Just about the most enthralling real-life example of meeting cute is the Charles MacArthur-Helen Hayes saga: reputedly all he did was give her a handful of peanuts, but he said simultaneously, `` I wish they were emeralds ''.

According, then, to what I take to be the prevailing view, these rioters were merely a handful of irresponsible, Stalinist-corrupted provocateurs.

Phillip was accompanied by a contingent of marines and a handful of other officers who were to administer the colony.

A handful of games were released during this time, including Battlezone 2000.

The two charges passed in the House ( largely with Republican support, but with a handful of Democratic votes as well ) were for perjury and obstruction of justice.

Although most of the episodes were presented in complete form, minus the music video segments, a handful of episodes were edited for content.

This theory of Homer's influence on Beowulf remained very prevalent in the 1920s, but started to die out in the following decade when a handful of critics stated that the two works were merely “ comparative literature ” although Greek was known in contemporary England.

Over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, these amalgamated or were bought by competitors until only a handful of larger companies remained ( see railway mania ).

Those Milwaukee " home " games were phenomenally successful, with the handful of games accounting for about one-third of total White Sox home attendance.

In a handful of documented cases, individuals attempting breatharian fasting have died, and among the claims investigated by the Indian Rationalist Association, all were found to be fraudulent.

To increase the number of cooperating CPUs beyond a handful, schemes such as non-uniform memory access ( NUMA ) and directory-based coherence protocols were introduced in the 1990s.

Throughout the colonial period, large areas of Chad were never governed effectively: in the huge BET Prefecture, the handful of French military administrators usually left the people alone, and in central Chad, French rule was only slightly more substantive.

As the franchise was increased, it also was made more uniform, as many so-called rotten boroughs, with a handful of voters electing a Member of Parliament, were eliminated in the Reform Act of 1832.

Only a very few comparable DOSes were stored elsewhere than floppy disks ; among these exceptions were the British BBC Micro's optional Disc Filing System, DFS, offered as a kit with a disk controller chip, a ROM chip, and a handful of logic chips, to be installed inside the computer ; and Commodore's CBM DOS, located in a ROM chip in each disk drive.

Only a handful of 512 megabit games were released for the Nintendo 64 system.

The Royal Navy captured a handful of the new French frigates during the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ) and were impressed by them, particularly for their inshore handling capabilities.

Though place names survived the deurbanized Sub-Roman and early Anglo-Saxon periods, and historiography has been at pains to signal the expected survivals, archaeology shows that a bare handful of Roman towns were continuously occupied.

Harmonicas were heard on a handful of recordings in the early 1900s, generally labeled as a " Mouth Organ ".

However only a handful of Freud's followers were sufficiently qualified in hypnosis to attempt the synthesis.

Between 1970 and 1973 a handful of kickboxing promotions were staged across the USA.

The principle is best exemplified by the story of Johnson handing a team of design engineers a handful of tools, with the challenge that the jet aircraft they were designing must be repairable by an average mechanic in the field under combat conditions with only these tools.

A handful of lesbian pulp fiction authors were women writing for lesbians, including Ann Bannon, Valerie Taylor, Paula Christian, and Vin Packer / Ann Aldrich.

In fact, he asserts that he generally feels more kinship with punks than with heavy metal ; he even played with The Damned for a handful of gigs when they had no regular bassist and Lemmy's guttural vocals were unique in the world of rock at that time, as they would not be copied until the rise in popularity in punk.

Of the handful of painters that Austria has produced in the 20th century, only one, Oskar Kokoschka, is widely known in the U.S..

Of the more than 200 studio albums I ’ ve produced in the past forty plus years, there is a handful ; maybe fifteen or so that I can actually listen to from top to bottom.

There are approximately 400 brightener types listed in the Color Index, but less than 90 are actually produced commercially and only a handful are commercially important.

This factory had only produced a handful of cars by the time war started in 1939.

have seen an increasing use in the craft-brewing sector of the industry with a handful of breweries having produced beers that were primary fermented with pure cultures of Brettanomyces spp.

This debate produced a handful of political reforms, approved by the king, including direct and indirect voting, in the 1993 national elections.

The factory had only produced a handful of cars by the start of the war in 1939 ; the first volume-produced versions of the car's chassis were military vehicles, the Type 82 Kübelwagen ( approximately 52, 000 built ) and the amphibious Type 166 Schwimmwagen ( about 14, 000 built ).

The use of budget-cutting animation measures in animation dates at least to the 1920s ; a handful of the Bosko cartoons in the early years of the Looney Tunes series used several visible tricks ( such as mirror images and repeated scenes ) to give the shorts the comparable appearance of the Disney shorts of the same era, even though they were produced on a budget of just over half of their Disney counterparts ( Disney himself was known to recycle animation in his early years as well ); meanwhile, Max Fleischer took the obvious shortcut of recording the entire soundtrack in one session after the animation was completed in his 1930's cartoons ; he also made frequent use of " mumbling " to avoid the need to synchronize animating mouths to voices.

A small handful may have been produced as the ZGRASS-32 after the machine was re-released by Astrovision.

* Andy Kubiszewski has filled in as the drummer for a handful of Prick shows, joined a new project called Affected with Chris Schleyer, written and produced several songs for the popular Russian pop duo t. A. T. u., and has composed music for dozens of TV shows ( including Monster Garage, Monster House, Ax Men, America's Toughest Jobs, The Colony ), SWORDS-Life On The Line, Hillstranded, and most recently Storage Wars.

In addition to producing several hits with Donna Summer, Moroder also produced a number of electronic disco hits for The Three Degrees, two albums for Sparks, a handful of songs on Bonnie Tyler's album Bitterblue as well as her 1985 single " Here She Comes " and a score of songs for performers including David Bowie, Irene Cara, Madleen Kane, Melissa Manchester, Blondie, Japan, and France Joli.

They produced two more full-length albums, The Nephilim and Elizium, plus a live album called Earth Inferno and a handful of singles, before splitting in 1991.

Skoda also produced a handful of the 76. 2 mm variant.

However, recently a handful of animal experiments demonstrated that systemic hyperleptinemia produced by infusion or adenoviral gene transfer decreases blood pressure in rats.

They have produced a handful of games independently, most notably their arcade shooters, Ikaruga and Radiant Silvergun.

Turbo Technics even sold their own pre-prepared Sierra known as the Minker ; only a handful were ever produced, as they cost significantly more than Ford's own RS Cosworth.

Many record labels produced mainly 12-inch singles ( in addition to albums ) during the 1980s, such as Factory Records, who only ever released a handful of 7-inch ( 18 cm ) records.

With the increased availability of airstrips in remote communities, fewer amphibious aircraft are manufactured today than in the past, although a handful of amphibious aircraft are still produced, such as the Bombardier 415, and the amphibious-float equipped version of the Cessna Caravan.

The military conflict produced only a handful of killings in 1919, but steadily escalated from the summer of 1920 onwards with the introduction of the paramilitary police forces, the Black and Tans and Auxiliary Division into Ireland.

Still with only a handful of animators, Vinton produced a highly-polished trilogy of 27-minute fairy tales in the late 1970s and early 1980s ; Martin the Cobbler ( 1977 ), Rip Van Winkle ( 1978 ), and The Little Prince ( 1979 ).

During this time, they recorded an album that was to be called ' Wired World ' but was never released, and produced a handful of Utah Saints tracks that have not been released, with titles such as " Star ", " Train " and " Rock ".

Although only a handful of aircraft designs were produced under the English Electric name, two would become landmarks in British aeronautical engineering ; the Canberra and the Lightning.

Only a handful of Mk I's had been produced when the Mk II replaced it on the production lines.

Since the mid-1970s, only a handful of films with private detectives have been produced.