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`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.
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and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.
Woodruff said nothing, and Pike, frustrated, stormed throughout Little Rock in an unsuccessful search for `` Vale '', asking his friends to keep their ears open.
as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.
His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.
`` Little Rock is a vile, detestable place.
Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.
The two cities have the examples of Little Rock and New Orleans to hold up as warnings against resorting to violence to try to stop the processes of desegregation.
and that they can ignore what is happening in Northern cities because what is happening in Little Rock or Birmingham is worse.
Settling in Arkansas in 1833, he taught school and wrote a series of articles for the Little Rock Arkansas Advocate under the pen name of " Casca.
He developed an interest in rugby union, playing at Oxford and later for the Little Rock Rugby club in Arkansas.
Clinton joined friend Bruce Lindsey's Little Rock law firm of Wright, Lindsey and Jennings.
He defeated four Republican candidates for governor: Lowe ( 1978 ), White ( 1982 and 1986 ), and businessmen Woody Freeman of Jonesboro, ( 1984 ) and Sheffield Nelson of Little Rock ( 1990 ).
The William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock, Arkansas was dedicated in 2004.
The Clinton Presidential Center was opened in Little Rock, Arkansas in his honor on December 5, 2001.
* Sand Rock ( Little Rock City Park ), Alabama
* Little Rock City, Tennessee
He sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, for the first time since Reconstruction to enforce federal court orders to desegregate public schools, and signed civil rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 to protect the right to vote.
They escorted and protected nine black students ' entry to Little Rock Central High School, an all-white public school, for the first time since the Reconstruction era.
Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote to Eisenhower to thank him for his actions, writing " The overwhelming majority of southerners, Negro and white, stand firmly behind your resolute action to restore law and order in Little Rock ".
Despite his unprecedented use of Army troops to enforce a federal desegregation order at Central High School in Little Rock, Eisenhower was criticized for his reluctance to support the civil rights movement to the degree which activists wanted.
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Especially touching is the chapter, `` The Little Sister '', about a king's daughter who became a nun in the convent of St. Birgitta.
Little is known of the synthetic mechanisms for formation of thyroglobulin.
The company which performed the Pulitzer Prize musical here last night and will repeat it twice today is full of bounce, the politicians are in fine voice, the chorines evoke happy memories, and the Little Flower rides to break a lance again.
Little is known of the territorial behaviour of caecilians but some frogs and salamanders defend home ranges.
In some stories the question of whether formal justice will be done is left unresolved, such as Five Little Pigs, and arguably Ordeal by Innocence.
The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.
* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.
Areas of southern Nevada, Utah and Colorado form a loose northern boundary, while the southern edge is defined by the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers in Arizona and the Rio Puerco and Rio Grande in New Mexico.
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.
In the remainder of this region, the southern portion, the most prominent feature is Little Mountain, extending about from east to west between two valleys, and rising precipitously on the north side above them or above the sea.
Little attention is paid to political, diplomatic, or military history, or to biographies of famous men.
The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.
Little is known of his life, however it is clear that Alan entered the schools no earlier than the late 1140s ; first attending the school at Paris, and then at Chartres.
Little is known of the personality of Agnes, beyond the remarkable influence which she seems to have exercised over Philip II.
Little is known on their relationship, but Crispus soon died and left his estate to Nero.
Little is known about the Gutian period, or how long it endured.
Little is known about Ammonius's role in the development of Neoplatonism.
Little and without
" Her portraits Fanny Travis Cochran, Dorothea and Francesca, and Ernesta and her Little Brother, are fine examples of her skill in painting children ; Ernesta with Nurse, one of a series of essays in luminous white, was a highly original composition, seemingly without precedent.
After the harsh meeting with Bell and other church leaders, and near the end of Tyndale's time at Little Sodbury, John Foxe describes an argument with a " learned " but " blasphemous " clergyman, who had asserted to Tyndale that, " We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.
When served neat ( without any additional ingredients ), tequila is most often served in a narrow shot glass called a caballito (" Little Horse " in Spanish ), but can often be found in anything from a snifter to a tumbler.
His future films, however, would be fully fledged " talkies " – although without the character of the Little Tramp.
Foreign press reports in the West called the work " The Little Red Book " reflecting its common small size and bright cover, not without irony.
" There was also another single by Little Vincent " Honk, Honk, Honk " b / w " Honk, Honk, Honk ( part 2 )" ( Apollo 748 ), but that was an instrumental without any input from Burke.
Chandler had been managing the band for almost two years without success when he suggested releasing a version of the Bobby Marchan song, " Get Down and Get With It ", originally performed by Little Richard.
England, among other European countries, was not without its own blood libel legends as can be seen from the legend of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln.
It provided a great opportunity for Prussian statesmen, by clearing a path toward German Unification, in particular with the Little Germany, or Germany without Austria solution, with the subsequent foundation of the North German Confederation.
The exterior long remained without any decoration, except for the Guglietto dell ' Amadeo (" Amadeo's Little Spire "), constructed 1507-1510.
* Sacks, G. ( September 4, 2005 ) “ Boys without fathers is not a logical new idea .” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ( Little Rock, Arkansas )
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ( DS9 ) episode “ Little Green Men ,” in which the show's regular Ferengi accidentally become the three aliens in Roswell, the humans without translators are unable to understand the Ferengi ( who likewise can not understand the English spoken by the Human observers ) until the Ferengi get their own translators working.
The Lady Marian, Little John and the other Merry Men carry the day without the star of the show ever showing his face.
Little Wonder was such a success that Fairlie gave the Festiniog Railway Company a perpetual license to use the Fairlie patent without restriction in return for using the line and the success of its Fairlie locomotives in his publicity.
Paige displays the ability to encase others inside of her force fields, without being within them herself, when she uses her new power to contain the explosion caused by the resurrected Source's destruction in the tenth issue of the comic series, Three Little Wiccans.
The mayor accompanied soldiers who were called to rescue special constables at Little Bolton Town Hall which was besieged by a mob and the incident ended without bloodshed.
Little children, therefore, have no need of baptism to obtain salvation, as they are without sin, and are commonly blessed by the priesthood.
A significant number of other " Little Godfreys ," including the Mariners and Haleloke, were dismissed from 1953 to 1959 without explanation.
He sped off in his pram, crashed into a buffalo so Little Plum thought he had learned his lesson, until he steals Little Plum's clothes without him noticing and rides off.
As the preliminary to the experiment, Little Albert was given a battery of baseline emotional tests: the infant was exposed, briefly and for the first time, to a white rabbit, a rat, a dog, a monkey, masks with and without hair, cotton wool, burning newspapers, etc.
The Little Antiformalistic Paradise (, sometimes translated literally as " Antiformalist Rayok "), without opus number, also known as simply Rayok ( see " rayok "), The Peep-show, Little Paradise, The Gods and A Learner's Manual ) is a satirical cantata for four voices, chorus and piano by Dmitri Shostakovich.
He sponsors 12 Little League teams and helps fund a home school that provides food and shelter for children without parents.
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