| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: made to evacuate personnel as soon as the monitors completed their
initial survey. Because the cloud moved to the northeast, the south
shelter (the Control Point) was not completely evacuated, although
nonessential personnel were sent to the Base Camp. The west shelter
was emptied of all personnel except a searchlight crew spotlighting
the cloud as it moved away (1; 10).
Only at the north shelter did an emergency evacuation occur. About 12
minutes after the shot, a detection instrument indicated a rapid rise
in the radiation levels within the shelter. At the same time, a
remote ionization monitoring device detected a rapid increase in
radiation. Because of these two readings, all north shelter personnel
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: concealed a very opposite emotion. There was, undoubtedly, a tie
of passion between them long before he came to Styles. They had
already arranged their infamous plot--that he should marry this
rich, but rather foolish old lady, induce her to make a will
leaving her money to him, and then gain their ends by a very
cleverly conceived crime. If all had gone as they planned, they
would probably have left England, and lived together on their
poor victim's money.
"They are a very astute and unscrupulous pair. While suspicion
was to be directed against him, she would be making quiet
preparations for a very different denouement. She arrives from
The Mysterious Affair at Styles |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: they could. When the first light came, the Virginian attended to
breakfast, while Balaam rode away on the sorrel to bring in the
loose horses. They had gone far out of sight, and when he
returned with them, after some two hours, he was on Pedro. Pedro
was soaking with sweat, and red froth creamed from his mouth. The
Virginian saw the horses must have been hard to drive in,
especially after Balaam brought them the wild sorrel as a leader.
"If you'd kep' ridin' him, 'stead of changin' off on your hawss,
they'd have behaved quieter," said the foreman.
"That's good seasonable advice," said Balaam, sarcastically. "I
could have told you that now."
The Virginian |
