But ten years in prison had taught him realities.

and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.

All he had to do was light the fuses of the dynamite sticks, run to within ten yards of an open window in the barn and hurl the sticks through.

in three months the Army spent three-quarters as much as had been expended on the `` big Ditch '' in ten years.

Never hearing from him again, I remembered the little boy of whom I had had such doubts when he was ten years old.

Trig and a very black colored boy from Detroit had killed or put out of action ten guerrillas by grenades and hand-to-hand fighting.

but this grinning, broken head, not ten feet away from me, was the sharp definition of what my reality had become.

It was not as though she noted clearly that her nephews had not been to see her for ten years, not since their last journey eastward to witness their Uncle Izaak being lowered into the rocky soil ; ;

Nothing in all the preceding years had had the power to bring me closer to a knowledge of profound sorrow than the breakup of camp, the packing away of my camp uniforms, the severing of ties with the six or ten people I had grown most to love in the world.

But when I saw that it was already ten past seven, I began to wonder if something had gone wrong.

Ask any group of ballerinas to do ten push-ups or three chin-ups and the results, considering the amount of physical training they have had, will be very disappointing.

I would tell them I got a letter from home stating that five of my Negroes had runaway and ten of Pappy's.

And while less than ten years earlier the wayward Black Sox -- all of them top performers in their positions -- had toiled for stingy Charles Comiskey at salaries ranging from twenty-five hundred dollars to forty-five hundred dollars a year, stars now were asking ten thousand dollars, twenty thousand dollars, yes, even fifty thousand dollars a season.

Those ten days were like no others that Blanche had known.

His salary had reached the ten thousand mark.

Mrs. Williams had a list which she said contained about nine or ten discrepancies between her memory of Dr. Jenkins's conversation and how they were written up for the board's approval.

I had studied with Burns ten years before, during the scholarship year the Manhattan gave me, along with the five-hundred-dollar prize for my paintings of bums on Hudson Street.

Once, like you, I had one head, two hands, ten fingers on my hands.

In 1990-91, the Army had ten military regions and an estimated 73 + ' brigades ', each with a mean strength of 1, 000 and comprising infantry, tanks, APC, artillery, and AA units as required ( IISS Military Balance 1990 or 1991 ).

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

In 1843, the description was translated into English and extensively annotated by Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace, who had become interested in the engine ten years earlier.

He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.

A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.

Thomas the elder married twice, had seventeen children, and died in 1615.

The Illinois Commission for Handicapped Children, which for 20 years has had the responsibility of coordinating the services of tax supported and voluntary organizations serving handicapped children, of studying the needs of handicapped children in Illinois, and of promoting more adequate services for them, indeed welcomes this new important resource which will help the people of Illinois toward the goal of providing an education for all of its children.

The children had nowhere to go and no place to play, not even sidewalks.

He imagined they were the kind whose tax returns were never examined ( if they were, they were never penalized ), whose children had no unhappy romances, whose names never knew scandal.

She had no children ; ;

She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.

The children had to play away from the house ( in the barn loft or the pasture behind the barn ), to maintain a proper quietness.

Although it had seemed a good reason, to begin with: no couple could afford to have children.

`` You are bound to get involved with people when you have children '', Fran had told me at our first meeting, `` so it is good to know that those with whom you get involved are not just dreary little housewives and dull husbands, but People Who Do Things ''.

And at three different times during our turbulent marriage strange girls, with the commonest of accents, telephoned to announce to me that Letch had sired their unborn children!!

One day, the children had wanted to get up onto General Burnside's horse.

Individual differences in maturation and the development of readiness for learning to read indicate that not until the third grade have most children had ample opportunity to demonstrate their capacity for school achievement.

First of all, as we had surmised, the highly compulsive children in the structured setting score significantly better ( Af ) on achievement than do similar children in the unstructured schools.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

`` He had four children, two sets of twins.

One who had been a boy in Auschwitz had to tell how children had been selected by height for the gas chambers.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

Rumor had it that his children numbered in the hundreds.