And he had a feeling -- thanks to the girl -- that things would get worse before they got better.

Most of the Rebels got away since they could make better time through the stiff brush than their naked pursuers.

Even to be `` from hope and fear set free '' is at least better than to have lost the first without having got rid of the second.

Certainly it isn't making the President happy, and he has been doing his apologetic best to explain how the budget got into its unbalanced condition, how he intends to economize wherever he can and how he hopes to do better next year.

But it had largely disappeared on account of protest by the whites and through growing resentment on the part of the Negroes as they became more educated and got better wages.

Bankers who had been reluctant to lend without better security than the house itself got that security from the U. S. government ; ;

It got worse instead of better.

The job at Funk wasn't particularly better, but it got him away from being subordinate to John and assured him steady advancement, since Funk was owned to a large degree by various branches of Linda's family.

For some practitioners alchemy was an intellectual pursuit, and over time they got better at it.

On election night party leader Westerwelle said his party would work to ensure that civil liberties were respected and that Germany got an " equitable tax system and better education opportunities.

Every time the boy had an injury which caused him internal or external bleeding, the Tsarina called on Rasputin, and the Tsarevich subsequently got better.

The strip originally centered on Jon, being rejected by the King Features, Post-Hall and the Chicago Tribune-New York News agencies, all which asked Davis to focus on the cat, who in their opinion, got the better lines.

It is said that Queen Victoria got to know her future husband, Prince Albert, better through a series of ice skating trips.

He joked that she got better billing.

In general, Hans got better grades than Niels ; however, a new mathematics teacher, Bernt Michael Holmboe, was appointed in 1818.

In Copenhagen, Rømer made rules for building new houses, got the city's water supply and sewers back in order, ensured that the city's fire department got new and better equipment, and was the moving force behind the planning and making of new pavement in the streets and on the city squares.

Daegling notes that in 1967, movie and television special effects were primitive compared to the more sophisticated effects in later decades, and allows that if the Patterson film depicts a man in a suit that " it is not unreasonable to suggest that it is better than some of the tackier monster outfits that got thrown together for television at that time.

Early ratings were bad as were the reviews, but as the network RTL was willing to give its first soap opera a chance, ratings got better and climbed to seven million viewers in 2002.

The situation never got much better for the Vikings the rest of the game.

The next time the Raiders got the ball, they did even better, driving 64 yards in 10 plays and scoring on a 1-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Ken Stabler to tight end Dave Casper, increasing their lead to 10 – 0.

According to biographers, Harding got along better with the press than any other previous President, being a former newspaperman.

According to columnist and biographer Mike Royko, Daley got along better with editors and publishers than with reporters.

When pipe-turf cannot be got conveniently, a good wedge drain may answer well, when the subsoil is a strong, stiff clay ; but if the subsoil be only moderately so, a thorn train, with couples below, will do still better ; and if the subsoil is very sandy, except pipes can be had, it is in vain to attempt under-training the fiel d by any other method.

The students, being Norwegian, got better treatment than most, but had to resist Nazi schooling for months.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

He got a good fat job and we congratulate him on his good luck.

Reduced to beggary, he at last got a job as office boy to a television producer.

He then got a job with the Chicago Herald-Examiner as a circulation slugger, a rough fighter employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors.

And you wonder if that is why the little man lost his job and his car and stayed drunk about a year before he straightened out and moved to St. Louis, where he got to be a big unhappy success.

`` You've got to admit she was smart to scare up this fine government job over there -- she'll get a home for herself and Cathy in no time.

But he got ahead in business: on leave from his job to an important Washington assignment during the war ; ;

After Oxford, Jackson got a job as a clerk in the Patent Office in London and arranged a job there for Housman as well.

ABC News characterized public consensus on Clinton as, " You can't trust him, he's got weak morals and ethics and he's done a heck of a good job.

Michael got Lara his first job at Angostura Ltd. in the marketing department.

The anonymous sleeve notes accompanying the 1956 Decca album " Rock Around The Clock " describe Haley's early life and career thus: " Bill got his first professional job at the age of 13, playing and entertaining at an auction for the fee of $ 1 a night.

Eventually he got a job with a popular group known as the " Down Homers " while they were in Hartford, Connecticut.

They gave him the name of Clark Kent, and he later got a job as a newspaper reporter under that name.

According to Day, Rapp had auditioned two hundred vocalists when she got the job.

At 12 Thomas got his first job at The Regas, a restaurant in Knoxville, Tennessee, then lost it in a dispute with his boss.

She lost her job on The Dinah Shore Show when, as she said, " We were shooting all night, and into the next day, and time just got away from me, and I didn't realize that I was supposed to be on the set working as Dinah's double on her show, Chevy Theatre.

The series is set in a humorously surreal world in which Ted is the only fully rounded " normal " character among " caricatures ", according to Graham Linehan: " exaggerated-over-friendly, over-quiet, over-stupid, over-dull [...] they really only got one thing, they've got one job.

Anderson liked Parsons ' voice and he got the job.

The members included Jean-Baptiste Krantz, Henri Dion and Léon Molinos, both of whom had known Eiffel for a long time: their report was favorable, and Eiffel got the job.

I just couldn't believe that I'd put all that effort in and found I just got kicked in the teeth and it just disappointed me that much, that I didn't apply for another job.

Bogart resumed his friendship with boyhood pal Bill Brady, Jr. whose father had show business connections, and eventually Bogart got an office job working for William A. Brady Sr .' s new company World Films.

While working for the insurance company, Peel filed card programs for an early IBM 1410 computer ( which led to his entry in Who's Who noting him as a former computer programmer ), and he got his first radio job, albeit unpaid, working for WRR ( AM ) in Dallas.