He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

They had spent a million dollars, carving in a road, putting up buildings, drilling their haulage tunnel.

This time Lewis had his own rifle in his hands, and he threw some answering fire back at the mysterious far-off shot, then spent most of the day searching out the area.

Much as they had to look forward to, they didn't begrudge a moment of the time they spent seeing them go.

She had spent too many hours looking ahead, hoping and longing to catch even a glimpse of Dan and finding nothing but emptiness.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

Hearst had spent more than $60,000 of his own money in the probe, but still Attorney General Knox was quiescent.

Several years of her life have been spent in the homeland, and she had written to friends to alert them of our coming.

in three months the Army spent three-quarters as much as had been expended on the `` big Ditch '' in ten years.

He listed what he had spent for `` My own diet in London eighteen weeks, in which I was sick a month ; ;

Moreover, he had spent six months on the Galapagos islands, among the great turtles that Captain Cook had found there, and now and then he would disappear into some small island of the West Indies.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

This time, added to that which I had already spent in school prior to my induction in 1954, makes a total of twenty-two ( 22 ) years of education.

Like Mrs. Dalloway, with her regrets about Peter Walsh, he had his moments of melancholy over a youth too well spent.

He knew the house like a blind man, through his fingers, and he did not like to think of all the time and rags and polishes he had spent on keeping it up.

She eyed the chickens with, if she had known it, something of Glendora's dismal look and thought with a certain fury of the time she had spent on Latin verbs.

They had spent the morning revising the act, eliminating all the gay songs, patter and dancing with a view of the best public relations.

Mrs. Meeker had spent a small fortune on a search for him but had made no provision for him in her will if he should be found after her death, and had never mentioned his name to her lawyers.

William Smythe, director of field service, told the commissioners that Multnomah, as of Aug. 22, had spent $58,918 out of its budgeted $66,000 in the category, leaving only $7,082 for the rest of the month.

And the coffee shop on Drexel Street, where the men spent their evenings and Sundays playing cards, had a rose hedge beneath its window.

Until Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the US and UK had released more than twice as much radiation into the atmosphere as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still coming down.

The war had begun with a Mexican slaughter of American soldiers in territory disputed by Mexico and the US ; Polk insisted that Mexican soldiers had " invaded our territory and shed the blood of our fellow-citizens on our own soil ".

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an " improper physical relationship " with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

The aim was to secede Cuba from Spain, and annex it as a US state as Florida had been in 1824 through the Adams-Onis Treaty.

While in the US, Bohr married Marietta Soffer ; the couple had three children, Vilhelm, Tomas and Margrethe.

In 1999 they brought a legal challenge to this patent which had granted a private US citizen " ownership " of the knowledge of a plant that is well-known and sacred to many indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and used by them in religious and healing ceremonies.

In 1983 an a cappella group known as The Flying Pickets had a Christmas ' number one ' in the UK with a cover of Yazoo's ( known in the US as Yaz ) " Only You ".

In USA in July 1943, as a result of the American Federation of Musicians boycott of US recording studios, the a cappella vocal group The Song Spinners had a best-seller with " Comin ' In On A Wing And A Prayer ".

By the early 1960s, US research on the Nike Zeus missile system had developed to the point where small improvements would allow it to be used as the basis of a " real " ABM system.

It was also falsely reported that Ms. Musseli sent over US $ 500, 000 to Switzerland, but that was gossip given credence by newspaper items claiming that Loewe had warned his partner to not get romantically involved with a lawyer.

Whorf had met Sapir, the leading US linguist of the day, at professional conferences, and in 1931 Sapir came to Yale from the University of Chicago to take a position as Professor of Anthropology.

Steady growth in tourism receipts and a boom in construction of new hotels, resorts, and residences had led to solid GDP growth in recent years, but the slowdown in the US economy and the attacks of September 11, 2001 held back growth in these sectors in 2001-03.

Two aircraft carriers, and were simultaneously in commission and in operation during World War II, and Franklin therefore had the distinction of having two simultaneously operational US Navy warships named in his honor.

Bartók, who had made some recordings in Hungary, also recorded for Columbia Records after he came to the US ; many of these recordings ( some with Bartók's own spoken introductions ) were later issued on LP and CD ( Bartók 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 2003, 2007, 2008 ).

A privately held company, Bunge & Born did not release periodical financial statements, though it reported US $ 2 billion in gross receipts in 1962 ; by then, it had become a leader in commodity futures trading, operating 110 offices worldwide.

Bunge remained a privately held company of 180 shareholders ( including the longtime controlling family interests ) and divested itself in 1998 of almost all its retail foods interests in favor of a greater role in international agribusiness and commodity markets ; by then the company's gross annual turnover had reached US $ 13 billion.

In it, they cited six US citizens as witnesses, stating they had made sworn depositions regarding the incident before public notaries in the US.

The US last had a trade surplus in 1975.

However, due to concerns over the previous Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista the company had started foreign branches a few years prior to the revolution ; the Company moved the ownership of the Company's trademarks, assets and proprietary formulas out of the country to the Bahamas prior to the revolution as well as constructing plants in Puerto Rico and Mexico after the prohibition era to save in import taxes for rum being imported to the US.

Ospina also explains the close ties Bacardí family members had to the US political elite as well as organizations of state such as the CIA.

In February 2012 an MI5 file on Chaplin was opened to the public which revealed that the FBI had contacted the British secret service to provide them with information which would enable them to ban Chaplin from the US.

In order to promote the re-releases, Chaplin travelled to the US in 1972 for the first time in twenty years to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Lincoln Center Film Society and an Academy Honorary Award for " the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century ".

So the US had no real motivation to overthrow Sihanouk.