She had helped him change his mind.

Somehow the thought of a simple man bewildered by things no one had ever really helped him understand moved the driver.

It is difficult to say what Thompson expected would come of their relationship, which had begun so soon after his emotions had been stirred by Maggie Brien, but when Katie wrote on April 11, 1900, to tell him that she was to be married to the Rev. Godfrey Burr, the vicar of Rushall in Staffordshire, the news evidently helped to deepen his discouragement over the failure of his hopes for a new volume of verse.

he had helped fight an oil-well fire that raged six days and nights.

Mrs. Child, who had once apologized for sending editor Palfrey a book on slavery, now confided that she had helped one of Henry Palfrey's slaves escape to Canada some years before, but asked him not to advertise the fact in Louisiana.

She helped with teaching as well as office work for a few years -- the catalogues show that she had classes in geography, rhetoric and bookkeeping.

His rage had built up as he made his way here from the second floor, helped by the quantity of champagne he had consumed.

He hung up with a bang, annoyed at himself for running off at the mouth like that but still terribly concerned with the situation he had helped to create.

The pro-Western government, which the United States had helped in a revolt against the Souvanna Phouma `` neutralist '' government, never did appear to spark much fighting spirit in the Royal Lao Army.

He had known when he first helped her to meet the right people and work with them that she did not intend to marry him.

He paced to the window and looked at the city he had helped to build.

He had helped recruit students and even paid tuition for some of them.

Alexios IV Angelos, the son of the deposed Isaac II, had recently escaped from Constantinople and now appealed to the crusaders, promising to end the schism of East and West, to pay for their transport, and to provide military support to the crusaders if they helped him to depose his uncle and sit on his father's throne.

The lessons he had learned as a child from his father, a tanner, helped him greatly during his stay on the island.

Carnegie helped open the rail lines into Washington D. C. that the rebels had cut ; he rode the locomotive pulling the first brigade of Union troops to reach Washington D. C.

Although his promotion of anti-imperialism and world peace had all failed, and the Carnegie Endowment had not fulfilled his expectations, his beliefs and ideas on international relations had helped build the foundation of the League of Nations after his death, which took world peace to another level.

In 2001, an article by four doctors in Kidney International, the official journal of the International Society of Nephrology, noted that although to date there had been no controlled studies performed in patients with autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease with refractory pain, their personal observation in isolated cases indicated that the Alexander Technique helped relieve patients ' pain, particularly when accompanied with whirlpool treatments and massage therapy.

In 1937, Wilson and Smith could count 40 alcoholic men they had helped to get sober, and two years later they counted 100 members, including one woman.

" Neon Deion " ( a. k. a. " Prime Time ") had a flashy appeal and helped bring media attention to one of the league's most anonymous franchises.

Arnulf then proceeded to exile to Bavaria two leading senators, Constantine and Stephen, who had helped Ageltrude seize the city.

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.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

He had an outstanding record as a legislator since the start of his career in the House in 1913, the 63d Congress.

This dinner was the start of a new blatancy in the relationship between the gangs and the politicians, which, prior to 1924, says Pasley, `` had been maintained with more or less stealth '', but which henceforth was marked by these ostentatious gatherings, denounced by a clergyman as `` Belshazzar feasts '', at which `` politicians fraternized cheek by jowl with gangsters, openly, in the big downtown hotels ''.

If this woman had delayed until after 11:20 to start her shopping, she would have had little time in which to prepare the substantial meal that was eaten at dinner in those days.

A Western cowpony had outrun an African lion, from a standing start.

But from the start they had two important ingredients: sincerity and realism.

The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.

Working for wages was clearly regarded as subjection to the will of another, but at least debt servitude had been abolished at Athens ( under the reforms of Solon at the start of the 6th century BC ).

The ULA had an issue similar to those experienced by other socketed CPU's ; Over time, the thermal heating and cooling could cause the ULA to rise slightly out of it's socket just enough to cause the machine to start exhibiting ' hanging ' or other startup-failure issues, such as a continuous ' startup beep '.

Following this, the widespread adoption of ailerons versus wing warping made aircraft much easier to control, and only a decade later, at the start of World War I, heavier-than-air powered aircraft had become practical for reconnaissance, artillery spotting, and even attacks against ground positions.

However, by that time its originally stellar line-up and crowd of followers had mostly left to start their own bands.

After Winter and Boyer agreed to start a team in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, the new league had its first four teams.

They had planned to sell this engine to motor manufacturers, but having heard that the Aston Martin car was no longer in production they realised that they could capitalise on the reputation of the Aston Martin name ( what we would now call the brand ) to give themselves a head start in the production of a completely new car.

Lord Sydney, often criticised as an ineffectual incompetent, had made one fundamental decision about the settlement that was to influence it from the start.

The console itself had five buttons: power, start, reset, option, and select.

At the start of the Cold War, bombers were the only means to take nuclear weapons to enemy targets, and had the role of deterrence.

Trench warfare had become largely obsolete in conflicts between advanced armies by the start of the Second World War.

On the death of Louis II in 1417 it reverted to Savoy, and, although Count René again retook the area for Provence in 1471, it had returned to Savoyard dominance by the start of the 16th century, by which point the County of Provence had become united with the Kingdom of France due to the death of Count Charles V in 1481.

As his ships readied for action, Brueys ordered his captains to gather for a conference on Orient and hastily recalled his shore parties, although most had still not returned by the start of the battle.

If that steady-state signal was interrupted, it indicated one of two things: either the operator was about to start transmitting, or something else had happened to break the connection — such as a physical break in the telegraph line.

The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion or the Third Boer War, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the re-creation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa because they did not want to side with the British against Germany so soon after they had had a long bloody war with the British.