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These systems have continued to advance, and modern air warfare consists almost entirely of missile firing.
Automatic rifles ( such as the Browning Automatic Rifle ) were designed to be a high duty cycle arm for support of other troops, and were often made and deployed with quick change barrel assemblies to allow quick replacement of over heated barrels to allow for continued fire, and may have been operated by both the person actually firing the weapon as well as an additional crewman to assist in providing and caring for ammunition and the barrels, similar to a reduced version of a squad weapon ( above ).
Americans kept the general firing process, that is, heating the pottery quickly to high temperatures and cooling it quickly, but continued to form their own unique style of raku.
The gunshots triggered an almost immediate response by the white men, many of whom returned fire on the blacks, who continued firing back at the whites.
Patton reported that one of the civilian guides, an ex-Villista named E. L. Holmdahl, now working for the Americans, fired the last shot that killed the already-multiply-wounded Cárdenas, who at the end of the fight had started to surrender, then continued firing.
On 19 December that year, at Southend Crown Court, he was imprisoned for four months ( being freed after half of his sentence on 15 February 1991 ) but after being released, his alcoholism continued and he was involved in further alcohol-related incidents, including playing through a match during the 1993 – 94 season despite being drunk, falling down stairs and needing 29 stitches to a head wound when drunk, and letting off fire extinguishers and firing a flare gun into a disabled lavatory with team-mate Ray Parlour at Pizza Hut in Hornchurch where they were being taunted by supporters of rival clubs.
Around 12: 30 pm, the battle began in earnest, with both sides firing broadsides and cannonades at each other, and continued all afternoon.
At SRC Bull continued the development of his high-velocity artillery, adapting the HARP smoothbore into a new " reverse rifled " design where the lands of a conventional rifling were replaced by grooves cut into the barrel to make a slightly larger gun also capable of firing existing ammunition.
Because Paramount continued to add new shots to the busy schedule and tight budget, some elements were flipped for reuse, including the star fields and a shot of the Bird of Prey firing.
Deciding it would make the label look bad for firing Summers if Rogers continued to be a major success ( his duet with Dolly Parton, " Islands in the Stream ", had been one of the biggest hits of 1983 ), Rogers received very little support from the label during the next several years he was with them.
Colt soon reworked his design to leave the firing hammer exposed, but problems continued.
Good Hope continued firing, continuing to close on the German ships and receiving more and more fire.
The Gatlings continued to fire until Lt. Parker observed Lt. Ferguson of the 13th Infantry waving a white handkerchief as a signal for the battery to cease firing to avoid causing friendly casualties.
As missile systems have continued to advance, modern air warfare consists almost entirely of missile firing.
The following morning, the full bombardment resumed and the Confederates continued firing hot shot against the wooden buildings.
In February 1944, while the rest of No. 4 continued to practice day and night assault landings and live firing exercises.
When her husband fell, Margaret took his place at his cannon and continued firing until she, herself, was seriously wounded.
Had the bombardment continued it is likely the defending guns would have ceased firing for lack of shells, the minesweepers could have worked effectively and the British ships could have moved in to their objectives.
Not yet defeated, the Revenue Cutter seamen removed the guns from Eagle, hoisted them up a 160-foot bluff, dragged them into position, and continued firing at Dispatch.
After the initial disintegration of the shuttle, the two solid rocket boosters continued firing until they had exploded simultaneously 37 seconds later.
The gunmen continued firing and Albert Anastasia finally fell to the floor, dead.
The misery, in part due to the constant hiring and firing of coaches, continued into the next year.
Through the entire battle, Baji Prabhu, even though grievously injured, continued fighting, inspiring his men to fight on until Shivaji's safe journey to Vishalgadh was signaled by the firing of three cannon volleys.
Hamilton declined, and the firing continued for another two hours until Hamilton sent out his prisoner, Captain Helm, to offer terms.

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The modes of the imagination implicit in Athenian tragedy continued to shape the life of the mind until the age of Descartes and Newton.
This medication was continued until February, 1958.
Because of increasing anemia, triamcinolone, 8 mg. daily, was started on Feb. 23, 1958, and was continued until July, 1958.
In an attempt to reverse the downhill trend by stimulating the bone marrow and controlling any hemolytic component, triamcinolone, 16 mg. daily, was begun on Sept. 26, 1958, and continued until Feb. 18, 1959.
Voter registration began in late November 1959 and continued until early January, 1960.
They continued to arrive until the end of December, 1960, by which time a total of 1,343 returns were received representing 26.8 per cent of the 5,014 questionnaires sent out.
The Village office of Western Union with George Towsley as manager and telegrapher continued in Hard's drugstore until 1905.
W. E. Ford, for example, continued to supply data on the occurrence of minerals until his death in 1939.
He thereby precipitated a bitter controversy involving Protestants, Jews and Roman Catholics that continued for two months, until the city's Board of Hospitals lifted the ban on birth-control therapy.
National competition was the culmination of work which began with the school year last fall and continued until just before summer vacation.
Then she continued with energy, `` I myself did not see her until a week after she had run off to find the father.
From the American Civil War until World War II, Alabama, like many Southern states, suffered economic hardship, in part because of continued dependence on agriculture.
This custom continued until the 1940s.
Fighting continued, however, until May 1994 when Russia brokered a cease-fire.
U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell launched the talks on April 3, 2001, and the negotiations continued with mediation by the U. S., Russia, and France until April 6, 2001.
After the " Polish October " of 1956 the Sixth Section in Paris welcomed Polish historians and exchanges between the circle of the Annales and Polish scholars continued until the early 1980s.
However, he continued his slave trading career until 1754 or 1755, when he ended his seafaring altogether and began studying Christian theology.
The house was opened to the public in 1833, but continued to be occupied by Scott's descendants until 2004.
His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.
Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC ( the exact dating being a matter of debate ), but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the 1st century AD.
Here his rampage continued until the eastern government appointed him magister militum per Illyricum, giving him the Roman command he had desired, as well as the authority to resupply his men from the imperial arsenals.
The press was continued after Aldus ’ s death in 1515 by his wife and her father until his son Paolo ( 1512 – 1574 ) took over.
Even after leaving the abbacy of Tavistock, he continued to hold two properties from the abbey until his death.
Although the Principate continued in theory until the reign of Diocletian, Severus Alexander's death signalled the beginning of the chaotic period known as the Crisis of the Third Century which brought the empire to near collapse.
It continued until 1880.

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