So he really longed for it.

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This kind of interaction was not only what he longed for, but he believed it would also appeal to other professionals (men in those days) who, like him, had emigrated from rural America to the big cities.

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They let me imagine how it felt to be longed for, and that was a knowledge sadly lacking in my real life.

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Somehow, though, the record found its way to South Africa, where, via cassette-copying, it went viral, striking a chord among young Afrikaners, who found in it a sense of longed-for justice stifled in their apartheid-defined society.

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Its choice as the Palestinian delegation's headquarters ten years ago, when Israel and its Arab neighbours boldly embarked on the Madrid peace conference, made it an emblem of the longed-for turn from war to peace.

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So the UKIP factor threatens to make it harder still for the Conservatives to secure their longed-for overall majority.

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In practice, it seemed to charm even those, like the Socialist Party, who longed for the return of the men in black hats.

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