There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.

Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.

By 1783 her legions had managed to annex the Crimea amid scenes of wanton cruelty and now, in this second combat with the Crescent, were aiming at suzerainty over all of the Black Sea's northern shoreline.

She lost not a second, picking herself up and continuing her pilgrimage to Laura.

Direct confrontation and acceptance of Mrs. B.'s anger against the second baby soon dissipated her fears of annihilation.

Not once, in the time that he had known her, had he ever considered the possibility, not once, not for one one-thousandth of a second, of her infidelity.

-- Gaining her second straight victory, Norman B., Small, Jr.'s Garden Fresh, a 3-year-old filly, downed promising colts in the $4,500 St. Patrick's Day Purse, featured seventh race here today, and paid $7.20 straight.

As she gained composure during the second act, her technical resourcefulness emerged stronger, though she had already revealed a trill almost unprecedented in years of performances of `` Lucia ''.

The second half of her program was devoted to Russian composers of this century.

Susan Johnson, as the widow, spends the first half of the play running a bar and singing about the unlamented death of her late husband and the second half trying to acquire a new one.

Choreographed by Mr. Nagrin, the work filled the second half of a program that also offered the first New York showing of Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' as well as her `` Women's Song '' and Mr. Nagrin's `` Indeterminate Figure ''.

He shares with Mr. Morse a parody of the college anthems he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice.

We'll drop Mr. Rawlings off in Ardmore '', Julia said, and for the merest second George was reminded of her father's tone with servants.

I grabbed her arm and she turned on me and for a scared second I thought that maybe Wally was right, and she was crazy.

Slowly and deliberately she reached down and touched the lace with her fingers, then hesitated for about a second.

Mary did return in November 1836, and Lincoln courted her for a time ; however, they both had second thoughts about their relationship.

Many of the settings for Agatha Christie ’ s books were directly inspired by the many archaeological field seasons spent in the Middle East on the sites managed by her second husband Max Mallowan.

She and her second husband, Sir Max Mallowan, were one of the rare married couples to be titled, each in their own right.

Their second was Louisa May, who fictionalized her experience with the family in her novel Little Women in 1868.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

He is probably best known for his three-strand faux pearl necklace worn by Barbara Bush to her husband's inaugural ball.

Her white, hand-beaded, one shoulder Galanos 1981 inaugural gown was estimated to cost $ 10, 000 while the overall price of her inaugural wardrobe was said to cost $ 25, 000.

In Jamaica, Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller announced during her inaugural address, that Jamaica would begin the process of becoming a republic.

The groom may be a mere detail: the new editor of Modern Bride began her inaugural column, without irony: " I really did have the wedding of my dreams, the wedding that had been floating around my head for years before I met my husband.

* September 29 – The London and North Eastern Railway's first A4 Class locomotive A4 2509 Silver Link makes her inaugural journey from London Kings Cross.

On July 3, 1983, she set her first World Record ( be it at altitude ) for the 100 metres, running 10. 79 seconds at the National Sports Festival in Colorado Springs, Colorado and was one of the favourites to win the 100 metre title at the inaugural World Championships in Helsinki.

One of the episodes that she did not appear in was the inaugural pilot episode, due to the fact that her character was not initially intended to be a part of the series.

Before her trip to Lebanon she visited Derry on one of her last official engagements to Northern Ireland, becoming the inaugural speaker at the first Conversations Across Walls and Borders event in First Derry Presbyterian Church.

In her outgoing remarks as the 60th Speaker of the House, Pelosi noted that she had been present at John F. Kennedy's inaugural address as President in January 1961.

Though James and Knowles were later seen at a red carpet event following the film's release embracing each other, James expressed her displeasure with Knowles at a Seattle concert in January 2009, a few days after Knowles sang her song, " At Last ", at the first inaugural ball for Barack Obama.

In March 2005, she arrived in Philadelphia — her first trip to the city since signing with publisher Lippincott in 1960 — to receive the inaugural ATTY Award for positive depictions of attorneys in the arts from the Spector Gadon & Rosen Foundation.

She was invited to join The National Theatre for its inaugural season at the Old Vic, working with such directors as Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, and Noël Coward in roles such as Rose in The Recruiting Officer, Barblin in Andorra, Jackie in Hay Fever, Kattrin in Mother Courage, Miss Prue in Love for Love, and Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing which kept her busy for the next three years.

An " inaugural address " is the speech given at this ceremony which informs the people of his / her intentions as a leader.

For the inaugural balls, she wore the same gown she had worn six years earlier at the balls in Atlanta when her husband became governor.

In 1993, Angelou recited her poem " On the Pulse of Morning " at President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.

In 1993, Angelou recited her poem " On the Pulse of Morning " at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton, becoming the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.

For example, the inaugural cover of the magazine under Wintour's editorship featured a three-quarter-length photograph of Israeli super model Michaela Bercu wearing a bejeweled Christian Lacroix jacket and a pair of jeans, departing from her predecessors ' tendency to portray a woman's face alone, which, according to the Times, gave " greater importance to both her clothing and her body.

Oscar Cohen of the Canadian Jewish Congress is reported to have said she " almost broke up the inaugural meeting of the congress on refugees by her insistent opposition and very apparent anti-Semitism.

Nixon's yellow-satin inaugural gown by Harvey Berin was criticized as " a schoolteacher on her night out ", but Treyz defended her wardrobe selections by saying, " Mrs. Nixon must be ladylike.