Some places in eastern Arkansas were abandoned after over 7, 000 Arkansans died during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 and 1919.

Most Arkansans, regardless of which paper they subscribed to, were saddened by the sudden loss of their historic newspaper.

Mencken that Arkansans were " bumpkins " who lacked cultural centers.

Donaghey's progressive stance procured passage of the Initiative and Referendum Act by which Arkansans can take governmental matters into their own hands and bypass the state legislature.

A controversial plan to deepen the navigation channel of the river ( above the McClellan-Kerr segment ) is under consideration though it is opposed by many Arkansans.

In Arkansas, the term was used by Confederate Arkansans as an epithet for any marauder, robber, or thief ( regardless of Union or Confederate affiliation ).

It is the large number of paper mills in the area that gives Pine Bluff its, at times, distinctive odor, a feature known prominently among Arkansans.

Once fully established, the sanatorium was the relocation center for all white Arkansans with tuberculosis.

When Rockefeller made his second run in 1966 only 11 percent of Arkansans considered themselves Republicans.

But Arkansans had tired of Faubus after six terms as governor and as head of the Democratic " machine.

Mount Holly Cemetery is the original cemetery in the Quapaw Quarter area of downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, and is the burial place for numerous Arkansans of note.

Many Arkansans blamed Parnell for their situation as the Great Depression began, and he left office in 1933 to return to farming.

He divided his forces into two groups of Texans and one of Arkansans and ordered a mounted charge down the lane.

Confederate Major Rogers ordered his men to retreat to the southwest and most did, though the Arkansans and some Texans remained on the field and attacked the relief column before withdrawing.

The memorial commemorates the history of European-American settlers who inhabited the small entrepôt as the first Arkansans, a American Revolutionary War skirmish in 1783, the first territorial capital of Arkansas from 1819 – 1821, and a Civil War Battle in 1863.

For her leadership efforts during the 1958 racial integration crisis the Arkansas Times newspaper selected her as one of its Arkansans of the Century.

As acting governor on September 11, 2001, the day terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, he resisted calls to declare a state of emergency and instead urged Arkansans to remain calm and to donate blood, which they did.

Today, only a handful of loans made to Arkansans are still subject to this law, mainly private-party lending and some prime auto loans from companies like GMAC and Ford Credit.

His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;

They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.

This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.

They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.

By now Harmony could see that most of the adults in the train were winded and resting, or else siphoned off from the games by the challenging lure of the great cliff towering above them.

Already a few hardy folk from their own train were zealously chipping away at the register rocks, leaving their own records along with those made by the earlier trains.

His earphones were constantly full of the sounds of enemy contacts made by other flights.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

They were engulfed by the weird silence, broken only by the low, angry murmur of the river.

The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.

Their conversations were, almost invariably, accompanied by the same gestures -- arms and pointed forefingers darting toward each other in arclike semicircular motions.

Even today range riders will come upon mummified bodies of men who attempted nothing more difficult than a twenty-mile hike and slowly lost direction, were tortured by the heat, driven mad by the constant and unfulfilled promise of the landscape, and who finally died.

The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.

The Australian and I both were wearing insect repellent and were not badly bothered by insects, but my eyes watered as we stood watching the aborigine.

Travelers entering from the desert were confounded by what must have seemed an illusion: a great garden filled with nightingales and roses, cut by canals and terraced promenades, studded with water tanks of turquoise tile in which were reflected the glistening blue curves of a hundred domes.

Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

The latter in turn assured him that `` were I arraigned at the bar, and you my judge, I should expect to stand or fall only by the merits of my cause ''.

Repeated efforts -- beginning with the Missouri Compromise of 1821 -- were made by such master moderates as Clay and Douglas to resolve the difference peacefully by compromise, rather than clear thought and timely action.

They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.

The Burnsides, now ready to roll, were purposefully deaf to his cry.

And she really tried to go a step further and say she hoped they'd be just as right as they now were for her and for Rod.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

The fear had not entirely gone from her face, but there were some other emotions now, crowding into her eyes and the lines of her mouth.

But her hands were calm, now.

Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.

Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

I never had the courage to look at them, when my projected volume became hopeless, fearing they were poor, until now when I was obliged to do so.

By 1783 her legions had managed to annex the Crimea amid scenes of wanton cruelty and now, in this second combat with the Crescent, were aiming at suzerainty over all of the Black Sea's northern shoreline.

Among the visitors arriving every now and then there were, of course, women.

But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.

The French were now occupying Gascony and Flanders on the technical grounds that their rulers had forfeited them by a breach of the feudal contract.

Even in the nineteenth century such accomplished philologists as Kemble and Guest were led into what now seem ludicrous errors because of their failure to recognize that modern forms of place names are not necessarily the result of logical philological development.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

For something, clearly, has gone very, very seriously wrong in Soviet-Chinese relations, which were never easy, and have now deteriorated.

His hands, which had been as quick as a pair of fluttering birds, were now neither active nor really relaxed.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

And now the redcoats were coming, and the gunfire was a part of the dust cloud on the road to the west of us.

They had stripped him of his musket and equipment, and now they were pulling his boots and jacket off.