He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.

Dawn would come soon and the night was at its coldest.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

Then he was on his way at a gallop.

He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

Naval Air Station Alameda ( NAS ), at Alameda Point, was decommissioned in 1997, and is in process of being turned over to the City of Alameda for civilian development.

Leeward Point Field was constructed in 1953 as part of Naval Air Station ( NAS ) Guantanamo Bay.

Strategic Air Command in the United Kingdom was among the command's largest overseas concentrations of forces, with additional forces at bases in North Africa during the 1950s and 1960s in addition to SAC bomber, tanker, and / or reconnaissance aircraft assets at the former Ramey AFB, Puerto Rico in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and at Andersen AFB, Guam, RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom and the former NAS Keflavik, Iceland through the 1990s.

After the war, NAS Green Cove Springs was downgraded in status to a Naval Auxiliary Air Station ( NAAS ) as part of the greater NAS Jacksonville complex.

NAS RICHMOND was the second largest airship base in the United States, NAS LAKEHURST being the largest.

NAS RICHMOND was destroyed by a hurricane and fire in September 1945.

The court ruled that EPA ’ s 10, 000-year compliance period for isolation of radioactive waste was not consistent with National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ) recommendations and was too short.

He was assigned to Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 129 ( VAQ-129 ) at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington, for initial EA-6B Prowler training.

In 1974, he graduated from U. S. Naval Test Pilot School and was assigned to the Strike Aircraft Test Directorate at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, to work on the A-6E TRAM and Cruise missile guidance systems.

The NAS panel on which Lindzen served says that the summary was the result of dialogue between scientists and policymakers.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ), and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and was named Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Meteorological Society.

The first two squadrons were established in 1968: VQ-4 was initially operating from Patuxent River Naval Air Test Center in Maryland and VQ-3 was initially formed at Agana, Guam but later moved to NAS Barbers Point, Hawaii.

It operated three aircraft plants, at the Brewster Building in Long Island City, New York, Newark, New Jersey, and, in 1941, in Warminster Township, Pennsylvania, which was then known as NAS Johnsville.

Norwegian Air Shuttle ( NAS ) was founded on 22 January 1993 to take over the regional airline services produced by Busy Bee for Braathens in Western Norway.

In 2000, the NAS fleet was expanded to seven Fokker 50s.

After Braathens was bought by Scandinavian Airlines System ( SAS ) in November 2001, NAS attempted to negotiate a deal where they took over the operations on a permanent basis for their own risk.

Following the decision of SAS and Braathens to merge, NAS announced in April 2002 that it was planning to start domestic scheduled services as a low-cost carrier on the most trafficked routes.

Following further flight training at NAS, Pensacola, Florida, he was designated a naval aviator and was sent to the Asiatic Fleet, where he served as commanding officer of the seaplane tender Jason ( AV-2 ) and later, as Commander, Aircraft Squadrons, Asiatic Fleet.

He was then accepted to flight school at NAS Pensacola, where he earned his flight wings on January 17, 1939.

PNAS was established by NAS in 1914, with its first issue published in 1915.