I Am the Cheese — Vocabulary
Robert Cormier
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The first people to give testimony were criminals themselves, members of the organizations and syndicates who, for one reason or another, decided to turn against their own kind.7 more

Realize that the tension and the headache are anxiety reactions.4 more

I was in a panic because I'm not built for subterfuge and deception.†4 more

For instance, a Tuesday afternoon was a serious challenge because there were few shoppers around and it was easy for store personnel to spot any suspicious actions.6 more

Weren't the people Dad testified against sent to jail?6 more

His huge figure wavers in the wetness of my tears, as if he is somehow underwater.4 more

The following advisories are advanced for priority study: Advisory $/: Modification of Agency Basic Procedures to eliminate Policy 979 which does not currently allow termination procedures by Department i-R. Advisory $2: Discontinue suspension of Personnel $2222 and grant full reinstatement on following basis: While it is fact that Witness $599-6 had been located by Adversaries, it has not been established that Personnel $2222 allowed termination of Witness $599-6 and affiliate (spouse) by Adversaries.†3 more

He was wary again, on guard, distrustful.3 more

I don't like to walk that way because I feel vulnerable.†3 more

"Don't rush, act nonchalant," Amy cautioned.2 more

—religion, in fact, had always sustained her through bad periods, particularly after her father died.2 more

He keeps probing for more information and I tell him there isn't any more, that I've held nothing back.4 more

He remembered asking his father, tentatively, afraid that he was invading his privacy, how much it had hurt him to start life over, to give up his old life, his career, his friends.1 more

His mother waded through this debris of other years, clearing a path to a box tied with old rope, about four feet square, in the corner.†2 more

And my father sang raucously and joyously: Heigh-ho, the merry-o, The farmer in the dell.†3 more

It was only later, in the eighth grade, when he knew irrevocably that he wanted to be a writer, that he realized he had stored up all his observations, all his emotions, for that purpose.2 more

He sometimes wondered what had happened to transform his mother from the laughing, tender woman to whom the scent of lilac clung into the pale and subdued and antiseptic woman who seldom left the house, who lurked behind window curtains.†1 more

Roscoe Campbell, owner and editor of the Telegrapher, encouraged Adam's father to go beyond the superficial aspects of stories, to find the meanings below the surfaces, to root out what might be hidden or not apparent to the casual reader.

It reminded Adam of an old movie he'd seen on television—It Happened One Night, with Clark Gable and some actress, Claudette Somebody—and his father and mother remembered the movie, too, and it was good talking and joking and reminiscing, and then settling down.†

The quarries dried up after a while but the Italians remained and became assimilated into the town and the state.†