It took them an hour before they came to the first houses of Kelseyville.

When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

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.

In his first six weeks in office he presided over 96 conferences, attended 35 official breakfasts and dinners, studied and signed 285 official papers and personally took 312 telephone calls.

The first pretrial conference -- held to appoint amici curiae to represent the interest of the stockholders of Du Pont and General Motors and to consider the procedure to be followed in the subsequent hearings -- took place on September 25, 1957.

( Sanity, solvency and relations with our wine merchant took a beating that first summer as we inadvertently became the neighborhood free-drink stop.

They were stressed in the speeches of Si Mubarak Bekkai when the first Council of Ministers was formed and again when the Istiqlal took a leading role in the second Council.

but unfortunately the rabbit, on no grounds at all, took up toward this neutral object an attitude of disapproval and that made it for the first time, and in the only intelligible sense, bad.

but all too many observers have been misled by this fact into minimizing the degree of change which took place in the early first millennium.

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

As the first collective confrontation of the Nazi outrage, the Trial of Eichmann represents a recovery of the Jews from the shock of the death camps, a recovery that took fifteen years and which is still by no means complete ( though let no one believe that it could be hastened by silence ).

If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

Jim Gentile bounced a hard shot off Kunkel's glove and beat it out for a single, and when Lumpe grabbed the ball and threw it over first baseman Throneberry's head Brandt took third and Gentile second on the error.

The Bears took the lead in the first inning, as they did in Sunday's opener, and never lagged.

The first witness, Moses Winston Mardis, 5835 Michigan Av., a real estate agent and former bail bondsman, took the stand after opening statements had been made.

The first time the nurse took him out of the lung, she said if he got frightened, she'd put him back for a second.

Although this was the first time that Helva had seen unshelled people, she took this experience calmly.

It took Immanuel Kant 25 years to write one of the first major treatises on anthropology, his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View.

Maj. Gen. Polk ignored the problems of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson when he took command and, after Johnston took command, at first refused to comply with Johnston's order to send an engineer, Lt. Joseph K. Dixon, to inspect the forts.

Australia made a mere 63 runs in its first innings, and England, led by A. N. Hornby, took a 38-run lead with a total of 101.

After Australia took a 1 – 0 lead in the first two Tests, Botham was forced to resign or was sacked ( depending on the source ).

While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.

The lawyer Thomas Egerton was praised through the anagram gestat honorem ; the physician George Ent took the anagrammatic motto genio surget, which requires his first name as ".

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.

The elegant Soviet jumper radically sped up his approach run, took the record up to, and won the Olympic gold medal in 1964, before a motorcycle accident ended his career.

The commemoration at UNESCO itself took place on 6 September 2007 ; UNESCO issued a medal in Rumi's name in the hope that it would prove an encouragement to those who are engaged in research on and dissemination of Rumi's ideas and ideals, which would, in turn, enhance the diffusion of the ideals of UNESCO.

Billy Kidd, part Abenaki from Vermont, became the first American male to medal in alpine skiing in the Olympics, taking silver at age 20 in the slalom in the 1964 Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria. Six years later at the 1970 World Championships, Kidd won the gold medal in the combined event and took the bronze medal in the slalom.

After a silver medal in the 5, 000 m, he took gold in the 10, 000 m and the cross country events.

The performance of Canada's Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz would have won them the bronze medal, but bloc voting between the judges ( five of the nine judges were from from former Eastern bloc countries ) relegated them to 4th place as the two Russian pairs and the French pair took the medals.

Four years earlier he had taken a silver medal in front of his cousin Sami Mustonen, who took bronze.

Many of his ideas on authority, morality, and property disturbed the essay judges at the Academy, and Proudhon was only awarded the bronze medal ( something in which Proudhon took pride, because he felt that this was an indicator that his writing made elite academics uncomfortable ).

She eventually took the silver medal behind Pérec, in an Australian record of 48. 63 seconds.

Vreni Schneider won a complete set of medals in Alpine skiing, while Norway took a medal sweep in the men's combined.

Pete Fenson, the skip of the U. S. curling team that took the bronze medal at the 2006 Olympics, is a native of Bemidji, as is Natalie Nicholson, who was the lead for the United States women's team at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

The Crown Army was judged too weak to oppose the four columns of enemy armies advancing into Polish Ukraine and began a fighting withdrawal to the western side of the Southern Bug River, where it regrouped and countered the Russian advance in a pitched battle, when Prince Poniatowski was victorious in the Battle of Zieleńce ( June 18, 1792 ), while Kościuszko's division took part in only some artillery exchange at the end of the battle, the general was among the first to receive the newly created Virtuti Militari medal, Poland's highest military decoration even today.

A recent, high-profile transgression took place in the 2008 Summer Olympics, where 50 metre pistol silver medallist and 10 metre air pistol bronze medallist Kim Jong-su tested positive for propranolol and was stripped of his medal.

Erik Adlerz took the gold medal, and proceeded to take the gold medal for Sweden in the 10 metre platform too.

Albert Zürner took the silver for Germany, and Gustaf Blomgren won the bronze medal for Sweden.

Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier of Denmark took the silver medal, and another Belgian who was not in the team event, Philippe le Hardy de Beaulieu, won the bronze medal.

Wilding took the bronze medal in a playoff against another British player, Arthur Lowe.

The duo also competed as a pair in the gentlemen's doubles and took the gold medal, beating the Austrians Felix Pipes and Arthur Zborzil.

The skills of the competitors from Finland were noted in the featherweight competition, with Kaarlo Koskelo taking the gold medal, while German Georg Gerstäcker took silver and a further medal went to Finland with Otto Lasanen taking bronze.

Johan Olin took another medal for Finland with the silver and Søren Marinus Jensen repeated his bronze medal at the 1908 Olympics with another for Denmark.