And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

Teachers -- men who wore brown suits and had gray hair and pleasant smiles -- came to their table to talk shop and to be introduced to Scotty and Rachel.

However, these early events received little attention, and it was not until 1957, when the New York Times reported an unsuccessful struggle to restrict DDT use in Nassau County, New York, that the issue came to the attention of the popular naturalist-author, Rachel Carson.

Jackson's marriage came in for attack: when he had married his wife Rachel, the couple had believed that she was divorced ; however, the divorce was not yet finalized, so he had to remarry her once the legal papers were complete.

In 2344, the Romulan Star Empire launched an assault on the Klingon outpost at Narendra III, but unexpectedly the USS Enterprise-C, under the command of Captain Rachel Garrett, came to the Klingons ' defense.

One day Akiva came to Rachel by a river, and asked her why the Jewish people, if they were God's Chosen people, had to suffer so much.

Other people cite the Biblical story of Jacob, and his two wives Leah and Rachel, who both literally came with their own maids as detailed in the Book of Genesis ( 29: 24, 46: 18 ) as the origin of bridesmaids.

I had petrol all over the £ 40, 000 ... We were due to wait until eleven o ' clock until she came out, but we were told to wait another two minutes ... Rachel Whiteread came running out.

Preservation again came to the fore in the 1960s with the publication of Rachel Carson ’ s Silent Spring in 1962, which was the genesis of the modern environmental movement.

Her breakout film role came in 2008, playing Rachel Jansen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

It is then revealed that Rachel's obsessive stalker and the person trying to kill her are not the same person, when an upset and drunken Nikki admits that in a drug-induced jealous fit she hired a hitman to kill Rachel, but that the letters from the stalker came before that.

After becoming aware of Evan Rachel Wood, Hardwicke came to believe she could make the film only with Wood in the role of Tracy and only that year, with Wood at that age.

From the 1940s, it came to be viewed as a symbol of the Jewish people's return to Zion, to its ancient homeland, For Jewish women, the tomb was associated with fertility and became a place of pilgrimage to pray for successful childbirth. Depictions of the Tomb of Rachel have appeared in thousands of Jewish religious books and works of art.

In 1964 the woman who would finally win Steve's heart, Audrey March ( Rachel Ames ), a former flight attendant came to town.

Also in 1992 an interpreter training programme was established at the Auckland Institute of Technology, now known as AUT University ; this programme was first directed and taught by Dr Rachel Locker McKee ( hearing ) and Dr David McKee ( deaf ) and came about due to lobbying by the New Zealand Deaf Community and others who recognised the need for safer and more professional interpreting services ; they had as early as 1984 sought support for more research to determine the need for sign language interpreters.

The gallery quickly came to represent several of these artists, including Glenn Brown, Angus Fairhurst, Anya Gallaccio, Gary Hume, Michael Landy and Rachel Whiteread.

Rachel Saint, Nate's sister, continued the mission efforts to the Waodani, which eventually came to fruition.

Selene and the Hellfire Club's relationship with the X-Men came to a head with Rachel Summers making an unauthorized assassination attempt on Selene.

Adair came to comfort Jackson after the death of his wife, Rachel in 1828.

* Rachel Veltri came to prominence on the television show, For Love or Money.

She appeared in the 1988 comedy film Married to the Mob, but her most famous and first starring role came shortly afterwards in the horror film hits Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers as Rachel Carruthers.

After a few small roles on television and film, Boyd's big break came when she was cast in The Missing, alongside Cate Blanchett and Evan Rachel Wood.

" It is later revealed that Rachel came to Michael to exorcise the spirit of her brother who uses her body as a vessel.

Jean is an important figure in the lives of other Marvel universe characters, mostly the X-Men, including her husband Cyclops ; her mentor and father-figure Charles Xavier ; her close friend and sometimes romantic interest Wolverine ; her best friend and sister-like figure Storm ; and her genetic children Rachel Summers, X-Man, Cable, and Stryfe.

In 1992, as a close friend of actresses Jill Bennett and Rachel Roberts, Anderson included a touching episode in his autobiographical BBC film Is That All There Is ?, with a boat trip down the River Thames ( several of their professional colleagues and friends aboard ) to scatter their ashes on the waters while musician Alan Price sang the song " Is That All There Is?

The 51s take their name from Area 51 which is located close to Rachel, Nevada, about 80 miles north of Las Vegas, although the route that must be taken by car to get there takes about three hours of travel.

In September 2006, Rachel Bilson said that she felt like " the show is over ", and co-star Kelly Rowan stated that many of the cast realized the show was close to being cancelled.

" This apparent boorishness notwithstanding, however, he always enjoyed a close relationship with Monica, Rachel, and Phoebe ; LeBlanc once speculated that Joey saw the girls as sisters more than potential romantic interests.

' Their close friendship continues and when a fire destroys Rachel and Phoebe's apartment, Rachel moves in with Joey and stays there, even after her apartment has been repaired.

When Rachel and Joey prepare for their first night together, however, they realize they're too close as friends to make their relationship work-Rachel instinctively slapping Joey away when he tries to touch her as she suddenly finds herself unable to get past the fact that it's Joey touching her -, and they break up after Chandler reveals how natural it was for him and Monica to make the transition.

Rachel was close to Monica's family when she was in high school, so she already knew Monica's older brother Ross Geller ( David Schwimmer ), who harbors a long-unrequited love for her, and Ross ' best friend from college, Chandler Bing ( Matthew Perry ).

The two date for a while but have trouble when it comes to consummating their relationship, unable to get past the knowledge that it is their close friend touching them, and a conversation with Chandler about how easy it was for him and Monica to become more than friends helped Joey and Rachel realize that they were better off as they were.

A chance encounter, revealed in a flashback, shows that Monica didn't expect to become close friends with Rachel again, with her remarking: " Ten bucks says I'll never see that woman again in my life.

As with Rachel and Monica, their relationship is like that of close sisters.

During the series, Rachel and Chandler's relationship grows, and they are close friends, often consoling and confiding in one another.

Rachel isn't as close to Amy as she is to Jill.

On 22 March, a private funeral was held at St. Peter's Episcopal Church near Millbrook, New York, close to the family's upstate home, and Richardson was buried near her grandmother Rachel Kempson in the churchyard.

Rachel, the eldest, marries Axelroot at seventeen, and after two more marriages is the owner of a luxury hotel close to what is now Brazzaville.

Frank Drake joined Quincy Harker's band of vampire hunters under the close tutelage of Rachel van Helsing and Quincy Harker.

However, some of these sources argue that Reuben hadn't actually had sexual activity with Bilhah, but instead had simply supported the cause of his mother Leah, by harming that of Bilhah, angering Jacob ; in these sources, it is argued that after the death of Rachel ( Jacob's favourite wife ), Jacob had attempted to move Bilhah's bed close to him, so Reuben moved it away.

But the trials and tribulations confronting Gabriel and Rachel brings them close together and they finally realize that they love each other.

Bruce's friend Rachel Dawes tells him she suspects Falcone bribed the judge to make the trial public, allowing his agents to get close and murder Chill.

Among the numerous subplots, Jack meets and falls in love with a young woman named Rachel ( Lori-Nan Engler ), who turns out to be the radical, left-wing daughter of the ruthless chairman of the board, Pete Helmes ( Eddie Albert ), who is revealed to be promoting Jack so he can gain Jack's father, Senator Issel's support to close down a textile plant in a small upstate town called Allenville, and move it into the Latin American country of San Marcos for company self-interest.

The displaced Heather becomes close friend of her weird Marcy Turner ( Lauren Birkell ), while they are maltreated by the abusive mate Samantha Wise ( Rachel Nichols ).