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

Talks with Dashiell Hammett got further, but here too communications ultimately broke down, and Hammett never took the assignment.

At one time he was a journalist in Minnesota, when he got an acting job while on assignment for a story about a workshop theatre and stayed with the improvisational company for two years ( along with then-unknown Danny Glover ).

In one instance, a student got 100 % on a computer forensics assignment by emailing the professor a noodle recipe.

Sometime in the summer of 1998, Leo got his most important assignment yet — he was to be the Whitelighter of the Charmed Ones.

One year later, at the age of 18 years old, Walter got his first assignment from Sports Illustrated —- the same year

She stated that " The moment I got to know of it, I called Akshay and told him that I wouldn't be able to accept the assignment.

" Lahr also writes that Mamet got his first screenwriting assignment through Crouse.

Tom Browning started for the Reds while Mike Moore, who got two wins in the 1989 World Series, got the assignment for Oakland.

In the spring of 1951, Middleton got a call from General J. Lawton Collins, who was now the Army Chief of Staff, asking for Middleton to take an assignment on behalf of the Army.

Shortly after World War II, Jones got his first big assignment designing the Peachtree Golf Club in Atlanta in collaboration with golf legend Bobby Jones.

His first assignment as an independent Art Director was for Haqeeqat, a film by Chetan Anand, which got him the Filmfare Award in 1964 and along with that came recognition.

Given the assignment by then-Seton Hall University president Monsignor James Kelly to create a radio station, Monsignor Gillhooly got WSOU up and running in just three months and provided a steady hand during the station ’ s early days.

Eventually, Jeme got the assignment as the chief engineer of the stub line.

Wanting to move from sports to more serious news, he got an assignment to cover the first Cuban Revolt in 1933.

A. R. Rahman was initially signed in as the composer ; but the he opted out ; after he got extremely busy with his international assignment, Bombay Dreams.

Bairam Khan's wife, who was also the cousin of Akbar, married Akbar after Bairam Khan's death and later on Bairam's son, Abdul Rahim Khan-i-khana, got an important assignment in Akbar's administration and was one of the ' Nau-rattans ' ( Nine Gems ) of Akbar.

Rogers got her biggest assignment when she played the role of Dale Arden in the first two Flash Gordon serials between 1936 and 1939.

Tudor's assignment, as he saw it, was to raise police morale, to punish crime, and to restore law and order: " I had nothing to do with politics ," he wrote years later, " and don't care a hoop of hell what measure of Home Rule they got.

Former Montreal Canadiens coach Scotty Bowman got behind the Motown bench in 1993.

On August 6, 1999, Tony Gwynn got his 3, 000th hit ( a line-drive single over the second-baseman ) off of Montreal Expos rookie pitcher Dan Smith at Olympic Stadium.

There was no bright spot as far as looking at baseball until Mr. Robinson got the opportunity to play in Montreal in ' 46.

Gwynn got his 3, 000th hit on August 6 with a single in the first inning off Montreal Expos pitcher Dan Smith.

routinely tried to injure one another, and whether or not they stood up for teammates in such instances, it got so bad that in 1959 the Rangers ’ Andy Bathgate was compelled to write an article for True magazine, headlined “ Atrocities on Ice .” As this post from the blog Fellowship of Hockey relates, Bathgate ’ s article actually named the league ’ s guiltiest parties when it came to spearing: Montreal ’ s Doug Harvey and Tom Johnson, Boston ’ s Fern Flaman, Chicago ’ s Ted Lindsay and Pierre Pilote, and Lou Fontinato from Bathgate ’ s own Rangers.

In December 2001, staff members at The Montreal Gazette launched a Gazette Newsroom web page with an open letter, titled Media Giant Silences Local Voices: Canadian Journalism Under Attack, that got signed by 77 Gazette journalists as of 2002 January 23, opposing the national editorial policy, and the reporters among them participated in a byline strike, refusing to sign their names to their stories in the newspaper in protest.

Many current owners believe this is the optimal size for a major league, and with the possible exception of the NFL's desire to return to Los Angeles, North America's second largest market, none of the major leagues are believed to be imminently considering expansion, and in fact Major League Baseball actually considered contraction in 2002 to be effective for the season ( of the Montreal Expos and Minnesota Twins ), until the union got a contract prohibiting it.

If not delayed, it would have been the first retractable roof in North America ; Olympic Stadium in Montreal finally got its retractable roof to work in 1988.

At his first day of his first training camp with Montreal, he got into a fight with the team's star goaltender, Patrick Roy, after striking the latter with a slap shot in practice.

He got four hits in a game for the first time on June 10 in a 5 – 2 win over the Montreal Expos.

On July 1, 2008, the original group got back together, on stage, at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, playing songs from Rosé as well as some of their previous hits, in front of a crowd numbering around 180, 000.

Solofa Fatu, Jr. first got the fans attention in 1985 as he worked for Gino Brito and Dino Bravo ’ s “ International Wrestling " territory based in Montreal.

After beating the Capitals 4-3 and the Canadiens 4-1 in the first two rounds of the playoffs, Timonen's first playoff run with the Flyers was put on hold after a visit to the doctor ; Timonen got hit by a wrist shot at his foot on April 30, 2008, by Montreal Canadiens defenseman Andrei Markov.

On their way to Montreal, the Ottawa's train got snowbound near Hawkesbury, Ontario.

On March 1, 1873 the D & H got the New York and Canada Railroad chartered as a merger of the Whitehall and Plattsburgh Railroad and Montreal and Plattsburg Railroad, which had been owned by the Rutland Railroad.

Against the advice of seasoned Aboriginal fighters, Dollard got the support of the governor of Montreal, Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, to organize an expedition west.

Unlike Montreal, the Maple Leafs had someone there to meet Kennedy when he got off the train.

In the fourth game in Toronto, Montreal got off to a quick start and led 2 – 0 on goals by Elmer Lach and Richard, his first of the series, before the game was three minutes old.

According to tradition, Norman's grandmother sailed to Montreal in 1779 to meet her husband, but by the time she got there he was already dead.

( When Lalonde and Joliat met later that season, Lalonde, unhappy that Joliat was fast becoming a fan favorite in Montreal, got his " revenge " by serving Joliat with a vicious crosscheck to the face.

Hodgkinson got his start in the business working for International Wrestling out of Montreal, Quebec.

Bartoli returned to competition at the 2012 Rogers Cup in Montreal, where she was seeded 9th, and got a bye into the second round, where she crushed Peng Shuai 6 – 1, 6 – 2.

Play had scarcely begun when Ken Reardon ( Montreal ) and Joe Klukay ( Toronto ) began fencing and Bill Barilko went at Reardon, while Klukay got into it with Billy Reay, and Hal Laycoe fought Garth Boesch.