The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.

He thought about it and he told the man he just couldn't do it over in accordance with the suggestions he had made.

Within themselves, just as people, my friends were often tortured and unappeasably bitter about being the offspring of this unhappily unique-ingrown-screwedup breed ; ;

`` Now, if I can just figure out what he's talking about, I'll use it ''.

If we go into this Common Market, we might just as well stop talking about Constitutional guarantees, Connally Amendments or, for that matter, conservatism in general.

I was just asking about it.

It always came on, faithfully, just like a radio or juke box, whenever he started to worry too much about something, when the bad things tried to push their way into him.

I wanted to wipe my flint, but I didn't dare to, the state my hands were in, just as I didn't dare to do anything about the priming.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

She just about made me carry her upstairs and then she clung to me and wouldn't let me go.

But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.

he just can't do anything about it at all!!

And it is thought by many who think about such things that Quasimodo is the logical culmination of a school that started with Monet, progressed through Kandinsky and the cubist Picasso, and blossomed just recently in Pollock and De Kooning.

`` Success '' and `` failure '' are just convenient labels for the two categories of outcomes when we talk about binomial trials in general.

It is pertinent to ask the question: Has the long upswing of interest rates during the past 15 years just about run its course, and are we now entering a period in which both capital market forces and Federal policies will produce a prolonged decline of interest rates??

later he flees in panic from the family table just as his theft is about to be discovered and is blocked at the front door by a soldier who accusingly holds out a pair of handcuffs which he has brought to Gargery's forge for mending.

Before the airplanes came, he said, travel in Laos was just about impossible.

There is reason to suppose that Lucy would have made a record as publicly distinguished as her brother had it not been that her mother's death occurred just as she was about to enter college.

Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.

It was just that she felt deeply about every patient on the ward and wanted to believe that they might benefit from their treatment there.

No need leave a note with it, either -- or maybe just something like, Don't worry about me, I'm going away to make a better life.

Also, it's just possible she might know something about Mrs. Gilborn ''.

One of the grenades wounded Linder, and as he lay there a contra came up and blew his brains out ...’ son Ben was killed by somebody paid by somebody paid by somebody paid by President Reagan .’” Linder ’ s father has a valid point since Reagan himself had stated “ I ’ m a contra too ”, compared the contras with the founding fathers and the people in the French resistance, and then spent the money, $ 100 million in military aid issued just in 1986 to the contras.

Gen. Grant, who had just arrived at his headquarters in City Point, narrowly escaped certain death when Confederate spies blew up an ammunition barge moored below the city's bluffs.

" Grave's Ola Lindgren and Bolt Thrower's Karl Willetts both rate South of Heaven as amongst the top five albums of all time, while Max Kolesne of Brazilian death metal group Krisiun remembers hearing the song " Silent Scream " for the first time: " It just blew me away.

They blew holes in the army barracks there and rapidly took control of the town at a cost of just two of his men killed.

He blew up a plane with forty people and his mother and for that the States sent him to the Gas Chamber proving, actually, that the American people are losing their sense of humor ... You just think about it, anybody who blows up a plane with forty people and his mother can't be all bad.

" THE EXPLOSION: 50 YEARS LATER, TEXAS CITY STILL REMEMBERS /' Texas City just blew up '/ A powerful chemical explosion 50 years ago propelled a small port town into an unwelcome national and world spotlight.

He sighs, believing he blew his chances with the beautiful redhead by leaving, but Mary Jane tells him she saved the last dance just for him, and the two share a slow dance in the empty gym.

In 1944 a German doodlebug exploded just outside the organ end of the Great Hall and blew in the Rose Window, leaving the organ exposed to the elements.

: It took a lot of hours to make the tape transfers but I got a big thrill out of hearing them all over again and I want to say that there were many occasions when my emotions blew up and I just plain bawled.

He Lasted just two-thirds of an inning and gave up three earned runs on his way to a 9 – 0 loss ( the Cubs blew the Mets out in the first game as well, 7 – 2 ).

" Dear Maestro McBirnie, just blew me away.

Grich came closest in his final MLB season ( 1986 ), when the Angels, leading the ALCS by a 3-1 margin and thus needing just one more win to advance to the World Series, blew a 5-2 lead to the Boston Red Sox in the ninth inning of Game 5, then lost Games 6 and 7 as well.

On July 17 just 20 minutes into Cheap Trick ’ s set, a thunderstorm blew through the festival area.

However, the referee blew the whistle for full-time just before the ball crossed over the line, and Livingston progressed through in controversial circumstances.

It holds the unofficial British record for wind speed, which in 1962 was recorded at — just before the measuring equipment blew away.

According to Filmways Publicist Ted Switzer, series creator and producer Paul Henning had decided to cast Bea Benaderet as Granny ; however, when Ryan read for the role, “ with her hair tied back in a bun and feisty as all get out, she just blew everyone away .” Al Simon ( executive producer ) and Henning immediately said: “ That ’ s Granny .” Later when Benaderet saw Ryan's tryout, she agreed.

" He came down and just blew us all away ," remembers Archer .. " I thought he was mega but the others were worried what a 15-years-old kid on the road and on the lager would be like.

" Amazon just blew me, my agent — both of us — away with their enthusiasm for doing something so wonderful as resurrecting books that never should have gone out of print in the first place ," Pearl said on National Public Radio's Morning Edition.

With just over three laps remaining, Salvadori's privately-entered Cooper blew its engine, just as his teammate John Surtees ' car had done on the first lap.

De Cesaris's fairy tale run ended just three laps from the end when his engine blew, promoting Berger to second and Piquet to third.

Chargers blew off regularly and power output had to be reduced down to the level of the non-turbo cars just to achieve the necessary reliability.

When Lauda also blew up just a lap after Andretti, their dice was suddenly over third place.

* The Chicago Cubs just missed advancing to their first World Series since 1945, as they blew a 3 games to 1 lead against the Marlins in the 2003 NLCS.