Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.

He got off to an exceptional start last season, and under the circumstances probably won't duplicate it.

In going away Debonnie got behind several lengths, stalling at the start -- she is a little fussy.

Ulyate drew back with a start, and put finger to lips, almost afraid to move or whisper lest it set her off, `` The dogs have got her bayed.

Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team.

The Symphony Of The Air, greatly assisted by Van Cliburn, last night got its seven-concert Beethoven cycle at Carnegie Hall off to a good start.

Says Keys: `` Maybe if the idea got around again that obesity is immoral, the fat man would start to think ''.

A tremendous religious movement swept the U. S. in the early 19th century, marked by the growth and popularity of churches and religious revivals that got their start in Kentucky and Tennessee.

In early, the offense got off to a poor start.

Trumbo got his professional start working for Vogue magazine.

In week five, with starting wide receiver Roy Williams sidelined by injury, receiver Miles Austin got his first start of the season and had a record setting day ( 250 yards receiving and 2 TDs ) to help lead Dallas to an overtime win over Kansas City.

Zoff's career got off to an inauspicious start, when at the age of fourteen he had trials with Inter Milan and Juventus F. C., but was rejected due to a lack of height.

Director John Carpenter decided to add the original scenes into the special edition release as an extra only: " After we screened the rough cut, we realized that the movie didn't really start until Snake got to New York.

Many of the pioneers of RPG zinedom got their start in, or remain part of, science fiction fandom.

" The former term plays off the fact that those not familiar with geocaching are called muggles, a term borrowed from the Harry Potter series of books which was rising in popularity at the same time Geocaching got its start.

The company reportedly got its start with a bequest from an anonymous benefactor.

Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village's nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, notably besides Bob Dylan, there were Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bette Midler, The Lovin ' Spoonful, Simon & Garfunkel, Liza Minnelli, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, The Velvet Underground, The Kingston Trio, Carly Simon, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, and Nina Simone among others.

Giger got his start with small ink drawings before progressing to oil paintings.

The Astros got off to a slow start and the pitching and hitting averages were down.

Before Lanier took over, fans were accustomed to Houston's occasional slow starts, but with Lanier leading the way, Houston got off to a hot start, winning 13 of their first 19 contests.

It is the block where Hyman once lived with bandmate Dee Dee Ramone, and is near the former site of the music club CBGB, where the Ramones got their start.

Picked by many to win their division in 2004 after faring well in the free agent market, the Royals got off to a disappointing start and by late June were back in a rebuilding mode, releasing veteran reliever Curtis Leskanic and trading veteran reliever Jason Grimsley and superstar center fielder Carlos Beltrán for prospects, all within a week of each other.

The beginning of the modern, free, open access libraries really got its start in the U. K. in 1847.

His prime minister was Rolandas Paksas, whose government got off to a rocky start and collapsed within seven months.

In fact, when protests were raised, Jeschonnek himself said, " First we've got to beat Russia, then we can start training!

There I got off, crossed the square, and on the side directly opposite the gate found a good restaurant, hard to come by in this part of the city.

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

When in New York, he and Billie held numerous parties at the Silver Horn restaurant, where they got to know Marge Zimmerman, the proprietress.

Smokey Point got its name from a 1950s outdoor-barbecue restaurant started by Eric and Pearl Shurstad, who called their place the Smokey Point Café after the plume of smoke it generated.

He then tried his luck with a small restaurant, but failed and got a job with the Works Project Administration.

With a rubber band around his head to slant his eyes, Hackett's " The Chinese Waiter " lampooned the heavy dialect, frustration, and communication problems encountered by a busy waiter in a Chinese restaurant: " No, we no have sprit-pea soup ... We gotta wonton, we got eh-roll ... No orda for her, juss orda for you!

The Host / Marriott Airport Hotel with its revolving rooftop restaurant got plenty of attention when it opened its doors on December 1973.

So, as a player, as I got older, I tried to reach out to fans, reach out to kids whether on the ice or on the street on in a restaurant.

I was so bad, I sat in the restaurant, had my double cheeseburger then minutes later I drove back round and got the same thing again to take away.

He then got employment as a head chef at a restaurant in Santa Monica, California but he later lost the job after Dunne's family publicly protested his employment by distributing placards to customers which read " The hands that prepared your meal tonight also strangled Dominique Dunne on October 30, 1982.

On June 8, 2007, Daly and Sherrie got into a fight at a restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee, site of that week's tour stop, the Stanford St. Jude Championship.

The part of lawyer George Hanson in the Peter Fonda – Dennis Hopper road movie Easy Rider was written for Torn by Terry Southern ( who was a close friend ), but according to Southern's biographer Lee Hill, Torn withdrew from the project after he and co-director Dennis Hopper got into a bitter argument in a New York restaurant.

Caouette fought for bilingualism in the House of Commons, winning a symbolic victory when he got the Parliament's restaurant to produce bilingual menus.

He usually spent gold as fast as he got it but at the end of his life he owned a small restaurant in Dawson.

El Torito was founded by Larry J. Cano, who gives the restaurant credit for popularizing the margarita in America Torito served several tours in Europe and in Korea, got a business degree and worked as a bartender.

However, when she contacted a job-hunter about Tulsa restaurant openings, she got a job as head chef at Javu, an upscale restaurant in Manhattan, forcing her to stay in New York.

Later in the 1980s, at the Ding Ho restaurant on Springfield Street ( where Ole Mexican Grill is presently located ), such comedians as Steven Wright, Jimmy Tingle, Bobcat Goldthwait, and club founder Barry Crimmins got their start.

Some of these trips included being sent to England to buy a proper English Christmas meal from a famous English restaurant while dressed in a stereotypical English derby and morning coat outfit, spending a week at Roy Rogers ' dude ranch as a hired hand, and going on an African safari ( after the secret was revealed Morgan got his passport photo taken and shots given to him by a nurse on stage as Moore told him about his trip ).

In 1975, Cidon got a job in a restaurant named " Akelarre ", alongside Pedro Subijana, a well known chef of the era.

The rivalry between Allen and Clement was such that on one occasion, health inspectors shut down a downtown Nashville restaurant owned by Allen, who got a court order allowing it to reopen.

His father was connected with the restaurant business and got his son a job as a restaurant cashier.

The restaurant was an inspiration to Erkki Lindfors, the mayor of Tampere, who got the idea to build a similar one in his home town, resulting in the Näsinneula tower, which opened in 1971.