James P. Mitchell, when he was the head of the department, promised to eat his hat if unemployment didn't drop below three million a couple of years ago.

Named by Mayor Wagner three years ago to head a committee that included James A. Farley, Bernard Gimbel and Clint Blume, Shea worked relentlessly.

Measure the puppet to determine the height of the light socket, allowing three to four inches above the puppet's head.

They have three pairs of external red feathery gills, a blunt head with two rudimentary eyes, a lateral line system and a short tail with fins.

The blackbelly salamander ( Desmognathus quadramaculatus ) can bite an attacking common garter snake ( Thamnophis sirtalis ) two or three times its size on the head and often manages to escape.

For the three days that it rests on Earth, righteous souls sit at the head of their body, chanting the Ustavaiti Gathas with joy, while a wicked person sits at the feet of the corpse, wails and recites the Yasna.

The Theban army under Pelopidas is said to have been dismayed by an eclipse ( on July 13, 364, see 4th century BC eclipses ), and Pelopidas, leaving the bulk of his army behind, entered Thessaly at the head of three hundred volunteer horsemen and some mercenaries.

But they were met by a large force under the three great ealdormen of Mercia, Wiltshire and Somerset, and forced to head off to the northwest, being finally overtaken and blockaded at Buttington.

The name appears to have been derived from Yussuf ben-Serragh, the head of the tribe in the time of Mohammed VII of Granada, al-Mustain, who did that sovereign good service in his struggles to retain the crown of which he was three times deprived.

There were three main kinds of harpoon that the Aleut ’ s used: a simple harpoon, with a head that kept its original position in the animal after striking, a compound ( toggle-head ) harpoon in which the head took a horizontal position in the animal after penetration, and the throwing-lance used to kill large animals.

The Throwing lance usually consisted of three parts: a wooden shaft, a bone ring or belt, and the compound head that was made with a barbed bonehead and a stone tip.

" He declared many of his contemporary scholars to be stupid, lazy, vain, or all three, proclaiming: " Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary ; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders, and brains, not pudding, in your head.

Nelson's head wound was recorded as being " three inches long ", with " the cranium exposed for one inch ".

The three years of estrangement following the unilateral declaration of independence and the nationalistic Soilih regime were followed during the conservative Abdallah and Djohar regimes by a period of growing trade, aid, cultural, and defense links between the former colony and France, punctuated by frequent visits to Paris by the head of state and occasional visits by the French president to Moroni.

( Bernard ) Berenson, Mrs. Coates tells me, stood in front of the portraits – Miss Beaux's three – and wagged his head.

All insects ' bodies are divided into three sections: the head, the thorax, and the abdomen, and the Coleoptera are no exception.

Defensive coordinator Dave Campo was promoted to head coach, but he could only post three consecutive 5 – 11 seasons.

From 1968 to 1982, the Wings had 14 head coaches ( not counting interim coaches ), with none lasting more than three seasons.

Mrs. Bowles is a single mother who was married three times — her first husband divorced her, her second one died in a jet accident, and her third one committed suicide by shooting himself in the head — and has two children who don't like or even respect her ( which stems from her permissive, often negligent and abusive parenting — Mrs. Bowles brags that her kids beat her up and she's glad that she can hit back ).

There he was invited to head Saint Paul's College, a pioneer seminary for the education of secular priests that became the first jesuit headquarters in Asia, but soon departed, having spent the following three years in India.

) It has two heads, the oblique head originating obliquely across the central part of the midfoot, and the transverse head originating near the metatarsophalangeal joints of digits five to three.

A dejected procession, numbering some 4, 000 according to most of the sources, such as Hills or Jackson filed out of the Land Port with Queen Isabella's banner at their head, and led by the Spanish Governor, Diego de Salinas, the Spanish garrison, with their three brass cannon, the religious orders, the city council and all those inhabitants who did not wish to take the oath of allegiance to Charles III as asked by the terms of surrender.

The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.

) Rumor had it he slipped two small rocks under each victim's head as a sort of trademark.

Grazie had a small, slick head and her hair and skin were the color of golden toast.

Her subject was large -- a copy of the Last Supper -- and her canvas, small -- the head of a tiny screw.

The small skull cap evolved into a bigger true helmet, the bascinet, as it was lengthened downward to protect the back of the neck and the sides of the head.

The most common description is that of a kangaroo-like creature with the face of a horse, the head of a dog, leathery bat-like wings, horns, small arms with clawed hands, cloven hooves and a forked tail.

The upper sub shaft held the razor stone head and attached to the lower sub shaft with a small braided twine loop.

Some even depict it as a horned, dragon-like creature with a serpent-headed tail and small, round ears, while others have both " necks " of equal size so that it cannot be determined which is the rear head.

Sometimes a metropolitan may also be the head of an autocephalous, sui iuris, or autonomous church when the number of adherents of that tradition are small.

The ears are proportionately large in relation to the head, while the feet are relatively small in relation to the rest of the body.

The action is simple, with the keys being levers with a small brass tangent, a small piece of metal similar in shape and size to the head of a flat-bladed screwdriver, at the far end.

Two small human faces at the back of his head indicate that he is polycephaly | tricephalic.

" Dilbert notes that the strip is " nothing but a clown with a small head who says random things " and Dogbert responds that he is " maintaining his artistic integrity by creating a comic that no one will enjoy.

The more famous ones include the " bamboo-copter " ( very similar to the ones that appears on the older series of Beany and Cecil ), a small head accessory that allows flight ; the " Anywhere Door ", a door that opens up to any place the user wishes ; and the " Time Machine ".

Cutting a small hole in the resonant head can also produce a more muffled tone.

This showed a person dressed as the queen placing her head on the execution block in front of a small group of bystanders in Elizabethan dress.

The snap count allows offensive players to have a small head start.

A gardener is any person involved in gardening, arguably the oldest occupation, from the hobbyist in a residential garden, the homeowner supplementing the family food with a small vegetable garden or orchard, to an employee in a plant nursery or the head gardener in a large estate.

In 1353 Innocent VI sent him as a legate into Italy, with a view to the restoration of the papal authority in the states of the Church, at the head of a small mercenary army.

General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland ( depending on the availability of head and neck surgery specialists ).

The neck and legs were short, and the head and wings small.

When feeding, it has a multinucleate base and a contractile stalk up to 150 μm in length, supporting a relatively small uninucleate head, where the central granule and axopods are located.

Reproduction is either by budding off the head or fragmentation of the headless form, producing small free-living cells similar to Gymnosphaera, which then attach themselves and regrow the stalk and base.

Jordanes also recounted how Priscus had described Attila the Hun, the Emperor of the Huns from 434-453, as: " Short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head ; his eyes were small, his beard thin and sprinkled with grey ; and he had a flat nose and tanned skin, showing evidence of his origin.