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Hoyt began moving his lips as if he were trying to suck the ice cream off the top of a cone without using his teeth. She tried to make her lips move in sync with his. The next thing she knew, Hoyt had put his hand sort of under her thigh and hoisted her leg up over his thigh. What was she to do? Was this the point she should say, Stop! ? No, she shouldn't put it that way. It would be much cooler to say, No, Hoyt, in an even voice, the way you would talk to a dog that insists on begging at the table.

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As hand-to-hand combat has gradually disappeared from our civilization, even in wartime... Americans have turned to the automobile to satisfy their love of direct aggression.

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