But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

*, a Sargo-class submarine, was the first United States submarine to sink a Japanese ship during World War II.

*, a Sargo-class submarine, was wrecked and scuttled in the first days of World War II.

* The first Seadragon, ( SS-194 ), was a Sargo-class submarine, commissioned in 1939 and struck in 1948.

-- Vital secrets of Britain's first atomic submarine, the Dreadnought, and, by implication, of the entire United States navy's still-building nuclear sub fleet, were stolen by a London-based soviet spy ring, secret service agents testified today.

It has a hull patterned on that of the United States navy's Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine.

It was first tried out on a conventional submarine, the Albacore, in 1954.

* 1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.

* 1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U. S. submarine sunk in accident.

* 1960 – The U. S. Navy submarine completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

In 2010, a team of scientists led by the University of Leeds used a robotic " yellow submarine " to observe detailed flows within an " undersea river " for the very first time.

Some people even believe that this was the biblical event of Noah's flood, but despite their historical significance, the first spectacular images of these submarine channels were obtained in 1999 ( Di Iorio, et al., 1999 ) in the frame of a NATO SACLANT Undersea Research project using jointly the NATO RV Alliance, and the Turkish Navy survey ship Çubuklu.

Following the 1852 Telegraph Act, Canada's first permanent transatlantic telegraph link was a submarine cable built in 1866 between Ireland and Newfoundland. Telegrams were sent through networks built by Canadian Pacific and Canadian National.

* 1917 – World War I: is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine.

* 1904: The French built the first diesel submarine, the Z.

The first submarine casualty to a destroyer was the German, rammed by on 29 October 1914.

* 1912 – In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.

* 1864 – American Civil War: The becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the.

* 1960 – The U. S. Navy submarine begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

The first submarine telegraph cable started its operation in Gibraltar in 1870.

The first patrol of a Trident-armed submarine occurred in 1994, although the US base was closed at the end of the Cold War.

The plan failed as the Greek ships quickly broke contact, while at the same time the Mecidiye came under attack by the Greek submarine Delfin, which launched a torpedo against it but missed ; the first such attack in history.

* was the UK's first nuclear-powered submarine, launched in 1960 and decommissioned in 1980.

It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.

* 1960 – a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged.

The first submarine, U-1 was delivered in December 1906, built by Krupp's Germania yard in Kiel.

The first submarine had 238 ton displacement on the surface and 283 tons submerged.

Construction began in 1910 of the first submarine powered by twin diesel engines.

U-19 was twice the size of the first German submarine, had five times the range at 7, 600 sm cruising at 8 knots, or 15 knots maximum.