Cappy looked down at his wide hands, and did not reply.

He was wide awake, but he did not feel like doing anything.

This approach also led quickly, as it did in T & T, to players playing a wide range of non-human characters and game worlds that were deeply pluralist.

However, Farmer Giles's blunderbuss had a wide mouth that opened like a horn, and it did not fire balls or slugs, but anything that he could spare to stuff in.

The importance of Mendel's work did not gain wide understanding until the 1890s, after his death, when other scientists working on similar problems re-discovered his research.

From the mid-3rd century onwards, Britain no longer received such a wide range and extensive quantity of foreign imports as it did during the earlier part of the Roman period ; however, vast quantities of coin from continental mints reached the island, whilst there is historical evidence for the export of large amounts of British grain to the continent during the mid-4th century.

Aasen's famous Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects appeared in its original form in 1850, and from this publication dates all the wide cultivation of the popular language in Norwegian, since Aasen really did no less than construct, out of the different materials at his disposal, a popular language or definite folke-maal ( people's language ) for Norway.

" However, the attempts that ICANN have made to set up an organizational structure that would allow wide input from the global Internet community did not produce results amenable to the current Board.

Demme's next film, 1980's Melvin and Howard, did not get a wide release, but received a groundswell of critical acclaim, and led to the signing of Demme to direct the Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell star vehicle Swing Shift.

This new definition, however, did not win wide recognition.

" This serious mistake, which drew wide press coverage, gave Bennett his needed opening to attack King, which he did successfully in the election campaign which followed.

Author Peter Lehman summarized it, writing, " He achieved what he did not by copying classical music but by creating a unique form of popular music that drew upon a wide variety of music popular during his youth ".

Most cars sold to the public did not have a wide variety of engine choices, and the majority of the buying public at the time were not interested in the large displacement special edition engine options that would soon become popular.

However, Appalachia did offer a wide variety of wild game, with venison and squirrel particularly common, thus helping compensate for distance from major cities and transportation networks.

Although he did not perform as much in the early shows Milligan eventually became a lead performer in almost all of the Goon Show episodes, portraying a wide range of characters including Eccles, Minnie Bannister, Jim Spriggs and the nefarious Count Moriarty.

However Merovingian subjects did not have a wide international appeal, so he switched to themes of life in ancient Egypt that were more popular.

Although the Giants did not have one great wide receiver, they did have several good ones.

Elway did not really have a particular receiver who caught the most of his passes during the regular season, but wide receivers Mark Jackson, Vance Johnson, Steve Watson, and tight end Orson Mobley all combined for 136 receptions and 2, 132 yards.

The team did not have any outstanding deep threats, but wide receivers Yancey Thigpen recorded 38 receptions for 648 yards, Kevin Dyson had 54 receptions for 658 yards, and tight end Frank Wycheck gained 69 receptions for 641 yards.

The ancient Romans did not make wide use of maces, probably because of the influence of armour, and due to the nature of the Roman infantry fighting style which involved the pilum ( or spear ) and the gladius ( short sword used in a stabbing fashion ).

The script did not receive wide acceptance and fell into disuse with the collapse of the Yuan dynasty in 1368.

Although Schmidt did not feel that he was in a position to substantially extend the social reforms of the Brandt Administration, due to the economic problems he encountered during his time as chancellor, a wide range of reforms were nevertheless carried out under his administration.

Although adequate for smaller fish, these did not possess a wide adjustment range or the power to slow larger fish.

The actual term " sport utility vehicle " did not come into wide popular usage until the late 1980s ; many of these vehicles were marketed during their era as station wagons.

At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.

After March it began to pass northwards, a motion quite apparent by the middle of April ; in June it passed at the same distance from the zenith as it did in December ; and in September it passed through its most northerly position, the extreme range from north to south, i. e. the angle between the March and September positions, being 40 ″.

The convention in naval warfare of the time was that ships of the line did not attack frigates when there were ships of equal size to engage, but in firing first French Captain Claude-Jean Martin had negated the rule and Saumarez waited until the frigate was at close range before replying.

As well, even though in many cases the popular change from one to the next can be swift and sudden, the beginning and end of movements are somewhat subjective, as the movements did not spring fresh into existence out of the blue and did not come to an abrupt end and lose total support, as would be suggested by a date range.

Tanks, introduced on the Western Front by the British in September 1916, had the capacity to achieve such breakthroughs but did not have the reliable range to exploit them.

Although this provided attenuation of radio signals over a broad range of frequencies, the researchers found that it did not alter the subject's remote viewing capability.

The Buick-sourced V6 engine, produced locally, powered the Commodore range, as did the 5. 0-litre Holden V8 engine, replaced in 1999 by the 5. 7-litre LS unit.

What is certain from the evidence, however, is that Christians of at least the latter part of that period did use, sometimes symbolically, a restricted range of images that already had non-Christian prototypes or parallels.

The Maxxas brand name came about because Hoshino Gakki thought that the guitar did not fit in with the Ibanez model range and was therefore named Maxxas by Rich Lasner from Hoshino USA.

He concluded that, in the relatively recent past, Switzerland had been another Greenland ; that instead of a few glaciers stretching across the areas referred to, one vast sheet of ice, originating in the higher Alps, had extended over the entire valley of northwestern Switzerland until it reached the southern slopes of the Jura, which, though they checked and deflected its further extension, did not prevent the ice from reaching in many places the summit of the range.

A self-described liberal media watchdog group, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ( FAIR ), in consultation with the Survey and Evaluation Research Laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University, sponsored an academic study in which journalists were asked a range of questions about how they did their work and about how they viewed the quality of media coverage in the broad area of politics and economic policy.

This force explained why nuclei did not disintegrate under the influence of proton repulsion, and it also gave an explanation of why the attractive strong force had a more limited range than the electromagnetic repulsion between protons.

Early English common law did not have or require the stare decisis doctrine for a range of legal and technological reasons:

Silbermann showed Johann Sebastian Bach one of his early instruments in the 1730s, but Bach did not like it at that time, claiming that the higher notes were too soft to allow a full dynamic range.

This strongly suggests that the natural geographic range of Pteranodon covered only the southern part of the Niobrara, and that its habitat did not extend farther north than South Dakota.

But Gould did not rule out sociobiological explanations for many aspects of animal behavior, writing: " Sociobiologists have broadened their range of selective stories by invoking concepts of inclusive fitness and kin selection to solve ( successfully I think ) the vexatious problem of altruism — previously the greatest stumbling block to a Darwinian theory of social behavior ...

This encoding was not satisfactory on performance grounds, but did introduce the notion that bytes in the range of 0 – 127 continue representing the ASCII characters in UTF, thereby providing backward compatibility with ASCII.

Soon after the end of World War I, Lancia offered a 22 ° V12, Fiat had a 60 ° model 520 ( 1921-2 ), British truck manufacturer Ensign announced a V12 that did not materialize, and in 1926, Daimler ( Britain ) offered the first of a full range of sleeve valve Double Sixes, 7, 136 cc, 3, 744 cc, 5, 296 cc and 6, 511 cc versions remaining available until 1937.

Civilian dead include 1, 509 merchant sailors and 3, 357 killed in air attacks and long range artillery bombardments The French government did not provide an estimate of civilian deaths in the war zone, however tertiary sources have estimated civilian war dead at 40, 000.

The following year, Philipp Lenard discovered that ( within the range of the experimental parameters he was using ) the energy of these ejected electrons did not depend on the intensity of the incoming light, but on its frequency.

De Grasse gave signals for the van to move further ahead so that more of the French fleet might engage, but Bougainville, fully engaged with the British van at musket range, did not want to risk " severe handling had the French presented the stern.