The Mercers took up residence in Brooklyn, and Mercer found a regular job in Wall Street `` misplacing stocks and bonds ''.

But it took the pictures of the Migs and the T-34 tanks to do the job.

Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.

To win her favors, her husband first took an additional job, then desperately began to embezzle from his employer.

So filled was Mel Chandler with the spirit of Garryowen that after Korea was over, he took on the job of writing the complete history of the regiment.

It still took him another few seconds to remember the job he had done for Frank Ackerly.

However, he had a strong interest in the fledgling motion picture industry and when Essanay Studios offered him the opportunity to become a scriptwriter, he took the job.

André-Marie Ampère took his first regular job in 1799 as a mathematics teacher, which gave him the financial security to marry Carron and father his first child, Jean-Jacques, the next year.

" Starting at age 15, he took a job working for clockmaker Seth Thomas in the nearby town of Plymouth.

He took a job as a schoolteacher in Cheshire with the help of his Uncle Tillotson.

After leaving school at 17, Ayckbourn's career took several temporary jobs in various places before starting a temporary job at the Scarborough Library Theatre, where he was introduced to the artistic director, Stephen Joseph.

Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (, ) is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo ( Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Goscinny in 1977 ).

Training in conservation for many years took the form of an apprenticeship, whereby an apprentice slowly developed the necessary skills to undertake their job.

Unlike many child actors, Mumy entered the profession at his own insistence, and his parents took pains to make sure he matured properly in his job.

She also took job opportunities working briefly at dance halls in Japan and Taiwan, and wrote two missives under the name " Courtney Michelle " in punk-zine Maximumrocknroll on local bands Poison Idea and Rancid Vat.

In 1911 he took up a government job as an " official explainer ", touring the country to explain David Lloyd George's National Insurance Act.

He took every opportunity during those next five years at the job to practice drawing during breaks and after work.

He first took a job in a dry goods store, and later in a bookstore.

" Meanwhile, in order to help financially support his family alongside his art studies, he took up a job printing engravings.

After graduating with the Emerson Class of 1979, he took a job at the school teaching comedy writing classes and maintained the job for five years.

She took a job at a dry-cleaning store to support herself.

He acquired his Ph. D. in 1900 after which he took his first school job a Principal in a St. Louis, Missouri Elementary School.

They offered the job of making their films to D. W. Griffith, an unimportant actor and playwright, who took up the job, and found he had a gift for it.

In any case, he had no intention of being caught asleep, so he carried his revolver in its holster on his hip and he took his Winchester with him and leaned it against the fence.

Then, with a shrug of pretended indifference, she took a compact from her purse and went through the motions of fixing her make-up.

His face took on a sudden pallor, became beaded with sweat, and he seemed to have trouble with his breathing.

Greg himself took two flights, with Todman leading the second, to patrol and look for targets of opportunities around Ormoc on the east coast of Leyte.

The cavernous depth, cluttered with antiques, echoed to her hard heels as she walked directly to the office in the rear and took the seat at his desk.

Mary Jane took the page from him and began reading it, moving her lips with the words.

Then he took off his wet boots and dropped down into the water to talk with the beasts, needing their comfort more than they needed his.

when he went home at night, he took her with him in his mind, and she did the things the anonymous Woman used to do, and he did the thing afterwards each time as he used to do.

With one hand she held her skirt down while she took Jack's extended hand with the other.

He took out a small packet filled with bits of charcoal, a deep pot of thin metal, some sheets of newspaper, a book of matches and a wrinkled and many-times folded piece of tin foil with holes in it.

He took the bottle with undue belligerence, and making sucking noises with his thick lips, drained it completely.

The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.

After luncheon we took advantage of the siesta period to try to get in touch with a few people to whom our dear friend Deppy had written.

Morgan took the suggested steps, but when Mrs. Sanderson appeared, there was nobody with her but her husband, whom he promptly sent to headquarters to be questioned.

But, in departing, Lewis begged Breasted that there be no liquor in the apartment at the Grosvenor on his return, and he took with him the first thirty galleys of Elmer Gantry.

Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.

All this remembering took place the other night when I had supper with the Ziegfeld Girls at the Beverly Hills Club.

Harold, with brothers Frank, Joe and William, took over at the death of their father, Harry M. Stevens, who put a few dollars into a baseball program, introduced the `` hot dog '' and paved the way for creation of a catering empire.

The difference is that the masters took the bare frame of a plot and filled it with their own world ; ;

It seems that Khrushchev himself took a very special pride in having made a world-shaking contribution to Marxist doctrine with his Draft Program ( a large part of his twelve-hour speech at the recent Congress was, in fact, very largely a rehash of that interminable document ).

They took Jesus's body, then, and wrapped it in winding-clothes with the spices ; ;

David took a firm hand with it.