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.

Then Taliban ambassador-at-large Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi said that the destruction of the statues was carried out by the Head Council of Scholars after a Swedish monuments expert proposed to restore the statues ' heads.

In 1997, she was appointed ambassador-at-large for Nicaragua by then President Arnoldo Alemán.

Former creative director Simon Doonan, now creative ambassador-at-large, was replaced by Dennis Freedman.

Their discussion continued on the flight from Shannon to New York ; it was the beginning of the actor's long association with UNICEF.

The current President of the Maldives is former Senior Member of UNICEF, Mohammed Waheed Hassan, who was sworn into office on 7 February 2012 when his predecessor, Mohamed Nasheed resigned following weeks of protests led by police.

A custom signature amplifier was engineered by Lifeson and released in April 2005 with the stipulation that UNICEF will receive a donation in the amount of $ 50 for every Alex Lifeson Signature TriAmp sold.

It has also been successful in helping to reduce cases by 99 % since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988, which partnered WHO with Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) and the United Nations Children ’ s Fund ( UNICEF ), as well as smaller organizations.

The first single taken from the album was " Rock DJ ", a song inspired by Williams's UNICEF mentor, the late Ian Dury.

) She was a performer on the 1979 Music for UNICEF Concert for the UN ' International Year of the Child televised worldwide.

In 1999, she was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

She was honored for her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, an advocate for victims of hunger and HIV / AIDS and a spokesperson for Heifer International.

Globally, the country of Barbados was ranked by the International Telecommunications Union ( ITU ) and UNICEF to be one of the most wired countries in the world on a per capita basis.

Despite claiming he thought the concert was sponsored by UNICEF, he faced criticism in the press for receiving a payment of between one and two million pounds from Uzbek president, Islam Karimov, for the performance.

That year, she was one of the hosts of the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly.

In 1978 the band was named UNICEF Deputy Ambassadors of Goodwill.

On 30 November 2011, Khan was appointed as national brand ambassador of UNICEF to promote child nutrition.

January 1979 saw the band performing " September " and " That's The Way Of The World " at the Music for UNICEF Concert, which was broadcast worldwide from the United Nations General Assembly by NBC.

He was also a respected intellectual and diplomat who, in addition to his various academic posts, served as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF and President of the World Federalist Movement.

In the later part of his life ( from 1969 until his death ), his acting and writing tasks took second place to his work on behalf of UNICEF, for which he was a Goodwill Ambassador and fundraiser.

The concert raised close to US $ 250, 000 for Bangladesh relief, which was administered by UNICEF.

In 2004, Byrne was appointed a UNICEF Ireland Ambassador.

Henin began the grass court season at the 2010 UNICEF Open, where she was the top seed for the first time since her return.

Due to her commitment to philanthropy and arts, Caroline was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador on 2 December 2003.

The film was screened in competition at the 1996 Venice Film Festival and won the UNICEF award.

Laurent Schwartz comes from a Jewish family of Alsatian origin, with a strong scientific background: his father is a well-known surgeon, his uncle Robert Debré ( who contributed to the creation of UNICEF ) is a famous pediatrician, and his great-uncle-in-law, Jacques Hadamard, was a famous mathematician.

In 2006, Mulroney was appointed as the National Ambassador for UNICEF Canada.

According to commentators at AbsoluteRadio. co. uk, the courts denied Ms Ambrose's claim as without merit and she was awarded only $ 16, 000. 00 per the Court of Appeal of Ticino 19 December 2007 ( 11. 2004. 49 ) in compensation with the remainder of the estate divided amongst Palmer's five children and UNICEF, to which Palmer donated a large charitable contribution.