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A dramatic series in 1956 saw a record that will probably never be beaten: off-spinner Jim Laker's monumental effort at Old Trafford when he bowled 68 of 191 overs to take 19 out of 20 possible Australian wickets in the Fourth Test.
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In what was a dramatic five game series, their NLDS victory over the Atlanta Braves was the franchise's first postseason series win since they went to the World Series in 1908, when they beat the Detroit Tigers in five games.
It would take a series of dramatic wins for Colorado to hang on to its lead.
A more dramatic upgrade to the PDP-1 series was introduced in August 1966, the PDP-9.
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They defeated the American League champion Cleveland Indians in the 1997 series, which was notable for shortstop Edgar Renteria driving in second baseman Craig Counsell for the series-clinching run in the eleventh inning of the seventh and deciding game and the " fire sale " which occurred in the off-season following the dramatic win.
The series ended with a dramatic collision between Marlins catcher Rodríguez and Giants first baseman J. T.
Noting that Whale's reputation has been subsumed by the " Karloff cult ", Sarris cites Bride of Frankenstein as the " true gem " of the Frankenstein series and concludes that Whale's career " reflects the stylistic ambitions and dramatic disappointments of an expressionist in the studio-controlled Hollywood of the thirties ".
It is his first dramatic TV series.
As daily protests against the Syrian occupation grew to 25, 000, a series of dramatic events occurred.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show was a half-hour newsroom sitcom featuring Ed Asner as her gruff boss Lou Grant, a character that would later be spun off into an hour-long dramatic series.
She also made a number of television appearances from 1953 through 1962, as a guest star in dramatic shows or installments of anthology series.
In the 1990s, Wiccan beliefs and practices were used as a partial basis for a number of U. S. films and television series, such as The Craft, Charmed and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, leading to a dramatic upsurge in teenagers and young adults becoming interested and involved in the religion.
In the 20th century, English opera began to assert more independence, with works of Ralph Vaughan Williams and in particular Benjamin Britten, who in a series of works that remain in standard repertory today, revealed an excellent flair for the dramatic and superb musicality.
Abdul also co-produced a 2001 pilot episode of Skirts, a dramatic series that would have aired on MTV about a high-school cheerleading squad ; Abdul was also set to appear as the head coach.
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American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.
The multi award-winning Theatre III was founded in 1956 when three organizations ( a local chorus, dance group, and dramatic troupe ) combined to present a show.
After his first sizable role, as a juvenile delinquent in Running Wild ( 1955 ), he supported Esther Williams and George Nader in The Unguarded Moment ( Universal, 1956 ), her first dramatic role since The Hoodlum Saint in 1946.
In 1956, under the new party leadership of Władysław Gomułka, Poland experienced a dramatic social and cultural shift.
In 1956, she moved to Universal International and appeared in a non-musical dramatic film, The Unguarded Moment.
The pursuit of Andrews ' Raiders formed the basis of the Buster Keaton silent film The General and a dramatic 1956 Walt Disney film, The Great Locomotive Chase.
He received favorable critical notices for the 1956 dramatic film Miracle in the Rain, co-starring Jane Wyman, in which he played a good-hearted young soldier preparing to go to war, and in the mystery 23 Paces to Baker Street, in which he played a blind playwright residing in London.
* The Walt Disney dramatic film, The Great Locomotive Chase ( 1956 ), starring Fess Parker as Andrews, also was based on these exploits.
The 1956 film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's stage musical Carousel used a flashback device which somewhat takes the impact away from a very dramatic plot development later in the film.
He was the author of the book The End of the Imperial Japanese Navy, first printed in 1956, which was a dramatic account offering a rare glimpse into Japanese naval warfare in the Pacific, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the final bloody sorties as American forces closed in on Japan.
Her performance in Jean Cocteau's play La Machine à écrire in 1956 was admired by the author who called her " The finest dramatic temperament of the Postwar period ".
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The aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control.
The six-year period after 1931 — when the cane toad was most prolific, and the white-grub saw dramatic decline — saw the highest-ever rainfall for Puerto Rico.
The early 1990s saw a dramatic slump in fish stocks, which were being overfished with new high-tech equipment.
The consequent overcrowding into areas with little supporting infrastructure saw dramatic increases in the rate of infant mortality ( to the extent that many Sunday schools for pre-working age children ( 5 or 6 ) had funeral clubs to pay for each other's funeral arrangements ), crime, and social deprivation.
The 19th century saw a dramatic increase in knowledge about other cultures and religions, and also the establishment of economic and social histories of progress.
The last quarter of the century saw a dramatic fall in birth rates.
The United States saw dramatic growth in the popularity of talk radio during the 1990s due to the repeal of the Federal Communications Commission's post-war Fairness Doctrine of 1949, in 1987.
Imagawa saw the series as being a typical shōnen series that was heavily male oriented and featuring a shapely heroine and dramatic battles.
In addition, the years of the late 1960s and early 1970s saw a dramatic change in society's view of illegitimacy and in the legal rights of those born outside of wedlock.
The Paleolithic period in Provence saw great changes in the climate, with the arrival and departure of two ice ages, and dramatic changes in the sea level.
In 2005, Memphis was ranked the 4th most dangerous city with a population of 500, 000 or higher in the U. S. Crime in Memphis increased in 2005, and saw a dramatic rise in the first half of 2006.
He understood at once that the symphony was a dramatic form to an extent that he had not previously realized, and that in Beethoven he saw a way to the dramatic manner in which he desired to compose.
)" Kirk Gibson's dramatic game-winning pinch-hit home run in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series (" I don't believe what I just saw!
Middleton's official duties did not interrupt his dramatic writings ; the 1620s saw the production of his and Rowley's tragedy The Changeling, and several tragicomedies.
The 1950s saw the CBC providing hands-on training and employment for actors, writers, and directors in the developing field of its television dramatic services, and later saw much of the talent heading south to seek fame and fortune in New York and Hollywood.
Following a tough start to his Loftus Road career, Hughes made sure of QPR's Premier League status following a dramatic 3 – 2 defeat at Manchester City on the last day of the season after a run of 5 straight home wins saw them escape the drop.
They saw however a dramatic drop in form over the summer which saw them briefly flirt with relegation, before a late surge of form late in the season salvaged 10th place.
The late 19th century saw a dramatic expansion in the size of the orchestra, and in the role of concerts as part of urban society.
2008-9 saw them secure the Essex Senior Cup beating both semi-finalists Southend and finalists Barking ( both are national league sides ) in dramatic fashion away from home.
Perturbation theory saw a particularly dramatic expansion and evolution with the arrival of quantum mechanics.
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