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Prevot and had
`` We just sit quiet and wait '', Prevot had said.
Prevot had said that the searchlights would be bounced off the clouds at 2230 hours, `` which gives us time to get settled in position ''.
Because they were new men and to be sure that they didn't get lost, Prevot had placed Warren and White in the center of the patrol as it filed out.
`` It's safe '', Prevot had said, `` and it provides cover for our noise ''.

Prevot and men
There were ten men on the patrol which Sergeant Prevot led out that next night.

Prevot and .
Prevot came up ``.
Warren handed him the metal box and Prevot quietly disappeared down the line.
Over his shoulder he could see Prevot with the machine gun crew.
Hastily the cardinals delivered them to the Prevot of Paris, and retired to deliberate on this unexpected contingency, but they were saved all trouble.
When such was done through the Order in Council of 1675, the Seigneur of Sark instated a jurisdiction composed of a Seneschal, Greffier and Prevot.
– Paris-Brive, Prevot – F. Boudreaux XII, 3 201.
Hastily the cardinals delivered them to the Prevot of Paris, and retired to deliberate on this unexpected contingency, but they were saved all trouble.
Best Off is a French aircraft manufacturer founded in Toulouse by Philippe Prevot to market his Sky Ranger ultralight.
The best one was written for France Soir by Monique Prevot.

had and briefed
Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.
His Soviet controller at the time, Theodore Maly, reported in April 1937 to the NKVD that he had personally briefed Philby on the need " to discover the system of guarding Franco and his entourage.
Philby had been briefed on the situation shortly before reaching Washington in 1949 ; it was clear to Philby that the agent was Donald Maclean, who worked in the British Embassy at the time and whose wife, Melinda, lived in New York.
A State Department study noted that when King Hussein met on 8 November with Lyndon Johnson, who had been briefed by Secretary Rusk on the US interpretation, the Jordanian Monarch asked how soon the Israeli troops would withdraw from most of the occupied lands.
Bond is briefed that Strangways had been investigating the activities of Dr. Julius No, a reclusive Chinese-German who lives on Crab Key and runs a guano mine ; the island is said to be the home of a vicious dragon with a colony of Roseate Spoonbills at one end.
The question of whether corporations were persons within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment had been argued in the lower courts and briefed for the Supreme Court, but in this interpretation, the Waite Court did not explicitly decide upon this issue.
The authors also argued that Alexander Haig was not Deep Throat but was a key source for Bob Woodward, who as a Naval officer had briefed Haig at the White House in 1969 and 1970.
Former CIA agent Joseph B. Smith recalled that, in 1957, he was briefed by the National Security Agency on the need for secrecy and that Leslie Howard's death had been brought up.
After Lloyd George ’ s Paris speech ( 12 November ) at which he said that “ when he saw the appalling casualty lists he wish ( ed ) it had not been necessary to win so many (“ victories ”)” Asquith ( briefed by Robertson ) debated the matter in the Commons ( 19 November ).
Cosgrave, as such, maintained a marked distance from Aras an Uachtarain ; whereas previously, presidents had been briefed by taoisigh once a month, Cosgrave briefed Presidents Childers and Ó Dálaigh on average once every six months.
However, Childers remained detached from the government ; whereas previously, presidents had been briefed by taoisigh once a month, Cosgrave briefed President Childers and his successor, Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh on average once every six months.
The central planner of this operation was Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul who gained Bhutto's permission and authorization after he had briefed her on the Afghanistan situation.
Butler briefed Congress on what he described as a business plot for a military coup, for which he had been suggested as leader ; the matter was partially corroborated, but the real threat has been disputed.
Prior to the incident, no one in the 4-64 had been briefed about the Palestine Hotel or its location, since the hotel was not in their sector ( the east bank of the Tigris was allocated to the 1st Marine Division ).
Soon after he had begun to make his mark he was briefed against the claimant in the famous Tichborne Case.
The planned and briefed landing zone for the gliders was LZ W, located two miles ( 3 km ) southeast of Sainte-Mère-Église, but a smaller landing zone had also been put in operation that morning north of the town on Drop Zone O.
As the GAO would later note, " Furthermore, the Laboratory's former laser director, who oversaw NIF and all other laser activities, assured Laboratory managers, DOE, the university, and the Congress that the NIF project was adequately funded and staffed and was continuing on cost and schedule, even while he was briefed on clear and growing evidence that NIF had serious problems ".
Days after the attack, military commanders briefed soldiers and airmen at Khobar that the U. S. had received anonymous communications from an organization claiming to have carried out the Riyadh attack.
The officers had been specially briefed for this mission due to the high tensions regarding the Carrier Group's presence ; the pilots were advised to expect some kind of hostilities.
Prior to this Görtz had probably already met with Seamus O ' Donovan who had briefed him on the state of the IRA.
This operation, which got to such an advanced stage that plans had been created and divisional commanders briefed, called for the 17th and 82nd Airborne Divisions, along with a brigade from the British 6th Airborne Division, to be dropped in daylight in and around Berlin to capture the city.

had and two
He had seen a few nester wagons go through the country, the families almost starving to death, but he had never seen any of them on foot and as bad off as these two.
He told himself he had never seen two people eat so much.
Start out fresh, the two of us, like nothin had ever happened ''.
They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.
His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.
And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.
He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
) Rumor had it he slipped two small rocks under each victim's head as a sort of trademark.
He stepped inside Jess's guard and landed two blows to the big man's belly, putting everything he had behind them.
Greg had the stick forward and the throttle up before he heard the two `` Rogers ''.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.
I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;
Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.
She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.
In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.
Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.
But before this came about, 214,938 Americans had given their lives in battle for the two concepts of the sovereign rights of men and of states.

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