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He was hired straight out of university by the Vancouver Sun during the heady times of the late ' 60s, the final days of the old Bennett Socreds provincially and the advent of Pierre Trudeau federally.
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`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.
It was his experience that only one good salesman was found out of every seven hired -- and only one was hired out of every seven interviewed.
She was hired and was found to be entirely satisfactory when she played the role eight hours a day.
A lawyer, hired by the college, was arguing specifically for Dartmouth: Daniel Webster, class of 1801, made her plight the dramatic focus of his whole plea.
She finally settled in Fall River and, after being employed for a time by a Mrs. Reed, was hired by the Bordens.
`` I was hired to take a picture.
Historians consider this the decisive factor in convincing Alboin to undertake a migration, even though there are indications that before the war with the Gepids a decision was maturing to leave for Italy, a country thousands of Lombards had seen in the 550s when hired by the Byzantines to fight in the Gothic War.
In 2004, a new head coach, Jim L. Mora, was hired and Michael Vick returned for the full season.
A software engineer was hired to write the special " dual boot mode " BIOS and the special CP / M BIOS.
"( Charlemagne's ) army was enlisted to help the Muslim governors of Barcelona and Zaragoza against the Umayyad ( emir ) in Cordoba ..." Essentially Charlemagne was being hired as a mercenary, even though he likely had other plans of acquiring the area for his own empire.
* 1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley was hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
After finishing her first book, in 1997, Hesser was hired as a food reporter for The New York Times.
At this time, Lerner was hired by film producer Arthur P. Jacobs to write a treatment for an upcoming film project, Doctor Dolittle, but Lerner abrogated his contract after several non-productive months of non-communicative procrastination and was replaced with Leslie Bricusse.
Beginning in 2002 a professional staff was hired, composed of operations, engineering and marketing specialists.
On November 25, 1996, Del Yocam was hired as Borland CEO and Chairman.
Walsh was coaching in Fremont when he interviewed for an assistant coaching position with Marv Levy, who had just been hired as the head coach at the University of California, Berkeley.
" I was very impressed, individually, by his knowledge, by his intelligence, by his personality and hired him ," Levy said.
was and straight
Setting a course straight for the house, he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face.
Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.
Slender and tanned, her dark brown hair was drawn straight back, simply.
It was a straight, solid, once-in-a-lifetime shot ; ;
Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;
Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.
He was less to see, but Feathertop took him in, too, just to keep the records straight.
The current stereotype of straight news reporting was probably invaluable in protecting the press and its readers from pollution by that combination of doctored fact, fancy, and personal opinion called yellow journalism which flourished in this country more than a generation ago.
Now Hans had given Ma something of his -- we both had when we thought she was going straight to Pa -- something valuable ; ;
It was getting on toward 7 o'clock and the German Me-210 plane had been and gone on its eighth straight visit.
During the year that followed, Dick co-operated whole-heartedly with the dentist and was delighted with the final result achieved -- an upper row of strong straight teeth that completely changed his facial appearance.
`` Mixed herd '' meant a herd of mixed sexes, while a `` straight steer herd '' was one composed entirely of steers, and when the cowman spoke of `` mixed cattle '', he meant cattle of various grades, ages, and sexes.
I couldn't see him, but the electric bugging device gave steady beeps when it was straight ahead, short half beeps when the car I was following was to the left, and long drawn-out beeps when it turned to the right.
he was straight, something angry in his attitude, as if he might be waiting to report something.
`` I think the big thing about the game was that our kids for the third straight week stayed in there pitching and kept the pressure on.
It was Nischwitz' third straight victory of the new season and ran the Grizzlies' winning streak to four straight.
But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.
they had orders to that effect straight from President Kennedy, who thought at first, as did most others, that it was four followers of Cuba's Fidel Castro who had taken over the 707.
It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely.
By its terms the boundary between Alfred ’ s and Guthrum ’ s kingdoms was to run up the River Thames, to the River Lea ; follow the Lea to its source ( near Luton ); from there extend in a straight line to Bedford ; and from Bedford follow the River Ouse to Watling Street.
His campaigns were successful and, on 25 July 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of the Portuguese by his soldiers, establishing his equality in rank to the other realms of the Peninsula.
After losing 7 straight games, the decision was made to release head coach Dan Reeves.
was and out
The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.
Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.
I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.
Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.
The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.
It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.
He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.
By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.
Macklin was the third man to come out, and he came unhurriedly.
Prosecutor Baird immediately assumed he was hiding out there after the shooting and began preparing an indictment.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.
Jess's coarse features twisted in a surprised grin which was smashed out of shape by Curt's fist.
So long as Sally's pa was coming out best on the haggle, Dan didn't feel the need of putting in his two-bits' worth.
Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!
And she was deeply thankful that she could see her now, out there in the midst of a gay, youthful circle, skipping and singing, `` Farmer in the dell, Farmer in the dell, Heigh-ho the dairy-oh, the farmer in the dell ''.
She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.
Whoever was out there hiding in the brushy cover was besieging the Antler house and, having spotted his approach, was determined to drive him off before he could get into the fight.
From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.
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