If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.

They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.

With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.

He had been carrying an Enfield rifle and a holstered navy cap-and-ball pistol.

But the luck that had been running their way left him.

His shout had been taken up and repeated.

A sizable supply of powder had been touched off.

The worst part had been the waiting ; ;

The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.

And one had been too many.

That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.

The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.

I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.

Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.

He had been the auditor for the mining syndicate, and he had stolen fifty thousand dollars of the syndicate's money.

Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.

Despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.

They know from their researches into television and the movies that knights in the middle ages had beautiful flowing haircuts like Little Lord Fauntleroy, and only the villains had beards.

Colangelo fired Showalter after a relatively disappointing 2000 season, and replaced him with Bob Brenly, the former Giants catcher and coach, who had up to that point been working as a color analyst on Diamondbacks television broadcasts.

By 1980, the way the game was played had changed dramatically due to innovative coaching tactics, with the phasing out of many of the game's kicking styles and the increasing use of handball ; whilst presentation was influenced by television.

* 1987 – The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues " fairly ".

The club was ridiculed during the 1980s with a milk advert on television, in which a young boy boasted that Ian Rush had told him that " if didn't drink lots of milk, when up, only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley ".

The mother later claimed that her son had watched one of the fire-related segments shortly before he burned down the home, although, according to an article in the March 24, 1994 issue of Rolling Stone, neighbors claimed that the family did not have cable television.

The license in favour of BVI Cable was controversial, as the Regulator had announced in advance that only three licenses in total would be issued, and BVI Cable TV had crumbling cable television infrastructure, and was in no position to office cellular telephone services ( and to date, has not offered any cellular telephone services, or anything other than simple cable television ).

A digital text service had been available since the launch of digital terrestrial television in November 1998, but the BBC Text service was not publicly launched until November 1999, due to a lack of availability of compatible set-top boxes.

The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17: 30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.

Jenny Abramsky had originally planned to have a television version of the informal news radio channel BBC Radio 5 Live, or a TV version of Radio 4 News FM both of which she had run.

When the UK Channel 4 television program " The Bermuda Triangle " ( c. 1992 ) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area.

In the documentary television series Baseball ( 1994 ), directed by Ken Burns, Costas indicated that he had a very poor relationship with his father, but did not go into specifics.

In 2003, while promoting X2, Hugh Jackman mentioned in an interview on UK television morning talk show This Morning that he planned to make a biopic of Bill Bixby, that he had been drawn to the project by Bryan Singer and that it was a project he loved.

In January 1997, the United Kingdom television station Channel 4 carried a news report that suggested that members of the Royal Anglian Regiment had also opened fire on the protesters and could have been responsible for three of the fourteen deaths.

By the 1950s, the television industry had become a serious competition for the movie industry.

Several comic forms that had previously been a staple of movie theaters transitioned to the television.

" One of these commercials, featuring Mr. T crashing through a wall on the back of a technical vehicle before firing Snickers bars at a speed walker wearing tight-fitting yellow shorts, was pulled by Mars following a complaint by the U. S .- based group Human Rights Campaign, despite the fact that the advert had never been shown outside the U. K.

After deciding that neither Anderson nor Frischmann had the skill to be a lead guitarist, the group placed an advert in NME seeking to fill the position.

Unusually, and possibly uniquely for the time, until 1993 ( like the BBC ), the series had no advert break in the middle even though it was on ITV in a primetime 19: 00 slot.

His mother encouraged his artistic talent when he was six years old by entering him in a screen test for a Persil washing powder TV advert ; he won and starred as the little boy with the off-white shirt, but had no spoken lines.

At the end of the serialisation an advert appeared in the newspaper, which announced " This is a brilliant mystery novel, which has had the unique distinction for a first novel of being serialised in The Times Weekly Edition.

One such television advert, from 2000, involved a blind woman being led into a pole intentionally and knocked unconscious by her guide dog, which then proceeded to eat the chicken that the woman had just purchased.

The original advert had a theme tune based on the popular song " Bend Me, Shape Me " but with different lyrics (" You got a cheese string day or night, you got a cheese string you're all right ").

The final advert summarised the whole campaign, asked some questions back to the people that had written to them, and explained that the winner of the K Foundation award would be announced in a TV advert during the live Turner Prize coverage on Channel 4 television.

The advert asked if applicants had an interest in current affairs, had common sense and an ability to write.

After reading an advert in the underground magazine Oz ( in 1969 ) for the " International Fortean Organisation " ( INFO ), an American group " founded in 1966 ... by Paul and Ronald Willis ," who had acquired material from the original Fortean Society ( started in 1931, but in limbo since the 1959 death of its founder Tiffany Thayer ), Rickard began to correspond with the brothers, particularly Paul.

Clarke answered an advert in an insect magazine for swallowtail butterfly pupae that had been placed by Philip Sheppard.

Cyril Clarke answered an advert in an insect magazine for swallowtail butterfly pupa that had been placed by Sheppard.

Originally we had this pregnant woman in a field wearing this white see-though dress, like a flake advert gone wrong.

However, the petition had contained their phallic logo, and the police charged P-Orridge and fellow COUM member Haydn Nobb of publishing an obscene advert, although the charges were later dropped.

However, promotional copies of the song " Spaceman " had already been distributed, and chosen to tie in with the release of a new Levi's jeans TV advert.

Gradually a regular line-up evolved around Simon Jeffes and Helen Liebman: Neil Rennie, who joined in 1975 on ukulele ; Geoffrey Richardson, who had joined in 1976 and co-wrote three pieces on Broadcasting from Home ( 1984 ), played viola, cuatro, guitar, clarinet, mandolin and ukulele ; Julio Segovia answered an advert in the Melody Maker and joined in 1978 on percussion ; Paul Street joined in 1984 playing guitar, cuatro and ukulele, leaving in 1988 ; Jennifer Maidman joined in 1984 on percussion, bass, ukulele and cuatro ; Steve Fletcher replaced Steve Nye in 1988 on piano and keyboards and Annie Whitehead, who had also appeared on Broadcasting from Home ( 1984 ), joined the live band in 1988 on trombone.

First, the advert was not " mere puff " as had been alleged by the company, because the deposit of £ 1000 in the bank evidenced seriousness.

Parsons married fellow NME journalist Julie Burchill – they had both answered the same advert in the paper requesting " hip, young gunslingers " to apply as new writers.

A music paper advert brought in teenage drummer Terry Ollis, while friends Nik Turner and Dik Mik were invited to join the band on saxophone and electronics respectively after the pair had originally offered their services as roadcrew.

She was then cast in a television advert for Maltesers, guest starred in episodes of series such as City Central and had a small role in My Wonderful Life.