But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

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.

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

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

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.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

Carnegie was a large benefactor of the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T. Washington for African-American education.

The distinctive “ double-pull ” format that typifies most of these songs — also at times used, with slight changes, for pumps, windlass, and capstan, too — was a later development that appears to owe much to African-American work songs.

" It concluded, among other things, that Head Start programs designed to boost African-American IQ scores had failed, and that this was likely never to be remedied, largely because, in Jensen's estimation, 80 % of the variance in IQ in the population studied was the result of genetic factors and the remainder was due to environmental influences.

It is a common misconception that Jackie Robinson was the first African-American major-league ballplayer ; he was actually only the first after a long gap ( and the first in the modern era ).

Walsh was viewed as a strong advocate for African-American head coaches in the NFL and NCAA.

One of the results of the one-drop rule was uniting the African-American community.

Charles Henry Alston ( November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977 ) was an African-American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem.

The second development was the rise of the African-American civil rights movement, environmentalism, and consumerism.

Full enfranchisement of citizens was not secured until after the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) gained passage by the United States Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Another guest who never appeared on the show because of the controversy surrounding him was legendary African-American singer-actor Paul Robeson, who, at the time of the Draper incident, was undergoing his own troubles with the industry's hunt for Communist sympathizers.

It was dominated by " hard " electro beats of the type used primarily in African-American rap music, yet was mostly produced, sung, DJed and appreciated by Latinos.

" He was also heavily influenced by an African-American dancer Dancing Dotson, whom he saw at Loew's Penn Theatre around 1929, and was briefly taught by Frank Harrington, an African-American tap specialist from New York.

One of his students was William Seymour, an African-American preacher.

It appears that Parsons was mostly apolitical, although he did refer to one of the younger African-American butlers in the Connor household as being " like a brother " to him in an interview.

Local officials brutalized blacks and prevented them from leaving relief camps, aid meant for African-American sharecroppers was often given to the landowners instead, and many times black males were conscripted by locals into forced labor, sometimes at gun point.

Booker T. Washington was the previous African-American to have dined at the White House, with Theodore Roosevelt in 1901.

It was initially popularized circa 1984 in discothèques catering to gay and mixed, primarily African-American and Latino audiences in Chicago, but beginning in 1985, fanned out to other major cities such as Detroit, Toronto, New York City, Boston, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manchester, Miami, London, and Paris.

It was a gymnastic event sanctioned by both the NCAA and the AAU until the early 1960s.

But it was National AAU champion swimmer, Esther Williams, who popularized synchronized swimming through ( often elaborately staged ) scenes in Hollywood films such as Bathing Beauty ( 1944 ), Million Dollar Mermaid ( 1952 ), and Jupiter's Darling ( 1955 ).

Syracuse was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1966 but withdrew its membership in 2011 due to diverging views in evaluating criteria between the University and the AAU.

In 1985, the University of Florida was invited to become a member of the Association of American Universities ( AAU ), an organization composed of now sixty-three academically prominent public and private research universities in the United States and Canada.

Fowler was an Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU ) All-America in 1967 and again in 1968 for Akron Goodyear Wingfoots.

Jarvis, an AAU champion in the 100 y, was among the pre-race favourites for the 100 m at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, but the hot favourite was American Arthur Duffey, who won the British Championships just prior to the Games.

He was the AAU 100 yard dash champion three years running, from 1962 – 1964, and in 1964 was the NCAA champion in the 200 meter dash.

Brown had operated several AAU teams in and around New York City, and was viewed as an ideal pick to run the nascent league's New York franchise.

He was the AAU champion at in 1927, at road race in 1922, 1923 and from 1925 to 1927, at steeplechase in 1923, 1926 and 1927 and at cross county in 1922, 1923 and from 1925 to 1927.

In 1971 he suffered his worst defeat, placing 10th at the AAU Mr. America, which was won by Casey Viator.

When he was 14, he attempted to enter his first boxing tournament but was told he needed to first obtain an AAU membership card.

While he was shaking hands, Scherick said, if the mood seemed right, might he cut a deal to broadcast AAU events on ABC?

When the officials thought he had won the race, Lorz played along with his practical joke until he was found out shortly after the medal ceremony and was banned for a year by the AAU for this stunt, later winning the 1905 Boston Marathon.

In 1998, 2001, 2006, and 2010 Hampton Roads was hosting the AAU Junior Olympics.

He never won a national championship in either jump, but he was the 1897 and 1903 AAU champion in the all-around, an event similar to the decathlon.

He was the 1969 National AAU Heavyweight Champion.

When Minneapolis Lakers owner Bob Short was permitted to move the Lakers to Los Angeles, Saperstein reacted by convincing National Alliance of Basketball Leagues ( NABL ) team owner Paul Cohen ( Tuck Tapers ) and Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU ) National Champion Cleveland Pipers owner George Steinbrenner to take the top NABL and AAU teams and players and form a rival league.

The team was coached by another AAU Elite alum, Alex Hannum.