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At the time the RAF was relying on daylight bombing by tight formations of heavily defended bombers as its primary attack force, so night landings were not a major concern.
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At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.
At the prearranged time, Greg started the engine and taxied out.
At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.
At one time she felt impelled to make dances that `` moved all over the stage '', much as Pollock's paintings move violently over the full extent of the canvas.
At the same time, he is plainly sympathetic, clearly friendly.
At the same time the multiple transvestitism involved -- the fat man as girl and as baby, as coquette pretending to be a baby -- touches for a moment horrifyingly upon the secret sources of a life like Jacoby's, upon the sinister dreams which form the sources of any human life.
At the present time, the counter-attack takes the line that there's no more of the true spirit of `` integration '' in the North than in the South.
At the same time, because the personal code of the detective coincides with the legal dictates of his society, because he likes to catch criminals, he is in middle class eyes a virtuous man.
At the time of his capture Helion had on his person a sketchbook he had bought at Woolworth's in New York.
At one time it seemed as if the Soviet Union had done us a favor by providing a striking example of how not to behave towards other peoples and other nations.
At this time Miriam Noel appeared, urging on Constable Henry Pengally, whose name showed him to be a descendant of the Welsh settlers in the neighborhood.
At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;
At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:
At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.
At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.
At the same time, a major proportion of these young men and women see religion as a means of personal adjustment, an anchor for family life, a source of emotional security.
At no time did I attempt to seek approval or commendation for the members of the Chicago board of election commissioners for the discharge of their duties.
At State College, he had no time to walk among the violets on the water's edge.
At the same time, you have to face facts and realize that a man who's been in the Marine Corps all his life doesn't understand much about politics.
At the same time, his voice betrayed uncertainty about their being here, and conveyed an appeal to whatever is reasonable, peace-loving, and dependable in everybody.
At the same time he started walking the streets, peering at the people passing or shopping at the stalls, storing up fresh impressions of what they looked like, how they moved.
`` At three o'clock if it will be of convenience to you at that time ''.
At the same time, it was unlikely that any businessmen would spend a day in a Christian mission out of mere curiosity.
At the same time another child -- this one of Shelley's brain -- was given to the world: Alastor, a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind's musings.
At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.
At and RAF
At the British Bomber Command, Dyson and colleagues proposed ripping out two gun turrets from the RAF Lancaster bombers, to cut the catastrophic losses to German fighters in the Battle of Berlin.
At 39 years, the noisy but impressive Shackleton held the distinction of being the aircraft with the longest period of active RAF service, until overtaken by the English Electric Canberra in 1998.
At the market in Roermond, near the border between Germany and the Netherlands, IRA members opened fire on a vehicle in which three men from the Royal Air Force Regiment based at RAF Wildenrath were sleeping.
At the age of 18, he was called up for two years national service in the RAF, during which he was a filing clerk at RAF Northwood, where he met future George and Mildred actor Brian Murphy.
At the end of August 1951, No. 201 Squadron RAF became the first unit to complete training on the type.
At the outbreak of World War II, Howard volunteered for the RAF and British Army, but was turned down by both.
At the end of World War II, 90 % of Cologne's buildings were destroyed by Allied aerial bombing raids, most of them flown by the RAF.
At the time filming took place it was then home to No. 109 Squadron and No. 139 Squadron RAF, who were both operating English Electric Canberras on electronic counter measures and nuclear air sampling missions over hydrogen bomb test sites in the Pacific and Australia.
One of his fellow students was RAF Sgt Jack Morton, who told a humorous anecdote while he and his fellow student Rennie were in the same class: " At the end of our primary course we were posted to a Basic Flying School at Cochran Field, Macon, Georgia.
At first the Germans focused on RAF airfields and radar stations.
At about noon of the 27th, HMS Britomart, Salamander, Hussar and Jason came under rocket and cannon attacks by Hawker Typhoons of No. 263 Squadron RAF and No. 266 Squadron RAF.
At the same time Operation Titanic involved the RAF dropping fake paratroopers to the east and west of the Normandy landings.
At the time, the 9th Air Force was a sub-command of RAF Middle East Command under Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas.
At bases in Tabuk, Dhahran and Muharraq, the RAF deployed Rapier missiles as part of surface-to-air defences.
At the beginning of the revolt RAF assets in the region comprised a bomber flight at RAF Ramleh, an RAF armoured car flight at Ramleh, fourteen bomber squadrons at RAF Amman, and a RAF armoured car company at Ma ' an.
At the end of the war, Botterell was a Flight Lieutenant with the Royal Air Force ( the Royal Flying Corps and RNAS had been combined on April 1, 1918 to form the RAF ).
At the formation of the Royal Air Force on 1 April 1918, they became 201 to 217 squadrons of the RAF.
At Jones's urging, Winston Churchill ordered up an RAF search aircraft on the night of 21 June 1940, and the aircraft found the Knickebein radio signals in the frequency range which Jones had predicted.
At the latter he also joined the University Air Squadron and on the outbreak of war immediately volunteered for the RAF.
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