In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage.

Powell never experienced combat and felt guilty for having survived, writing that soldiers who did so carried " a sort of shame with them to the grave " and referring to the Second Battle of El Alamein as a " separating flame " between the living and the dead.

Powell suggested that Heath did not mean it should be ended.

On 25 February, he made another speech at Shipley and urged a vote for Labour and saying he did not believe the claim that Wilson would renege his commitment to renegotiation, which Powell believed was ironic because of Heath's premiership: " In acrobatics Harold Wilson, for all his nimbleness and skill, is simply no match for the breathtaking, thoroughgoing efficiency of the present Prime Minister ".

Though he voted with the Conservatives in a vote of confidence that brought down the Labour government on 28 March, Powell did not welcome the victory of Margaret Thatcher in the May 1979 election.

Powell claimed that the debate was now more political than military ; that Britain did not possess an independent deterrent and that through NATO Britain was tied to the nuclear deterrence theory of the United States.

At the start of 1987 general election, Powell claimed the Conservatives ' prospects did not look good: " I have the feeling of 1945 ".

On 5 November, the European printed an article by Powell in which he said he did not expect the European Communities Act 1972 to be amended or repealed but added, " Still, something has happened.

Powell began but did not complete work on a study of the Gospel of John.

* Rock bands – Jeff Wayne and Rick Wakeman with Kevin Peek did a Progressive Rock version of the entire suite with added incidental music on an album called " Beyond The Planets " which also contained occasional narration by Patrick Allen. An arrangement of " Mars " by progressive-rock trio Emerson, Lake & Powell appeared on their eponymous album ( 1985 ) and was played in their 1985 – 86 live shows. King Crimson, Greg Lake's first successful band performed a rock arrangement of " Mars " live in 1969.

Powell felt it necessary for Henry to wear glasses, but did not want to hide Connery's eyes, so chose rimless ones.

" When asked for his response to these statements Colin Powell said that " it might have been better for members of Congress who have heard these stories to ask us about the stories before going public with them so we don't make a difficult situation that much more difficult " and he alleged that Aristide " did not democratically govern or govern well ".

Except for a brief appearance by Colin Powell, who hurriedly addressed the closing stages of the conference while his airplane taxied on the runway of Johannesburg International, the US government did not send a delegation, earning Bush praise in a letter from conservative organizations such as Americans for Tax Reform, American Enterprise Institute, and Competitive Enterprise Institute.

While the original company did not itself record many of the pioneers of bebop, significant exceptions are Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and Bud Powell.

Powell was elected to represent Jones County at the convention but when he did so, he voted for secession.

The seven inch version of " Holiday ' 80 " did well enough to get the band their first TV appearance on BBC TV Top of the Pops on 8 May 1980 opening a Peter Powell presented show with Gary Glitter's " Rock and Roll Part 2 ".

His characterisation did indeed prove to be enduring, as almost ten years later a television series entitled simply Hannay appeared with Powell back in the role, ( although the Buchan short stories on which the series was based were set in an earlier period than The Thirty-Nine Steps ).

The original agreement had been for the two men to go back to Paris, but Paudras returned alone ( although Powell did record in Paris, with Pettiford and Clarke, in July 1964 ).

During the case, Hamilton said he saw himself as " the Mike Yarwood of the Federation of Young Conservatives ", and that he frequently did impressions of public figures such as Frankie Howerd, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Charles De Gaulle and Enoch Powell.

Though the Stevens ' plurality opinion did not concur with Powell's assertion that race could be one factor among many in admissions ' considerations, it did agree with Powell that the UC Davis special admissions program excluding Bakke because he was white was unconstitutional.

Powell also claimed that Iraqis visited Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and provided training to al-Qaeda members, although thousands of Arabs from many countries did the same.

Powell recorded for both Blue Note and Granz throughout the fifties, interrupted by another long stay in a mental hospital from late 1951 to early 1953, following arrest for possession of marijuana.

Earlier in the week, Powell said to his friend Clement Jones, who was a journalist at the Wolverhampton Express & Star, " I'm going to make a speech at the weekend and it's going to go up ' fizz ' like a rocket ; but whereas all rockets fall to the earth, this one is going to stay up.

Powell said that the man told him: " If I had the money to go, I wouldn't stay in this country … I have three children, all of them been through grammar school and two of them married now, with family.

Powell decided to stay in Arkansas, likely because he fell in love.

Powell at first tried to stay out of the conflicts.

Logan, in his position as U. S. Senator, threatened the Bureau of American Ethnology director John Wesley Powell with funding cuts if Cushing's stay in Zuni was not terminated.

The strategy allowed Nelson to stay in the game while left-handed pitcher Dennis Powell came in to pitch to Mike Greenwell in a game at Boston.

The execution was scheduled for May 8, 1979 but U. S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., ordered a stay only three days before the scheduled date.

The resistance of many institutions to change, predicted by Enoch Powell, has continued into the 21st century, and there are still several thousand people permanently resident in the dwindling asylums and long stay hospital replacement campuses scattered across the UK.

During the course of his stay in the house, Powell had a number of discussions with his housemates about stereotypes and race, some of which resulted in heated arguments.

John Powell, batting for Adair, fanned after fouling off two 2-and-2 pitches, and Buddy Barker, up for Stepanovich, bounced out sharply to Jerry Lumpe at second to end the 2-hour-and-27-minute contest.

Later in 1968, when the government published its Bills for the new session, Powell was angry at Heath's acceptance of the plan drawn up by the Conservative MP Iain Macleod and Labour's Richard Crossman to reform the Lords, titled the Parliament ( No. 2 ) Bill.

In the debate on the address shortly after the general election of 1983, Powell picked up on Thatcher's willingness, when asked, to use nuclear weapons as a " last resort ".

Powell claimed that " Saddam Hussein has a long way to go yet before his troops come storming up the beaches of Kent or Sussex ".

When Labour won the 1997 general election, Powell told his wife, Pamela Wilson, " They have voted to break up the United Kingdom.

When Jean shows up unannounced, Terry sees the opportunity to save her friend from the philandering Powell.

The next morning, LaCava showed up for shooting with a headache, but Powell didn't appear.

Upon entry to the home, Powell began up the stairs, but was stopped at the top of the stairs by Frederick, the Secretary's eldest son.

Prior to the setting up of Na Fianna in Dublin in 1909, it has now transpired that Lord Baden Powell had reportedly unsuccessfully sought the assistance of Patrick Pearse in setting up a branch of his Boy Scouts in Dublin.

" Powell never took up the challenge.

Powell took up acting while an undergraduate.

Having been killed off in the last episode of the original series, at his request, Powell became a pin-up and a household name, following up with starring roles in several BBC serials, including television adaptations of the novels Sentimental Education ( 1970 ) and Jude the Obscure ( 1971 ).

Whilst Powell was recovering, and in an attempt to keep up momentum, the band released a compilation album Sladest, which topped the UK and Australian charts in the first week of its release.

During the recording sessions, Powell who was walking with the aid of a stick, had to be lifted up to his drum kit.

The idea was initially rejected, at the behest of Secretary of State Colin Powell, but, according to Kampfner, " Undeterred Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz held secret meetings about opening up a second front — against Saddam.

In the autumn of 1923, Powell went up to Balliol College, Oxford.

After Crazytown Kraig Tyler joined up with Eric Powell in the side project 16Volt.

At an 1883 irrigation conference, Powell would remark: " Gentlemen, you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights, for there is not sufficient water to supply the land.