When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

The Atari 5200 did not fare well commercially, compared to its predecessor, the Atari 2600.

The 1962 tour to South Africa saw the Lions still win 16 of their 25 games, but did not fare well against the Springboks, losing three of the four tests.

The album did not fare as well as their debut in the US, only reaching number 40, but it achieved Australasian success, reaching number one in Australia and number two in New Zealand.

Artists such as George Lamond, Exposé, Corina, Sweet Sensation and Stevie B were still heard on mainstream radio, but other notable freestyle artists did not fare as well.

" Although he did not fare so well during the reign of Innocent X, under Alexander VII, he once again regained pre-eminent artistic domination and continued to be held in high regard by Clement IX.

Ciano complained in his diary that his arguments " had no effect " ( niente da fare ) on Ribbentrop, who simply refused to believe any information that did not fit in with his preconceived notions.

The Mets did not fare any better in 2010, finishing with a losing record and missing the playoffs for the fourth straight year.

Robyn re-released " Do You Really Want Me ( Show Respect )" internationally but it did not fare as well as the other releases.

" and " I Ain't No Quitter " did not fare as well.

The show did not fare well in ratings and was canceled in 2005.

Many authors fled to the U. S. and Canada ( Josef Škvorecký ), Germany ( Peroutka ), Austria ( Kohout ), France ( M. Kundera ), but they generally did not fare much better than their contemporaries in Czechoslovakia, largely due to the absence of a readership.

Wetton's Caught in the Crossfire solo album ( 1980 ) did not fare very well in England.

Aria did not fare well commercially and the ensuing tour was limited to four concerts.

The Olmstead designed park system in Buffalo, NY did not fare as well.

Nor did it fare much better with the high peaks, though the two earliest recorded ascents were due to non-natives, that of the Rocciamelone in 1358 having been undertaken in fulfilment of a vow, and that of the Mont Aiguille in 1492 by order of Charles VIII of France, in order to destroy its immense reputation for inaccessibility – in 1555 Conrad Gesner did not climb Pilatus proper, but only the grassy mound of the Gnepfstein, the lowest and the most westerly of the seven summits.

However, her next film, Three for the Road ( 1987 ), which featured Charlie Sheen and Alan Ruck, did not fare as well.

As with other producers of Saturday morning cartoons, Filmation was more concerned with quantity rather than quality ; however, it did make a number of attempts to rise above the standard animated fare and produce reasonably well-written cartoons.

The Central Hotel in Sparta drew as many diners for its pizza as did Krogh's Restaurant and the St. Moritz for its finer fare on the plaza overlooking the lake.

Deer and other forest-dwelling animals did not fare well in Pern's warm, tropical climate.

The South Coast Raiders did not fare too well in general.

The general economy, however, did not fare very well as mechanization displaced many small artisans.

Although the Paris shops remained popular and profitable, the whole of the Western European operation did not fare as well and eighteen shops were sold in 2001.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

Yet he did drop his badinage with the ordinary country girl as much in deference to the Grafin as acknowledgement that here, indeed, was something special.

In taking account of seventeen years of law practice, Adams concluded that `` no lawyer in America ever did so much business as I did '' and `` for so little profit ''.

The Negro faces as much, if not more, difficulty in fitting himself into an urban economy as he did in an agrarian one.

The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.

It was a brilliant debut, so much so indeed that it aroused a new vitality in the younger poets, as did Byron's Childe Harold.

Debate rid us of McCarthy but did not give us much that is positive.

Although after much trouble he did manage to get it back, he discovered there was no trade to be had.

Mr. Watson did not have much humor in his make-up, but he managed a mirthless smile.

His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.

While S.K. did not like Dylan Thomas, I liked his poems very much, but I made the mistake of telling Dylan Thomas so, whereupon he said to me, `` I suppose you think you know all about me ''.

And while he had headed Batista's anti-Communist section, the Batista regime did not disturb the Communists so much as more open opponents who were alleged to be Communists.

He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork.

They did not speak much.

She was wise enough to realize a man could be good company even if he did weigh too much and didn't own the mint.

The audience did not think much of the new pastor, and what the new pastor thought of the audience he did not dare at the time to say.

Well, one did not expect much of people like Herold.

Yet even that explosion did not mean much.

he did not have to hurry it by thinking too much.

Regardless of how much of a slob you knew yourself to be, you could be certain they would never find out -- and even if they did it would make no difference.

It has identified itself with the very tension and terror it once did so much to alleviate.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

The packing efficiency, F.R., of fiber plates did not receive much attention in the literature, probably as it is high for the larger fibers generally used, until rather recently.