As it began raining at around eight o'clock on December 26th, I retired into my tent early, somewhat tired and discouraged, my body reacting sluggishly because of the continued exposure.

Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.

Motley, the team's best rusher and blocker in its early years, retired at the beginning of the season with a bad knee.

Due in part to these injuries, O ' Connell retired early in 1958 to take a coaching job in Illinois, and Milt Plum was named the starter.

Other key executives responsible for the company's meteoric growth in the late 80s and early 90s were Ross A. Cooley, another former IBM associate, who served for many years as SVP of GM North America ; Michael Swavely, who was the company's chief marketing officer in the early years, and eventually ran the North America organization, later passing along that responsibility to Mr. Cooley, when Swavely retired.

The Ford GT40 was first raced in May 1964 at the Nürburgring 1000 km race where it retired with suspension failure after holding second place early in the event.

In early 1967, Arthur Calwell retired as ALP leader and Gough Whitlam succeeded him.

On the early morning hours of 1 March 1953, after an all-night dinner and a movie Stalin arrived at his Kuntsevo residence some 15 km west of Moscow centre with interior minister Lavrentiy Beria and future premiers Georgy Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev where he retired to his bedroom to sleep.

Jardine had retired from International cricket in early 1934 after captaining a fraught tour of India and under England's new Captain, Bob Wyatt, agreements were put in place so that bodyline would not be used.

He retired into the world of books and was quiet and awkward in his early years making faux pas.

The early Waffen-SS can trace its origins to 1934 in the SS-Verfügungstruppe: two Standarten ( regiments ) under retired general Paul Hausser armed and trained to Army standards, and held ready at the personal disposal of the Führer in peace or war.

House had been retired from the music business for many years, and was unaware of the 1960s folk blues revival and international enthusiasm regarding his early recordings.

In the early 1970s, he retired from public performances to devote his time to teaching mathematics and music theatre at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Sometimes vacancies arise in quick succession, as in the early 1970s when Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. and William Rehnquist were nominated to replace Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan II, who retired within a week of each other.

The CBS of the 1940s was vastly different from that of the early days ; many of the old guard veterans had died, retired or moved on.

Instead he retired early, after hearing news that his 80-year-old uncle, Thomas Garfield, had been killed in a locomotive accident in Cleveland, Ohio.

Although retired and in his early eighties, Li retains some influence in the PSC.

In the Fall of 1999, retired senior CIA engineering executive S. Eugene Poteat wrote that he was asked in early August 1964 to determine if the radar operator's report showed a real torpedo boat attack or an imagined one.

The mourning became a public conduit for anger against perceived nepotism in the government, the unfair dismissal and early death of Hu, and the behind-the-scenes role of the " old men ", officially retired leaders who nevertheless maintained quasi-legal power, such as Deng Xiaoping.

It tells the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) and one of its most prolific early contributors, Dr. W. C. Minor, a retired United States Army surgeon.

Robson essentially retired from the theatre in the early 1970s, her last role being as a Stygian Witch in the fantasy adventure Clash of the Titans in 1981.

Ben-Gurion retired from politics in 1970 and spent his last years living in a modest home on the kibbutz, working on an 11-volume history of Israel's early years.

After that he retired from active politics in the early initially through a " sabbatical leave " of one year to lecture at Harvard University ( where he was resident fellow at the Institute of Politics ).

Marius took command ( following the deaths of the consul, Publius Rutilius Lupus, and the praetor Quintus Servilius Caepio ) and fought along with Sulla against the rebel cities, but retired from the war in its early stages – probably due to poor health ( it has been suggested that he suffered a stroke.

This attracted a number of gentry, particularly retired army officers, who moved to the area bounded by Fleet Road, Elvetham Road and Reading Road North and laid the foundations of what was to become known locally as " The Blue Triangle ".

A similar stance was taken by Sacks and his Beth Din when they prevented the retired Rabbi Louis Jacobs, who had helped establish the British branch of the Masorti movement, from being called up for the Reading of the Torah on the Saturday before his grand-daughter's wedding.

Paul Hays retired as Reading Clerk on April 30, 2007.

[...] Thence the Britons retired to the river Thames at a point near where it empties into the ocean and at flood-tide forms a lake.

But finding the sea guarded by a squadron of Octavian's ships, he retired to winter at Patrae while his fleet for the most part lay in the Ambracian Gulf, and his land forces encamped near the promontory of Actium, while the opposite side of the narrow strait into the Ambracian Gulf was also protected by a tower and a body of troops.

After the war he retired to his farm near Gower, Missouri and was noted to deny many of his pro-slavery public statements made prior to the Civil War.

They live in a log house on a 25 acre ( 10 hectare ) nature preserve in the Kentucky hills near Louisville, the maintenance of which now takes up most of the retired couple ’ s time.

In 920, the West Frankish king Charles the Simple invaded Germany and marched as far as Pfeddersheim near Worms, but retired on hearing that Henry was arming against him.

He was elected to the Academy of Sciences and the SED central committee, and was later appointed deputy director of the Institute for Nuclear Research in Rossendorf, near Dresden, where he served until he retired in 1979.

Newman retired in 1964 to live in Comberton, near Cambridge.

Machiavelli then retired to his estate at Sant ' Andrea in Percussina ( near San Casciano in Val di Pesa ), and devoted himself to study and to the writing of the political treatises that earned his intellectual place in the development of political philosophy and political conduct.

Petrarch's Arquà Petrarca | Arquà house near Padua where he retired to spend his last years

Allen retired to his farm, " Fruit Hill ", which had belonged to his father-in-law, and fellow Ohio Governor, Duncan McArthur, near Chillicothe, Ohio.

In 1875 Edmund Dzerzhinsky retired due to health conditions and moved with his family to his estate near Ivyanets and Rakaw, Russian Empire ( today Belarus ).

The biography adds that after this event John requested permission to leave his post and retired to the Mar Saba monastery near Jerusalem.

Kelly retired after 234 AFL games and served as the Swans runner in 2003 before retiring to his farm near Wagga Wagga.

After their Defeat the Rebels retired to the Isle aux Noix, where they continued till lately, sending out some Parties, and many Emissaries, to debauch the Minds of the Canadians and Indians, in which they have proved too successful, and for which they were too well prepared by the Cabals and Intrigues of these two last years ; We knew of their being reinforced, and very considerably, I suppose, as they appeared in Numbers near St. John's last Sunday Evening ; where or when they landed, or the Particulars since, we have but very imperfect Accounts of, all Communications with the Forts of St. John's and Chambli, being, as far as I can find, entirely cut off.

His health failed after 1876 and he retired from politics, living as a recluse at his estate, Graystone ( Greystone ), near Yonkers, New York.

On his own request he retired to his former monastery in or near Antioch.

" Nijinsky was retired to stand at stud at Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky having been syndicated in August for $ 5, 440, 000.

In 1794 Henry and his wife Dorothy retired to his 520-acre plantation of Red Hill near Brookneal, Virginia in Charlotte County, where he conducted his law practice.

Jane is a young woman from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, whose father Steve is a retired Mountie ; her mother Ann is a journalist, and she has two older sisters ( all back in Canada ) and a great-aunt Grace who lives near London.

In 383 the army of Britain, led by Magnus Maximus, revolted against Gratian and assassinated him at Lyons ; and when emperor Valentinian II was driven out of Italy, Ausonius retired to his estates near Burdigala ( now Bordeaux ) in Gaul.

His Life includes statements that Gildas was educated in Gaul, retired to a hermitage dedicated to the Trinity at Street near Glastonbury, and was buried at Glastonbury Abbey.

Henry's liaison with Rosamund became public knowledge in 1174 ; it ended when she retired to the nunnery at Godstow near Oxford in 1176, shortly before her death.

Solana Beach returned to the national spotlight on April 25, 2008 when retired veterinarian and 38-year resident Dr. David Martin, 66 years old, suffered a fatal injury from an extremely rare great white shark bite while swimming with a group approximately off shore near Solana Beach's Fletcher Cove.

This aircraft was retired in 1983, converted to a QF-106 Drone and expended over the White Sands Missile Range near Holloman AFB, NM on 13 September 1991.

The Edward Penniman House and barn, a retired whaling captain's home, is located near Fort Hill.