He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood.

I had been among the top third in my class at N.Y.U., had wanted desperately to go to medical school, but I'd run out of money and energy at the same time.

It took a couple of minutes to run through her various businesses and get down to the one he wanted.

The Mayor declined in two interviews with reporters yesterday to confirm or deny the reports that he had decided to run and wanted Mr. Screvane, who lives in Queens, to replace Abe Stark, the incumbent, as the candidate for President of the City Council and Mr. Beame, who lives in Brooklyn, to replace Mr. Gerosa as the candidate for Controller.

I felt myself tremble, thinking of the diamond light of that beauty I had held a few moments before, and I wanted to run down there and halt, if I could, that frenetic pirouette, catch the boy in the moment of his savagery, and save a glimmer, a remnant, of that which I remembered, but I knew it was already too late.

Initially Eisenhower planned on serving only one term, but as with other decisions he maintained a position of maximum flexibility in case leading Republicans wanted him to run again.

Newson wanted to give his children the best education possible so when Elizabeth was 13 and her sister 15, they were sent to a private school, the Boarding School for Ladies in Blackheath, London, which was run by the step aunts of the poet, Robert Browning.

The client was a family run insurance company which wanted to restore a sense of community to the workplace.

Said Smith, " I didn't tell anybody about the injury, because I wanted to keep playing and didn't want anybody thinking they could run on me or take advantage of the injury.

López was a despot who wanted to found a dynasty and run Paraguay like a personal fiefdom.

He wanted to cut the manifold at the singularities and paste in caps, and then run the Ricci flow again, so he needed to understand the singularities and show that certain kinds of singularities do not occur.

We wanted to blitz to stop the run early in the game.

The designers wanted to make the language hardware-independent, to allow True BASIC source code to run equally well on any version of their compiler.

Caroline had wanted to return to Brunswick and leave Britain behind her, but with much of Europe controlled by the French she had no safe haven to run to.

And it was run by a gentleman named Harvey Glatt, and he brought every, and I mean every blues star that you or I would ever have wanted to have seen through Ottawa in the late 50s, well I guess more late 60s sort of, in around the Newport jazz rediscovery.

The early governors wanted to keep NSW as a large-scale open prison, with a primitive economy based on yeomen ex-convicts and run by government fiat.

In François Truffaut's book-length interview, Hitchcock / Truffaut ( 1967 ), Hitchcock said that MGM wanted North by Northwest cut by 15 minutes so the film's length would run under two hours.

Fox refused offers to complete the run in his stead, stating that he wanted to complete his marathon himself.

There was debate as to whether the name was being run into the ground, but the students quickly said they wanted the Rattler nickname.

They wanted to get the people wiped out because Europeans in Queensland had to run their stock: horses and cattle.

The gang was not sanctioned by the UDA leadership, and led to South Belfast brigadier John McMichael declaring that he wanted its members " run out of town ".

In an interview published 26 August 2007, he said that he had no intention to seek a constitutional change so that he could run for a third consecutive term ; he also said that he wanted " to reach the end of term in a strong position in order to influence the succession.

With " I Love Lucy " ending its six-year run on CBS in the spring of 1957, the television network wanted to renew the Burns and Allen series, but by this time, Gracie had grown tired of the grind.

In 1939 nationally famous track star Jesse Owens came to Trenton to run promotional races against a variety of opponents such as a man on a horse, a man in a truck, as well as anyone who wanted to run against the Olympic Gold Medalist.

), I have never wanted to know what you knew of passion.

he knew the fundamentals, and after studying with Fletcher for a time he approached Rector, announced that he wanted to be baptized and that was that.

It was easy to see that they were made for each other, and they knew what they wanted.

She wanted to be with him, to give him the comfort and companionship she knew he needed.

The King Arthur offered respectable and convenient lodgings to people from the suburbs who wanted to see a show and didn't want -- heaven knew didn't want!!

He wanted to ask her about Jenkins now, but he knew he couldn't do so in Needham's presence.

When Benny stepped in as the Hep Stars ' keyboardist in October of that year, he knew this was what he wanted to do.

Patients who recover go on to say that they knew what they wanted to say but could not express themselves.

" All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it ," Gaynor wrote in her autobiography.

Gloria graduated from high school with honors and knew she wanted a singing career.

) Spanish has similar pairs for certain verbs, such as ( imperfect and preterite, respectively ) sabía " I knew " vs. supe " I found out ", podía " I was able to " vs. pude " I succeeded ( in doing something )", quería " I wanted to " vs. quise " I tried to ", no quería " I did not want to " vs. no quise " I refused ( to do something )".

Nasiri claims that al-Libi " knew what his interrogators wanted, and he was happy to give it to them.

He had stated that he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight.

Moore recalled that " we wanted to aim high, do something different and big ... We knew we had to have a strong Picard story arc, so what are the profound things in a man's life he has to face?

As Jeri Taylor commented, " we knew that we wanted to include a renegade element in Voyager, and that the show would involve a ship housing both Starfleet people and those idealistic freedom fighters that the Federation felt were outlaws the Maquis.

" I knew I wanted Kramer to think of watching the operation like going to see a movie ", explained Seinfeld writer / producer Andy Robin in an interview published in the Hollywood Reporter.

But I knew I wanted to write for the theatre, so I wanted someone who did not disdain theatre music.

They knew that they wanted different genres of music from different times but, as Joel remembers, " T-Bone even came up with some far-out Henry Mancini and Yma Sumac ".

When the league was first organized in 1999, it was originally supposed to stand for " Xtreme Football League "; however, there was already a league in formation at the same time with that name, and so promoters wanted to make sure that everyone knew that the " X " did not actually stand for anything ( though McMahon would comment that " if the NFL stood for the ' No Fun League ', the XFL will stand for the ' extra fun league '").

She also commented that she once saw a woman in her audience dressed in dripping chiffon with a Gibson Girl hairstyle and big boots and Nicks knew she wanted something similar.

The UN knew that no international forum had ruled against British possession of the Falklands but had voted its gratitude to Argentina who wanted to annexe the Islands from their rightful owners.

Mendes came across American Beauty in a pile of eight scripts at Swofford's house, and knew immediately that it was the one he wanted to make ; early in his career, he had been inspired by how the film Paris, Texas ( 1984 ) presented contemporary America as a mythic landscape and he saw the same theme in American Beauty, as well as parallels with his own childhood.