Suddenly he saw something which made his big heart give a sickening lurch and caused the hairs to bristle on the back of his neck.

The tiny bodies, dropped onto a dry leaf, made a pile as big as a small apple.

But for the safety of Southeast Asia, and for the sake of the Laotian people -- who would not be well-ruled by either militant minority now engaged in the fighting -- this last big effort to seal that country from the cold war had to be made.

Afterwards I learned that Eileen had called Thelma on the telephone and made a big scene about Thelma trying to take her husband away.

`` Now '', said Arlene, eventually, making them both sit in formation on a big root of a live oak, the sort of root that divided itself and made their bottoms sag down and feel comfortable.

But these countries have made big strides toward developing the necessary human and social overhead capital ; ;

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

I made a big circle until I located the car parked at the curb in front of an apartment house.

The early Southwest Conference football leaders -- Texas, Arkansas and Texas A & M -- made a big dent in the statistics last week.

So if you are made of atoms, you are just a big machine ; ;

A variation, the " empanada gallega " ( Spanish empanada ), is a big, round meat pie made most commonly with tuna and mackerel (" caballa " in Spanish ).

However, since the radio was slightly too big to fit in a shirt pocket, Morita made his employees wear shirts with slightly larger pockets to give the radio a " pocket sized " appearance.

The Uru wooden big boat made in Beypore a village in south Calicut, Kerala, in southwestern India.

Sweden was rich in copper, thus, because of copper's low value, extraordinarily big coins ( often weighing several kilograms ) had to be made.

Most of the big innovations in tragedy were made by Aeschylus and Sophocles and yet " Euripides made innovations on a smaller scale that have impressed some critics as cumulatively leading to a radical change of direction.

Sullivan's failure to scoop the TV industry with Presley made him determined to get the next big sensation first.

As early as 1911, Giovanni Pastrone's two-reel la Caduta di Troia ( The Fall of Troy ) made a big impression worldwide, and it was followed by even bigger spectacles like Quo Vadis?

Fascists made populist appeals to the middle class, especially the lower middle class, by promising to protect small businesses and property owners from communism, and by promising an economy based on competition and profit while pledging to oppose big business.

Solan secures funding from an Arab oil sheik who happens to be vacationing in Flåklypa, and to enter the race, the trio builds a gigantic racing car: Il Tempo Gigante — a fabulous construction with two extremely big engines ( weighing 2. 8 tons alone and making the seismometer in Bergen show 7. 8 Richter when started the first time ), a body made out of copper, a spinning radar ( that turns out to be useful when Blodstrupmoen starts engaging in smoke warfare during the race ) and its own blood bank.

Around the all-star break they made their second big trade sending OF Cliff Floyd to the Expos for RHP Carl Pavano, RHP Justin Wayne, INF Mike Mordecai, LHP Graeme Lloyd, RHP Don Levinski and INF Wilton Guerrero.

Gaming fans have also recently made a big impact on content developers, namely BioWare Corp.

Gow, his tutor, said he " made himself as big a nuisance as he could " and " was a very unattractive boy ".

Among the SDF weapons in this script that made it to the big screen were the Water Beetle ( an underwater mech ) and the Giant Basu ( which is equipped with a giant arm to capture submarines ).

In 1962 Hawks made Hatari !, again with John Wayne as a big game hunter in Africa.

The screen test was never made -- but Diane was.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who had made a number of very popular short silent films, used the arrival of sound to deepen their well-formed screen characterizations and enhance their visual humour, and went on to great success in talking films.

As the number of keys is low the button areas can be made bigger and easier to hit on the small screen.

A sliding glass door, sometimes called an Arcadia door or a Patio door, is a door made of glass that slides open and sometimes has a screen ( a removable metal mesh that covers the door ).

If a ray tracing is then made as if a light wave ( as understood in classical physics ) is wide enough to take both paths, then that ray tracing will accurately predict the appearance of maxima and minima on the detector screen when many particles pass through the apparatus and gradually " paint " the expected interference pattern.

Show creators Julia Smith and Tony Holland also wrote a book about the show in 1987, entitled EastEnders: The Inside Story ( ISBN 978-0-563-20601-9 ), telling the story of how the show made it to screen.

At best this kind of transition had previously been dealt with by having the directions of travel of the actor in the two shots correspond on the screen, but in a film such as The Bank Burglar's Fate ( Jack Adolfi, 1914 ), one can see shot transitions in which a cut is made from an actor just leaving the frame, to a shot of him well inside the frame in an adjoining location, which have the positions and directions so well chosen that to the casual eye his movement appears quite continuous, and the real space and time ellipsis between the shots is concealed.

Connick made his screen debut in Memphis Belle ( 1990 ), about a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber crew in World War II.

In early model PETs, writing a certain value to the memory address of a certain I / O register ( POKE 59458, 62 ) made the machine able to display text on the screen much faster.

" In the Los Angeles Times review, critic Kenneth Turan noted that Dunst and Maguire made a real connection on screen, concluding that their relationship involved audiences to an extent rarely seen in films.

He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works ( 55 novels in total, plus four " lost " novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings ), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.

Formations with a central core of pikes and bills were flanked by companies of " shot " made up of a mixture of archers and arquebusiers, sometimes with a skirmish screen of archers and arquebusiers in front.

Changes made to the GUI ( Graphical User Interface ) include the Launchpad ( similar to the home screen of iOS devices ), auto-hiding scrollbars that only appear when they are being used, and Mission Control, which unifies Exposé, Spaces, Dashboard, and full-screen applications within a single interface.

Azuchi Castle on the shores of Lake Biwa is said to have been the greatest castle in the history of Japan, covered with gold and statues on the outside and decorated with standing screen, sliding door, wall, and ceiling paintings made by his subject Kano Eitoku on the inside.

In the 1990s ( before Blu-ray Disc or HDTV ), when so-called " Sixteen-By-Nine " or " Widescreen " televisions offered a wider 16: 9 aspect ratio ( 1. 78 times the height instead of 1. 33 ), they allowed films made at 1. 66: 1 and 1. 85: 1 to fill most or all of the screen, with only small letterboxing or cropping required.

With the introduction of the Titantron entrance screen in 1997, WWF / WWE wrestlers also had entrance videos made that would play along with the their entrance music.

Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Big Joe Turner, The Treniers, The Platters, The Flamingos, all made it onto the big screen.

The BBC series Coupling made extensive use of split screen as one of several techniques that are unconventional for TV series, often to a humorous effect.

The arrival of digital video technology has made dividing the screen much easier to accomplish, and recent digital films and music videos have explored this possibility in depth.

A number of music videos have made creative use of split screen presentations.

Video and film director Michel Gondry has made extensive use of split screen techniques in his videos.

USA Network's Burn Notice also made heavy use of the split-screen as well. The television show 24 made extensive use of split screen.