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When East Germans fled to the West by the thousands, paeans of joy rose from the throats of Western publicists.
The smoke from that chimney rose as sluggishly as smoke from any other, and hung as sadly in the drizzle, creeping back down along the sopping canvas of the roof.
Adam rose from the crouch necessary to enter the hut.
Unsinkable slowed and stopped, hundreds of brilliant white flares swayed eerily down from the black, the air raid sirens ashore rose in a keening shriek, the anti-aircraft guns coughed and chattered -- and above it all motors roared and the bombs came whispering and wailing and crashing down among the ships at anchor at Bari.
A plume of smoke rose from a Central Vermont locomotive which idled behind a string of gravel cars, and little figures that were workmen labored to set the ruptured roadbed to rights.
A cow rose from the ground rear end first.
He rose from the chair, took off his coat.
Tractor production at Massey-Ferguson, Ltd., of Toronto in July and August rose to 2,418 units from 869 in the like period a year earlier, says John Staiger, vice president.
Net earnings of that road rose from 62 per cent of interest requirements in calendar 1957 to 86 per cent in the 12 months ended Feb. 28, 1961.
The azaleas were as large as shrubs, and their myriad blooms, many still tight in the bud, ranged in color from purple through fuchsia and rose to the palest pink, along with many white ones too.
A hermit living there told him that amid the rocks was a chasm communicating with purgatory, from which perpetually rose the groans of tortured souls.
In Alfred Duggan's Conscience of the King, a historical novel about Cerdic, founder of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, Ambrosius Aurelianus is a Romano-British general who rose independently to military power, forming alliances with various British kings and setting out to drive the invading Saxons from Britain.
Although, the young prince's troops could get the mastery in 1189 when the boyars of Halych rose against his rule, but shortly afterwards Prince Vladimir II Yaroslavich managed to escape from his captivity and he expelled the Hungarian troops from Halych.
The proportion of natives of Tehran, the Caspian, Azarbaijan and Kurdistan rose from 4 % of blue collar workers to 22 % of white collar workers to 45 % of managers.
The population of the parish rose from 6, 471 in 1841 to 14, 999 in 1851 and 32, 299 in 1861 and John Davies described it as " the most dynamic place in Wales ".
Coal mined in Aberdare parish rose from in 1844 to in 1850, and the coal trade, which after 1875 was the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.
: the third day he rose from the dead ;
: Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, died, and was buried, rose from the dead, and is now seated at the right hand of the Father?
On the third day He rose again from the dead.
The school in Weimar experienced political pressure from conservative circles in Thuringian politics, increasingly so after 1923 as political tension rose.
The English infantry rose from the edge of the Nebel, and silently marched towards Blenheim, a distance of some.
The 1981 season saw Walsh lead the 49ers to a Super Bowl championship ; the team rose from the cellar to the top of the NFL in just two seasons.
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Still today in Jersey, the presence of established laurels or rose gardens in old houses gives a clue to the past party adherence of former owners, and the chair of the Constable of Saint Helier in the Assembly Room of the Parish Hall still sports the carved roses of a former incumbent.
He quickly rose to the status of number one contender on the strength of his " cobra clutch " challenges where he would seat wrestlers in a chair in the ring, and apply the hold, offering $ 5, 000 to anyone who could break it.
He was then elected in 1978 to the North Carolina House of Representatives, and served two terms ( 1979 – 1988 ) and rose to chair the House Appropriations Committee.
He was the son of the sportsman Graham Doggart who rose to chair the Football Association.
In Congress, he rose to chair the Committee on Reform in the Civil Service.
Originally tapped to work as a story editor, he rose fairly quickly through the ranks, thanks in part to his mentor, chair and co-founder Robert Shaye.
Redden rose to chair the North Carolina Democratic Party executive committee from 1942 to 1944.
He was the son of the sportsman Graham Doggart ( 1897-1963 ), who rose to chair the Football Association and play county cricket for Middlesex.
She was chair of Scottish Labour Students and rose through Labour ranks serving on the Scottish Labour Party's National Executive.
Fowler eventually rose to vice-chairwoman of the House Republican Conference ( caucus ), the number-five position among House Republicans ( behind the Speaker, Majority Leader, Majority Whip and Republican Conference chair ).
However, a bright light shines in the woman's face, drawing her away, abandoning the man and dropping the rose on the chair.
Witt joined the business school faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 1968, and rose through the ranks as chair and associate dean.
But he being highly displeased with their request, rose suddenly from his chair, which for some days he had not been able to do without assistance ; and receiving fresh vigour from the memory of that action, said, ' I tell you, it was a just act ; God and all good men will own it.
He eventually rose to the rank of professor, and served many administrative roles, including department chair, dean, vice president for academic affairs, and provost.
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They killed Big Charlie, dumped his body in my rose garden two nights ago.
in the cold dawn the mist swirled low to the ground, then rose with a gust of sudden wind to leave the valley clear.
On the morning of September 10, 1895, Powell and Ross rose at dawn and began their day's work.
Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.
He crossed himself again and rose.
`` O.K. '' Charles rose also, and the two of them moved over to join the girls.
Every slight sound that rose against that pressure fell away again, crushed beneath it.
Not only did constellations like Draco, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia spin circles around the pole, but stars which were not circumpolar rose and set at the same place on the horizon each night.
When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity ''.
If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.
Thus Burns's `` My love is like a red, red rose '' and Hopkins' `` The thunder-purple sea-beach, plumed purple of Thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content, hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned.
He rose at 4:00 A.M. the year round and was apt to stride through camp crowing like a cock to wake his men.
I became fifteen, sixteen, then twenty, and still Tessie Alpert sat on the porch with a rose in her hair, and Alfred got richer and sicker with diabetes.
And when Alfred was forced into his bed, Tessie left the front porch of the store and sat at home, rocking in her rocker in the living room, staring out the window -- the rose still in her hair.
Suddenly one young voice rose above the others.
When the stock exchange opened this morning, many dealers were quick to purchase shares in Douglas, Lockheed and United Aircraft and prices rose substantially.
He rose late and went down in his bathrobe and slippers to have breakfast either alone or with Rachel.
On their right rose the embankment covered with brush and trees.
My Cousin Simmons carried a musket, but he had loaded it with bird shot, and as the officer came opposite him, he rose up behind the wall and fired.
Ablard Corne, a short man with a rotunda of stomach, rose.
When Alexander Brandel rose to speak, the hall became silent.
There was one of the new forte-pianos in the room and, as Claire rose to go, he asked her to sing him one song before she left.
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