Within a short while, he grasps what is at stake and warns the authorities that unless steps are taken immediately, the epidemic could kill off half the town's population of two hundred thousand within a couple of months .</ br > During the epidemic, Rieux heads an auxiliary hospital and works long hours treating the victims.

An R-rated romantic comedy about a couple dealing the ups and downs of a long distance relationship while commuting between New York City and San Francisco, the largely improvised film garnered generally mixed reviews by critics, who summed it as " timelier and a little more honest than most romantic comedies.

As he wrote at the time, " Am reading a couple of stories for possible musicalization ( if there is such a word ) but I hope I don't like them as I think I deserve a long rest.

Motels which allow a room to be rented inexpensively for less than one full night's stay or which allow a couple not wishing to be seen together publicly to enter a room without passing through the office or lobby area have been nicknamed " no-tell motels " due to their long association with adultery.

The fictitious literary persona had long been accepted on face value by all its readers, with a couple of exceptions such as Nicholas of Cusa noted by modern historians, but whose reservations went unheard.

In what proved to be a long and happy marriage the couple had four children, including the writer Mervyn Jones.

In the long run, and in spite of all their earlier difficulty, the Royal couple became the parents of four children:

He had already become engaged to Gill's middle daughter, Petra, whose characteristic long neck and high forehead continued as standard female features in Jones's artwork for the rest of his career, even though his engagement to her did not last more than a couple of years.

According to one witness, Holliday drew a " large bronze pistol " ( interpreted by some as Virgil's coach gun ) from under his long coat and shoved it into Frank McLaury's belly, then took a couple of steps back.

Watson shows the couple a bowl with the words " So long and thanks for all the fish " inscribed on it that they all own and encourages them to listen to it.

Afterward, they are supposed to split up for a couple of months, but neither can bear to be away from the other that long.

Her father, after chasing the couple for a long time and realizing he could not catch up to them, killed his horses and then drowned himself in a nearby river, which took his name.

His family has lied to Big Daddy and Big Mama to spare the aging couple from pain on the patriarch's birthday but, throughout the course of the play, it becomes clear that the Pollitt family has long constructed a web of deceit for itself.

Rumors around his relationship with British-Australian actress Naomi Watts ( with whom he appeared in The Painted Veil ) have long flown over whether the couple are in fact married.

The play explores the often turbulent relationship the young woman shared with her father growing up, and the difficulties faced by a couple in the twilight years of a long marriage.

When he decides to go on a pilgrimage to India, the priest gives the couple permission to remain in the temple so long as they continue to maintain it.

At the very beginning of the televised portion of the Philadelphia concert, Joan Baez announced to the assembled crowd ( and the viewing audience ) that " this is your Woodstock, and it's long overdue ", before leading the crowd in " Amazing Grace " ( paired with a couple of verses of " We Are the World ").

In Paris, however, the couple was to discover that they also could not live together happily in the long term.

He married showgirl Dorothy ( née Sibil ) and the couple had two sons: Robin Ray, a well known television personality in the 1960s and 1970s, who initiated Call My Bluff and specialist classical music shows, and Andrew Ray, a child star of the 1950s who had a long career on stage, film and television.

After marrying his second wife Mary in 1911, the couple went on a long drive, because he did not have time for a honeymoon.

The literature exam is 80 minutes long and is composed mostly of the multiple choice assignments, but also has a couple of matching questions assignments, whereas the written essay part of the exam is 160 minutes long and requires from 400 to 600 words.

A long haul submarine cable system-aptly named CAUCASUS-from Varna Bulgaria across the Black Sea to Poti Georgia was laid during the month of July 2008 on board the American cable ship CS Tyco Decicive, just a couple of weeks prior to the South Ossetia War.

* In the Call of Duty series, snipers must hold their breath to shoot accurately, and if done for too long, the aim shoots wildly for a couple of seconds.

My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.

It is a quiet but impressive room -- 140 feet long, thirty-nine feet wide, twenty-one feet high.

Down through the axis of the bridge there is a long diminishing vista like a visual echo of piers and arches, while the vaults fronting upstream and down frame the sunset and sunrise, the mountains and river pools.

As long as perception is seen as composed only of isolated sense data, most of the quality and interconnectedness of existence loses its objectivity, becomes an invention of consciousness, and the result is a philosophical scepticism.

It is a question which New Englanders long ago put out of their minds.

About one-third as long, it is less intimate and detailed, but better coordinated, more concise and more dramatic.

As he informs Watson, `` My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.

And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

There is a long train flowing from the shoulders.

The relatively long and often colorful selections in this anthology enable the reader to become genuinely absorbed in what is said, whether he responds with anger or applause.

It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Beginning in Cloth Of The Tempest ( 1943 ) he experimented in merging poetry and visual art, using drawings to carry long narrative segments of a story, as in Sleepers Awake, and constructing elaborate `` poems-in-drawing-and-type '' in which it is impossible to distinguish between the `` art '' and the poetry.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.

I wanted to grab her by the arm and beg her to wait, to consider, to know for certain because life is so long and marriage is so important.