Squeezing a look between Johnson's fat jowls and the car frame a handsome and still darkhaired lady inquired `` Y'all drahve ''??

It is alluded to in Ben Johnson's masque of the Fortunate Isles: " Thomas Thumb in a pudding fat, with Doctor Rat.

The chief descriptions of her, however, come from unsympathetic accounts by Johnson's contemporaries and biographers such as his ex-pupil David Garrick, Hester Thrale and Thomas B. Macaulay: the last described her as " a short, fat, coarse woman, painted half an inch thick, dressed in gaudy colours, and fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.

Johnson's left hand was pressed against the side of his head, red cheeks whitening beneath his fingers.

I saw Johnson's bottle snatched from his hand, saw it go in a swirl of foam just behind the second car.

Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755 greatly favoured Norman-influenced spellings such as centre and colour ; on the other hand, Noah Webster's first guide to American spelling, published in 1783, preferred spellings like center and the Latinate color.

This action is due to U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing North Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam.

In 1964, Brzezinski supported Lyndon Johnson's presidential campaign and the Great Society and civil rights policies, while on the other hand he saw Soviet leadership as having been purged of any creativity following the ousting of Khrushchev.

Blacks, on the other hand, were jubilant, and celebrated Johnson's great victory as a victory for racial advancement.

On the other hand, Richard Schwartz concludes in Chapter 6 of the book that the study " was unfortunate in Tudor and Johnson's lack of regard for the potential harm to the children who participated and in their selection of institutionalized children simply because they were easily available.

As Johnson grabbed the gun, Grier placed his hand over Johnson's to help secure the weapon.

Focusing on Johnson's Presidency alone, however, some of his advisers, including Secretary of State Rusk and Walt Rostow, insisted that the Council's advisory role was actually performed principally by another institution, the Tuesday Lunch Group, and that those lunch meetings were in effect regular NSC meetings.

Although boxing was not officially segregated, white Americans had become wary of the prospect of another black champion in the wake of Jack Johnson's highly unpopular " reign of terror " atop the heavyweight division, and an informal barrier existed that kept black boxers out of title contention.

Comparison of many of Johnson's recording's of a given tune over the years does indeed demonstrate a good degree of variation from one performance to another, characterised by respect for the melody, and reliance upon a well worked out set of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic devices, such as repeated chords, serial thirds ( hence his admiration for Bach ), and interpolated scales, on which the improvisations were based.

With Johnson's term as President about to expire before another nominee could be considered, Warren remained in office for another Supreme Court term.

For instance, the 1792 edition of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language defines the noun " commerce " narrowly as " xchange of one thing for another ; interchange of any thing ; trade ; traffick ", but it defines the corresponding verb " to commerce " more broadly as " o hold intercourse.

" Johnson's line " We must either love each other, or we must die " echoes W. H. Auden's poem " September 1, 1939 " in which line 88 reads, " We must love one another or die.

Johnson never managed a finish better than fourth during his tenure, however, in 1964, with an 82-72 record, Johnson's Red Wings managed to win yet another championship.

Jacks later released " If You Go Away " ( another McKuen adaptation of a Jacques Brel song entitled " Ne Me Quitte Pas "), which reached # 8 in Great Britain and # 24 in Germany, and a cover of Kevin Johnson's " Rock ' N ' Roll ( I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life )", both of which had more success in Canada but also made the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the USA.

The biography was then done by John Hoole, another of Johnson's circle and a translator and dramatist.

Johnson's fifth anniversary as manager saw another mid-table finish, however the club did scoop a £ 1, 000 prize from the league sponsors Evo-Stick for having the best disciplinary record in the Premier Division over the 2011-12 campaign.

He managed to stay in the line-up after Johnson's return, having made a great impression on Palace boss Iain Dowie, who, later, made a public call to Scotland boss Walter Smith for the striker to be given another chance in the national side.

Breeden's interception set up another Bengals touchdown on Pete Johnson's 1-yard run, giving them a 17 – 7 lead.

At the trial, it was revealed that after stabbing Mr Johnson they had gone on to attack another man in the area and also damaged two cars. Mr Johnson's family later had two applications for criminal injuries compensation rejected on the basis that he had contributed to his own death by leaving the safety of his home to confront the teenagers about their noisy behaviour.

White teeth suddenly vanishing, the driver slammed the side of his bottle against Johnson's ear.

Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

The Indian was again raising his bottle, but to my astonished relief -- probably only a fraction of Johnson's -- the bottle this time went to the Indian's lips.

The Radicals were infuriated with Johnson's lenient policies.

Johnson's position that the best interests of the Union were served by slavery in some areas made him a practical compromise candidate for president.

Democratic conservatives approved, while the Radical Republicans, lead by Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner and Ben Wade, were appalled by Johnson's anti-negro policies.

Since Johnson's proclamations allowed the Southern states to control the procedure and conduct of their elections in 1865, prominent former Confederate leaders were elected to the U. S. Congress ( but not seated ).

The Radicals were infuriated with Johnson's lenient policies.

Johnson's counsel were adamant that he make no appearance at the trial or public comments about the proceedings, and he complied.

Many of the men involved with Johnson's acquittal committee were friends of Secretary William Seward, Johnson's strongest ally on his Presidential Cabinet.

Many critics considered Johnson's actions were passive and delayed, and thought his defense of the Monroe Doctrine in this instance was weak.

That said, going into Super Bowl XVI most experts agreed that both teams were very evenly matched, but many thought Pete Johnson's rushing ability could prove to be the difference.

The first was in 1910 when a man called Jim Johnson accused him of cheating at dice and threw him off the boat on which they were traveling ( and which Thompson had recently won when gambling with its previous owner-a friend of Johnson's ).

Lee attempted to link up with the remnants of Confederate General Joe Johnson's defeated army ; however, Union cavalry forces led by Maj. Gen. Phil Sheridan were able to stop the two armies from converging.

Grant, wishing to appear loyal to his Commander-in-Chief, agreed to accompany Johnson ; however he confided in his wife that he thought Johnson's speeches were a " national disgrace ".

Some time between 9 and 10 a. m., John Kennedy called Pennsylvania governor David L. Lawrence, a Johnson backer, to request that Lawrence nominate Johnson for vice president if Johnson were to accept the role and then went to Johnson's suite to discuss a mutual ticket at 10: 15 a. m. John Kennedy then returned to his suite to announce the Kennedy-Johnson ticket to his closest supporters and Northern political bosses.

Part of the problem was that Johnson's orders were to restore the island to such person or persons who have " sufficient procuration or authority to receive the same ..." However, most of the former Dutch colonists had now departed, having lost hope of restoration.

Many people saw Humphrey as Johnson's stand-in ; he won major backing from the nation's labor unions and other Democratic groups that were troubled by young antiwar protesters and the social unrest around the nation.

The historian Rex W. Strickland argued that the Apache had come to the meeting with their own intentions of attacking Johnson's party, but were taken by surprise.

Some tape scenes were re-used in more than one episode, with only minor changes to various insert shots and Johnson's recorded voiceover.

Johnson's duties were to schedule legislation and help pass measures favored by the Democrats.

At 10: 15 a. m. he went to Johnson's suite to discuss a mutual ticket ; the two men were alone for about 30 minutes during which time Johnson said Kennedy would have trouble with those who were strongly against him.

The task-force approach, combined with Johnson's electoral victory in 1964 and his talents in obtaining congressional approval, were widely credited with the success of the legislation agenda in 1965.

Four civil rights acts were passed, including three laws in the first two years of Johnson's presidency.

" One of Johnson's aides, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., has countered that " from 1963 when Lyndon Johnson took office until 1970 as the impact of his Great Society programs were felt, the portion of Americans living below the poverty line dropped from 22. 2 percent to 12. 6 percent, the most dramatic decline over such a brief period in this century.