At five o'clock that night it was already dark, and behind my closed door I was dressing as carefully as a groom.

At least five years ago, Tom Robinson of Marlin made up an over/under double rifle for me in this caliber, using the now defunct Model 90 action in 20-gauge size.

At twelve minutes after five on the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, San Francisco was shaken by a severe earthquake.

At the same time the orchestra announced that next season it would be giving twenty-five programs at Carnegie, and that it would be taking these concerts to the suburbs, repeating each of them in five different communities.

At best, the technique is only effective at extremely close ranges of five to ten feet, since the recoil would make it hard to keep both weapons straight, and using the sights on the guns is next to impossible.

At the same time annual inflation in the economy was variable and during the last five years ( 2003 – 2007 ) has seen a low of 2. 3 % and high of 7. 3 %.

At a casino blackjack table, the dealer faces five to seven playing positions from behind a semicircular table.

At the age of five, his young voice and exuberance won him a talent contest singing a then-popular song, " Have You Ever Gone Sailing ( Down the River of Memories ).

At each of the corners, a 1 m radius quarter-circle is drawn, and a dotted line is painted parallel to the shortline and five metres away from it without extending into the penalty area.

At 6: 30 pm EDT, Kennedy convened a meeting of the nine members of the National Security Council and five other key advisers, in a group he formally named the Executive Committee of the National Security Council ( EXCOMM ) after the fact on October 22 by the National Security Action Memorandum 196.

At the age of three, Catherine was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir to the English throne, and they married in 1501, but Arthur died five months later.

At the 14 – 15 June 1983 Central Committee meeting, Vitaly Vorotnikov was elected as a candidate member of the Politburo, Grigory Romanov was elected to the Secretariat and five members of the Central Committee were given full membership.

At the time of Columbus arrival in 1492, the island's territory consisted of five chiefdoms: Marién, Maguá, Maguana, Jaragua, and Higüey.

At the age of five, Deng was sent to a traditional Chinese-style private primary school, followed by a more modern primary school at the age of seven.

At one point in 1945 – 46, Doris ( as vocalist with the Les Brown Band ) had five Top Ten Hits on the Billboard Hall of Fame.

At the same time, he mentioned that certain other books, including five deuterocanonical books but also the Didache and the Shepherd of Hermas, while not being part of the canon, " were appointed by the Fathers to be read ".

At the University of Bologna, from its founding in the 12th century until the end of the 20th century, the only degree conferred was the doctorate, usually earned after five years of intensive study after secondary school.

At the top is a suspender of five graduated gold rays.

At one point, there were as many as five sharers of the imperium ( see: Tetrarchy ).

At least five genera are recognised, but only a single species from one genus is still alive, the gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.

At present, there are five living former first ladies: Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter ; Nancy Reagan, widow of Ronald Reagan ; Barbara Bush, wife of George H. W. Bush ; current Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton ; and Laura Bush, wife of George W. Bush.

At the peak of Bruce Springsteen's megastardom following the Born in the U. S. A. album and Born in the U. S. A. Tour in the mid-1980s, there were no less than five Springsteen fanzines circulating at the same time in the UK alone, and many others elsewhere.

At the age of five, Eric was sent as a day-boy to a convent school in Henley-on-Thames, which Marjorie also attended.

At the Grand Guignol, patrons would see five or six plays, all in a style which attempted to be brutally true to the theatre's naturalistic ideals.

On the advice of her New South Wales Premier only, the Queen appoints the Governor to carry out most of her constitutional and ceremonial duties for an unfixed period of time — known as serving At Her Majesty's pleasure — though five years is the normal convention.

At December 13, 1960 the fund held by the Industrial National Bank of Providence, as trustee for payment of past and future service pensions to qualified members of the plan, totaled $2,412,616.

At the end of the half-hour, racking his brains, thinking over and over again of Kitti, her friends, her past, he left the bedroom.

At the adoption, the Rev. T. F. Zimmerman, general superintendent, commented, `` The Assemblies of God has been a bulwark for fundamentalism in these modern days and has, without compromise, stood for the great truths of the Bible for which men in the past have been willing to give their lives ''.

At least two private colleges in the Atlanta area now or in the past have had integrated student bodies, but their tax-exempt status never has been challenged by the state.

At first, people indulge in fantasies, imagining the missing person's return, but then they start to feel like prisoners, drifting through life with nothing left but the past, since they do not know how long into the future their ordeal may last.

At the Alphonsus, three scientific objectives were determined to be of primary interest and paramount importance: the possibility of old, pre-Imbrium impact material from within the crater's wall, the composition of the crater's interior and the possibility of past volcanic activity on the floor of the crater at several smaller " dark halo " craters.

At least in the past, the manner of holding hands was very important and followed strict rules.

At various times in the past, and as late as the 1870s, the Bahr el Ghazal Depression, which extends from the northeastern part of the lake to the Djourab, acted as an overflow canal ; since independence, climatic conditions have made overflows impossible.

At a cultural level, egalitarian theories have developed in sophistication and acceptance during the past two hundred years.

At the conclusion of the festivities, a reflection on the past is encouraged, and Pratikraman is done for repentance of faults.

At a cultural level, egalitarian theories have developed in sophistication and acceptance during the past two hundred years.

Most patients with this disease do not live past the age of twenty-five, and death within ten years of symptoms is usually inevitable At this time there is no cure or treatment for this disease.

At low velocities the fluid tends to flow without lateral mixing, and adjacent layers slide past one another like playing cards.

At four minutes past midnight of 6 September, one of them ( likely Issa ) turned on the hostages in the eastern helicopter and fired at them with a Kalashnikov assault rifle from point-blank range.

At about 24 days past fertilization, there is a primitive S-shaped tubule heart which begins beating.

At the time these works were dismissed by most as pornographic fantasies of an impotent old man or the slapdash works of an artist who was past his prime.

At the heart of reform movements, past and present, lie hermeneutical questions about what fidelity to tradition means.

At 23, Clemens simply reared back and threw the ball past batters.

At his first Cabinet meeting, Askin restored direct air services between Sydney and Dubbo, and required Joern Utzon, the Danish architect then working on the Sydney Opera House, to provide a final price and completion date for the Opera House, which had gone past the original estimates for both.

At Elijah's suggestion, he walks through a crowd in a Philadelphia train station and senses crimes perpetrated by strangers who brush past him: a jewel thief, a racist hate crime perpetrator, and a rapist.

At the beginning of the period, Britain was the world's most powerful nation ; having acted as the world's policeman for the past century.

At any given pressure and for any given composition of rock, a rise in temperature past the solidus will cause melting.

At its best, they most accurately reflect the past appropriate to the time period while at their worst they may portray gross inaccuracies in an attempt to portray a certain idealized image.

At some time in the distant past Malta was submerged, as shown by marine fossils embedded in rock in the highest points of Malta.