The cap was stuck and made a thin rusty squeaking as he applied pressure.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

He was convinced that George Orwell's 1984 was nearly all wrong as it applied to England, which was `` driving forward into uncharted waters '', with the danger of a new tyranny ahead.

Actually, of course, that label `` controversial '' applied only because he was carrying out the mandate given him by the world organization he headed rather than following the dictates of the Soviet Union.

However, in this case as elsewhere it was necessary to arrive at a single standard to be applied to all situations, representing an averaging of conditions, and thus to fix particular points in time which would be considered the dividing points between daytime and nighttime conditions.

It was indeed a remarkable feat that a man who had had no experience of bridge building should have applied the principle of the arch, which appears in his famous bridges at Portsmouth, Haverhill, and Philadelphia.

He was stirred by the announcement of Volta's discovery of chemical electricity and he immediately applied the voltaic pile to experiments with acids and alkalis.

In 1803 Oersted returned to Copenhagen and applied for the university's chair in physics but was rejected because he was probably considered more a philosopher than a physicist.

The third method was, to our knowledge, successfully applied for the first time by C. Sheer and co-workers ( Ref. 2 ).

Five milliamperes/cell were applied for 18 hr, after which the strips were stained with bromphenol blue and densitometry was carried out using a Spinco Analytrol.

Particularly was this true when the norms previously applied were no longer satisfactory to many, when customs were rapidly changing as the forces of the new productivity were harnessed.

It was applied with a compost shredder made from a converted manure spreader.

This might be applied to the top of the nose or the back of the neck, pressed on the upper lip, or inserted into the nostril ( cotton was usually used in this last ).

As the cloth dried, more of the mixture was applied, and after twenty-four hours the felon was supposed to be `` killed ''.

Bed slats were washed in alum water, legs of beds were placed in cups of kerosene, and all woodwork was treated liberally with corrosive sublimate, applied with a feather.

For erysipelas a mixture of one dram borax and one ounce glycerine was applied to the afflicted part on linen cloth.

This word was first applied to the imported hot-blooded cattle, but later was more commonly used as reference to a human tenderfoot.

During the Han dynasty, another Yin-Yang conception was applied to the Lo Shu, considering the latter as a plan of Ancient China.

Generally speaking the appellate court examines the record of evidence presented in the trial court and the law that the lower court applied and decides whether that decision was legally sound or not.

Ward died in 1903, not knowing the national stature his music would attain, as the music was only first applied to the song in 1904.

He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.

Prohibition was the law of the land, but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took up drinking in prohibition days, drinking was so gay, so fashionable, especially in the sophisticated Northeast!!

He was referring not only to the general college situation but more especially to the preparatory schools.

Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.

this was the form in which their private feud most often appeared in the Tory press, especially the Examiner.

He was seldom an unmethodical critic, and his reviews generally followed a systematic pattern: a description of what the work contained, a treatment of the things that had especially interested him in it, and, wherever possible, a balancing of whatever artistic merits and faults he might have found.

He was especially popular with women, for, like the romantic poetry he wrote, he was personally gracious, gallant, and chivalrous.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.

The city was a center of manufacture, especially in textiles, and also because of the beauty of some of its surroundings, a residence for many owners of the great industries in north Alabama.

He was stern and overbearing with his flock, but obsequious and conciliatory with the whites, especially the rich who partly supported the church.

He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.

She enjoyed great parties when she would sit up talking and dancing and drinking all night, but it always seemed to her that being alone, especially alone in her house, was the realest part of life.

Petitioner was not entitled to have the hearing officer's notes and report, especially since he failed to show any particular need for them and he did have a copy of the Department of Justice's recommendation to the appeal board.

As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.

Treatment of all the sera with sweet clover proteins greatly reduced nonspecific fluorescence, especially when the treated conjugate was diluted to 1: 2 with 0.85% saline.

This was not a search for a `` magic formula '', but rather an examination of basic principles pertaining especially to all types of communication in marriage.

`` Their house '', writes Albert S. Flint, `` was always a haven of hospitality and good cheer, especially grateful to one like myself far from home ''.

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.

But then the so-called coffee was bad enough at best, cold it was all but undrinkable -- especially that cup!!

The military occupation of the Republic of Estonia was rendered " official " by a communist coup d ' état supported by the Soviet troops, followed by " parliamentary elections " where all but pro-Communist candidates were outlawed.

In Hong Kong a pro-Communist anti-colonial strike inspired by the Cultural Revolution was launched in 1967.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was attacked by the Washington press, and politicians in the U. S. Congress, as anti-American and pro-Communist for its portrayal of corruption in the American government.

During the 1950s the pro-Communist underground cell network Hailiushe ( 海流社 ) was headquartered in the rooftop of a multi-story house on Spring Garden Lane.

Though the post of head of state was traditionally reserved for the leader of the surviving pro-Communist faction of the BZNS Bulgarian Agricultural National Union, the " Zhivkov Constitution " adopted by referendum in July 1971 promoted him to chairman of the new Council of State ( president ), giving him de jure control of Bulgarian affairs in addition of his already present de facto control.

Yet Vargas was increasingly threatened by pro-Communist elements in labor critical of the rural latifundios by 1934, who sought an alliance with the countries peasant majority by backing land reform.

As a result of this appeasement of the rural fazendeiros, Vargas was increasingly threatened by pro-Communist elements in labor critical of the latifundios by 1934 who were actually serious in their demands for land reform.

While the Eleventh Symphony was received fairly warmly in the West due in part to its assumed allusion to the Hungarian uprising of 1956 ( an allusion Shostakovich reportedly confirmed in Testimony ), the Twelfth's apparently pro-Communist subject matter led to a poor reception there.

In the West, the story of the Polish fight for Warsaw with little support, and later the shock of Home Army soldiers as Western Allies recognized the Soviet controlled pro-Communist regime installed by Stalin was an embarrassment and thus the story received little attention in the West for many years.

In the 1940s, Colón was president of the Cervantes Fraternal Society, the Spanish language division of the pro-Communist International Workers Order ( IWO ), a non-profit fraternal organization ( life & health insurance, social and cultural activities, etc.

Upon his discharge from service he painted Welcome Home, a lampoon of the arrogance of military power ; years later the painting would engender political controversy when it was included in a show of art in Moscow, and along with works by other American artists, raised suspicions in the House Un-American Activities Committee of pro-Communist sympathies.

The film was attacked by reporter Victor Riesel for being, as Riesel saw it, " pro-Communist " and " anti-American ".

It was kept under surveillance by the Communist-controlled Petru Groza government, and was infiltrated by the pro-Communist National-Agrarian Action ( Acţiunea Naţional-Agrară, ANA ).

* International Workers Order was the acronym of the International Workers Order, a pro-Communist fraternal organization and insurance company.

The leftist Barisan Sosialis was slammed by the PAP as a Communist front and attacked vehemently as being a radical pro-Communist group.

Carrying the name of the Society for Common Progress, it was — along with other criminal gangs — responsible for the White Terror massacre of approximately 5, 000 pro-Communist strikers in Shanghai in April 1927, which was ordered by Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek.

In a Straits Times report, the student was shot one mile away from a hospital, but was paraded around for two and half-hours by the pro-Communist students to further inflame the crowd's emotion.

In a review of Tottle's book in the Ukrainian Canadian Magazine, published by the pro-Communist Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, Wilfred Szczesny wrote: " Members of the general public who want to know about the famine, its extent and causes, and about the motives and techniques of those who would make this tragedy into something other than what it was will find Tottle's work invaluable " ( The Ukrainian Canadian, April 1988, p. 24 ).

Its formerly pro-Communist, pan-Yugoslav identity was abandoned, and new officers were now advised to " love, above all else, their unit, their army, and their homeland – Serbia and Montenegro ".

" Macintyre's critics, such as Greg Melluish ( History Lecturer at the University of Wollongong ), responded to the book by declaring that Macintyre was a partisan history warrior himself, and that " its primary arguments are derived from the pro-Communist polemics of the Cold War.