Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

He was tall and dark-skinned, a half-breed, Wilson thought.

It was obvious that he wished himself different from the sort of person he thought he was.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

Perhaps it was insane, Pamela thought.

It was not, thought Pamela, such an evil place after all.

Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.

The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.

You thought I was a Mexican, didn't you, buddy ''??

Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.

She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

The husky 6-3, 205-pound lefthander, was in command all the way before an on-the-scene audience of only 949 and countless of television viewers in the Denver area.

The premiere was dubbed a ratings hit, with an audience of 3. 3 million total viewers.

This coverage was improved in 1998 with the advent of digital television in the United Kingdom allowing satellite and digital terrestrial television viewers to also view the service.

The design of this ticker was slightly altered with the 2007 graphics redesign and from June turned red to indicate breaking news, as Newswatch reported viewers ' confusion.

He was the travelling reporter for the highly acclaimed, but controversial, BBC mockumentary Ghostwatch, which tricked viewers into believing it was a live investigation into ghost sightings in a suburban home on Halloween night ( 1992 ).

In spite of rising popularity with viewers, Coronation Street was criticised by some for its outdated portrayal of the urban working-class, and its representation of a community that was a nostalgic fantasy.

The episode was watched by over 24 million viewers – more ITV viewers than the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana two days later.

With prime time competition, Corrie was again seen as being old fashioned, with the introduction of the ' normal ' Clayton family in 1985 being a failure with viewers.

The episode where Gail was told of her daughter's pregnancy was watched by 15 million viewers.

From 1999 to 2001, Jane MacNaught was Coronation Street's executive producer, and received harsh criticism from both viewers and critics.

Such storylines were unpopular with viewers and ratings dropped and in October 2001, Macnaught was abruptly moved to another Granada department and Carolyn Reynolds took over.

The storyline saw viewing figures peaking at 13. 3 million, and the episode on 2 April 2007, where Tracy was found guilty of Charlie's murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, was watched by 12. 6 million viewers.

Viewership peaked on Christmas Day 1987 when an average of 28. 5 million viewers tuned in to see Hilda Ogden leave the street to start a new life as a housekeeper for long term friend Dr Lowther ( although there is some confusion as to whether or not this was actually the highest rating episode due to a special omnibus repeat of that week's episodes being combined with the original airing ).

At the series outset, the producers felt that his character would be too over-the-top for viewers and planned to drop him after his debut, but early test screenings showed that he was popular with the audience.

The procedure was sometimes practiced in musicals when the actor had an unsatisfactory singing voice, and remains in use to enable the screening of audio-visual material to a mass audience in countries where viewers do not speak the same language as the original performers.

The number of subscribers, paying between £ 4. 99 and £ 11. 99 each, was estimated at between 250, 000 and 300, 000 and the total number of viewers at around 500, 000.

The move has attracted some criticism as to how it relates directly to the disappearance of the toddler, but the BBC has defended its actions by stating that " In the current circumstances it was felt any storyline that included a child abduction would be inappropriate and could cause distress to our viewers.

The 2007 domestic abuse storyline involving Ben Mitchell and Stella Crawford attracted sixty complaints from viewers, who found scenes where Ben was attacked by bullies as Stella looked on " upsetting ".

The series finale ( the 236th episode ), airing on May 6, 2004, was watched by 51. 1 million American viewers, making it the fourth most watched series finale in television history and the most watched episode of the decade.

* Samples Sales: Used car salesman role for Junior Samples, with Misty Rowe as his later assistant, in his guise as a magician called Junior the Great, would try to palm off a major ' clunker ' and then hold up a sign to remind viewers that his phone number was " BR-549 ".

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.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

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

Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.

Evidently this was a precaution so that mounts would be available in an emergency.

The coyote was calling again, and he hoped that this time there would be no other sounds to interrupt it.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

This, he was sure, was the way they would act ; ;

But her mother would rebuke her if she mentioned it, and say that it was none of her concern.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

Probably his horse would be close to where he was hiding.

From the way the wound in his head was itching, Dan knew that it would heal.

Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.