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In " Indiscreet " the technique was famously used to bypass the censors and allow Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman to be in bed together, and even to appear to pat her on the bottom.
Lou Grant was teaching Ted Baxter how to bet on football games, and used Ted's money, as well as some of his own to bet on the hometown Vikings winning the Super Bowl.
Grant assumed the duties expected of him as a young man at home, which primarily included maintaining the firewood supply ; he thereby developed a noteworthy ability to work with, and control, horses in his charge, and used this in providing transportation as a vocation in his youth.
The " S ", according to Grant, did not " stand for anything ", though Hamer had used it to abbreviate his mother's maiden name.
With the Federal army having rebuilt the City Point Railroad, Grant was able to use mortars to attack Lee's entrenchments ; the most famous and largest mortar used during the Civil War, over 17, 000 pounds, was called the Dictator.
Grant's political opponents used the phrase Grantism, coined by Sen. Charles Sumner during the Presidential election of 1872, to describe the many corruption charges during the Grant Administration.
This term was often used neutrally in British circles at that time, and was not necessarily an expression of negative feelings, as when, for example, he wrote to Duncan Grant that “ the only really
John Grant of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1859 set out requirements for cement to be used in the London sewer project.
Frontman Grant Nicholas felt that if they played as Feeder, there would be an uproar that they did not play any of the singles, so used the pseudonym as a hint.
One story states that the term originated at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, where it was used by Ulysses S. Grant to describe the political wheelers and dealers who frequented the hotel's lobby to access Grant — who was often there to enjoy a cigar and brandy.
Grant used Upton's assault technique on a much larger scale on May 12 when he ordered the 15, 000 men of Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's corps to assault the Mule Shoe.
Grant also used military pressure to ensure that African Americans could maintain their new electoral status ; won passage of the Fifteenth Amendment giving African Americans the right to vote ; and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1875 giving people access to public facilities regardless of race.
The anatomist Richard Owen used this to support his idealist concept of species as showing the unrolling of a divine plan from an archetype, and in the 1830s attacked the transmutation of species proposed by Lamarck, Geoffroy and Grant.
The Awful Truth marked the first appearance of the uniquely effective light comedy persona used by Cary Grant in almost all his subsequent films, catapulting his career.
In an example of guerrilla filmmaking, Hitchcock used a movie camera hidden in a parked van to film Cary Grant and Adam Williams exiting their taxis and entering the building.
Also unusual was the presence of two leading men: at this point in their careers both Grant and Colman had been used to having that role all to themselves.
During the American Civil War, Union General Ulysses S. Grant used City Point as his headquarters during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864 and 1865.
Other elements of the novel came from people Fleming knew or had heard of: Red Grant, the name of a Jamaican river guide described as " a cheerful, voluble giant of villainous aspect ", was used for the half-German, half-Irish assassin, while Rosa Klebb was partly based on Colonel Rybkin of Soviet Intelligence.
Aside from the obvious influence on artists that Taylor has worked with over the years, numerous notable people have named Taylor and DA as musical heroes over the years including artists like U2, The Ocean Blue, Randy Stonehill, The 77s, Phil Keaggy, Steve Taylor, Jimmy Abegg, Phil Madeira, Crystal Lewis, This Train, Carolyn Arends ( Arends actually used to perform DA songs in one of her early bands ), Ventriloquist Terry Fator, Brian Healy, The Throes, The Choir, Mortal, Larry Norman, Animator and Musician Doug TenNapel, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Isaac Air Freight, Deliverance, Starflyer59, Jonathan Coulton ,< ref >
There are no parishes or villages in Grant County, and while the term “ town ” is often used locally to describe one of the incorporated cities, surveyed townships have nothing to do with political divisions or organization in Oregon.
Other terms, used especially in Europe to distinguish post – World War II serial music from twelve-tone music and its American extensions, are general serialism and multiple serialism ( Grant 2001, 5 – 6 ).
Reiner planned to work Martin into the old footage via over-the-shoulder shots so that it looked like the comedian was talking to these vintage actors ( this strategy ended up being used for only one scene in the film ; opposite Cary Grant in a clip from Suspicion.
( The information was not used until 1870, when President Ulysses S. Grant unsuccessfully attempted to annex the Dominican Republic.

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Dr. Wilson C. Grant, of the Veterans' Administration Hospital, Coral Gables, Florida, and the University of Miami School of Medicine, set out to discover if avocados, because of their high content of unsaturated fatty acids, would reduce the cholesterol of the blood in selected patients.
In September 2007, Mourinho was replaced by Avram Grant, who led the club to their first UEFA Champions League final, which they lost on penalties to Manchester United.
* 1864 – American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor – Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
Other jazz guitarists, like Grant Green and Wes Montgomery, turned to applying their skills to pop-oriented styles that fused jazz with soul and R & B, such as soul jazz-styled organ trios.
The group dropped the ' a ' in lead at the suggestion of their manager, Peter Grant, so that those unfamiliar with the phrase would not pronounce it " leed ".
The West Indian cricket team toured England in 1933, and, in the second Test at Old Trafford, Jackie Grant, their captain, decided to try bodyline.
Grant Wood, George Bellows, Alphonse Mucha, Max Kahn, Pablo Picasso, Eleanor Coen, Jasper Johns, David Hockney, Susan Dorothea White and Robert Rauschenberg are a few of the artists who have produced most of their prints in the medium.
The Vikings, coached by Bud Grant, won the NFC Central for the eighth time in the last nine seasons with an 11 – 2 – 1 record, and advanced to their fourth Super Bowl in eight years.
Some anatomists such as Robert Grant were influenced by Lamarck and Geoffroy, but most naturalists regarded their ideas of transmutation as a threat to divinely appointed social order.
When a species previously thought harmless suddenly changes its behavior and stampedes through their camp, the settlement is devastated and Grant is killed.
At this time Julia asked Grant to provide her regularly with whatever funds he considered appropriate to manage their household, which he consented to.
Not only did they avoid panic, but Grant and Sherman actually rallied their troops for a vicious counterattack the next morning.
During the Vicksburg campaign, Grant assumed responsibility for refugee-contraband slaves who were dislodged by the war and vulnerable to Confederate marauders ; President Lincoln had also authorized their recruitment into the Union Army.
When Sheridan reported suffering attacks by irregular Confederate cavalry under John S. Mosby, Grant recommended rounding up their families for imprisonment as hostages at Ft. McHenry.
Grant gave generous terms ; Confederate troops surrendered their weapons and were allowed to return to their homes, with their mounts, on the condition that they would not take up arms against the United States.
Grant handled the matter adroitly and made the most of their friendship, conveying the message to Sherman and ultimately getting his consent to renegotiate the agreement in accordance with the terms at Appomattox, and with no residual hard feelings between the two.
Grant, as commanding general, immediately had to contend with Maximilian of Mexico and the French army which had taken over Mexico under the authority of Napoleon III, which the Americans felt to be a violation of their Monroe Doctrine.
Throughout the Reconstruction period, more than 1, 500 African Americans were elected to political office, while Grant and the military protected their rights initially by overturning the black codes in 1867.
President Grant successfully worked with Congress to readmit the last four Confederate states Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia into the Union, while ensuring their constitutions protected every citizen's voting rights through the use of the military.
Grant with family at their cottage in Long Branch, New Jersey, 1870.
In November 1876, President Grant pardoned both William O. Avery and William McKee, who were convicted in connection with the Whiskey Ring tax evasion frauds in St. Louis ; having served six months of their two year sentences.
In Grant Morrison ’ s stories of the early 2000s, mutants are portrayed as a distinct subculture with " mutant bands ," mutant use of code-names as their primary form of self identity ( rather than their given birth names ), and a popular mutant fashion designer who created outfits tailored to mutant physiology.

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