Johnson's 2009 season got off to a very slow start, despite Johnson keeping his starting job.

In one of Johnson's obituaries, Tim Bullamore wrote, " Although the world at large was slow to accept his work, Johnson remained cheerful and unruffled.

Much of the comedy surrounding the Johnsons is based on Mrs. Johnson's sympathy towards Alf, often letting him walk all over them and much to the anger of Mr. Johnson.

Johnson's fat hand, another bottle were protruding from the truck cab, and that self-proclaimed Baptist teetotaler, had a bottle at his own lips.

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

Johnson's reconstruction policies failed to promote the rights of the Freedmen ( newly freed slaves ), and he came under vigorous political attack from Republicans, ending in his impeachment by the U. S. House of Representatives ; he was acquitted by the U. S. Senate.

Though she suffered from consumption, Eliza supported Johnson's endeavors.

Johnson's third term in Congress found him stiffening in his opposition to non essential government spending, from expenses of the new Smithsonian Institute to the purchase of portraits for the White House.

Johnson's purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867 was his most important foreign policy action.

* Johnson's obituary, from The New York Times

He was obtained from the Yankees in exchange for Luis Vizcaino, Ross Ohlendorf, Alberto Gonzalez and Steven Jackson, with the Yankees paying $ 2 million of Johnson's $ 26 million salary.

His love for numerous styles of music can be traced from his early recording of stride-pianist James P. Johnson's " Johnson Rag ," all the way to the rock stylings of Eric Johnson, an invited guest on Atkins's recording sessions who, when Chet attempted to copy his influential rocker " Cliffs of Dover ," led to Atkins's creation of a unique arrangement of " Londonderry Air ( Danny Boy ).

Major poems in the closed couplet, apart from the works of Dryden and Pope, are Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes, Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, and John Keats's Lamia.

Scottish author Hugh Blair's 1763 A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian upheld the work's authenticity against Johnson's scathing criticism and from 1765 was included in every edition of Ossian to lend the work credibility.

After the war, as President of what is now Washington and Lee University, Lee supported President Andrew Johnson's program of Reconstruction and intersectional friendship, while opposing the Radical Republican proposals to give freed slaves the vote and take the vote away from ex-Confederates.

" A further theory is that it derives from Johnson's word skavoovie, with which he was known to greet his friends.

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.

In the end, Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, who presided over the trial, was thought to have brought about Johnson's acquittal by the Senate with his statements from the bench.

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.

This was Johnson's first bout since winning the heavyweight title from Tommy Burns.

After this accomplishment, Johnson's practice grew as projects came in from the public realm, including coordinating the master plan of Lincoln Center and designing that complex's New York State Theater.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work that Defined the English Language ( 2002 )

By a majority of one member ( 29 – 28 ) the committee voted to certify Johnson's nomination, with the last vote cast on Johnson's behalf by Temple, Texas, publisher Frank W. Mayborn, who rushed back to Texas from a business trip in Nashville, Tennessee.

His lack of influence was thrown into relief later that year when Kennedy appointed Johnson's friend Sarah T. Hughes to a federal judgeship ; whereas Johnson had tried and failed to garner the nomination for Hughes at the beginning of his vice presidency, House Speaker Sam Rayburn wrangled the appointment from Kennedy in exchange for support of an administration bill.

Legend has it that, as he put down his pen, Johnson told an aide, " We have lost the South for a generation ", anticipating a coming backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party.

The Great Society program, with its name coined from one of Johnson's speeches, became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, Medicaid, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime, and removal of obstacles to the right to vote.

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

Johnson's vintage independent streak put him very much at odds with professional military commanders, including Gen. Don Carlos Buell who left Nashville defenseless when he had to reinforce Grant at the Battle of Shiloh.

The House managers are seated beside the quarter-circular tables on the left and the president's personal counsel on the right, much in the fashion of President Andrew Johnson's trial.

Dallas defensive end Tony Tolbert sacked O ' Donnell on third down for a 9-yard loss, however, forcing Pittsburgh to settle for kicker Norm Johnson's 46-yard field goal with 11: 20 left in the game, cutting the deficit to 20-10.

The organizers of the fight explained the fiasco by asserting that Jack Johnson's left arm was broken in the third round.

Eventually Clifford moved very close, with Johnson's tacit support, to the views McNamara held on Vietnam just before he left office — no further increases in U. S. troop levels, support for the bombing halt, and gradual disengagement from the conflict.

Upon Johnson's death, the Fayette County Court ruled that " he left no widow, children, father, or mother living.

Having protested U. S. President Lyndon Johnson's presence at the opening of that year's World's Fair, Goodman left New York to train and develop civil rights strategies at Western College for Women ( now part of Miami University ) in Oxford, Ohio.

** Gladys Ormphby – A drab, though relatively young spinster who was the eternal target of Arte Johnson's Tyrone ; when Johnson left the series, Gladys retreated into recurring daydreams, often involving marriages to historical figures, including Christopher Columbus and Benjamin Franklin ( both played by Alan Sues ).

Paul B. Johnson, Sr. in December 1943, Murphree finished out the three weeks left in Johnson's term, serving until the swearing in of Thomas L. Bailey in January 1944.

Welles ultimately left the Cabinet on March 3, 1869, having returned to the Democratic Party after disagreeing with Andrew Johnson's reconstruction policies but supporting him during his impeachment trial.

Driving away the few British and Indians left in those camps ( and taking four prisoners along the way ), the Patriots collected blankets and other personal possessions from the Indian camps, and also successfully raided John Johnson's camp, taking his letters and other writings ( including an intercepted letter to Gansevoort from his fiancée ).

In 1956, Johnson's mother left for West Berlin.

After Johnson left to become the provost of Johns Hopkins University, Robert L. Clark became dean pending a national search for Johnson's replacement.

The boxy building at middle left is the former Howard Johnson's | Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, used during the 1972 Watergate burglaries to monitor the break-ins and wiretaps across the street.

At Johnson's suggestion, Griffith left Chicago in to take over as manager of the New York Highlanders.

One of the original prosecutors, Glenn Stevens, left the case and stated that other prosecutors had withheld evidence from the defense, including the information that Johnson's son did not actually identify Ray Buckey in a series of photographs.

Most of the Shivercrats either left public life or became Republicans after Johnson's presidency, as the liberal-moderate faction was in firm control of the state party after 1970.

His mother, an alcoholic, left the family when her son was a child ; Johnson's relationship with his father was chilly.

After catching Davey Johnson's fly ball for the final out of the World Series, left fielder Cleon Jones gave the game ball to Koosman.

On September 24, 2000, after former Jets teammate Keyshawn Johnson claimed that comparing Chrebet to him was like " comparing a flashlight to a star ," Chrebet caught an 18-yard TD pass from Curtis Martin with 52 seconds left to give the Jets a 21-17 victory against Johnson's team at the time ( the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ).

Rookie running back J. J. Johnson's 2-yard touchdown run finished the drive with 4: 46 left in the game, and the Seahawks could not score again.

He was followed by Darrin Johnston, who was replaced in 2002 by Andy Vance who left Salem Communications in 2005 to found the Buckeye Ag Radio Network, and later acquire Johnson's ABN Radio.