It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.

And then I became aware that she, too, glanced at me surreptitiously.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

The British, although suffering considerable losses, noted the defection of the Marylanders, made a stand, then turned and attacked Morgan who became greatly outnumbered and had to retire.

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.

Mr. Banks was always called Banks the Butcher until he left town and the shop passed over to Meltzer the Scholar who then became automatically Meltzer the Butcher.

His problem then became one of restraining the American fighters who wanted to clean out the Vermejo by force immediately.

What Parker and his contemporaries -- Gillespie, Davis, Monk, Roach ( Tristano is an anomaly ), etc. -- did was to absorb the musical ornamentation of the older jazz into the basic structure, of which it then became an integral part, and with which it then developed.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

Pete frowned slightly, then became sad and moody.

To the German pilot in the bomber the rocket became a faint black speck, hurtling through the sky at the then incredible speed of 420 m.p.h..

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

He started out as a stickman, then became a pit boss until the Club found him crossroading.

Hence, Apollo then became a master of the lyre.

It eventually became used for the descendant languages of Latin ( the Romance languages ) and then for most of the other languages of Europe.

Aramaic gradually became the lingua franca throughout the Middle East, with the script at first complementing and then displacing Assyrian cuneiform as the predominant writing system.

During its preparation he became a friend of Cosima Wagner ( then in Strasbourg ), with whom he had many theological and musical conversations, exploring his view of Bach's descriptive music, and playing the major Chorale Preludes for her at the Temple Neuf.

The first Abstract Expressionists were considered madmen to give up their brushes and rely on the sheer force of energy to leave an image, but then the import of atomic bombs, all atomic energy, became realized, and art found no better way of expressing its power.

Abensberg then lost its independence and became a part of the Duchy of Bavaria, and from then on was administered by a ducal official, the so-called caretaker.

Aachen became attractive as a spa by the middle of the 17th century, not so much because of the effects of the hot springs on the health of its visitors but because Aachen was then — and remained well into the 19th century — a place of high-level prostitution in Europe.

When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then traveled to Italy and became progenitors of Romans.

Ajax then became an Attic hero ; he was worshiped at Athens, where he had a statue in the market-place, and the tribe Aiantis was named after him.

If that business is a subsidiary which has considerably more independence then the title might be known as Chairman and CEO ( for example, Philip I. Kent of Turner Broadcasting System in Time Warner ).

After the PZPR was dissolved, Leszek Miller became a co-founder of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic ( till March 1993, he was Secretary General, then Deputy Chairman and, from December 1997, the Chairman of that party ).

On 14 October 1986, Fraser, then the Chairman of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group, was found in the foyer of the Admiral Benbow Inn, a seedy Memphis hotel, wearing nothing but a towel and confused as to where his trousers were.

The board has five members nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate for five year terms, one of whom is nominated the Chairman by the President and then approved by the Senate for a fixed 2-year term.

Darwent with his Paria Petroleum Company Limited, and Conrad F. Stollmeyer ( who was great grandfather of Republic Bank ’ s then Chairman, former West Indies cricket captain, Jeffrey Stollmeyer ), an entrepreneur of that period who felt that a combustible fuel could not be distilled out of the asphalt from the pitch lake.

Reed served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1891 and then from 1895 to 1899, as well as being Chairman of the powerful Rules Committee.

Set into motion by Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party of China, its stated goal was to enforce communism in the country by removing capitalist, traditional and cultural elements from Chinese society, and to impose Maoist orthodoxy within the Party.

In June, Assadullah Sarwari lost his seat in the PDPA Politburo, and in his place were appointed Mohammad Aslam Watanjar, a former tank commander and the then Minister of Communications, Major General Mohammad Rafi, the Minister of Defence and KHAD Chairman Mohammad Najibullah.

The company's board of directors forced then – Chairman and CEO Rick Scott to resign at the beginning of the federal investigation ; Scott was subsequently elected Governor of Florida in 2010.

After National Service as Lieutenant in Malaya, Caine returned to the United Kingdom where he became writer-in-residence and then Chairman of Trustees of the Salford Playhouse before moving to London.

On April 28, 2008, Honorary Chairman Lien Chan of the then opposition Kuomintang visited Beijing and met with Hu Jintao for the fourth time since their historic encounter on April 29, 2005 in their respective capacity as party leaders of both the Chinese Communist Party and the KMT.

In a letter to Autoweek Magazine, Donald Petersen, then Ford Chairman, said, " We are moving toward building a quality culture at Ford and the many changes that have been taking place here have their roots directly in Deming's teachings.

He then went to King's College, Cambridge to study History and Economics, where he was Chairman of the Conservative Association.

The Company was dominated by Sir Owen Green from 1967 to 1993 first as Managing Director ( until 1986 ) and then as Chairman.

Rangers then current Chairman Briatore said: " We had an incredibly high number of applicants, but Jim was the stand-out candidate for the role ".

A famous dispute then broke out between the two Houses ; the Commons ordered the imprisonment of Thomas Skinner and the Lords retaliated by ordering the imprisonment of the Company Chairman.

* Sir Humphrey also had an old acquaintance: Sir Desmond Glazebrook ( played by Richard Vernon ), who was Board member, then Chairman, of Bartlett's Bank.

It is named for then Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee John C. Calhoun.

The Republican National Chairman, William Butler, pledged to nominate then Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, but he was not sufficiently popular.

In 1975, when plans were under way to introduce the London Transport Silver Jubilee Bus fleet, the then Sales Manager of London Transport Advertising, Geoffrey Holliman, proposed to the Chairman of LTE, Kenneth Robinson, that the Fleet line should be renamed the Jubilee line.

The program was then authorized by JCS Chairman John Vessey, and sanctioned by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence ( SSCI ), with the sponsorship of Senator Jesse Helms ( R-NC ) and Senator Goldwater ( R-AZ ).

In 1926, Litchfield went on to become the president of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation, and then Chairman of the Board in 1930.

He served as Margaret Sanger's lawyer and then as the first Chairman of the Board of Planned Parenthood.