And one cannot but wonder whether Marshal Malinovsky, who was blowing hot and cold, exalting peace but also almost openly considering the possibility of preventive war against the West, wasn't trying to keep the Chinese quiet.

The place wasn't particularly busy at that time of night, and the girl who was waiting on me, who was clothed in the tightest-fitting pair of slacks I had ever seen on a woman and a sweater that showed everything there was -- and there was lots of it -- wanted to be sociable.

Skolman wasn't the only one who didn't care for Andy's scheme.

But he wouldn't ask her -- he wasn't the kind of man who would force his wife to submit to him against her will.

It wasn't Johnnie's fault that he was hopelessly tied down to that frightful woman who did her best to make his life unbearable.

There he won a play-writing scholarship, which furthered his interest in directing theater, though this wasn't approved by his father, who wanted him to study engineering.

Adams once claimed that originality wasn't an urgent concern for him the way it was necessary for the minimalists, and compared his position to that of Gustav Mahler, J. S. Bach, and Johannes Brahms, who " were standing at the end of an era and were embracing all of the evolutions that occurred over the previous thirty to fifty years.

" The only way I was going to be able to work on ' A ' projects with really ' A ' directors was if I wasn't the guy who was starring ", he confided to The New York Times writer Trip Gabriel.

Remey himself declared that being the Guardian gave him the exclusive right to declare who was or wasn't a Covenant-breaker, and that those who opposed him and followed the Hands of the Cause were Covenant-breakers.

" Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people ", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.

David flees to Jonathan, who wasn't living near Saul.

At least 7, 000 people who were deemed to be insufficiently grief-stricken were executed, though it wasn't restricted to humans, cows were slaughtered so that their calves would know what losing a mother felt like.

The game was broadcast in the United States by NBC with Dick Enberg handling the play-by-play duties and color commentators Merlin Olsen, John Brodie, and Len Dawson ( who wasn't in the broadcast booth with Enberg and Olsen ).

But the legend of Cobb as a Southern white Protestant who despised blacks, Catholics and anyone who wasn't like him was fanned by sportswriter Al Stump, his first biographer, whose veracity has been called into question.

It wasn't until the early 20th century that the rectifying property of such a device was utilized, most notably by John Ambrose Fleming, who used the diode tube to detect ( demodulate ) radio signals.

And if you ask me who contributed most to those things, it couldn't have happened unless both of us were involved, even though it wasn't always happy.

It's assumed that they acted on behalf of Henry V the Fat, who wanted to obtain Kraków and with this the title of High Duke, but wasn't any evidence to support this.

Only the testament to the Church ( who wasn't count with the return of Kłodzko to King Wenceslaus II of Bohemia as an excuse for mixing in the Silesian affairs ) was fully implemented.

Magnus I of Norway ( reigned 1035 – 1047 ), who wasn't a warlord, had reigned for more than a decade when his uncle Harald Hardrada ( reigned 1047 – 1066 ) challenged his rule.

They looked down on anyone who wasn't " Lace Curtain ," even the Irish from the Back of the Yards and Bridgeport neighborhoods ( referred to as " Pig Shit " Irish ), and also non-Irish ethnics.

When I wasn't working, I didn't know who I was or what I was supposed to do.

She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.

Brenner's voice was oily, but Summers wasn't fooled.

`` The snake was beautiful, wasn't it ''??

The Acropolis was unique in the world and if that imcomparable work flooded by moonlight wasn't enough for both natives and tourists, then they were quite simply barbarians and the hell with them.

The man, Tom said, explained that it was not only too long and detailed but that as it stood it wasn't the sort of thing the public wanted.

He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.

When he was a kid I wasn't around ''.

It was muscular but it wasn't symmetrical.

It wasn't long before I sensed that there was something deeper than overvaulting ambition back of his desire for Viola's destruction.

He said he was the lonely type and working in a cellar you saw funny things coming out of the cracks in the wall if they wasn't nobody with you.

The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.

She wasn't quite sure that I felt enough remorse about my drinking, or that I would not return to it once I was out and on my own again.

I could get up close to him where there was traffic but had to drop far behind when there wasn't traffic.

She was complying with the law in regard to registrations but she certainly wasn't checking license numbers or bothering the tenants.

She didn't mind working hard, not as if she figured to do anything wrong to live easy and soft -- all she wanted was a chance, where she wasn't marked as what she was.

He wasn't a dwarf but he was a bit of a comic figure.

Nellie Harris wasn't old, she was ancient -- a tiny shriveled woman with a face like a tan prune.

Although nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, had been proposed as an anaesthetic as far back as 1799 by Humphry Davy, it wasn't until 1846 when an American Dentist named William Morton started using ether on his patients that anaesthetics became common in the medical profession.

In the beginning she wasn't laughing, she wasn't red and she didn't wear earrings.

`` That wasn't nothing at all ''!!

Maybe the Indian wasn't too much at fault, Ramey thought.

For one thing, there wasn't going to be any ceremony at all this year.

It wasn't like getting cheated at the fair.

The rice wasn't dosed with opium, indeed it had no taste at all, not a grain of salt.

Bob Carroll may not bear quite as close a physical resemblance to LaGuardia as Tom Bosley does, but I was amazed at the way he became more and more Fiorello as the evening progressed, until one had to catch one's self up and remember that this wasn't really LaGuardia come back among us again.

it wasn't this way in the hospital at San Diego.

Nobody had addressed her in broken English at any of those places, nobody had suggested that she wasn't American.

The job at Funk wasn't particularly better, but it got him away from being subordinate to John and assured him steady advancement, since Funk was owned to a large degree by various branches of Linda's family.

But the rest of it, the main part, wasn't based on logic at all.

A profession that brought me as good an income as mine wasn't to be sneezed at.

I wasn't in the habit of batting my eyes at delivery men, but the moment I saw Johnnie, I knew he was different.

A man had to have his release -- at least that's what the boys used to say in high school -- and I wasn't providing it for Johnnie.

He still wasn't looking at me.

and if he wasn't entirely committed to what he did, he was at least fascinated by the chance of wider opportunities.

if Mike had had a finger in it, he had gotten away with it -- and what happened to supreme bishops worried Jubal not at all as long as he wasn't bothered.

Suspicion wasn't new to him at all.

Even as late as 1912 it was normal in the West to assume that all art aims at beauty, and thus that anything that wasn't trying to be beautiful couldn't count as art.

" The divine call for massacre at Jericho and elsewhere can be explained in terms of cultural norms ( Israel wasn't the only Iron Age state to practice herem ) and theology ( a measure to ensure Israel's purity as well as the fulfillment of God's promise ), but Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy remarks, " there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers.

The Alien Beast monster seen in the Plutonium Pak also appears a few times in the standard levels where it wasn't in the original PC version at all.

With over 30 million people worldwide today suffering Alzheimer's Disease each year, the study at UCLA helped discover that ongoing stimulation of the entorhinal cortex wasn't a necessary means to boost one's memory.

Williams denies this and claims he wasn't the only one out at night.