph to the twanging release of Ulysses' silver bow, that the bowman is not Ulysses but Apollo, shooting into the Greek camp.

facetoface

Do you watch tv yet?

Do you read yet?

nineeleven

The controller had tried to reach the crew of United 175.

Beginning at 8:52, the controller made repeated attempts to reach the crew of United 175.

verbatim

There are others that require even more.

Somewhat more involved

facetoface

I do not believe she read at all.

Uh, so yeah, I took up a lot of her life and she read a lot of children's stories to me as a result of that, but I don't believe she read a lot for her own amusement.

nineeleven

The Command Center got a visual report from another plane.

Within seconds, the Command Center received a visual report from another aircraft, and informed headquarters that the aircraft was 20 miles northwest of Johnstown.

verbatim

Probably because ducks are called abolishinist zebras in Australia.

Of the two, the W geographical listings seem more W lists Aylesbury , which, through some grievous, egregious fault, is not in the geographical section of the L but does appear in the A-Z section (because of the ducks).

verbatim

Old English words are compounded a lot

None is the combined Old English ne `not' + on `one.

facetoface

The bull was silent at that time.

The bull start making his noises and all that other stuff.

nineeleven

We need to tell them what is going on, so we can get fighter jets over Manhattan.

We need to tell 'em if this stuff is gonna keep on going, we need to take those fighters, put 'em over Manhattan.

facetoface

Keep your stories to yourself.

Umm, go ahead and tell me about a story.

nineeleven

Bin Laden fancied himself as the leader of an international Jihad confederation.

Bin Ladin now had a vision of himself as head of an international jihad confederation.

verbatim

The Muskrat Ramble is a wrestling special event.

End of digression and back to MUSKRAT-KAT- Muskrat Ramble is credited to Edward Kid Ory and Ray Gilbert.

verbatim

The earth is not alive.

As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing.

verbatim

I don't have much time so we have to talk about you now or never.

I want to know much of you.

verbatim

The Screen Actors guild has strict requirements for membership.

Beyond English, entry into the guild may mean acquiring a special language of education (such as French in Senegal and English in Kenya), because many of the world's tongues are not yet (and may not ever be) part of the circle of standardized print languages in which the work of the guild can be conducted.

facetoface

She never once claimed that he wasn't hers.

She'd go, Oh no, he's not mine.

nineeleven

Al Qaeda, under the direct supervision of Bin Ladin and his chief aides attacked the US embassies in East Africa in 1998.

The attacks on the U.S. embassies in East Africa in the summer of 1998 would take a different form-planned, directed, and executed by al Qaeda, under the direct supervision of Bin Ladin and his chief aides.

facetoface

I never knew my father but I wish that I could.

If my father bought it, it would have to be a Dodge.

verbatim

The matter at hand is more complex and delicate than expected.

Nonsexist language is no universal antidote.

facetoface

I'm not going to have anything to do with pools this summer.

So now I'm going to run three pools over the summer.

nineeleven

They said, "If they are there, then we will run on them."

. . . [I]f they're there then we'll run on them.

verbatim

Characters are generally interchangeable as long as they sound the same.

The problem was solved simply by using an already standard character that had a similar sound to what the Viet called themselves.

facetoface

They are both pilots.

They're actually both teachers.

nineeleven

There was a video teleconference after 9 o'clock.

The first topic addressed in the White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the President, the White House, and federal agencies.

verbatim

There are many types of Indo people in existence.

That is to say, beside Indo-European and Indo-Hittite, there must have existed an Indo-Slurvian.

facetoface

We could clearly see the dividing line to turn right.

It would be so damn foggy you could not see the yellow line on that divided highway in front of you and we to turn left out onto this highway.

verbatim

Aman's writing is peppered in a good way.

Aman evidently disagrees, for his writing is peppered (salted?)

verbatim

This happened because there was a really good manual already.

I pointed out to him that if they made available a proper manual the number of calls could probably be reduced to 6,000.

nineeleven

Bin Landin was interviewed three months later.

Three months later, when interviewed in Afghanistan by ABC-TV, Bin Ladin enlarged on these themes.

facetoface

She will not lose her foot if she keeps smoking.

She got gangrene in her foot and he said if you don't quit smoking you're going to lose your foot.

facetoface

He did not want to take anyone.

And he goes, Yeah, sure, I'll take you.

nineeleven

The person was beat down by the people on the plane.

He was defeated by the alerted, unarmed passengers of United 93.

facetoface

I was very surprised by that, I had not suspected it.

OK, I thought so.

facetoface

My school was filled with people who were all extremely alike.

Like in most schools in Charlotte, if you go on other sides, it's like everybody's just white, but in my school, there was every kind of person you could ever meet.

nineeleven

In that moment the Langley pilots were unaware of the threat, the location of United 93 and had no authorization to engage.

At that point in time, the Langley pilots did not know the threat they were facing, did not know where United 93 was located, and did not have shootdown authorization.

facetoface

How was it growing up in the Western US?

And how was growing up in Charlotte?

verbatim

Some places may never be investigated.

In many other places, the ancient sites lay buried'and still do'beneath modern modern property owners quite understandably take a dim view of tearing down their buildings on the off chance that the remnants of an ancient town will be found several yards below.

verbatim

I will make the improvements and changes.

I was under the impression it was based on Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary , and indeed it was; but there are so many improvements and changes that the absence both of a Longman copyright notice and of any identification of a specific editorial director are a bit mysterious.

facetoface

You weren't there.

You were there, the upchuck wagon.

verbatim

The Gallerie was much nicer than the shoe store.

Turning a corner of the Mazza Gallerie into a women's tennis store, I was startled to see ...

nineeleven

The second call was ended.

At that point, the second call was cut off.

nineeleven

The 9/11 hijackings all occurred on the same day.

From this and other evidence, we believe the hijacking began at 8:14 or shortly thereafter.

nineeleven

The flight attendants might have been in the way.

Or the flight attendants may just have been in their way.

nineeleven

Muslims army managed to draw out the Soviet army from Afghanistan.

Citing the Soviet army's withdrawal from Afghanistan as proof that a ragged army of dedicated Muslims could overcome a superpower, he told the We are certain that we shall-with the grace of Allah-prevail over the Americans.

facetoface

Hopefully she won't die anytime soon.

Before she died and she crashed on that curve.

facetoface

Kids were so very special, even being included in adult conversations and given multiple opportunities.

And, you know, with this, you know, it wasn't many opportunities for kids to be special, because kids weren't, you know, you were pushed out of adult conversation, and just really pushed to the side.

verbatim

Studying Latin is a rewarding, pleasant experience.

A more convincing case for Latin studies can be made on other grounds (if the study of ANY language requires pleading).

facetoface

Did you read a lot of the books from the library?

Did you have lots of storybooks at your house that were read to you?

nineeleven

What Qutb conceived as a fight between God and Satan is very black and white.

Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.

facetoface

The connections were great.

Plus, I really wasn't making the kind of connections that I wanted to make.

nineeleven

Bin Ladin used his construction company to construct a highway between the city to the port.

Fulfilling his bargain with Turabi, Bin Ladin used his construction company to build a new highway from Khartoum to Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast.

facetoface

I am certain that I can remember what Dr. Zhivago read.

I mean I'm sure I have read I just can't even remember what, Dr. Zhivago, I read that.

facetoface

Uncle Wiggly had never been a very popular man.

Ah, Uncle Wiggly was a favorite.

facetoface

She hardly ever walked.

Um she used to, she used to walk every day.

verbatim

English is often misunderstood because of the vast range of dialects and slangs.

Recently I found in one of those files in which for many years I have been systematically losing things a magazine clipping from many years ago which points out that the formal language of a century and more past can lead to misunderstandings today.

facetoface

Do you know who are your parents?

Um, what do you remember any stories they told you, your parents told you?

nineeleven

Gonzalez reported losing phone contact with Ong.

At 8:44, Gonzalez reported losing phone contact with Ong.

verbatim

Anagrams are often less than one word removed from the subject.

that an anagram is lurking nearby.

verbatim

I am too relaxed about losing my job.

I should worry.

facetoface

I know I am the oldest one.

And, I don't know, it's like my grandparents, I'm the youngest one.