My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.

today, these many years later, after all the temptations resisted or yielded to, the weasel satisfactions and the engulfing dissatisfactions since endured, I call it corrupting still.

He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.

They have remained on the opened page of my mind in all the years which since have passed.

`` The cannery '', said Mrs. Lewellyn Lundeen, an active booster of the cannery since its opening during the war and rationing years of 1941, to handle the `` victory garden '' produce, `` is a service to the taxpayer.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

Geneva, instead of becoming the City of God, as John had dreamed, had in the two years since he had been there, continued to be a godless place where all manner of vice flourished.

It was not as though she noted clearly that her nephews had not been to see her for ten years, not since their last journey eastward to witness their Uncle Izaak being lowered into the rocky soil ; ;

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

The present Secretary General has been the Foundation's principal administrative officer continuously since the Foundation's establishment thirty-five years ago.

It is a good eight years now since each of us acquired a swimming pool -- eight enlightening, vigorous, rigorous, not wholly unrewarding years.

For three years, since the liquor territorial conference, Torrio had, with his elastic patience, and because he knew that retaliation could cause only violent warfare and disaster to business, tolerated O'Banion's impudent double-crossing.

It remained in force for ten years and has been renewed at five-year intervals since 1925.

During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.

Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

To say this, of course, is to take up a position on one side of a controversy going on now for some two hundred years, or, at any rate, since the beginning of the distinctively modern period in theological thought.

In the 355 years since the first Guy Fawkes Night, much of the story has been forgotten, so here is a reminder ''.

Many years have passed since a Metropolitan audience heard anything comparable.

In recent years Anna Xydis has played with the New York Philharmonic and at Lewisohn Stadium, but her program last night at Town Hall was the Greek-born pianist's first New York recital since 1948.

Miss Xydis has a natural affinity for the keyboard, and in the twenty years since her debut here she has gained the authority and inner assurance that lead to audience control.

All belong to the collection being given to Wilmington over a period of years by Mrs. Sloan, who has cherished such revelatory items ever since she first studied with Sloan at the Art Students League, New York, in the 1920's.

At the time I was filled with self-pity at this separation, but in the years since I have come to understand that the sight of me was painful to them after that outcry.

We have learned much about interstellar drives since a hundred years ago ; ;

He succeeded his cousin Elagabalus upon the latter's assassination in 222, and was ultimately assassinated himself, marking the epoch event for the Crisis of the Third Century — nearly fifty years of civil wars, foreign invasion, and collapse of the monetary economy.

" Nevertheless, although the war dragged on for years, the Battle of Blenheim was probably its most decisive victory ; Marlborough and Eugene, working indivisibly together, had saved the Habsburg Empire and thereby preserved the Grand Alliance from collapse.

Instead Gorbachev chose political liberalization during the years leading to the collapse of the USSR, while not implementing any significant economic reforms.

Compaq struggled as a result of the collapse of the Dot-com bubble bust, which hurt sales of their high-end systems in 2001 and 2002, and they managed only a small profit in a few quarters during these years.

In spite of his failures, Diocletian's reforms fundamentally changed the structure of Roman imperial government and helped stabilize the Empire economically and militarily, enabling the Empire to remain essentially intact for another hundred years despite having seemed near the brink of collapse in Diocletian's youth.

Altogether, these political developments led to conditions that encouraged a struggle for leadership of the Finnish state, during the ten years before the collapse of the Russian Empire.

In top-down theories ( such as the Eggen – Lynden-Bell – Sandage model ), protogalaxies form in a large-scale simultaneous collapse lasting about one hundred million years.

With the collapse of the Hero-ICE alliance, the HERO System went into limbo for several years.

An African prefecture, centered in Carthage, was established in April 534, but it would teeter on the brink of collapse during the next 15 years, amidst warfare with the Moors and military mutinies.

Postwar social and political instability, fueled by economic uncertainty and the collapse of the Lebanese currency, led to the resignation of Prime Minister Omar Karami, also in May 1992, after less than 2 years in office.

* 2000 – S & P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1, 552. 87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.

Governments in Nepal have tended to be highly unstable ; no government has survived for more than two years since 1991, either through internal collapse or parliamentary dissolution by the monarch.

Significant investigations conducted by the NTSB in all modes of transportation in recent years include the collapse of the I-35 highway bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; the collision between two transit trains in Washington, D. C .; the pipeline explosion that destroyed much of a neighborhood in San Bruno, California ; the sinking of an amphibious vessel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; and the crash of a regional airliner near Buffalo, New York.

Ten years after " the Phold ", they suffered another minor collapse in August and September 1974, missing out on the playoffs yet again.

Since gaining its independence with the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, Russia has faced serious challenges in its efforts to forge a political system to follow nearly seventy-five years of Soviet rule.

Recent astrophysical models suggest that red dwarfs of 0. 1 solar mass may stay on the main sequence for some six to twelve trillion years, and take several hundred billion more to slowly collapse into a white dwarf.

The violent eruption was centred on a small island just north of the existing island of Nea Kameni in the centre of the caldera ; the caldera itself was formed several hundred thousand years ago by the collapse of the centre of a circular island, caused by the emptying of the magma chamber during an eruption.

The first political squat was done on Vatnsstigur 4 in Reykjavik on the 9th of April 2009, 6 months after a complete economic collapse due to bankers that bought all the banks 4 years earlier.

After ten years of civil war in Mexico ( then called the " Viceroyalty of New Spain ") and the death of two of its founders, by early 1820 the Mexican independence movement was stalemated and close to collapse.

Columella ’ s " Husbandry ," circa 60 A. D., was used by 15 generations ( 450 years ) under the Roman Empire until its collapse.

The Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China for 276 years ( 1368 – 1644 ) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

However, many Chinese historians extend the starting point of this period back to various years during the collapse of the Han dynasty, such as to the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 ; the year after the beginning of the rebellion, 185 ; Dong Zhuo deposing and murdering Emperor Shao of Han and establishing Emperor Xian of Han in 189 ; Dong Zhuo sacking Luoyang and moving the capital to Chang ' an in 190 ; or Cao Cao placing the emperor under his control in Xuchang in 196.

Suggestions for its precise date vary by as much as 150 years, corresponding to the uncertainty regarding the length of the " Dark Age " of the ensuing Bronze Age collapse, resulting in the shift of the entire Bronze Age chronology of Mesopotamia with regard to the chronology of Ancient Egypt.

Despite the loss of territory, military weakness, and evident reduction in literacy and culture, the Kassite dynasty was the longest-lived dynasty of Babylon, lasting until 1157 BC, when Babylon was conquered by Shutruk-Nahhunte of Elam, and re-conquered a few years later by the native Akkadian-Babylonian Nebuchadrezzar I, part of the larger Bronze Age collapse.