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was and charge
While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.
I was in charge of the arrangements -- which were soon enough disarranged.
Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.
The charge was so farfetched that Woodruff paid little attention to it, and answered Pike in a rather bored way, wearily declaring that a `` new hand '' was pumping the bellows of the Crittenden organ, and concluding: `` In a controversy with an adversary so utterly destitute of moral principles, even a triumph would entitle the victor to no laurels.
Beloved Dr. R. F. Campbell, our First Presbyterian Church pastor, was in charge.
He was placed in charge of athletics, and among other things adapted the type of calisthenics known as the daily dozen.
It would, however, reach the proctors and other officers in charge of the public-school performances of the incepting bachelors, and the place that any individual obtained in the lists depended greatly on how he comported himself in the public schools during his acts therein as he was incepting.
He said it was stupid butchery to order men to make a charge like that, no matter who gave the order and what for.
He found Elizabeth in the parlor and asked her to make sure everything was in order in the residential hall, and then to take charge of the office while the party was here.
Mrs. Horowitz was in charge of diseases of the nose and throat.
What had been an unmanageably powerful introject was now, despite its continuing charge of energy disconcerting to me, sufficiently within control of her ego that she could use it to show me what this introjected mother was like.
McClellan, who had once lost his medical license temporarily on a charge of drug addiction, was with her when she died.
The infamous Wansee Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put to death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich Minister of the Interior, the State Secretary in charge of the Four Year Plan, the Reich Minister of Justice, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
On the occasion of his 1922 indictment the $10,000 bond was furnished by an alderman, and the charge was nolle prossed.
The other charge was that America's political position in the world has progressively deteriorated in recent years.
She served as secretary in the Seminary office for 25 years, and was in charge of correspondence, records, and bookkeeping.
Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.
Intuition told him, however, that she was tired and winded from the run up the Reef and would not charge, yet.
She was rested and could mount a charge.
He succeeded almost too well, because once she rose as if to charge, and he half wheeled his horse -- he was within fifty feet -- but she sank back.
The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.

was and Honduran
The uprising near Gracias a Dios was led by Lempira, who is honored today by the name of the Honduran currency.
A treaty incorporating the key provisions of this agreement with J. P. Morgan was finally signed in January 1911 and submitted to the Honduran legislature by Dávila.
The strike was suppressed by the Honduran military, but the following year additional labor disturbances occurred at the Standard Fruit Company's holding in La Ceiba.
In response, a United States warship was dispatched to the area, and the Honduran government began arresting leaders.
By the terms of the Honduran constitution, this stalemate left the final choice of president up to the legislature, but that body was unable to obtain a quorum and reach a decision.
Despite another minor uprising led by General Ferrera in 1925, Paz Barahona's administration was, by Honduran standards, rather tranquil.
On November 16, 1932, Carías assumed office, beginning what was to be the longest period of continuous rule by an individual in Honduran history.
An injunction against holding the referendum was issued by the Honduran Supreme Court.
Other beneficial economic effects were few, however, because the mining industry was never well integrated into the rest of the Honduran economy.
The increasing dependence of the Honduran economy on foreign aid was aggravated by a severe, regionwide economic decline during the 1980s.
By 1993, 50 to 60 percent of the Honduran labor force was estimated to be either underemployed or unemployed.
The Honduran population was 77 percent rural in 1960.
Only one of ten Honduran workers was securely employed in the formal sector in 1991.
Throughout the 1980s, the Honduran government was heavily financed by foreign assistance.
In 1993 only about 9 to 13 percent of the Honduran labor force was engaged in the country's tiny manufacturing sector — one of the smallest in Central America.
About one-third of the Honduran labor force was estimated to be working in the service or " other " sector in 1993.
The CTH, the nation's largest trade confederation, was formed in 1964 by the nation's largest peasant organization, the National Association of Honduran Peasants ( Asociación Nacional de Campesinos de Honduras — Anach ), and by Honduran unions affiliated with the Inter-American Regional Organization of Workers ( Organización Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores — ORIT ), a hemispheric labor organization with close ties to the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations ( AFL-CIO ).
The CUTH was formed in May 1992 by two principal labor federations, the Unitary Federation of Honduran Workers ( Federación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras — FUTH ) and the Independent Federation of Honduran Workers ( Federación Independiente de Trabajadores de Honduras — FITH ), as well as several smaller labor groups, all critical of the Callejas government's neoliberal economic reform program.
" Nevertheless, the Honduran economy has always depended almost exclusively on agriculture, and in 1992 agriculture was still the largest sector of the economy, contributing 28 percent to the GDP.
The Honduran land reform process under President Callejas between 1989 and 1992 was directed primarily at large agricultural landowners.
The Honduran Corporation for Forestry Development ( Corporación Hondureña de Desarrollo Forestal — Cohdefor ) was created in 1974, but it quickly developed into a corrupt monopoly for overseeing forest exports.
Major legislation was passed in 1992 to promote Honduran reforestation by making large tracts of state-owned land more accessible to private investors.
A value of US $ 195 million to the Honduran economy from assembly industries in 1991 — when the value of clothing exports was greater than that of coffee — was a compelling argument in favor of the shift, however.

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