Greg took the formation wide around three A-26 attack bombers that were headed north over the Gulf.

He rode in at the head of sixty trigger-happy and liquor-crazed desperadoes and took over a livery barn at the entrance to Main Street.

Citizens took the view that a lawman was expected to risk his life on the odd occasion anyway, but this fighting fury of a man risked it regularly over a period of half a century.

Harold, with brothers Frank, Joe and William, took over at the death of their father, Harry M. Stevens, who put a few dollars into a baseball program, introduced the `` hot dog '' and paved the way for creation of a catering empire.

In his first six weeks in office he presided over 96 conferences, attended 35 official breakfasts and dinners, studied and signed 285 official papers and personally took 312 telephone calls.

He did not really want to kill, but as in the sexual act, there was a moment when the impulse took over and could not be downed, even while you watched yourself giving way to it.

it took them over an hour to get back to the station where they should have changed, in order to take the line that went to the Place Redoute.

) The plants took zero nights in their stride, with nothing but a mat of straw over the glass to protect them.

the hostess in her took over.

The vision of a Lord Tennyson expressed in a poem 100 years ago took visible form over London in the air blitzes of 1941.

The attitudes which the Rebs and Yanks took toward each other were very much the same and ranged over the same gamut of feeling, from friendliness to extreme hatred.

So filled was Mel Chandler with the spirit of Garryowen that after Korea was over, he took on the job of writing the complete history of the regiment.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

It was his brag that he could beat everybody at anything, but especially at fighting, and he once took on the manager of his club and worked him over thoroughly with his fists.

When Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov took it over in 1957 from Georgi Zaroubin, he made a determined effort to change this idea.

I took the pint bottle from my pocket and handed it over as I sat down beside him on the spread blanket.

The Birds got five hits and all three of their runs off Kunkel before Hartman took over in the top of the fourth.

Jim Gentile bounced a hard shot off Kunkel's glove and beat it out for a single, and when Lumpe grabbed the ball and threw it over first baseman Throneberry's head Brandt took third and Gentile second on the error.

Then the pixies and the zombies took over while the banshees wailed in the distance.

Fiedler went on to make several other test flights before German pilots took over the Reichenberg missiles.

He made his fortune during World War 2, when he took over a number of dying steel plants and kept them alive until the boom.

The Belgian government itself took over administration, commencing a program of paternalism unmatched in the history of colonialism.

Olivetti took over Underwood, the U.S. typewriter maker, in late 1959.

Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

George Shearing took over with his well disciplined group, a sextet consisting of vibes, guitar, bass, drums, Shearing's piano and a bongo drummer.

The Council of State, which replaced the Privy Council, took over many of the executive functions of the monarchy.

Integrated circuits ( of the analogue and digital type ) gradually took over all of the functions that the Compactron was designed for.

Also in that year, local poor law boards, with a mix of magistrates and elected " guardians " took over the health and social welfare functions of the grand juries.

It was a United Nations specialized agency and took over many of the functions of the earlier United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

Gottwald took over most presidential functions until 14 June, when he was formally elected president.

Homosexuality was illegal in Germany, though sometimes tolerated, as some functions were allowed by the police who took the opportunity to register the names of homosexuals for future reference.

Marshall took supply and demand as stable functions and extended supply and demand explanations of prices to all runs.

Next, the National Security Act of 1947 established the United States's first permanent peacetime intelligence agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, which then took up the functions of the OSS.

In English law it is usually created by the decision of a higher court, such as the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, which took over the judicial functions of the House of Lords in 2009.

Recent constitutional changes saw a new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom come into being in October 2009 that took on the appeal functions of the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords.

Many people have surmised that the decision to abolish the GLC was made because of the existence of a high-spending left-wing Labour administration under Livingstone, although pressure for the abolition of the GLC had arisen before Mr Livingstone took over, and was largely driven by the belief among the outer London Borough councils that they could perform the functions of the GLC just as well.

After the July 20 Plot in 1944, the Ausland-SD also took over all functions of the Abwehr, or military intelligence.

Within a year Beria's downfall caused the MVD to be split up again ; after that, the MVD retained its " internal security " ( police ) functions, while the new KGB took on " state security " ( secret police ) functions.

It took the neophytes 16 years to build the new church, which still stands today and functions as a parish church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

The " Chairman of the Nationalist Government ," though not given specific presidential powers, took on the functions of a de facto head of state and its official English translation was " President of the National Government of the Republic of China ".

And despite some initially enthusiastic users, FrameMaker never really took off in the academic market, because of the company's unwillingness to incorporate various functions ( such as support of endnotes or of long footnotes split across pages ), or to improve the equation editor.

Various wrappers were developed by Microsoft that took over some of the more low level functions of the Windows API, and allowed applications to interact with the API in a more abstract manner.

It has been suggested that Mary took over some functions of earlier deities, including Laima.

She may have been of greater importance prehistorically, before Enki took over most of her functions.

A Thurrock Development Corporation was recently imposed and took over much of the borough's planning functions in 2005.

The quodlibet took on additional functions between the beginning and middle of the 19th century, when it became known as the potpourri and the musical switch.

After 1943, when fascism ended, De Nicola was perhaps the most influential mediator for the creation of the title " Lieutenant-General of the Realm ", by which the king's son Prince Humbert took over most of the functions of the sovereign.

During the 17th century it was divided into four divisions, which, along with the Liberty of Westminster, largely took over the administrative functions of the hundred.

They partly took over the functions of the former town councils of each of the districts.