She reportedly called Nichols and said, " I want to see you!

Bruce Nichols of The Dallas Morning News said that " Several people familiar with the town said troubles began in Patton Village after founding father H. L.

Bruce Nichols of The Dallas Morning News said in 1988 that the community " is probably best known for its reputation as a speed trap, which Patton Village leaders say they're trying to overcome.

In 1989 Bruce Nichols of The Dallas Morning News said that the community " may be the most squabble-prone small town in Texas.

Lewis Nichols of The New York Times said, " It has a pleasant score by Irving Berlin ... and it has Ethel Merman to roll her eyes and to shout down the rafters.

Other witnesses said Nichols may have been trying to reach his wife during the numerous repeated 30-second telephone calls.

His employer said Nichols was hard-working but had unusual political views.

Marife also failed to give Nichols an alibi for April 18, 1995, the day the prosecution said Nichols helped McVeigh assemble the truck bomb.

The defense attempted to cast doubt on the case against Nichols by calling witnesses who said they saw other men with McVeigh before the bombing and by claiming the government had manipulated the evidence against Nichols.

Their star witness was Fortier, who said Nichols was intimately involved in the conspiracy and had helped obtain bomb ingredients including fertilizer that was mixed with high octane fuel.

The defense also said that Nichols had " sincerely " converted to Christianity.

Judge Taylor called Nichols a terrorist and said " No American citizen has ever brought this kind of devastation ; you are in U. S. history the No. 1 mass murderer in all of U. S. history " and sentenced Nichols to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.

Darlene Welch, whose niece was killed in the explosion, said she " didn't appreciate being preached to " by Nichols and that she regretted that " he won't stand before God sooner.

In a 2006 letter requesting that a judge give his son a light sentence for assault with a deadly weapon, battery of a police officer, and possession of a stolen vehicle, Nichols admitted his participation in the Oklahoma City bombing but said that McVeigh had forced and intimidated him into cooperating.

Nichols also said that in 1995 McVeigh told him that FBI official Larry Potts, who had supervised the Ruby Ridge and Waco operations, had directed McVeigh to blow up a government building.

Kushner has been quoted as saying that he knew Nichols was the right person to direct the movie when, at their first meeting, Nichols immediately said that he wanted actors to play multiple roles, as had been done in onstage productions.

Karen Nichols of Michael Graves's firm said " Michael feels like he owes the city one .... We have done a lot of public buildings since then.

" Mark Nichols of Maclean's said that Bakker's success lay in making the reader hope that the dinosaurs were indeed creatures as Bakker portrayed.

He said he was writing theater reviews for the University of Chicago student newspaper when he was asked to pen material for an improvisational troupe that included Alan Arkin and Mike Nichols.

Chief financial officer Holli C. Nichols also said she would resign as chief financial officer on March 11 as well.

Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.

I doubt, for example, that, 3 months before the leadership began to talk about what came to be the Marshall plan, any public-opinion expert would have said that the country would have accepted such proposals.

In one sense it can be said that one of the most important Brown & Sharpe products over the years has been the men who began work with the company and subsequently came to places of industrial eminence throughout the nation and even abroad.

`` To give up these notions required a revolution in thought '', Mr. Clark said in reminiscing about the abrupt changes in ideas he experienced when he began reading `` Organic Gardening '' And `` Modern Nutrition '' in a search for help with his problems.

The sword carried by the Republic in the Marseillaise relief broke off on the day, it is said, that the Battle of Verdun began in 1916.

While trying to swim across the dangerous Euphrates, Abd al-Rahman is said to have become separated from his brother Yahiya, who began swimming back towards the horsemen, possibly from fear of drowning.

Beethoven's friend Anton Schindler, later said: " When he started working on the fourth movement the struggle began as never before.

Baseball, said Spalding, was fundamentally an American sport and began on American soil.

In this, the Cheka said that they targeted " class enemies " such as the bourgeoisie, and members of the clergy ; the first organized mass repression began against the libertarians and socialists of Petrograd in April 1918.

The late Jeff Sarli, a blues upright bassist, said that, " Starting in the 1950s, they began to reset the necks on basses for steel strings.

Porpora said the claim that the tradition began in 1949 was a hoax in order to raise money and enhance the profile of the church.

On the other hand, Michael K. Richardson, Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Zoology, Leiden University, while recognizing that some criticisms of the drawings are legitimate ( indeed, it was he and his co-workers who began the modern criticisms in 1998 ), has supported the drawings as teaching aids, and has said that " on a fundamental level, Haeckel was correct "

The Gaon affirmed Rabbi Chaim ’ s assertion, and said that he once began to create a person when he was a child, under the age of 13, but during the process he received a sign from Heaven ordering him to desist because of his tender age.

* Jesus is said to have been born during the rule of Pontius Pilate, which began after the year 26.

In 1517 the Reformation began with the publication of Martin Luther's 95 Theses ; he had posted them in the town square, and gave copies of them to German nobles, but it is debated whether he nailed them to the church door in Wittenberg as is commonly said.

The Visigoths tended to maintain more of the old Roman institutions, and they had a unique respect for legal codes that resulted in continuous frameworks and historical records for most of the period between 415, when Visigothic rule in Spain began, and 711, when it is traditionally said to end.

On the Union, historian Simon Schama said " What began as a hostile merger, would end in a full partnership in the most powerful going concern in the world ... it was one of the most astonishing transformations in European history.

Pei said: " My father began living his own separate life pretty soon after that.

Arkady Volsky, an aide to Andropov and other general secretaries, recounts an episode that occurred after a Politburo meeting on the day following Andropov's demise: As Politburo members filed out of the conference hall, either Andrei Gromyko or ( in later accounts ) Dmitriy Ustinov is said to have put his arm round Nikolai Tikhonov's shoulders and said: " It's okay, Kostya is an agreeable guy ( pokladisty muzhik ), one can do business with him ...." The Politburo failed to pass the decision for Gorbachev, who was nominally Chernenko's second in command, to run the meetings of the Politburo itself in the absence of Chernenko ; the latter due to his declining health, began to miss those meetings with increasing frequency.

Later in the journey the people began running low on supplies and again murmured against Moses and Aaron and said they would have preferred to die in Egypt, but God's provision of manna from the sky in the morning and quail in the evening took care of the situation.

" And she began to speak to them these words: " I ," she said, " I saw the Lord in a vision and I said to Him, Lord I saw you today in a vision.

It was in Mecca, in the nearby mountain cave of Hira on Jabal al-Nour, that, according to Islamic tradition, Muhammad is said to have begun receiving divine revelations from God through the Archangel Gabriel in 610 AD, and began to preach his form of Abrahamic monotheism against Meccan paganism.

Activist Tom Hayden said, " My own radical journey began with Mad Magazine.