Greg took the formation wide around three A-26 attack bombers that were headed north over the Gulf.

He rode in at the head of sixty trigger-happy and liquor-crazed desperadoes and took over a livery barn at the entrance to Main Street.

Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

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.

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.

He did not really want to kill, but as in the sexual act, there was a moment when the impulse took over and could not be downed, even while you watched yourself giving way to it.

it took them over an hour to get back to the station where they should have changed, in order to take the line that went to the Place Redoute.

) The plants took zero nights in their stride, with nothing but a mat of straw over the glass to protect them.

the hostess in her took over.

The vision of a Lord Tennyson expressed in a poem 100 years ago took visible form over London in the air blitzes of 1941.

The attitudes which the Rebs and Yanks took toward each other were very much the same and ranged over the same gamut of feeling, from friendliness to extreme hatred.

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.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

It was his brag that he could beat everybody at anything, but especially at fighting, and he once took on the manager of his club and worked him over thoroughly with his fists.

When Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov took it over in 1957 from Georgi Zaroubin, he made a determined effort to change this idea.

I took the pint bottle from my pocket and handed it over as I sat down beside him on the spread blanket.

The Birds got five hits and all three of their runs off Kunkel before Hartman took over in the top of the fourth.

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.

Then the pixies and the zombies took over while the banshees wailed in the distance.

Fiedler went on to make several other test flights before German pilots took over the Reichenberg missiles.

He made his fortune during World War 2, when he took over a number of dying steel plants and kept them alive until the boom.

The Belgian government itself took over administration, commencing a program of paternalism unmatched in the history of colonialism.

Olivetti took over Underwood, the U.S. typewriter maker, in late 1959.

Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

George Shearing took over with his well disciplined group, a sextet consisting of vibes, guitar, bass, drums, Shearing's piano and a bongo drummer.

Dean turned from Susan and took Julia Fortune in his arms.

Mike took the bayonet from Dean's hand and slashed the picket line.

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

He lifted the skirt of Macklin's coat, took his gun from its holster, tossed it onto the desk.

He lurched drunkenly to his feet, lowered his head, and took one step away from the wall.

A weapons carrier took Greg, Todman, Belton, Banjo Ferguson, and Walters and the others the two miles from the bivouac area to the strip.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

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

She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.

And, as the others began to crawl out from beneath the desks and tend to those wounded, and mark the several killed, he climbed across the debris to Penny and took her hand in his.

He took his mask from his forehead and threw it, unexpectedly, across the deck.

Folding between his hands the cross that hung from his neck, he took his appeal direct to Headquarters.

Matsuo took the small knife from its scabbard and laid it on the ground, out of the marine's reach and away from their shadows.

In the course of its inquiry, it took testimony from only seven witnesses.

It generally took well into the autumn for the firm to recover from the summer's help.

To exonerate the legislature and thereby extricate himself from a sticky situation, Pike took another course and made it appear that the legislature had been bilked.

In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.

Finally, colleges and clubs took the line that speakers from England were not wanted any longer, even speakers like S.K., so unlike the novelists and poets who had patronized the Americans for many years.

The revolution in jazz that took place around 1949, the evolution from the `` bebop '' school of Dizzy Gillespie to the `` cool '' sound of Miles Davis and Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, and the whole legend of Charlie Parker, had made an impression on many academic and literary men.

The whole thing, from the moment when they jumped heavily off the trucks, spread out and moved into position just behind the cover of that slight rise of ground and then jumped off, took maybe between twenty and thirty minutes.

Smiling at Warren's protestations, the old monk took his grip from him and led him down a corridor to a small parlor.

And then the Amen corner took hold, re-enacting a form of group participation in worship that stemmed from years before the Greek chorus, spreading down through the African forest, overseas to the West Indies, and then here in Alabama.

Stroked him, snaked all through him, the lyrics lifted him, took him from one magic isle to another, stopping briefly at each Brandon.

From the saddlebags, hung on a Hitchcock chair, David took out a good English razor, a present from John Hunter.