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It was through the League that many future political leaders and rebels first met, laying the foundation for groups such as the Irish Volunteers ( 1913 ).
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The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.
He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.
The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.
The water was there, so much of it that it spread all through the dead orchard.
It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.
The slight flutter that had disturbed the motion of her heart when she entered the forest was gone now, and even the dim groves of trees through which she occasionally passed did not reawaken her fear.
A lamp burned inside, but Brannon, peering through the window, saw that the office was empty.
He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.
Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.
It was a rough long ride through the mud and pot holes.
As far as he could see there was no hole to climb through it.
It was only a fifteen-minute flight, but before it was through Greg felt himself developing a case of claustrophobia.
There was no real sign of the river now, just a roiling, oily ribbon of liquid movement through muddy waters that reached everywhere.
Ramey heard the words again inside, weakened, the way moving water sounds through a grove of trees, until he was not sure whether it was sound or light-headedness pressing in his ears.
Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.
All he had to do was light the fuses of the dynamite sticks, run to within ten yards of an open window in the barn and hurl the sticks through.
Hands-off the economy was replaced by conscious guidance through planning -- the economic side of the constitutional revolution.
Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.
Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.
He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.
Riding trains, hitching hikes on trucks across Germany, slipping through guarded frontiers with the help of secret guides, he eventually reached Vichy France, and, by the winter of 1943, was back in Virginia.
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When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.
It was one of a series of recommendations by the Texas Research League.
Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm Van Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching job with the Minnesota Vikings, the newest National Football League entry.
His goal was to obtain a National League team for this city.
When he was unable to bring about immediate expansion, he sought to convince another National League club to move here.
He was the lawyer for Ted Collins' old Boston Yankees in the National Football League.
Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team.
The presentation was made before several hundred persons at the annual meeting of the League at Olney Hall, College of Marin, Kentfield.
After the end of the Greek-Persian wars the cities on the coasts became part of the Delian League, which was, however, later dissolved.
The Mills Commission, chaired by Abraham G. Mills, the fourth president of the National League, was appointed in 1905 to determine the origin of baseball.
In 1908 he was involved in trying to start a new professional baseball league, the " Union Professional League " which took the field in April but folded one month later.
Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
The Peace of Crépy in September 1544 deprived him of this employment, but he had won a considerable reputation, and when Charles was preparing to attack the Schmalkaldic League, he took pains to win Albert's assistance.
Joining the League of Torgau in 1526, he acted in unison with the Protestants, and was among the princes who banded and plotted together to overthrow Charles V after the issue of the Augsburg Interim in May 1548.
He was one of the founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League, and served as President of the League of Nations from 1937-38.
He was nominated to represent India to the League of Nations in 1932.
In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.
In 1934, he was made a member of the Privy Council and served as a member of the League of Nations ( 1934 – 37 ), becoming the President of the League of Nations in 1937.
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Joe Purvis was thinking back many years.
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.
For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.
Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.
Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??
Then there was no saying how many times the marine had blown his nose on the handkerchief.
All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.
Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.
Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.
The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.
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!!
The contents of this 195-page document would become known to many before it would become known to the man it was written about.
`` The entire object of the press conference was to clarify the problem of the list, since many in the press were querying the U.N. about it.
It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.
The sneers at Hearst changed to concern when it was seen that he had strong support in many parts of the country.
As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.
`` Mr. Wolfe had been in declining health for many years and death was not unexpected ''.
it was demonstrated, many critics would later point out, in the length of his novels.
the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.
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