Through these situations, May maintained a subtle undertone of inner strength which later leaned closer to stereotypical senility.

By this time, the group had leaned closer to rhythm & blues and now had swung back to pop.

Later in the drive, closer to their destination, Hill said it had been an hour of DeSimone driving and he kept getting mad about the noises in the trunk and finally slammed the brakes and leaned over for the shovel and that Burke and DeSimone " didn't actually shoot him, they just stabbed him, thirty or forty fucking times, fucking horrible.

He walked up to the lieutenant's office, leaned wearily against the gun rack that housed four rifles and a gas gun nobody remembered having used and a submachine gun that was occasionally tried out on the Academy Range.

Rail fins evolved into being and surged into popularity as riders ( Simon Anderson, most famously ) sought a solution to two major performance issues of a central " single " fin-both related to engagement of the foil: For one, a centrally-mounted fin is tilted up out of the water as the board is leaned over, and thus it loses more and more of its lift as the lean angle increases-if the lean angle is acute enough, the fin's tip can be the only area left in the water ; the tip may then rapidly stall and, having lost its lift, become disengaged from the water, leaving the board's bottom as the only control surface still operating.

Irus crumpled and Odysseus dragged him outside the hall, leaned him up against the courtyard wall, and told him to sit there and scare off the pigs and dogs.

In its first decade the group leaned more to Maoism, while still considered itself to have " the kind of political independence that enables revolutionaries to speak up if they see that the cause is being damaged by the policies of the leadership of socialist countries.

Using popular outrage at Romania being forced to give up a large block of land as a result of the Second Vienna Award, the alliance forced the abdication of Carol II in favour of his son Michael, and leaned even more strongly toward the Axis.

" The Rebbe leaned forward as if to measure me up and said with more sorrow than anger: That means you are writing lies!

One theory on the ninjatō tsuba size and shape is that it was used as a tool, the sword would be leaned against a wall and ninja would use the tsuba as a step to extend his normal reach, the sword would then be retrieved by pulling it up by the sageo ( saya cord ).

Schultz's political views leaned towards the right during the early years, and Schultz told the Los Angeles Times that he " lined up with the Republicans because they were anti-tax, and I wanted to make a lot of money.

Plans drawn up by the city in the early 1910s called for a highway to be built in the old canal bed ; however, subsequent proposals leaned toward repurposing the bed as a rapid transit system instead.

The Maroons leaned on two former Ottawa Senators, Punch Broadbent and Clint Benedict they picked up from Ottawa before the season but still managed only fifth place.

After the non-kicking leg is thrown up in the take-off, the body is leaned back so it is spinning horizontally.

That same evening, Lizzie held up the mistletoe for the pair to kiss ; as Phillip leaned in to kiss Beth's cheek, Beth turned and kissed him passionately on the lips.

He had style: he held his reins in a loose bunch at the third button of his checked Epsom surtout, and when the horses leaned at a curve, as if bent by the force of a gale, he leaned with them.

Meanwhile, he had this miserable cold, and as he leaned against the refrigerator, watching the rain make sandy puddles at his feet, the doctor's prescription for lots of sun seemed like a hollow mockery.

A contest ensued between Chiang, who stood at the right wing of the KMT, and Sun Yat-sen's close comrade-in-arms Wang Jingwei, who leaned towards the left.

Cooper leaned toward her and whispered, " Miss, you'd better look at that note.

Prior to restoration work performed between 1990 and 2001, the tower leaned at an angle of 5. 5 degrees, but the tower now leans at about 3. 99 degrees.

Bryant then leaned over a vacant baby stroller and pointed the gun at her head and shot her a second time.

While several compositions on 1964's Beatles for Sale, as well as " I'll Cry Instead " from A Hard Day's Night, had leaned in a country and western direction, McCartney's " I've Just Seen a Face " was almost pure country, taken at such a fast tempo that it might have been bluegrass if not for the absence of banjo and fiddle.

One evening when giving a political address, he was hailed by his supporters as he leaned over the podium pointing at a long-haired heckler.

And Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple following whom Jesus loved, who had also leaned on His breast at the supper, and had said, Lord, which is he who betrayeth Thee?

For safety, a rigid ladder should be leaned at an angle of about fifteen degrees to the vertical.

Authors such as Nigel Morland and Anthony Wynne, whose output leaned more toward science-based detective stories, also tried their hand at impossible mysteries.

Although German Jews generally leaned Republican in the second half of the 19th century, the East European elements voted Democratic or for left parties since at least 1916, when they voted 55 % for Woodrow Wilson.

After graduating from Gymnasium Paulinum he first leaned towards the legal profession but then studied Philosophy, History, German and Political Science at Strasbourg, the London School of Economics and Bonn, where, in 1915, he received a doctorate for his thesis on the financial, economical and legal implications for nationalizing the British railway system.

Beust, on behalf of the Confederation, demanded the recognition of the Augustenburg claimant ; Austria leaned to a settlement on the lines of that of 1852 ; Prussia, it was increasingly clear, aimed at the acquisition of the duchies.

During the Milan Stojadinović administration when the Patriarchate became vacant ( after the poisoning of Patriarch Varnava and the failed attempt at ratifying a Concordat with the Vatican ) he was the obvious choice but he was too greatly identified with the democratic idealism of England and the United States of America ( places he frequently visited ) while Stojadinović leaned towards Germany and Italy.

Saab provided a retrofit kit which leaned out the fuel mixture in the carburettor, making the car more tractable at low revs but seriously impacting performance.

" " The students cut off the lower part of the pole and added a flame at the top to turn it into a torch ; they leaned the sculpture into a more upright position ; they changed the man's face to a woman's, and otherwise added feminine characteristics to make the him into a her.

An anonymous contemporary described Nathan Rothschild at the London Stock Exchange as " he leaned against the ' Rothschild Pillar ' ... hung his heavy hands into his pockets, and began to release silent, motionless, implacable cunning ":

* Thirteen Against the Bank-true story about a man who leaned how to beat the bank at Monte Carlo

In any case, he had no intention of being caught asleep, so he carried his revolver in its holster on his hip and he took his Winchester with him and leaned it against the fence.

Dean leaned from the saddle and gave him a mighty whack on the back.

Ernest A. Gross leaned back in his chair and told Peter Marshall how Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had, on December 4, 1957, called him in as a private lawyer to review Bang-Jensen's conduct `` relating to his association with the Special Committee on the problem of Hungary ''.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

Several people passed in the hall and stared as he slowly retreated, trying to close the door a little, and she slowly leaned toward him and raised her voice.

He leaned his head against the wood paneling behind him, but the vivid red images of pain inserted themselves against his eyelids.

The Western portion of the Empire, under the influence of the Popes in Rome leaned towards Catholicism and against Arianism, and through their intercession they convinced Constantine to free Athanasius, allowing him to return to Alexandria.

And the next time I met him, he leaned even more to war.

He allegedly leaned out of his car window, grabbed a cyclist and threw him off his bike.

When the Prince went to embrace him, King Faisal leaned to kiss his nephew in accordance with Saudi culture.

The attendants then withdrew and, as Clément leaned in to whisper in Henry's ear, he mortally wounded him with a dagger concealed beneath his cloak.

When George Grenville, whose principles leaned to Toryism, quarrelled with the court, Wedderburn affected to regard him as his leader in politics.

One such visitor asked Lambert's servant to allow him entry as he wished to ask Lambert's advice about fighting cocks ; Lambert leaned out of the window and told the servant to " tell the gentleman that I am a shy cock ".

And when he intimated over the entrée that the wrongdoing went further, I leaned back against the wall on my inside banquette and looked at him in frank astonishment.

Some of his trips resulted in him causing or learning the truth about various historical mysteries, such as why the Leaning Tower of Pisa leaned ( It fell over in an earthquake and Tim only managed to partly pull it back into position ) or what happened to the crew of the Mary Celeste ( Tim visited the ship and fell into a large fish, appearing to the crew as a sea monster, causing them to dive overboard ).

Investigators believe the autopilot switched modes when the captain accidentally leaned against the yoke while turning to speak to the flight engineer, who was sitting behind and to the right of him.

Jones later recalled that in 1924, his friend William Jennings Bryan had leaned over to him at a Bible conference service in Winona Lake, Indiana, and said, " If schools and colleges do not quit teaching evolution as a fact, we are going to become a nation of atheists.

The pair began to grow close again as Emily leaned on him during her grief for Nikolas and for a sick Michael.

De Gaulle particularly emphasized the use of the word ' libre ', as he leaned into the microphones in front of him and enunciated it slower and louder than other elements of his speech.

* In the late 1970s Jim Valentino began his career with autobiographical comics which sprung out from him having literally sold pages laid out on the sidewalk as he'd sit there leaned against a store front.