The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

Over and above that, however, was his growing suspicion of Chuck Stober's part in recent events.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

As he watched the man sit suddenly, a detached part of his mind observed how very difficult it was, really, to knock a man off his feet.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

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.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

The point is that the reactionary, for whatever motive, perceives himself to have been part or a partner of something that extended beyond himself, something which, consequently, he was not able to accept or reject on the basis of subjective preference.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

It was part of Little Jack's work to look after the dogs.

The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

Sherman felt that his own part in the campaign was skillful and well executed but that the slowness of a part of his army robbed him of the larger fruits of victory.

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.

Within the United States, the USAAF was divided into three separate commands: Tactical Air Command ( TAC ), Air Defense Command ( ADC ), and Strategic Air Command ( SAC ).

ACC was essentially given the combined missions that SAC and TAC held respectively, with the newly-designated Air Mobility Command ( AMC ) inheriting most of SAC's KC-135 Stratotanker and KC-10 Extender aerial refueling tanker force, while a small portion of KC-135 aircraft were reassigned to United States Air Forces in Europe ( USAFE ) and Pacific Air Forces ( PACAF ), the latter to include PACAF-gained KC-135 aircraft of the Alaska Air National Guard.

Developed originally by Gen. Elwood Quesada of IX TAC for the First Army at Operation Cobra the technique of " armored column cover " whereby close air support was directed by an air traffic controller in one of the attacking tanks was used extensively by the Third Army.

Microwave Early Warning ( MEW ) radar, another technique pioneered by Quesada, was also used by XIX TAC as an air traffic control radar to both cover against Luftwaffe attacks and to vector flights already in the air to new sites.

On 1 October 1976, the base was transferred to Tactical Air Command ( TAC ) after 30 years under SAC.

After the war, March reverted to its operational role and was assigned to the new Tactical Air Command ( TAC ) as part of the postwar reorganization of the Army Air Force.

The first TAC unit to be assigned was the 1st Fighter Group, under the command of Col. Frank S. Perego, being reactivated at March on 3 July 1946, replacing and absorbing the assets of the wartime 412th Fighter Group.

The 1st Fighter Wing was subsequently transferred from Twelfth Air Force / TAC to Fourth Air Force / ConAC on 20 December 1948.

With the disestablishment of Tactical Air Command ( TAC ) in 1992, Tyndall was temporarily transferred to the Air Combat Command ( ACC ) and then to the Air Education and Training Command ( AETC ) in July 1993.

It switched to TAC and fighters in January 1966 ; TAC was succeeded by ACC in 1992.

In 1979, ADC was disestablished and all ADC aircraft assets were transferred to Tactical Air Command ( TAC ) under a sub-organization known as Air Defense-Tactical Air Command ( ADTAC ).

Plans were made to make Clovis AFB a contract flying training facility, however the advent of the Korean War changed the Air Force's plans for Clovis and jurisdiction was transferred to Tactical Air Command ( TAC ) as a fighter base.

With the transfer of Bergstrom AFB, Texas to Strategic Air Command, TAC inactivated the 27th Tactical Fighter Wing at Bergstrom and activated it in place at Cannon on 18 February, replacing the 312th TFW which was inactivated in place the same day for reasons of precedence.

The 27th TFW was the third TAC Wing to receive the F-111, the first squadron to receive the aircraft was the 481st TFS, receiving its first F-111E aircraft on 30 September 1969.

ACC was created when SAC, TAC, and the Military Airlift Command ( MAC ) merged to form two commands, ACC and the Air Mobility Command ( AMC ).

Renamed Aerospace Defense Command in 1968, ADC F-106 operations continued at Minot until ADC was deactivated in 1979 and became a part of Tactical Air Command ( TAC ) as a subentity referred to as Tactical Air Command-Air Defense ( ADTAC ).

As a result, jurisdiction of Williams was passed to TAC on 1 July.

This was a brief transfer, as on 1 October 1960, TAC transferred Williams AFB back to ATC.

The school, however was discontinued, and inactivated by HQ TAC on 1 September, and merged with the 4520th CCTW, the wing was reorganized and re-designated as the 4525th Fighter Weapons Wing.

In 1985 First Air Force was reactivated by TAC to as given the mission to provide, train and equip ADTAC combat ready forces.

One source The Psychiatric Times, reported that TAC was designed from the start to be " a separate support organization with its own source of funding.