When all has been said, however, the big branch store remains a major break with history in the development of American retailing.

Freelance writers and authors who aspire to be the next Stephen King and Dan Brown are known to submit manuscripts of their latest literary creations hoping for their big break are only to be bombarded with numerous rejection letters from major publishing houses.

Around the all-star break they made their second big trade sending OF Cliff Floyd to the Expos for RHP Carl Pavano, RHP Justin Wayne, INF Mike Mordecai, LHP Graeme Lloyd, RHP Don Levinski and INF Wilton Guerrero.

Such " big battalion " operations may be needed to break up significant guerrilla concentrations and split them into small groups where combined civic-police action can control them.

A re-recorded version of Saturday Night peaked at number 35 in the Billboard Hot 100, but the big break Brood hoped for didn't happen.

As recounted in the short story " The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba ", in December 1927 Wimsey faked his own death, supposedly while hunting big game in Tanganyika, in order to penetrate and break up a particularly dangerous and well-organised criminal gang.

Even when Superman was depowered after the Battle of Metropolis and remained out of sight for a year, the only thing Luthor accomplished in that time was the self-sabotaged ' Everyman ' project, where " found a big destructive machine so could break things ", claiming that Superman drove him to it.

His big break came when he directed the Grammy-nominated concert video 9012Live for the rock band Yes in 1985.

According to legend, Scrabble's big break came in 1952 when Jack Straus, president of Macy's, played the game on vacation.

At 6 ′ 3 ″ and 245 pounds, Taylor was big enough to break through the offensive lines of many teams, but he still had enough speed to chase down running backs.

Sondheim's big break came when he wrote the lyrics to West Side Story, lyricizing Leonard Bernstein's music and Arthur Laurents's book.

Debris slides generally start with big rocks that start at the top of the slide and begin to break apart as they slide towards the bottom.

Lauda was instantly quick but the team was in decline ; his big break came when his BRM team-mate Clay Regazzoni rejoined Ferrari in 1974 and team owner Enzo Ferrari asked him what he thought of Lauda.

His big break came from playing opposite Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata!

For example, the Ford Excursion could net the company $ 18, 000, while they could not break even with the Ford Focus unless the buyer chose options, leading Detroit's big three automakers to focus on SUVs over small cars.

His big break came when he received top billing in the comedy spoof of spy movies Top Secret !, where he played an American rock and roll star.

Actor Nicolas Cage, born Nicolas Coppola, chose a new last name to avoid comparisons to his uncle, director Francis Ford Coppola, who gave him his big break in the movie Peggy Sue Got Married.

Jones ' big break came in 1962 when he was hired by Jet Harris and Tony Meehan of the successful British group The Shadows for a two-year stint.

In 1972, he got his big break producing a girl group he had discovered called Love Unlimited.

His big break was getting cast in The Man with the Golden Gun in 1974, by which time he had become so poor he was living out of his car in Los Angeles.

His big theatrical break came in 1982, with Night Shift, featuring Michael Keaton, Shelley Long, and Henry Winkler.

Anita Page and Bessie Love play a vaudeville sister act who have come to New York for their big break on Broadway.

Mulroney's big break came during the Cliche Commission in 1974, which was set up by Quebec premier Robert Bourassa to investigate the situation at James Bay, Canada's largest hydroelectric project.

To digest vegetable food, grouse have big crops and gizzards, eat grit to break up food, and have long intestines with well-developed caeca in which symbiotic bacteria digest cellulose.

Then they were tumbling again, and the big man reached into the same pocket he had gone for earlier, and came up with a vicious switchblade.

`` P. J. '' -- as Ludie called the town -- was crowded with summer people who came to the mountains to escape the heat in the big cities.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

Several times it came near breaking, and there were in fact some lovely peals of thunder from Jerry Mulligan's big band, which is about as fine an aggregation as has come along in the jazz business since John Hammond found Count Basie working in a Kansas City trap.

Then, without knowing why, she found herself running from them, fleeing wildly through the trees, dodging her own shadows until she came to a little hollow in the rocky ground with a big stone in the center behind which she knelt and hid, listening to the madness of her heart and wanting for once to cry.

Ironically, it was Hoyle who coined the phrase that came to be applied to Lemaître's theory, referring to it as " this big bang idea " during a BBC Radio broadcast in March 1949.

The name cello is an abbreviation of the Italian violoncello, which means " little violone ", referring to the violone (" big viol "), the lowest-pitched instrument of the viol family, the group of string instruments that went out of fashion around the end of the 17th century in most countries except France, where they survived another half-century or so before the louder violin family came into greater favour in that country too.

Ramsey gave the odd chance to Chelsea keeper Peter Bonetti, Everton's Gordon West and Manchester United's Alex Stepney, but when the big games came along, it was only Banks.

Keller's big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of " water "; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.

The big confrontation came after the tax plan was approved and after Dole subsequently proposed tax increases that he referred to as reforms.

The first big national involvement of Nehru came at the onset of the non-cooperation movement in 1920.

The band's American breakthrough came with the third album, Travelling Without Moving in 1996, which yielded two big hits, " Virtual Insanity " and " Cosmic Girl ".

Dixit's next big performance came in Umesh Mehra's hit Mujrim and Aziz Sejawal's directed movie Ilaaka in both movies Dixit continued against super dancer and fiter hero Mithun Chakraborthy.

He reported directly to the Soviet KGB, and a big part of KHAD's budget came from the Soviet Union itself.

The addressing of these issues came to be known as Keating's " big picture.

Creedence drummer Doug Clifford later commented " Once Creedence signed, everyone else jumped in line and all the other big acts came on.

She described the battle by saying: " And then we saw the lightning, and that was the guns ; and then we heard the thunder, and that was the big guns ; and then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling ; and when we came to get the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

In 1555 Salah Rais, pasha of Algiers, set men to work to pull it down, but the records say that the attempt was given up because big black wasps came from under the stones and stung them to death.

In October 1926, Goldkette's " Famous Fourteen ," as they came to be called, opened at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City opposite the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, one of the East Coast's outstanding African American big bands.

The nickname " the Walker ", " Ganger " in Norse, came from being so big that no horse could carry him.