On 17 April 1942, he lowered himself down the cliff of the mountain fortress.

When McDivitt tried this, he found himself moving away and downward, as the retrograde thrust lowered his orbit, increasing his speed.

Porky finds Sylvester fainted ( after Sylvester got hit by a bowling ball which was landing on Porky himself ) and leaves him on the basket, but without notice, Sylvester has been lowered down into the mice's lair while in the basket and a while later comes up and Porky tells him to take off what Porky thought was make up, but the disguise was actually just Sylvester turning white from the aforementioned experience.

Rather than become a victim as well, he then tied two sheets together in his bedroom and lowered himself out of the house.

In popular legend it is said that he had to sneak out of the castle on the night before an arranged wedding, and that during his flight from the castle, he threw himself from his window, only to be captured by angels and lowered gently to the ground 40 feet ( 12 meters ) below.

When Abram Smith tried to free himself from the noose as his body was hauled up by the rope, he was lowered and then his arms broken to prevent him from trying to free himself again.

A sign that may be lowered to the cheek level by an ASL speaker is more likely to be produced by a Black Sign Language speaker on the forehead, for example: teacher.

The anchor should be lowered quickly but under control until it is on the bottom.

Bagged propellant allows the amount of powder to be raised or lowered depending on the range to the target.

A number of harmful and undesired ( adverse ) effects have been observed, including lowered life expectancy, extrapyramidal effects on motor control – including akathisia ( an inability to sit still ), trembling, and muscle weakness – weight gain, decrease in brain volume ( although this is being debated, since schizophrenia, which is often treated with antipsychotics, also causes a shrinkage of brain volume ), enlarged breasts ( gynecomastia ) in men and milk discharge in men and women ( galactorrhea due to hyperprolactinaemia ), lowered white blood cell count ( agranulocytosis ), involuntary repetitive body movements ( tardive dyskinesia ), diabetes, sexual dysfunction, a return of psychosis requiring increasing the dosage due to cells producing more neurochemicals to compensate for the drugs ( tardive psychosis ), and a potential for permanent chemical dependence leading to psychosis worse than before treatment began, if the drug dosage is ever lowered or stopped ( tardive dysphrenia ).

First the ramps are lowered and fully extended before the treadways are forward with the full load of the bridge resting on the forward support plate during launch.

The theory was based on how heat-treating metal works ( the temperatures are lowered to room temperature from a high degree causing certain strength increases in the molecular structure to occur ) and supposed that continuing the descent would allow for further strength increases.

Both of the LA teams would bow out because of the quantity demand of the Marlins and they again would miss out on getting All-Star caliber players, namely Matt Kemp and Clayton Kershaw who the Marlins could have obtained if their demands were lowered.

Repeated attempts to open trade were opposed on both commercial and humanitarian grounds, although minor reforms in the 1850s and 60s lowered the prices charged to the natives for " luxuries " like sugar and coffee ; transferred more of the KGH's profits to local communities ; and granted the important Ivigtut cryolite concession to a separate company.

A Gaulish man and a Gaulish woman and a Greek man and a Greek woman were buried alive under the Forum Boarium ... They were lowered into a stone vault, which had on a previous occasion also been polluted by human victims, a practice most repulsive to Roman feelings.

In the spiral cutting process, the ham is firmly affixed, on the top and bottom, to a rotating base, which is gradually lowered as a blade is applied.

The economic recession went on into the mid-1980s until a reduce of public costs and spendings, tighter budgets and deficits, a steady economic growth, and a lowered inflation rate meant that by the recovery plan of 1983, Italy left recession.

Other pollutants, such as benzene and 1, 3-butadiene, are regulated as hazardous air pollutants whose emissions must be lowered as much as possible depending on technological and practical considerations.

The ware is set on a refractory hearth, or plinth, over which a box-shaped cover is then lowered.

When lowered the mast foot was kept in the base of the mast step and the top of the mast secured in a natural wooden crook about 1. 5 m-2. 5 m high, on the port side, so that it did not interfer with steering on the starboard side.

The first " level of industry " plan, signed by the Allies on March 29, 1946, had stated that German heavy industry was to be lowered to 50 % of its 1938 levels by the destruction of 1, 500 listed manufacturing plants.

When subjects consumed n-3 from oily fish on a regular basis, their systolic blood pressure was lowered by about 3. 5-5. 5 mmHg.

The Government of Peru's economic stabilization and liberalization program lowered trade barriers, eliminated restrictions on capital flows, and opened the economy to foreign investment, with the result that Peru now has one of the most open investment regimes in the world.

When pulled in one direction the trailing ploughs were lowered onto the ground by the tension on the cable.

In addition, Porsche installed manually adjustable lightweight Recaro racing seats rather than the standard power-operated leather buckets ( also manufactured by Recaro ), a revised suspension system optimized and lowered by 20 mm for possible track use, 17-inch wheels ( also slightly wider to accommodate wider tyres ) rather than the 16-inch as found on the Coupe and wider tires, 225 front and 255 rears rather than 205 and 245 respectively.

Sunday Observance Acts were repealed, pub opening hours were extended, discriminatory regulations — such as the long-standing ban on women entering or drinking in public bars — were removed, and in the 1970s the age of legal majority was lowered from 21 to 18.

President Reagan lifted remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls on January 28, 1981, and lowered the oil windfall profits tax in August 1981.

Some of the observances of this day resemble those of shiva, such as sitting on a low chair and not greeting people, while other observances reflect the theme of loss: the removal of the curtain from the ark, the lowered lighting in the synagogue, and the recital of Kinnot ( elegies over the persecutions of Jewish communities throughout history ).

For the final series, a selected member of the audience would be gunged by a tank lowered from the studio rafters or a retracting chair which would lower into the undercroft of the studio, gunge the victim and then elevate back up into the audience position.

Monk then explains that the killer searched Nicole's computer and wiped the keyboard clean, and he can tell from the fact that the computer chair was lowered, the killer was 6 ' 3 ".

The minimum elevation was lowered further in the fall of 1999, with the addition of the " Lone Moose " triple chair ; its base elevation is 6800 feet ( 2073 m ) at Lone Moose Meadows.

Initially walls were lowered and backed, in front and behind, with earth.

The Democrats lowered tariffs with the Underwood Tariff in 1913, though its effects were soon overwhelmed by the changes in trade caused by World War I. Wilson proved especially effective in mobilizing public opinion behind tariff changes by denouncing corporate lobbyists, addressing Congress in person in highly dramatic fashion, and staging an elaborate ceremony when he signed the bill into law.

* A crossfoot spin is a back upright spin in which the free leg is crossed behind the skating foot, or the front foot on a back upright is lowered and the spin becomes a two-footed spin.

It needs to be raised ( closed ) only during high tide ; at ebb tide it can be lowered to release the water that backs up behind it.

Depending on the application, magnetometers can be deployed in spacecraft, aeroplanes ( fixed wing magnetometers ), helicopters ( stinger and bird ), on the ground ( backpack ), towed at a distance behind quad bikes ( sled or trailer ), lowered into boreholes ( tool, probe or sonde ) and towed behind boats ( tow fish ).

The fluid pressure behind the object is lowered below the vapour pressure of the liquid, forming a bubble of vapour ( a cavity ) that encompasses the object.

They immediately lowered their topsails, but it came up so fast upon them, that, before they could raise the main tack, they observed the ball rise almost perpendicularly, and not above forty or fifty yards from the main chains when it went off with an explosion, as great as if a hundred cannons had been discharged at the same time, leaving behind it a strong sulphurous smell.

Typically, the tongue tip is lowered, often placed behind the lower teeth, and pitch altered by varying the position of the tongue.

These bows are almost invariably performed standing behind a table ; the tips of the fingers touch the table while the upper body, held straight, is lowered from the waist until the face is parallel with the tabletop.

The radiator was located behind the engine which made possible a lowered aerodynamic nose profile at a time when competitors had a flat, nearly vertical grill.

While some early models retained side window frames and B-pillars, by the 1950s most were " pillarless hardtops ", omitting the B-pillar ( the roof support behind the front doors ) and configuring the window frames, if any, to retract with the glass when lowered.

The men either turned the TV set off or simply lowered the volume ( three days later it was still playing with a low volume ), and made sure the door was locked behind them before departing at about 11: 15 pm.

Many are unique, such as the representation of a lowered mast of a sailing ship ; others became part of the standard repertoire, such as people sitting with one leg behind the other, instead of with the traditional parallel positioning of the legs.

The drophead version had a two position hood where it could be either completely lowered or rolled back to just behind the front seats described as the coupé de ville position.

The latter had a glass partition behind the front seat which could be lowered.

It enabled boilers to be lowered, since the top of the main frames was dropped down behind the driving wheels and under the firebox.

The trailers were built with integrated railroad wheelsets that could be lowered into position when the trailer was pulled behind a train.

Another joint work was Benham Park 1774-75 designed for William Craven, 6th Baron Craven, three stories high, nine bays wide, in a plain neoclassical style, of stone, with a tetrastyle Ionic portico, the building was altered in 1914, the pediment on the portico was replaced by a balustrade and the roof lowered and hidden behind a balustrade.

The track was removed and the field was lowered, and permanent seating was placed over the old berm area behind the south grandstand.

Unlike many other facilities, however, the floor was never lowered for additional seating around the court, leaving large poritions behind press row, the team benches and announcer's table empty on gameday.

Then, a giant metal orb was lowered onstage and lifted again to reveal Spears standing behind it.

Body choices for 1957 included 2-and 4-door sedans ( identified by the " posts " between door windows ), the two-door hardtop ( also known as a sports coupé ; the car has no post between the front and back window when the windows are lowered ), the four-door hardtop ( also known as a sports sedan ), the utility coupé, a two-door sedan with a package shelf instead of a rear seat, the Delray " club coupe ", which was a 210 model 2-door sedan, two styles of two-door station wagon, the top-of-the-line Bel Air Nomad with a sloped pillar behind the hardtop door and sliding windows at the rear seat, and the basic Handyman with an upright sedan B-pillar and a C-pillar, where the four-door wagons have one, available only in 150 and 210 trims.