This threesome, along with Hyacinth's senile father, are forever turning up inconveniently ( usually in their clapped out Ford Cortina Mk IV-which always makes a characteristic backfire when it pulls up ) and embarrassing Hyacinth, who goes to great lengths to avoid them (" Richard, you know I love my family, but that's no reason why I should have to acknowledge them in broad daylight!

In March 2006, Hoggart presented his last edition of The News Quiz commenting: " I'm getting a bit clapped out and jaded, and I think that's beginning to show.

But I saw this as my big chance and, like Eva when she clapped eyes on Peron, I grabbed with with both hands.

" The last time I saw Eric Hollies bat at Birmingham ," recalled Jack Fingleton in 1958, " he was clapped and cheered all the way to the middle at No. 11.

I wonder if you see the ball very clearly in your last Test in England, on a ground where you've played some of the biggest cricket in your life and where the opposing side has just stood round you and given you three cheers and the crowd has clapped you all the way to the wicket.

... Now, Sir, although I was brought up from remote country parts in the dark ages of 1819 and 1820 to behold the splendour of Christmas pantomimes and the humour of Joe, in whose honour I am informed I clapped my hands with great precocity, and although I even saw him act in the remote times of 1823 ...

Print it in real big letters, an' I can cipher it out later ''.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.

I will make him distributor for all of Florida -- a big market.

`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.

All I could remember was Billie Dove pasted over the ceiling of my big brother's room.

I worked on the Schuylkill Expressway and if it had not been for the big trucks carrying rock and concrete there wouldn't be an Expressway.

Afterwards I learned that Eileen had called Thelma on the telephone and made a big scene about Thelma trying to take her husband away.

He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.

`` I thought you was sick to death of this big house.

I suppose it is because we are just not big enough.

The father, accurately perceiving the child's needs, not only respected them as worthy of his attention, but immediately satisfied them by taking him on his lap along with the twins, saying, `` I have a big lap ; ;

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

I made a big circle until I located the car parked at the curb in front of an apartment house.

`` You want to be that big a fool -- I was hoping for this ''.

And I done favors for you, big favor not so long back, didn't I, and I'm right here to take on where Pretty left off.

`` I didn't think Accacia knew so many big words, Lieutenant ''.

`` I'd just turned on the ignition when there was a big flash and I was lying on the driveway '', he said.

`` 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.

And one of the Milwaukee rookies sighed and remarked, `` Wish I was 40, and a top-grade big leaguer.

I made you a man ''.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.

The rest of the time I devoted to painting or to those other activities a young and healthy man just out of college finds interesting.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

I expected Brassnose -- as a man with a strain of Melanesian in his blood -- to speak to them.

`` I am an honest man '', the German said with fervor.

`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

A man must be able to say, `` Father, I have sinned '', or there is no hope for him.

`` I scanned the world through printed symbol swart, And through the beggar's rags I strove to see The inner man.

But I have been at some pains to review it as the drama of the common man, to point up what happened to him under Eisenhower's leadership.

Said: `` There are things I must tell you about this man you are marrying which he does not know himself ''.

Carl thought the question over slowly and answered: `` I know a starving man who is fed never remembers all the pangs of his starvation, I know that ''.

I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.