Desperate to avoid a possible murder in college, Harriet asks her old friend Wimsey to investigate.

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 hand-to-hand fighting, some of the most intense of the war, lasted for over 20 hours.

In the 2000s, ABC began to revitalize the primetime soap opera format with shows such as Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, Ugly Betty, Private Practice and most recently Revenge and Ringer, which they co-produced with CBS for the CW.

X's first record deal was with independent label Dangerhouse, for which the band produced two singles, " Adult Books " ( 1978 ) and " Los Angeles " (" We're Desperate " was the b-side to " Adult Books ").

Desperate to have a son, Henry suddenly comes up with the idea of marrying Anne in Catherine's place.

Through the 1950s and 1960s he established himself as a respected actor in theatre and film, and began to make his presence felt on television, with a semi-regular role as Det-Insp Bamber in the police series Z-Cars, as well as guest roles in series as diverse as Steptoe and Son (" The Lead Man Cometh ", 1964 ; " The Desperate Hours ", 1972 ) and The Avengers episode " Dressed to Kill " ( 1963 ).

He made his Broadway theater debut in the original production of William Inge's Picnic with Kim Stanley in 1953 and appeared in the original Broadway production of The Desperate Hours in 1955.

Newton-John re-teamed with Travolta in 1983 for the critically and commercially unsuccessful Two of a Kind, redeemed by its platinum soundtrack ( No. 26 Pop ) featuring " Twist of Fate " ( No. 5 Pop ), " Livin ' in Desperate Times " ( No. 31 Pop ), and a new duet with Travolta, " Take a Chance " ( No. 3 AC ).

* The musical Desperate Measures ( 2004 ), with book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg and music by David Friedman

He also appeared in episodes of ALF, Campus Ladies, Entourage, Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, Friends, Greek, How I Met Your Mother, Mad About You, Married ... with Children, Murphy Brown, NYPD Blue, Reba, Reno 911 !, That ' 70s Show, Veronica Mars, Yes, Dear, and Desperate Housewives.

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.

According to a quote on the agency's website, Patrick's goal " is to help girls ( and guys ) in the business to be treated with respect, and realize their true potential ...." She also owns a production company called " Teravision ," which along with Vivid Video released its first feature, " Desperate ," starring Patrick and Seinfeld.

In 2005, Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry used the band's song " Juicy " as the background music for the second season of the show's promotional advertisements, which Griffin credited with bringing attention to the album.

* Lieutenant Pigeon reached No. 17 with ' Desperate Dan ' in 1972.

Desperate to prevent Deacon exposing his family to pain and scandal, Will tied him up in the bell-chamber, planning to bribe him to leave, but became helpless with Spanish influenza next day.

Both films were directed by Adam Mason who first worked with him on the Mortiis video for Decadent & Desperate.

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.

Desperate to get out, he volunteers for the Italian Army, but then somewhere in Germany he deserts with a comrade.

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

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 conquer Constantinople, Simeon planned a large campaign in 924 and sent envoys to the Fatimid caliph Ubayd Allah al-Mahdi Billah, who possessed a powerful navy which Simeon needed.

Desperate for ammunition for their fall and winter hunts, the nation sent a delegation of moderate chiefs to negotiate.

The show was hosted by James Denton, a star of the television show Desperate Housewives.

* Maynard James " M. J ." Delfino, fictional character from the television show Desperate Housewives, played by Mason Vale Cotton

Other than Grunberg, Hugh Laurie ( House ) on keyboards and James Denton ( Desperate Housewives ) on guitar will be a part of the project.

Cole played Katherine Mayfair's ex-husband Wayne on Desperate Housewives and has more recently played the dangerous drug lord Ted Jones in Pineapple Express with Seth Rogen and James Franco.

She played a key role in the Emmy Award-winning episode " Cousin Liz " of All in the Family and has appeared on Desperate Housewives as Ilene Britt, the mother of Edie Britt ( Nicollette Sheridan ) in the third season finale & Mrs Monroe ( Gabe Duncan's Teacher ) in Good Luck Charlie.

These include Self-Portrait with Black Dog ( c. 1842 – 1844, accepted for exhibition at the 1844 Paris Salon ), the theatrical Self-Portrait which is also known as Desperate Man ( c. 1843 – 45 ), Lovers in the Countryside ( 1844, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon ), The Sculptor ( 1845 ), The Wounded Man ( 1844 – 1854, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris ), The Cellist, Self-Portrait ( 1847, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, shown at the 1848 Salon ), and The Man with a Pipe ( c. 1848 – 1849, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris ).

* A Desperate Adventure, aka It Happened in Paris ( UK ) ( 1938 ) .... Angela

Desperate for a miracle, he and Bart go to the greyhound racing track on Christmas Eve in hopes of earning some money.

Louis-Dreyfus was subsequently one of many actresses considered for the role of Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, which would go onto become ABC's mega-hit of the 2004-05 television season.

Desperate for a miracle, Homer and Bart go to the dog racing track on Christmas Eve in hopes of earning some money.

Desperate, Darby elects to use his final wish to go in his daughter's place.

Desperate for a cure, the sisters go to the hunter's cave, Ginger killing their guide shortly before they arrive.

B. Priestley ’ s 1930 novel Angel Pavement: In October 1978 vocalist Danny Wigley expressed the motivation driving the Desperate Bicycles ' independent stance: “ The biggest hurdle is just believing you ’ ve still got some control over your life, that you can go out and do it ”.

On June 5, 2010 at Desperate Measures Jacobs would go on to defeat Drake Younger.

Desperate to get married to make her feelings for Amber go away, Sophie tells Sian if they can't get married in Weatherfield they should go to Gretna Green instead.