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It was there he met singer Anna Mae Bullock, whom he married and renamed Tina Turner, forming the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, which over the course of the sixties became a soul / rock crossover success.
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The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.
Both had blonde hair and blue eyes, and there was even a faint similarity of features.
They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.
Someone evidently was on duty there.
there was no doubt he was dying.
The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.
Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.
The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.
And there was a house ; ;
But there was water.
Yes, there was plenty of water, too much, and that was probably the trouble.
He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;
It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.
Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.
But she'd known plenty of handsomer guys, and, conceding his good looks, what was there left??
He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.
And then there was a numbing blow to the heart, and another gut-flattening blow to the stomach
No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.
Prosecutor Baird immediately assumed he was hiding out there after the shooting and began preparing an indictment.
Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.
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.
was and met
Glowering looks met them in the bar, but there was no attempt to halt them.
It was a disturbingly familiar face, too, but I couldn't remember where we had met.
I was aware that when our eyes met we both quickly averted them.
When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.
That was where he met Penny.
No wonder Wright was enchanted -- no two better suited people ever met.
Mrs. Sandburg received a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Chicago and she was busy writing and teaching when she met Sandburg.
A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.
On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.
On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.
As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.
This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.
I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;
It was faced immediately with a showdown on the schools, an issue which was met squarely in conjunction with the governor with a decision not to risk abandoning public education.
But the internationalists have taken over the governing body of the bar, and when the lads met in St. Louis, it was not to grumble about the humidity but to vote unanimously that the United Nations was scarcely less than wonderful, despite an imperfection here and there.
Brittany, that stone-gray mystery through which he traveled for thirty days, sleeping in the barns of farmers or alongside roads, had worked some subtle change in him, he knew, and it was in Brittany that he had met Pierre.
But when this proposal was made to his Deacon Board, he met unanimous opposition.
Her voice was ripe and full and her teeth flashed again in Sicilian brilliance before the warm curved lips met and her mouth settled in repose.
He also met Count Rumford ( born Benjamin Thompson in Woburn, Mass. ) who was then serving the Elector of Bavaria, and the physicist Ritter ; ;
The earlier New Haven development was public housing, so it easily leaped over the problems met in a private venture.
Fran and he had met about two years after she had arrived in Manhattan from Nebraska, or was it Wyoming??
It was during her `` writing '' period that she and Herb met and decided that they were in love.
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