At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.

`` I'd wind up full of bullet holes '', he said, and there was no question that he was talking about bullets fired by his coworkers.

It was hit by a shell fired by the bombarding Venetian army and the great central portion of the temple was blown to smithereens.

We knew the enemy was subdued, because a flare was fired as the signal.

It was not even certain the shot had been fired from either hotel.

On top of everything else they were two months behind on their apartment rent, and the day Wally received written notice that he was fired, they were evicted.

Erickson was also fired in 2012, and replaced by Todd Graham.

Falcons coach Leeman Bennett was fired after the loss.

Brenly was fired partway through the season and was replaced on an interim basis by third base coach Al Pedrique.

In a turn of events that proved to be a minor embarrassment for the reorganized ownership group, Backman was almost immediately fired after management learned, after the fact, of legal troubles and improprieties in Backman's past.

The development of the AFV continued into World War I, when the tracked tank was introduced on the Western Front-a machine that was armoured because it was specifically designed to be fired upon.

The AVRE version of the Churchill Tank was armed with a Spigot mortar that fired a HE-filled projectile ( nicknamed the Flying Dustbin ).

Although several shots were fired in the duel, nobody was injured, and the two were persuaded by their seconds to discontinue it.

Use of two guns was therefore a reasonable compromise, as this allowed one gun to be cocked as the other is being fired, in practical terms doubling the rate of fire and the available number of bullets.

After several false starts during the 16th and 17th centuries the brass industry was also established in England taking advantage of abundant supplies of cheap copper smelted in the new coal fired reverberatory furnace.

Indeed, a number of communist students loyal to Meyer moved to the Soviet Union when he was fired in 1930.

Former CEO Dale Fuller was fired in July 2005 after a series of financial and commercial blunders, but remained on the board of directors.

He was introduced on August 2 and made his debut on August 3, after the Orioles fired Samuel.

Ceramic, or fired brick was used as early as 4500 BC in early Indus Valley cities.

He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.

It was dark early, because of the storm.

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

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 he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.

Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

Sometimes I guessed it was because the rain squall had changed direction.

It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

They never troubled themselves about us while we were playing, because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Don't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation.

They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

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.

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

Their work was lonely.

With Ramey it was a dusty work shoe that was half-off the Indian's foot that he would always remember.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

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??

His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.

Whether in prose or poetry, all of Heidenstam's later work was concerned with Sweden.

But his own work was evolving further.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

And I was to go to work on that odd matter.

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

As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.

But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.