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Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.
He had his voice under control again: no one became aware that he was terrified by what had just happened to him.
Then he became involved in a ruckus remarkably similar to the one in Plymouth.
But Curtis poured over $1 million into it and in time it again became one of the most popular weeklies of the country.
After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.
The only one who would have him was his cripple, the strange unhappy woman who became his wife.
Eventually such incidents became more sporadic, and more sharply demarcated from her day-after-day behavior, and in one particular session, after several minutes of such behavior -- which, as usual, went on without any accompanying words from her -- she asked, eagerly, `` Did you see Granny ''??
This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.
When it became obvious that he could stay inside no longer, taking a thousand to one chance Gonzales rushed outside, square against the muzzle of a Winchester.
His problem then became one of restraining the American fighters who wanted to clean out the Vermejo by force immediately.
In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.
In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.
Later, he became one of the central spirits of the Army Language Program and the language school of Washington's Foreign Service Institute.
Another Yankee became so disgusted as to state: `` I wish to God one half of our officers were knocked in the head by slinging them against ( the other half ) ''.
Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.
But at this the one too-large cat suddenly became two cats, stretching.
He merely became victimized by a form of athletics that respects no one and aggravates all.
But after that 12 at Los Angeles he became one of the boys, a bigger hero than he ever had been before.
At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.
As a youth he became one of Finney's band of evangelists and gave himself to winning young men.
Bob Carroll may not bear quite as close a physical resemblance to LaGuardia as Tom Bosley does, but I was amazed at the way he became more and more Fiorello as the evening progressed, until one had to catch one's self up and remember that this wasn't really LaGuardia come back among us again.
As he grew into his teens, he willingly took responsibility for all chores expected of him as one of the boys in the household and became an adept axeman in his work building rail fences.
Stanton was one of many conservative Democrats ( he supported Breckenridge in the 1860 election ) who became anti-slavery Republicans under Lincoln's leadership.

became and Gaye's
Although the album was not as commercially successful as its predecessor was, it contained three high-charting singles, including the title track, " True Colors " which became Lauper's second song to hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100, " Change of Heart " ( No. 3 ) and a cover of Marvin Gaye's " What's Going On " ( No. 12 ) followed.
In 1964, he scored his first hit duets with singer Mary Wells including " Once Upon a Time ", which was later featured on the duo's album, Together, which became Gaye's first charted album.
In October 1968, Gaye's recording of " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ", which became Gaye's first to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and also reached the top of the charts in other countries, selling well over a million copies.
The album became Gaye's first million-selling album and featured two more top-ten hits, " Mercy Mercy Me ( The Ecology )" and " Inner City Blues ".
Its title track became Gaye's second number-one single on the Billboard pop chart.
This and a May appearance on Soul Train, his third appearance overall on the show, became Gaye's final television performances.
The topic of divorce became a major topic that centered around the Here, My Dear album, while Gaye's concerns of the world in the context of his religious beliefs and his conflict with " good " and " evil " formed the basis of the In Our Lifetime album.
James became godfather of Gaye's daughter Nona.
Gaye's song became an important influence and motivation for Michael Jackson, who was searching to write a potential hit after The Jacksons had struggled with previous offerings.
Gaye's version peaked at # 22 on the Hot 100 chart and its title soon became a catchphrase.
The album version of the single featured on Gaye's second album, That Stubborn Kinda Fellow is different in parts to the single version presenting a more jazz effect than the gospel-emulated version that became a single.
The single became Gaye's most successful duet single to date, later outperformed by Gaye's duets with Tammi Terrell.
The troubled marriage between Gordy and Gaye became the focal point of Gaye's 1978 album, Here, My Dear.
Released on April 30, 1969, the album became Gaye's first solo album to reach the Top 40 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, peaking at # 33, and also became his first # 1 album on the Soul Albums Chart.

became and signature
In 1940 " New San Antonio Rose " sold a million records and became the signature song of The Texas Playboys.
Indeed, the convoy averaged only 5 mph from Washington, D. C. to San Francisco ; later the improvement of highways became a signature issue for Eisenhower as President.
During this time he began using the Harmon mute, held close to the microphone, in a way that grew to be his signature, and his phrasing, especially in ballads, became spacious, melodic, and relaxed.
Moore's energetic comic performances as Van Dyke's character's wife, begun at age 24 ( eleven years Van Dyke's junior ), made both the actress and her signature tight capri pants extremely popular, and she became internationally famous.
" Trademarks such as increased synthesizer usage, lengthy songs reminiscent of miniature concept albums, and highly dynamic playing featuring complex time signature changes became a staple of Rush's compositions.
Lacy also became a highly distinctive composer with a signature simplicity of style, with compositions often built out of little more than a single questioning phrase, repeated several times.
The suit minus the silver accessories became her signature outfit which she wore, primarily for fight scenes, in early episodes, and in the titles.
They made Lord Grey prime minister 1830 – 1834, and the Reform Act of 1832 became their signature measure.
The same engraved illustration appeared on the canary-yellow cover of each monthly part ; this colour became Thackeray's signature ( as a light blue-green was Dickens '), allowing passers-by to notice a new Thackeray number in a bookstall from a distance.
They made Lord Grey prime minister 1830 – 1834, and the Reform Act 1832 became their signature measure.
Her signature dress of large upturned hat with netting and dresses with draped panels of fabric became a distinctive personal style.
In the early 1990s, Nirvana's signature " stop-start " song format became a genre convention.
The next single, " I Honestly Love You ", became Newton-John's signature song.
The harmonium became her signature instrument for the rest of her career.
In 1988, Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, and Ronald Rivest became the first to rigorously define the security requirements of digital signature schemes.
He later studied the Schillinger technique with Joseph Schillinger, under whose tutelage he composed what became his signature theme, " Moonlight Serenade ".
Her first album, entitled Al Ahavot Shelanu ( Our Love ), was released in 1980 and yielded a string of popular radio hits, including Hageshem ( The Rain ), Shir Ahava La ' chayal ( Love Song For The Soldier ), Kmo Tzipor ( Like A Bird ) and what ultimately became her signature song in Israel, Shir Ha ' frecha ( The Bimbo Song ).
We set the thing up front in D-flat, and then we just went on playing in F ." It became his signature tune.
This song became one of his signature songs and also endured as a nickname for Melody for many years.
Cassidy became first to have a hit with I Write The Songs, a Top 20 record in Great Britain before the song became Barry Manilow's signature tune.
The follow-up, " My Home's in Alabama ", became their signature song and reached the Top 20 in March 1980.
His composition, " Melody in A Major " in 1912 became a well-known piano and violin song, and it was played at many official functions as his signature tune.
It has also been said that Gen. Stark himself used a similar flourish at the end of his signature which became a point of confusion to Indiana officials.
He wrote Tompall Glaser's highest-charting solo single " Put Another Log on the Fire ", " One's on the Way " ( a hit for Loretta Lynn ), " The Unicorn " ( which became the signature piece for the Irish Rovers in 1968 ) and " 25 Minutes to Go ", sung by Johnny Cash, about a man on Death Row with each line counting down one minute closer.

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