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.

In 1939, a heated debate took place over whether to prohibit communists from serving in ACLU leadership roles.

During this time, his parents took part in the Spanish Civil War in supporting rather than fighting roles.

In the 1870s, the church influence started to diminish slightly with the passing of several laws that took some old roles of the church into the State's hands such as the registry of births and marriages.

He believed that not all learned individuals were qualified to doctor others, and while ministers took on several roles in the early years of the colony, including that of caring for the sick, they were now expected to stay out of state and civil affairs.

He also took roles in horror films opposite the late Margaux Hemingway in the thriller Lipstick ( 1976 ) and as a demon in the shocker The Sentinel ( 1977 ).

To avoid being type cast as villainous characters, Sarandon took on various roles in the years to come, portraying the title role in the made-for-television movie The Day Christ Died ( 1980 ).

Day subsequently took on more dramatic roles, including her 1955 portrayal of singer Ruth Etting in the biographical film of Etting's life, Love Me or Leave Me, in which she co-starred with James Cagney.

Sullivan took Skelton's roles in the various comedy sketches ; Skelton's hobo character " Freddie the Freeloader " was renamed " Eddie the Freeloader.

To assist him in the work he took on several people who were to play important roles in the design and construction of the Eiffel Tower, including Maurice Koechlin, a young graduate of the Zurich Polytechnikum, who was engaged to undertake calculations and make drawings, and Emile Nouguier, who had previously worked for Eiffel on the construction of the Douro bridge.

In 2002, Lineker took on his first acting role, barring roles playing himself in films such as Bend It Like Beckham or in the adapted-for-television stage play An Evening with Gary Lineker, as the voice of Underground Ernie on the BBC's children's channel, CBeebies.

It took his career some time to recover from this blow and in contrast to his earlier major roles, he for some years had only occasional small parts.

Brando then took a variety of roles in the 1950s: portraying Napoleon in Désirée, Sky Masterson in the musical Guys and Dolls ; Sakini, a Japanese interpreter for the U. S. Army in postwar Japan in The Teahouse of the August Moon ; as a United States Air Force officer in Sayonara, and a German officer in The Young Lions.

Her debut at Teatro alla Scala took place in 1842 as " Neocle " in the Italian version of Le siège de Corinthe, which was followed by roles in operas by Marliani, Donizetti ( as " Maffio Orsini "), Salvi and Pacini.

In this show he took 25 roles, all patients of Langham's psychotherapist ( except one, who is Langham's psychotherapist's psychotherapist ).

He took note of and encouraged the young Lester Pearson in the early 1930s, and appointed Pearson to significant roles on two major government inquiries: the 1931 Royal Commission on Grain Futures, and the 1934 Royal Commission on Price Spreads.

More frequently, he played parts that no one else wanted to play ( generally because they required a lot of make-up or uncomfortable costumes, such as a recurring knight in armour who would end sketches by walking on and hitting one of the other characters over the head with a plucked chicken ) and took a number of small roles in the films, including Patsy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( which he co-directed with Terry Jones, where Gilliam was responsible for photography, while Jones would guide the actors ' performances ) and the jailer in Monty Python's Life of Brian.

However, as food stores improved and women took on lesser roles in providing food for the family, they increasingly became subordinate to men.

The virtuosity of these roles is perhaps attributable to the fact that when he took up the task of composing the opera, Mozart already knew the outstanding reputations of the singers for whom he was writing, and he tailored the arias to their strengths.

Preferring to feel her way effectively into the industry, Diaz avoided large studio films for the next three years and took roles in the independent films The Last Supper ( 1995 ), Feeling Minnesota ( 1996 ), She's the One ( 1996 ), and Head Above Water ( 1996 ).

Many of Ford's major film roles came to him by default through unusual circumstances: he won the role of Han Solo while reading lines for other actors, was cast as Indiana Jones because Tom Selleck was not available, and took the role of Jack Ryan supposedly due to Alec Baldwin's fee demands, although Baldwin disputes this ( Baldwin had previously played the role in The Hunt for Red October ).

In 1939, Lombard took roles opposite James Stewart in producer David O. Selznick's Made for Each Other ( 1939 ) and Cary Grant in In Name Only ( 1939 ).

These pirated performances took many forms, including burlesques, productions with men playing women's roles and vice-versa, spoofs, variety acts, Minstrel show versions, all-black and Catholic productions, German, Yiddish and other foreign-language versions, performances on boats or by church choirs, and productions starring casts of children.

In addition they took over some roles which had previously been performed by county councils.

Although Caine also took better roles, including a BAFTA-winning turn in Educating Rita ( 1983 ), and an Oscar-winning one in Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) and a Golden Globe-nominated one in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( 1988 ), he continued to appear in notorious duds like the thinly veiled skin flick Blame It on Rio, the Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais comedy Water and the critical-commercial flop Jaws: The Revenge ( 1987 ) ( in which he had mixed feelings about the production and the final cut ) and Bullseye!

He took small roles in three short silent comedies starring his wife Elsa Lanchester, Daydreams, Blue Bottles and The Tonic ( all 1928 ) which had been specially written for her by H. G. Wells.