The voice was that of Johnson, tail gunner off another crew.

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.

Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.

But it was only Johnson reaching around the wire chicken fencing, which half covered the truck cab's glassless rear window.

Johnson was trying to grab the wheel, though the swerve of the truck was throwing him away from it.

But the Indian was jabbing another bottle toward Johnson.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

As Rector was walking back toward the residential hall, Johnson came out of the basement and bounded up to him.

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

John Foster Dulles escaped by keeping his personal show on the road and because Lyndon Johnson, who was then operating the Senate, refused to let it become an Inquisition.

To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.

Lincoln was a master politician, bringing together — and holding together — all the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson as well.

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

It was renamed in honor of Lyndon Johnson by federal law, soon after his death in 1973.

News footage or intentional political records that captured murders, executions or suicides, including those of Nick Berg, Saddam Hussein, Nicolae and Elena Ceaucescu, Paul Johnson, Kim Sun-il, Eugene Armstrong, John F. Kennedy, Daniel Pearl, Inejiro Asanuma, Lee Harvey Oswald and Yitzhak Rabin, and the suicides of Ricardo Cerna, and Budd Dwyer have been posted on the Internet.

** First Liberian Civil War: Liberian president Samuel Doe is captured by rebel leader Prince Johnson and killed in a filmed execution.

Cognisant that other Caribbean territories which had been captured from the Dutch during the war had already been restored, in August 1686 the Dutch ambassador was advised by the British that Tortola would be restored, and instructions to that effect were sent to Sir Nathaniel Johnson, the new Governor of the Leeward Islands.

Amherst then led an army against French troops on Lake Champlain, where he captured Fort Ticonderoga in July 1759, while another army under Sir William Johnson took Niagara also in July 1759 and James Wolfe besieged and eventually captured Quebec with a third army in September 1759.

When she left him for another man, Johnson had her captured and sold at auction.

There was too much tree cover for the British volleys to be effective against James Johnson ; three quarters of the regulars were killed or captured.

On August 30, 1654, after being captured by Abenakis at Fort at Number 4, Charlestown, New Hampshire, and being force-marched to Montreal, Susannah Willard Johnson gave birth to a daughter about up Knapp Brook.

After that, Cronkite reminded the viewers one final time that it had now been confirmed that the President was dead, that Vice President Johnson was now the President and was to be sworn in ( which had occurred just as Cronkite received the bulletin confirming the President's death ), that Governor Connally's condition was still unknown but many reports said that he was still alive, and that there was no report of whether the assassin had been captured ( despite the earlier reports of arrests at the Texas School Book Depository ).

He boxed Jack Johnson, and film historians believe that his fight with Bob KO Sweeney became the first boxing-fight captured on film.

" Johnson indicated later that the phrase came from Desperate Journey, a 1942 World War II film with Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan playing Royal Air Force pilots shot down in Nazi Germany ; they managed to cross much of the country without speaking German or knowing the territory but, when captured, their Nazi interrogator doubts their story with the phrase .†

The exploits of the Lafayette Escadrille are also captured in several works of historical fiction including: Falcons of France by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall ( 1929 ), To the Last Man by Jeffrey Shaara, Valiant Volunteers by Terry L. Johnson ( 2005 ), An Ace Minus One by Timothy Morrisroe ( 2006 ), and Kickapoo by Thomas Wilson ( 2006 ).

In September 1990, Johnson captured Monrovia, depriving Taylor of outright victory.

Doe was captured and tortured to death by Johnson and his forces, resulting in a violent political fragmentation of the country.

Doe was captured in Monrovia by faction leader Prince Y. Johnson on September 9, 1990.

Up to that point she went by the name of " Marguerite Johnson ", or " Rita ", but at the strong suggestion of her managers and supporters at The Purple Onion she changed her professional name to " Maya Angelou ", a " distinctive name " that set her apart and captured the feel of her Calypso dance performances.

The Fiskie was named after journalist Robert Fisk, in a blog post where Johnson notes that, after having been captured and beaten by Afghan refugees, Fisk claimed he sympathized with them.

Colonel Hans Christian Heg who had commanded the Regiment since its formation was killed and Johnson was captured.

This Iroquois expedition captured a number of Delawares and destroyed abandoned Delaware and Shawnee towns in the Susquehanna Valley, but otherwise the Iroquois did not contribute to the war effort as much as Johnson had desired.

Nzeogwu was countered, captured and imprisoned by General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi.

Johnson and five others had also been captured but escaped and rejoined James Fannin's command at Goliad.

However, the report ( from Lt-Col. Johnson to Sir Henry Clinton on July 24, 1779 ) also lists 58 missing separate from killed, wounded, and captured, many of whom may have drowned in the Hudson.

In the first half of the 20th century an American couple, Martin and Osa Johnson — from Lincoln, Kansas and Chanute, Kansas, respectively — captured the public's imagination through their films and books of adventure in exotic, faraway lands.

Dieskau was captured, and Johnson would build a more permanent Fort William Henry to protect the site.

Francis Hopkinson was born at Philadelphia in 1737, the son of Thomas Hopkinson and Mary Johnson.

The A's would struggle on for four more years with only one winning team, and then abandon Philadelphia ( under the Johnson brothers, who bought out Mack ) and start play in Kansas City in 1955.

* Johnson, Amandus ( 1927 ) The Swedes on the Delaware ( International Printing Company, Philadelphia )

In 1843, Nancy Johnson of Philadelphia was issued the first U. S. patent for a small-scale handcranked ice cream freezer.

However, the American Point System standardized finally in 1886 is different from Hawks ’ original idea in that 1 pica is not precisely equal to < sup > 1 </ sup >⁄< sub > 6 </ sub > inch ( neither the Imperial inch nor the U. S. inch ), as the United States Type Founders ’ Association defined the standard pica to be the Johnson Pica which had been adopted and used by Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan type foundry ( MS & J ), Philadelphia.

Johnson's fight 4 months earlier with Philadelphia Jack O ' Brien had been a disappointing one for Johnson: though weighing to O ' Brien's, he could only achieve a six-round draw with the great middleweight.

Philadelphia July 4, 1910-Edward A. Valette, white, who was stabbed in a Johnson Jeffries race riot at woodside park has died.

Ray Emery of the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL sported a mask with a picture of Johnson on it as a tribute to his love for boxing.

Ban Johnson: The president of the American League since its debut in 1901 effectively limited Frazee to the Yankees and White Sox as the only teams with whom Frazee could make a deal by pressuring the other five teams ( the Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Browns and Washington Senators ) not to make any trades at all with Frazee.

The others are Davey Johnson of the Philadelphia Phillies, Mike Ivie of the San Francisco Giants, Ben Broussard of the Cleveland Indians, and Brooks Conrad of the Atlanta Braves.

Notable moves made by Garagiola included the signing of Randy Johnson in 1999 and a trade for Curt Schilling in 2000 from the Philadelphia Phillies.

* Johnson, Amandus The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware Volume I: Their History and Relation to the Indians, Dutch and English, 1638-1664 ( Philadelphia: Swedish Colonial Society.

Wilton Norman Chamberlain was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, into a family of nine children, the son of Olivia Ruth Johnson, a domestic worker and homemaker, and William Chamberlain, a welder, custodian, and handyman .< ref >

Finley first attempted to buy the Philadelphia Athletics in 1954, but American League owners instead approved the sale of the team to Arnold Johnson, who moved the A's to Kansas City for the 1955 season.

At the 1993 All-Star Game in Baltimore, Maryland, in a famous incident, Johnson threw a fastball over the head of Philadelphia Phillies first baseman John Kruk.

On October 7, 1969, the Cardinals traded Flood, Tim McCarver, Byron Browne, and Joe Hoerner to the Philadelphia Phillies for Dick Allen, Cookie Rojas, and Jerry Johnson.

* Charlie Johnson ( baseball ) ( 1885-1940 ), outfielder for the 1908 Philadelphia Phillies

In 1867, a very optimistic, eager 30-year-old Palmer, and his 21-year-old chief assistant Edward H. Johnson, headed west from their hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In 1787, Johnson played a major role as one of the Philadelphia Convention's delegates.

In Miracle at Philadelphia, Catherine Drinker Bowen called Johnson " the perfect man to preside over these four masters of argument and political strategy fellow committee members Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, James Madison, and Rufus King ... His presence on the committee must have been reassuring ; the doctor's quiet manner disarmed.

In 1970, the Cardinals traded away McCarver along with Byron Browne, Curt Flood and Joe Hoerner to the Philadelphia Phillies for Dick Allen, Jerry Johnson and Cookie Rojas.

He joined Mike Babcock ( Detroit Red Wings ), Scotty Bowman ( Montreal ), Tom Johnson ( Boston ), Mike Keenan ( Philadelphia ), Glen Sather ( Edmonton ), and Fred Shero ( Philadelphia ) as head coaches who led their teams to back-to-back 50-win seasons.

More than 12, 000 students have been served and notable Pennsylvania participants in the program include Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams and City Council Kenyatta Johnson.