For several months now, Jack Carter, a big overgrown boy of fifteen with a fuzzy, pimpled face and greenish catlike eyes with a lot of red in them, had been haunted by a dream, a vision, of a Woman.

For almost two months, the defendant and the world heard from individuals escaped from the grave about fathers and mothers, graybeards, adolescents, babies, starved, beaten to death, strangled, machine-gunned, gassed, burned.

For a few giddy months that coincided with one of Moscow's smiling moods, he was the sensation of Washington.

For 18 months, Hamilton Holmes, 19, and Charlayne Hunter, 18, had tried to get into the university.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

For her first three vegetable months she waved her crabbed claws, kicked weakly with her clubbed feet and enjoyed the usual routine of the infant.

For 18 months, during 1841 – 1842, Nobel went to the only school he ever attended as a child, the Jacobs Apologistic School in Stockholm.

For nine months of the year the ground is covered with snow, and the frozen rivers become navigable roads.

For the next twelve months Alexei was kept constantly on the move.

For many years there was confusion amongst botanists over the generic names Amaryllis and Hippeastrum, one result of which is that the common name " amaryllis " is mainly used for cultivars of the genus Hippeastrum, widely sold in the winter months for their ability to bloom indoors.

For 18 months Abadan was besieged, but never captured, by Iraqi forces.

For affected animals which do not die, recovery is very slow, lasting several months.

For more than two months, Nelson chased the French, on several occasions only missing them by a matter of hours.

" For the two months she was there, Chaplin and his brother were sent to live with their father, whom the young boy scarcely knew.

For example, a 1039 bit integer was factored with the special number field sieve using 400 computers over 11 months.

For these reasons, visiting caves inhabited by hibernating bats is discouraged during cold months ; and visiting caves inhabited by migratory bats is discouraged during the warmer months when they are most sensitive and vulnerable.

For months, Howard had been in search of a new character to market to the burgeoning pulp outlets of the early 1930s.

For example, he refutes the claim made by Latsis that only 22 executions were carried out in the first six months of the Cheka's existence by providing evidence that the true number was 884 executions.

For six months, she served as regent of England while Henry VIII was in France.

For example, by inoculating in the months of milder climate, one had a better chance of fighting the infection and becoming immune instead of the alternative: natural exposure to the disease during harsher weather, when the body's defenses were already challenged.

For the first three months after announcement the Deskpro 386 shipped with Windows / 386.

For example, during the 2008 flooding, Credit Island in the city's southwest corner remained closed for 5½ months while crews worked on cleaning up damage and removing river debris.

For example, in one instance a Penning trap was used to contain a single electron for a period of 10 months.

There has been speculation that Heinlein's intense obsession with his privacy was due at least in part to the apparent contradiction between his unconventional private life and his career as an author of books for children, but For Us, The Living also explicitly discusses the political importance Heinlein attached to privacy as a matter of principle.

For two years, press speculation continued.

For Peter, the question of whether past events are unchangeable via time travel is no longer speculation.

For many, the 1961 withdrawal of Pope Gregory XVI's 1837 authorization of liturgical veneration of Saint Philomena in a limited number of places ( which was not an official declaration that she never existed nor that she is not a saint ) merely means that the situation has returned to that existing before 1837, when in many places there was fervent devotion to her, accompanied only by vague speculation about the circumstances of her life and death or by belief in the revelations of the Neapolitan nun.

For such a junior officer, there has been quite a lot of speculation surrounding how he died.

For his essays are fine examples of permanent literature appearing in an ephemeral medium, and represent work which has solid worth for later thought as well as for the speculation of their own time.

For the next few years there was some speculation about a return to frontline politics, as often happens when a Cabinet minister resigns, but Churchill's own career as a Conservative chief was over.

For years, there was speculation in the entertainment community that Minnelli was gay or bisexual.

For more than 30 years, the identity of Deep Throat was one of the biggest mysteries of American politics and journalism and the source of much public curiosity and speculation.

For example, Jim Lobe has stated that " Ledeen's right-wing Italian connections — including alleged ties to the P2 masonic lodge that rocked Italy in the early 1980s — have long been a source of speculation and intrigue, but he returned to Washington in 1981 as ' anti-terrorism ' advisor to the new secretary of state, Al Haig.

For instance, the " Rhone Rangers " have raised awareness of the Rhone varieties, notably Viognier, and there has been speculation that climate change will force California to look further south in Europe for grape varieties.

For much of 2004, there had been speculation that if the opposition Christian Democratic Union were to win this election, they would gain a two-thirds majority in the national upper house, the Bundesrat, and force a new election for the Bundestag by making the country ungovernable for Gerhard Schröder's coalition.

For decades there was speculation about its authorship.

For a few weeks prior, speculation began on whether KLSX would be soon switching formats.

For some years the Conservative Party had been deeply divided on the issue of the European Union and there had been much speculation each year that Major would be challenged for the leadership during the annual re-election of the leader each November.

For roughly four years, they did not explicitly confirm a relationship, but paparazzi photographs and eyewitness accounts drove intense media and fan speculation and attention, making " Robsten " the subject of wide media coverage.

For example, the return of a jazz club owner to New Orleans with the intent of kindling a " jazz renaissance " from the recently displaced musicians would be an example of culture speculation.

For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by ataraxia — peace and freedom from fear — and aponia — the absence of pain — and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends.

For the following years with his family, till he left for studies in Paris in 1525, Francis ' life in the Kingdom of Navarre, then partially occupied by Spain, was surrounded by a war that lasted over 18 years, ending with the Kingdom of Navarre being partitioned into two territories, and the King of Navarre and some loyalists abandoning the south and moving to the northern part of the Kingdom of Navarre ( currently France ).

For several centuries the Mediterranean was a " Roman Lake ", surrounded on all sides by the empire.

For many years, it was just a territory ruled by a king who was surrounded by a small elite group of warriors and court officials and it was basically rule by force over a larger mass of people.

For many years, the origin of Cabernet Sauvignon was not clearly understood and many myths and conjectures surrounded it.

For example, in Quantum Leap: The Novel ( a. k. a. Carny Knowledge ), Sam is depicted as exchanging bodies with subjects he leaps into, rather than being surrounded by the person's aura as explained on the show.

" For his part, President Cleveland snorted that the Vice President had surrounded himself with a coterie of free-silver men dubbed the " Stevenson cabinet.

For the episode, the full-size lower underside with retractable stairs was modified, along with a smaller command / pilot center, surrounded by wall elements of the Krell laboratory from the film.

For days the survivors huddled in a few two-story buildings surrounded by water, with little or no supplies, power, running water or communications.

For instance, Rättvik still has its picturesque old church located by the water, where it is surrounded by old " church stables " where the church visitors used to leave their horses.

For the central tower they designed an inner rotating scaffold, surrounded by timber centring to support the masonry vault of the Central Lobby, that spans 57 feet 2 inches, and an external timber tower, a portable steam engine was used to lift stone and brick to the upper parts of the tower.

For two days and the intervening night, Fingon's army continued its retreat, until on the second night they were surrounded on the plains of Anfauglith, and they fought desperately through the night.

For instance, if there is a deep area that can not be reached because it is surrounded by shallow water, the deep area may not be shown.

For the 40th season of Monday Night Football, Hank Williams, Jr. is seen on the steps of a building ( presumably a museum ), surrounded by dancers, football fans, and statues / busts patterned after those at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

For three and a half years, Izetbegović lived precariously in a besieged Sarajevo surrounded by Serb forces.

On the obverse is an image of Britannia surrounded by the motto, with the words " For Meritorious Service " at the bottom ; on the reverse is George V's Imperial and Royal Cypher, with the words " Instituted by King George V " at the bottom.

; Iraq: For a free-standing conical minaret surrounded by a spiral staircase, see Malwiya.

For example, an airport would not be surrounded immediately by residential properties, but rather by industrial and commercial properties.

:" For concreteness, consider the passage of a high speed Alpha particle through an atom having a positive central charge Ne, and surrounded by a compensating charge of N electrons.

For more traditional control, the cycloid area is surrounded by an 8-way control pad ring.

For example, the DE15, usually found in VGA cables, has 15 pins in three rows, all surrounded by an E size shell.

For protection against the frequent floods of the Mississippi River, Waterloo was surrounded by levees, the large state-maintained levee in the rear and a small levee maintained by the community itself at the river's edge.

( For example, one such Agatha Christie mystery ( And Then There Were None ) takes place on a small island during a storm ; another on a train stalled in the mountains and surrounded by new-fallen, unmarked snow.

* Star: eight-pointed silver star bearing a miniature of the badge on a golden background at the centre, surrounded by the motto " For Faith and Loyalty " ( Russian: Za Veru i Vernost ) on a blue ring.