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Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.
Far from creating fear, as the speaker suggests, preparedness -- knowing what to do in an emergency -- gives people confidence.
I have just returned from a seven-week trip to Europe and the Far East.
Far from being irrelevant to the ecumenical task, the Pontiff believes that a revivified Church is required in order that the whole world may see Catholicism in the best possible light.
Far from discouraging Henri, his parents urge him on to greater and greater accomplishments.
The trends have been in evidence for many years -- population shifts to the Southwest and Far West, and from city to suburbs.
Far from it ; ;
Each time his objective had been the same -- a direct water passage from Western Europe to the Far East.
In Tabriz, André de Longjumeau met with a monk from the Far East, named Simeon Rabban Ata, who had been put in charge by the Khan of protecting the Christians in the Middle-East.
Far from standing on the defensive therefore – and unbeknown to Marlborough – Louis XIV was persistently goading his marshal into action.
Far from his grave being kept clean, it was unmarked until 1967, when a Texas Historical Marker was erected in the general area of his plot, the precise location being unknown.
At that time, Sloane's collection consisted of around 71, 000 objects of all kinds including some 40, 000 printed books, 7, 000 manuscripts, extensive natural history specimens including 337 volumes of dried plants, prints and drawings including those by Albrecht Dürer and antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Ancient Near and Far East and the Americas.
* " Balance ", a song by Axium from The Story Thus Far
Far from trying to build a systematic or formalist theory, he wanted his disciples to master and internalize the old classics, so that their deep thought and thorough study would allow them to relate the moral problems of the present to past political events ( as recorded in the Annals ) or the past expressions of commoners ' feelings and noblemen's reflections ( as in the poems of the Book of Odes ).
* Haefele, John D. " Far from Time: Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, and Arkham House.
Far from rewarding his loyalty, they participated in the effort to convict him by depriving him of the money and information which might have provided him with some legal defence.
He incorporated the knowledge of Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Far East, gathered by Arab merchants and explorers with the information inherited from the classical geographers to create the most accurate map of the world up until his time.
Then followed the vast clipper trade of tea, opium, spices and other goods from the Far East to Europe, and the ships became known as " tea clippers ".
Far from resolving conflicts of interest, claimed Baier, ethical egoism all too often spawns them.
Far from being purely academic, the study of epistemology is useful for a great many applications.
" Book Of Days " was featured prominently in the movie Far and Away, with an English-lyric version created for the film then replacing the old Irish language version on all pressings of the Shepherd Moons album from 1993 onwards.
In 2000 Warner Music released Enya: The Video Collection on DVD in Europe, South Africa and Asia, collecting all her videos from " Orinoco Flow " up to and including " Wild Child ", except for the video from " Book of Days ", which was replaced by a live TV performance due to licensing complications relating to the video's use of footage from the film Far and Away.
The Yupik comprises speakers of four distinct Yupik languages originated from the western Alaska, in South Central Alaska along the Gulf of Alaska coast, and the Russian Far East.

Far and victory
Far from being a one-sided victory, in a military sense the Flagstaff War can be considered an inconclusive stalemate, as both sides wished the war to end, both gained somewhat from the fighting, and the situation more or less remained the same as it was before the outbreak of hostilities.
Following the Japanese victory over Imperial Russia and the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth, the southernmost section of the southern branch ( Harbin-Port Arthur ) of the China Far East Railway was transferred to Japanese control.
This led Georgy Zhukov to move several Siberian divisions from the Far East to Moscow, contributing to the Soviet victory at the Moscow counteroffensive.
Far from a victory, it was now reported as being at best indecisive, and Chartres was accused by d ' Orvilliers of either misunderstanding or deliberately ignoring an order to engage the enemy.
After the victory over Japan, the 5th Army remained in the Far East, and was the most powerful army in the Far East Military District throughout the entire postwar period.

Far and letter
Far long ago, some other prisoner than one of these had tried to write a letter.
But in Archie Goes Too Far Season 3 Episode 17, Edith reads a letter Archie sent to her while he was in the United States Army Air Corps.
" She naïvely supposed that this version was more complete than the shorter letter which she had read in a translation at home, presumably one brought back to the Far West by an earlier pilgrim " ( Palmer 1998 ).
In his book The Complete Far Side, cartoonist Gary Larson reproduces a letter he received after including a " wiffle bat " in his cartoon.
Fort-Whiteman complained in an October 1924 letter to head of the Comintern Gregory Zinoviev about the lack of work being conducted by the American Communist an repeated a call to act on a plan he had submitted to the Far Eastern Section of the Comintern seeking convocation of an " American Negro Labor Congress.

Far and Davis
His students included Rabbis: Yonasan David ( his son-in-law ) and Aharon Schechter, his successors as Rosh Yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin ; Hirsch Diskind, son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and long-time Dean of Bais Yaakov School for Girls in Baltimore, Aharon Lichtenstein, son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel ; Pinchas Stolper of the Orthodox Union and founder of NCSY who followed Hutner's guidelines in setting up this youth outreach movement ; Avrohom Davis, founder of the Metzudah religious books series ; Shlomo Freifeld who set up one of the first full-time yeshivas for baal teshuva students in the world ; Joshua Fishman, leader and executive Vice President of Torah Umesorah the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools ; Avrohom Kleinkaufman, a lecturer in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and translator of the Genesis and Exodus volumes of the Metzuda Bible Commentary of Rabbi Solomon and the Kol Sasson Sephardic Siddurim and Machzorim ; Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe of Boro Park ; Meir Bilitzky, senior rabbi of Young Israel of New Hyde Park ; Noah Weinberg founder and head of Aish Hatorah and his brother Yaakov Weinberg of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore ; Yosef Katzenstein of Copenhagen, author of Kol Chayil and Lema ' an Achai ; Feivel Cohen of Brooklyn, author of " Badei HaShulchan " and world renowned posek, Dovid Cohen, rabbi of Congregation Gvul Yaabetz and an author of a number of books on Jewish theology, and Ahron Kaufman Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Waterbury, son in law to Feivel Cohen.
John Davis or Davys ( c. 1550 – 29 December 1605 ) was one of the chief English navigators and explorers under Elizabeth I, especially in the Arctic and Far East.
During the ‘ 90s, he renewed an affiliation, begun in the 1970s, with Joe Henderson, joining the tenor saxophonist on So Near ( So Far ), a tribute to Miles Davis, Porgy & Bess, and Joe Henderson Big Band.
Brigadier General Davis ' next assignment was in the Far East where he served as Assistant Division Commander, 3rd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force, on Okinawa, from October 1963 to November 1964.
His other successful tunes and songs include " He's Home for a Little While ", " A Handful of Stars ", " To You ", written with Tommy Dorsey and Benny Davis, " Far Away Island ", " Sitting in the Sand A-Sunnin '", " Now I'm In Love ", "" You'll Be Reminded of Me ", " Starlight Souvenirs ", " This is No Dream ", " Dog on the Piano ", " Puttin ' On the Dog ", " Waitin ' for Katy ", and " Ask Anyone in Love ".
With Europe and the Far East markets opening up for FM, a full-time keyboard arrangement was made with Jem Davis ( former Tobruk and UFO ), joining the band.

Far and I
Far up the valley I could see the Rees circling and reorganizing.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
" I cannot let you go "... " Far away in Australia, soon will fate be kind.
Japan joined the Allied Powers in World War I and attacked German colonial possessions in the Far East, adding former German possessions to its own empire.
This passage from Ruxton's Life in the Far West illustrates the common use of the word in spoken form, " Travler, marm, this niggur's no travler ; I ar ' a trapper, marm, a mountain-man, wagh!
Powell desperately wanted to go to the Far East to help the fight against Japan because " the war in Europe is won now, and I want to see the Union Flag back in Singapore " before, Powell thought, the Americans beat Britain to it.
# A Flock Of Seagulls-" I Ran ( So Far Away )"
Far from his supply lines, he faced a larger Austro-Russian army under the command of Mikhail Kutuzov, with the Emperor Alexander I of Russia personally present.
* ( 2003 ) Now I Know Only So Far: Essays in Ethnopoetics
* In the collection of short stories and essays by Lafcadio Hearn, In Ghostly Japan, the author is told the popular story of a girl that swims to her lover guided by a lantern, and he comments on the similarities with the western story: "—" So ," I said to myself, " in the Far East, it is poor Hero that does the swimming.
Klein, " Ramsey Campbell: An Appreciation ", which had originally appeared in Nyctalops magazine ; two stories by Campbell (" Before the Storm " and The Gap "), " As Far as I Can Recall " by Campbell ( autobiographical essay ); and Mike Ashley's bibliography on Campbell which was not superseded until The Core of Ramsey Campbell ( 1995 ).
Far from quenching her attraction, this merely confirms her hopes: " Oh Godfrey, now I know you love me ... You do or you wouldn't have lost your temper.
Conein asserted that " I have it on very good authority of very many people, that Big Minh gave the order ", as did William Colby, the director of the CIA's Far Eastern division.
Popular tracks from this period include " Big Log " ( a Top 20 hit in 1983 ), " In the Mood " ( 1983 ), " Little by Little " ( from 1985's Shaken ' n ' Stirred ), " Far Post " ( originally only on the B-side of " Burning Down One Side " but popularised by airplay on album-oriented rock stations ), " Tall Cool One " ( a No. 25 hit off 1988's Now and Zen ) and " I Believe " ( from 1993's Fate of Nations ), another song written for and dedicated to his late son, Karac.
It made heavy use of style-conscious New Romantic synthpop acts, with " I Ran ( So Far Away )" ( 1982 ) by A Flock of Seagulls generally considered the first hit by a British act to enter the Billboard Top Ten as a result of exposure through video.
Under Cooke's leadership, the group signed with Specialty Records and recorded the hits " Peace in the Valley ", " How Far Am I From Canaan?
On June 20, Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall informed MacArthur, " Both the Secretary of War ( Stimson ) and I are much concerned about the situation in the Far East.
It is possible to hear the squeak of the pedal in several recordings, including " Since I've Been Loving You ", " The Ocean ", " The Rain Song ", " Over the Hills and Far Away ", " Dancing Days ", " The Crunge ", " Houses of the Holy ", " Ten Years Gone ", " Bonzo's Montreux " and the live version of " I Can't Quit You Baby " on Coda and " All My Love " on In Through The Out Door.
The group had a string of international hit singles including " I Ran ( So Far Away )", " Space Age Love Song ," " Wishing ( If I Had a Photograph of You )" and " The More You Live, the More You Love ", and became notable in the 1980s for their MTV video for the song " I Ran ( So Far Away )".

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