Desperate to avoid possible war with France, Jefferson sent James Monroe to Paris in 1802 to negotiate a settlement, with instructions to go to London to negotiate an alliance if the talks in Paris failed.

Desperate to avoid identification, Themistocles cajoled the captain of the ship to continue the journey immediately.

Desperate to avoid a second devastating heartbreak to his wife, LaFarge stands outside Spaulding's home and finds " Tom " now masquerading as Lavinia.

Desperate to make good impressions, Romy and Michele make last-ditch attempts to get boyfriends, better jobs, lose weight, and hopefully avoid a second round of the torture they endured during their days at Sagebrush High, mostly at the hands of the " A-Group ", led by cheerleader Christie Masters ( Julia Campbell ).

Desperate for income to avoid getting evicted, Dewey impersonates Ned and takes the job as a substitute teacher for a fifth-grade class.

Desperate to avoid a scandal, von Klugermann sees a solution when Heidemann reports that the new monoplane he has just test-flown is a " death trap ", as its struts are dangerously weak.

Desperate to keep Enos safe from possible harm, Fry instead brings about his death by leaving him in a house located in the middle of a nuclear weapon testing range.

Desperate to marry his mistress, John George tried to murder his wife, but was prevented by his younger brother, Frederick August.

Desperate for a scapegoat, Querelle befriends Gilbert " Gil " Turko, a young man fleeing arrest for the murder of a man who propositioned him, with the intention of framing him for Vic's murder.

Produced, directed, written, photographed and edited by Araki ( for his own Desperate Pictures Company ), this very small-scale Big Chill derivation involved a group of recent college graduates brooding over their futures during one woozy, boozy evening.

Desperate to be recruited by a good college, Wendell grants his consent.

* Felicia Tilman, a fictional character in Desperate Housewives played by Harriet Sansom Harris

Harriet Sansom Harris ( born January 8, 1955 ), often credited as Harriet Harris, is an American actress best known for her portrayals of Bebe Glazer on Frasier and Felicia Tilman on Desperate Housewives.

Desperate to keep Paradise afloat, Secondo asks Pascal for a loan.

Desperate for a male perspective, Willow asks Xander about Oz and he suggests they talk and work it out.

Desperate to know what, if anything, Jane had discovered, U. S. Robots asks Susan Calvin for her assistance.

Olson was working on her second book, The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House ( published October 2001 ) at the time of her death.

Desperate to save her husband, she decides to pursue Percy to France to warn him that Chauvelin knows his identity and his purpose.

Desperate to make her believe him that he will return, at the last minute, Elliot invites Paula to go with him while he is filming the picture and suggests Lucy stay with a friend until they return.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

With an Oscar nomination on her resume ' Scott found steady movie work for the next four decades, appearing in some major epics like The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, The Desperate Hours, and Airport 1975.

Desperate, he played for her a few chords of an incomplete song that had been inspired by his recent first trip to New York City, which he suggested might be offered to the Drifters.

Desperate for money, she sells her locket, and her hair, before becoming a prostitute (" Lovely Ladies ").

From 2007 to 2009 Bergen had a guest role in Desperate Housewives as Lynette Scavo's mother, Stella Wingfield, which earned her an Emmy Award nomination.

Alongside the Dandy's Desperate Dan, she was given her own statue in Dundee in 2001.

The media criticised Brown for using her child in the music video and single artwork, labelling her Desperate Spice and insinuating that she was exploiting her child as a marketing tool.

She is perhaps most widely known for her performance as Jackie Harris on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, and has also had series television roles as Carolyn Bigsby on Desperate Housewives and Mary Cooper on The Big Bang Theory.

She took a recurring role on Desperate Housewives – for which she received an Emmy ( also in the category Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series ) and a Satellite Award nomination – and also appeared alongside her ex-husband Jeff Perry in an episode of Grey's Anatomy.

" When a girl pulls out her hair due to supernatural forces in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode " Where the Wild Things Are ," the character Xander remarks, " People are going all ' Felicity ' with their hair ," while in the One Tree Hill episode " The Desperate Kingdom Of Love ," when Lucas walks up to Keith at the beach, his uncle says, " Nice job, Felicity ," referring to his new shorter haircut.

Desperate and starving, Queen seeks help from the Christian black community of Huntsville, which takes her in.

Desperate, Stacy convinces Brad to drive her to a bowling alley, but after he drops her off, he observes her through his rearview mirror going to an abortion clinic across the street.

Desperate to protect her, Yomiko took Nancy and ran off into hiding.

Christina Amphlett of Divinyls can clearly be seen sporting the image on the cover of her band's 1983 album, Desperate.

To mark celebration with her joining the comic, Beryl shares the spotlight with Desperate Dan on the 1994 Dandy Annual.

With Desperate Dan's revamp when the Dandy got a facelift in September 2004, both were drawn in the same style ( as opposed to the ' old ' Desperate Dan where Ken drew things more detailed ).

Desperate and overmatched, but determined to resist, the Acarnanians sent their women, children and old men to seek refuge in Epirus, and the rest marched to the frontier, having sworn an oath to fight to the death, " invoking a terrible curse " upon any who were forsworn.

Desperate to stabilize the situation, Frangieh dismissed Prime Minister Rashid el-Solh and called on his old adversary Karami to form a government on 1 July.

Desperate, Dirlewanger contacted Gottlob Berger, an old Freikorps comrade who was working closely with Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer-SS.

* Desperate Measures ( previously Desperate Measures: Length, Area and Volume, ISBN 0-439-01370-4 ( measuring lines: units and accuracy, old measuring systems, the development of metric, the SI system and powers of ten, shapes, measuring areas and area formulas, weight, angles, measuring volume, Archimedes Principle, density, time and how the modern calendar developed.

She also appeared on Desperate Housewives as an unscrupulous friend of Julie.

Desperate, she accepts the risky offer, and swallows 62 wrapped pellets of heroin and flies to New York City with her immature friend Blanca.

* Dany París as Desperate friend

She was graduated from Hinsdale South High School in 1980 ( Darien, IL ) and is good friend with Moira Kelly and Teri Hatcher from Desperate Housewives.