While this was being discussed, we saw the militia to the west of us fanning out and breaking into little clusters of two and three men as they approached the road.

The vacation traffic was becoming heavier as they approached the sea.

The clocks struck seven-thirty as they approached the hotel entrance ; ;

Shayne noted idly that it carried Miami Beach license plates as he approached, and then saw the flare of a match in the front seat as they passed, indicating that it was occupied.

When Hunt, Adams, and Howsam were unable to secure a controlling interest in the Chicago Cardinals, they approached NFL commissioner Bert Bell and proposed the addition of expansion teams.

* 1941: Jeannie Chapman and her children said they had escaped their home when a tall Sasquatch approached their residence in Ruby Creek, British Columbia.

The Marquis de Feuquières writing after the battle described the scene – " They advanced in four lines … As they approached they advanced their second and fourth lines into the intervals of their first and third lines ; so that when they made their advance upon us, they formed only one front, without any intermediate spaces.

But they were surprised in the rear by a second force of Dardani which had approached their camp stealthily by mountain paths and proceeded to storm and ransack it.

As they approached, they split into two divisions, one of which cut across the head of the line and passed between the anchored French and the shore while the other engaged the seaward side of the French fleet.

At the point the German ships opened fire with accurately determined ranges for their guns, Beatty's ships were still maneuvering, some could not see the enemy because of their own smoke, and hardly any had the opportunity of a period of steady course as they approached to properly determine target range.

As loyalist troops approached Quito, they peacefully turned power back to the crown authorities.

This early ninth century military leader is commemorated in this way because he is said to have ordered huge illuminated lanterns to be placed at the top of hills ; and when the curious Emishi approached these bright lights to investigate, they were captured and subdued by Tamuramaro's men.

Eiffel had calculated that this would be satisfactory until they approached halfway to the first level: accordingly work was stopped for the purpose of erecting a wooden supporting scaffold.

Cachers have been approached by police and questioned when they were seen as acting suspiciously.

Eighteen years after the show was cancelled, as a Galaxy Quest convention full of costumed fans is underway, Jason is approached by a group of people whose leader, Mathesar, says that they are aliens called " Thermians ".

That very night, his army approached the Mughal camp and finding the Mughal troops unprepared with a majority asleep, they advanced and killed most of them.

Phineas told Jason to release a dove when they approached these islands, and if the dove made it through, to row with all their might.

Continuing their journey to Egypt, when they approached in proximity, Israel sent his son Judah ahead to find out where the caravans were to stop.

Leaflets arguing against the film's representation of the New Testament ( for example, suggesting that the Wise Men would not have approached the wrong stable as they do in the opening of the film ) were documented in Robert Hewison's book Monty Python: The Case Against.

Many of the police officers and border guards who were approached for interviews by the One Day in September production team were threatened with the loss of their pension rights if they talked for the film.

Although they had pages printed by publishers, no publication agreement was reached ; both the Cambridge University Press and the Oxford University Press were approached.

On July 5, 2006, they tested a Taepodong-2 ICBM that reportedly could reach the west coast of the U. S. in the 2-stage version, or the entire U. S. with a third stage.

As their space logistical abilities improved through the 1960s they continued to study the problem, but in each case the problem of increasing ICBM numbers meant the numbers of interceptors needed grew to overwhelm any possible launch capability.

Most objects entering the atmosphere are not released from rest just above it, but rather are entering at hypersonic speeds because they are on suborbital ( e. g. ICBM reentry vehicles ), orbital ( e. g. the Space Shuttle ), or unbounded ( e. g. meteors ) trajectories.

For the Minuteman ICBM force, the US Air Force's Strategic Air Command worried that in times of need the codes would not be available, so they quietly decided to set them to 00000000.

However, a passing ICBM ( which doesn't detonate much to their surprise ) convinces Favalli and Franco that a bigger, even global, war is starting and that they can't return empty-handed now, Salvo reluctantly agrees to join them.

Given that the Atlas was the higher priority of the two ICBM projects and its production was fully accounted for, ABMA focussed on " backup " design, Titan, although they proposed extending it in length in order to carry additional fuel.

In addition, the new badge is no longer limited to pure space and missile operators / maintainers, but is also awarded to 61XX, 62XX and 63XX who have performed space / ICBM acquisition duties, even if they were non-operational in nature.

Although they are durable and can withstand to ICBM attacks, they are defenceless.

" Rubin went on to state that the Sejil-1 " ... places Iran in the realm of multiple-stage missiles, which means that they are on the way to having intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) capabilities ..." As a weapon, the Sejil-1 presents much more challenge to Iran's potential enemies, as solid-fuel missiles can be launched with much less notice than liquid-fueled missiles, making them more difficult to strike prior to launch.

In 1986, in the middle of the cold war, a group of civil engineering students prepared a mock ICBM which they carried in an effort to ram the dragon as it passed by the engineering quad.

While the President and his Cabinet debate the practical, personal, and ethical aspects of agreeing to these demands, they also authorize the military to send an elite team led by General MacKenzie ( Richard Widmark ) to penetrate the ICBM complex and incinerate its command center with a low-yield tactical nuclear device.

In vain his mind groped to reassemble the bones of the relationships he had sought so desperately, but they would not come to life.

He remembered Clayton's mocking smile in the saloon when he had asked him what he would do if they brought their cattle to water.

Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.

And he had a feeling -- thanks to the girl -- that things would get worse before they got better.

There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.

they would not dare to face his scoffing.

This, he was sure, was the way they would act ; ;

If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.

They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

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 ; ;

It was spoiled now for seed, and it would sour and mold in three days if they failed to find a place and fuel to dry it.

Then he would realize they were really things that only he himself could think.

The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.

He had no doubt the marine was the lead scout of a column, and while his shot had probably bred indecision, they would soon come hunting.

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

He would feel ashamed each time and wonder whether his mother and father knew -- thinking they might see it in his eyes or smell it on him.

Poor where they had once been rich, humbled where they had been arrogant, having no longer any hope of sharing in the leadership of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother country.