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was and directed
Theirs is no mere lack of sympathy, but something closer to the passionate hatred that was directed against Fascism.
This is a radical change in attitude from the conditions which prevailed several years ago, when a series of bombings was directed against Negroes who were moving into previously all-white neighborhoods of Dallas.
The 1952 demographic inquiry in Ruanda-Urundi was directed by V. Neesen, a member of the IRSAC staff, though the inquiry was carried out under the auspices of AIMO, which has continuing responsibility for demographic statistics in this territory.
Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.
For another second or two he gave in to the annoyance that was directed at himself ; ;
Most of the fire was directed by Cotten against Dallas and Sen. Parkhouse.
The resentment among Democratic organization leaders to the reported Wagner plan was directed particularly at the Mayor's efforts to name his own running mates without consulting the leaders.
One of the eight defendants was freed on a directed verdict of acquittal.
Among stage performances was a starring role in `` Golden Arrow '' directed by Noel Coward.
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.
The book is by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction by Jack Elliott, and the production was directed by Mr. Abbott.
Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.
The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".
The Intelligent Mechatronics Lab, directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Tokyo University of Science, has developed an android head called Saya, which was exhibited at Robodex 2002 in Yokohama, Japan.
In the case of the tapering worm tubes Selkirkia, trilobites are always found with their heads directed towards the opening of the tube, suggesting that they reversed in ; the absence of any moulted carapaces suggests that moulting was not their primary reason for seeking shelter.
In three arduous campaigns, the first two of which were conducted by the emperor himself while the third was directed by Manuel Comnenos ( great-uncle of Emperor Manuel Comnenos ), the Turks were defeated in detail in 1070 and driven across the Euphrates.
Murder, She Said ( 1961, directed by George Pollock ) was the first of four British MGM productions starring Rutherford.
The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!
While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic peoples, the term was coined in the late 19th century in Germany as a more scientific-sounding term for Judenhass (" Jew-hatred "),
The ongoing conflict with Azerbaijan over the ethnic Armenian-dominated region of Nagorno-Karabakh ( which was part of Soviet Azerbaijan ) and the breakup of the centrally directed economic system of the former Soviet Union contributed to a severe economic decline in the early 1990s.

was and swing
Although the fort was evacuated in the face of the force of Cornwallis, Morgan and his men did have a chance to take another swing at the redcoats.
Symbolism as an art movement was in full swing at this time and L ' Ymagier provided a nexus for many of its key contributors.
This makes the opponent's task of covering the whole court much more difficult than if the lift was hit higher and with a bigger, obvious swing.
The problem was exacerbated by the orders to only anchor at the bow, which allowed the ships to swing with the wind and widened the gaps.
James Robert Wills ( March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975 ), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.
Considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western swing, he was universally known as the King of Western Swing.
To call the dance " collegiate shag " was not as common during the swing era as it is today, but when it was used ( as it was with other vernacular dances of the time ) it was meant to indicate the style of the dance that was popular amongst the college crowd.
And, though double shag is the most popular form of collegiate shag today, single was the dominant rhythm during the swing era.
Hughes was a professor in the 1890s, a staunch supporter of Britain's New Liberalism, an important leader of the progressive movement of the 20th century, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and was known for being a swing voter when dealing with cases related to the New Deal in the 1930s.
record collection ) where they danced to American swing music, which a DJ played on a single turntable when a jukebox was not available.
All I did was swing a bat at that guy and get swung at in return.
By the start of World War I the cinema in Poland was already in full swing, with numerous adaptations of major works of Polish literature screened ( notably the Dzieje grzechu, Meir Ezofowicz and Nad Niemnem.
The plan was that the New Zealand 2nd Division — with the remains of Indian 5th Division and 7th Motor Brigade under its command — would swing north to threaten the Axis flank and rear.
") Regardless of whether the joke teller was female or male, a portion of the fence would swing up and hit them on the rear end after the punch line was delivered.
The character was a clown ... with red cheeks and wild clown hair ... and the running joke was his attempts of becoming a big singing star and in every skit just as he was preparing to pull out a guitar and start to sing, the camera would zoom out and the door swing shut.
* Hee Haw Honky Tonk: When the Urban Cowboy craze was in full swing, Hee Haw had its honky tonk, where all the cast would throw out their one liners.
This very short xiphos would be very advantageous in the press that occurred when two lines of hoplites met, capable of being thrust through gaps in the shieldwall into an enemy's unprotected groin or throat, while there was no room to swing a longer sword.

was and wide
Our camp was in the center of a wide valley.
The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.
This was just Richard's way of saying that last year the Birds opened spring training with a lot of jobs wide open.
The mouth was thin-lipped and wide, the long cleft in the upper lip like a slide.
They tried to outface him, but Joseph Simmons was as wide as two average men, and it would have taken braver men than these were to outface him.
It was recognized that skywave signals, because of their reflected nature, are of great variability and subject to wide fluctuations in strength.
There was Wright's, for one, lost amongst trees, its wide verandas strewn with rockers.
She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous.
The wholesale death of cattle as a result of blizzards, and sometimes droughts, over a wide range of territory was called a `` die-up ''.
She was standing on a flat rock three feet above ground and when she saw him she rose to full height and roared, opening her mouth wide, lashing her tail, and stamping at the rock with both forefeet in irritation, as much as to say: `` How dare you disturb me in my sacred precinct ''??
Color was delayed until 1935, the wide screen until the early fifties.
It was a narrow road, barely wide enough for two cars to pass.
Catcher Frank House's throw in an effort to nab Throneberry was wide and in the dirt.
He was also pleased with the wide distribution because he thought it proved again his argument that Dallas investment men can do just as good a job as the big New York investment bankers claim only they can do.
Finally, there was a wide area of agreement on the value of the President's making a final effort in the summit spotlight for a nuclear test accord.
Suddenly he was interrupted in his daydreaming by a warm wetness lapping against his chin, and his eyes opened wide and long at the sight of a goat's claret tongue, feasting against the salt taste of him.
the question was too wide for the sparse English language.
He was wide awake, but he did not feel like doing anything.
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā ( Persian پور سينا Pur-e Sina " son of Sina "; c. 980 – 1037 ), commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived.
Agrarianism claimed agriculture was the source of all wealth and called for the wide distribution of land as the foundation of democracy and freedom.
The hills just east of downtown showcase the eroded remains of the five mile ( 8 km ) wide impact crater that was blasted into the bedrock, with the area labeled the Wetumpka crater or astrobleme (" star-wound ") for the concentric rings of fractures and zones of shattered rock can be found beneath the surface.
He was highly esteemed as a man of sound judgment and wide knowledge.
First, he explains that in all of history there has never been a miracle which was attested to by a wide body of disinterested experts.

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