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1  He didn't seem to mind our being hoods.
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Context   In Chapter 6
2  I didn't hardly think of him as being human.
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Context   In Chapter 1
3  There are things worse than being a greaser.
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Context   In Chapter 4
4  I wondered how he could stand being so handsome.
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Context   In Chapter 1
5  I have quite a rep for being quiet, almost as quiet as Johnny.
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Context   In Chapter 3
6  I was too tired to tell myself I was being mean and unreasonable.
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Context   In Chapter 4
7  Incidentally, we don't mind being called greaser by another greaser.
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Context   In Chapter 2
8  He took a drag on his cigarette and cussed it goodnaturedly for not being a Kool.
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Context   In Chapter 5
9  Glory, I thought with a bewildering feeling of being rushed, things are happening too quick.
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Context   In Chapter 4
10  WHEN I CAME TO, I was being bounced around, and I ached and smarted, and wondered dimly where I was.
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Context   In Chapter 6
11  He never talked about his past or being in jail that way--- if he talked about it at all, it was to brag.
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Context   In Chapter 6
12  You might have thought it was Dally who fixed those races for Buck, being a jockey and all, but it wasn't.
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Context   In Chapter 4
13  I'd just as soon tease a full-grown grizzly; but for some reason, Darry seems to like being teased by Soda.
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Context   In Chapter 1
14  He was real nice about it and said that being heroes would help get us out of trouble, especially since it was self-defense and all.
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Context   In Chapter 6
15  I picked up a kid, and he promptly bit me, but I leaned out, the window and dropped him as gently as I could, being in a hurry like that.
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Context   In Chapter 6
16  Not like the Socs, who jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an asset to society the next.
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Context   In Chapter 1
17  I only wanted to lie on my back under a tree and read a book or draw a picture, and not worry about being jumped or carrying a blade or ending up married to some scatterbrained broad with no sense.
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Context   In Chapter 3
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