Mickey was on his knees when Roberts turned on the stairs and the razor flashed in his hand.

The taunt was lost on Roberts.

This was going to be it now, any second, and what he had to remember was to keep his eye on the razor, no matter what, even if Roberts should feint with a kick to the groin, the deadly hand was his exclusive concern.

Then Roberts was on him, gasping for breath and for a couple of seconds Mickey lost sight of the blade.

Roberts was a wastrel.

It was a bad place for Roberts to wind up, but Roberts had asked for it.

All Dallas members voted with Roberts, except Rep. Bill Jones, who was absent.

An adjacent marker was erected by the San Jacinto Chapter of the Daughters of The Republic of Texas and the Lee, Roberts, and Davis Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederate States of America.

It was a four-time winner of the Charles Roberts / Origins Award, winning " Best Amateur Adventure Gaming Magazine " in 1984, " Best Amateur Game Magazine " in 1999, and " Best Amateur Game Periodical " in 2000 and 2001.

According to Tom Roberts, author of Alex Raymond: His Life and Art ( 2007 ), Capp delivered a stirring speech that was instrumental in changing those rules.

The BBC radio commentary on the final day of the innings ( 6 June 1994 ), by Dave Roberts, was being broadcast around the world live via the BBC World Service network, and in the UK on BBC Radios 1, 2 & 4 as well as the majority of BBC Local radio stations.

Lancaster was the son of Elizabeth ( née Roberts ) and James Henry Lancaster, who was a postman.

The offseason was dominated by three months of unsuccessful trade talks with the Orioles involving 2B Brian Roberts, as well as the signing of Chunichi Dragons star Kosuke Fukudome.

In 2002, Kieran Roberts was appointed as producer and aimed to re-introduce " gentle storylines and humour ", after deciding that the Street should not try to compete with other soaps.

After conversation between Dawn and producers Kieran Roberts and Steve Frost, the decision was made to kill Vera off.

The current Executive Producer is Kieran Roberts who was once a Producer of " Emmerdale " and the Producer is ex-Doctor Who producer Phil Collinson, who took over from Kim Crowther in summer 2010.

Robert Roberts was certain that John Thomas had rediscovered the truth, and it is largely down to Roberts ' organisation that the Christadelphian body exists in its present form.

His life was characterised by debates over issues that arose within the fledgling organisation and some of this process can be found in the book Robert Roberts — A study of his life and character by Islip Collyer.

In 1865 Robert Roberts published a collection of Scottish psalms and hymns called The Golden Harp ( which was subtitled " Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, compiled for the use of Immersed Believers in ' The Things concerning the Kingdom of God and the Name of Jesus Christ '").

* The Australian Impressionists, including Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts who were prominent members of the Heidelberg School and John Peter Russell a friend of Van Gogh, Rodin, Monet and Matisse as well as Rupert Bunny, Agnes Goodsir and Hugh Ramsay.

Although there were some prominent players like Harold Bray, Keith Drinan, Peter Bennett and later Neil Roberts, St Kilda were rarely competitive in the 1940s.

It is believed to have been named after Matthew Roberts, a prominent businessman in the day.

The Anglo-Irish were also represented among the senior officers of the British Army by men such as Field Marshal Lord Roberts, first honorary Colonel of the Irish Guards regiment, who spent most of his career in India ; Field Marshal Lord Gough who served under Wellington, himself a Wellesley born in Dublin to the Earl of Mornington, a prominent Anglo-Irish family in Dublin ; and in the 20th century Alan Brooke and Harold Alexander ( see also Irish military diaspora ).

Other prominent jazz pianists, including Oscar Peterson, Dave McKenna and Marcus Roberts, show their appreciation of this historical jazz style by including it in their solo performances.

Hale and Lindy Boggs had three children: U. S. TV and public radio journalist Cokie Roberts, born December 27, 1943, and the wife of journalist Steven V. Roberts ; Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr., a prominent Washington, D. C .,- based attorney and lobbyist ; and the late Barbara Boggs Sigmund, who served as mayor of Princeton, New Jersey.

The most prominent include Chief Justice John Roberts, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, and Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Foster, a Franklin-area sugar planter and owner of oil and gas lands, and Olive ( Roberts ) Foster, from a prominent Shreveport family.

During the second part of the 1820s, and in addition to English and Scottish scenes, Roberts painted views of prominent buildings in France and the Low Countries including Amiens, Caen, Dieppe, Rouen, Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent, sometimes making several paintings of the same scene with only minor variations.

Roberts was also a prominent Welsh nationalist.

Darin Fairgood, another prominent character who appeared in the strip throughout the 1990s and 2000s, had also been unseen since the 2007 relaunch, but has recently reappeared in the strip helping his old high school buddy Pete Roberts move back into town.

She is the widow of former House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, and the mother of three children: Cokie Roberts ( a television news commentator ), Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr., ( a prominent lobbyist ), and the late Barbara Boggs Sigmund, a mayor of Princeton, New Jersey, and a candidate in the 1982 New Jersey Democratic senatorial primary election.

He has also appeared in a number of films including his most prominent film appearances in a supporting role in Malcolm X and a cameo in Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star.

Thomas William " Tom " Roberts ( 9 March 185614 September 1931 ) was a prominent Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School.

Prior to his death, there were many sources that Roberts was retiring, since he had taken a prominent public relations position at the Falstaff Brewing Company and the race in which he was killed was to be one of his final races of his career.

Russ Abbot ( born Russell Allan Roberts on 18 September 1947 ) is an English musician, comedian and actor who first came to public notice during the 1970s as the singer and drummer with British comedy showband the Black Abbots, later forging a prominent solo career as a television comedian with his own weekly show on British television.

In 1996 the results of the study were presented to Andre McNiel, chancery judge of the 12th judicial district, and a prominent Arkansas attorney Helen Grinder, who stated that based on the study and other evidence the case for Roberts being Billy The Kid was " strong and substantial ".

Seth Joshua, another prominent leader of the Revival came to the area to hold meetings, which Roberts attended eagerly.

Other prominent members included Theodore Olson, Judge Kenneth Starr, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, William Reynolds, Robert H. Bork, and Bruce Fein.

Many well-known televangelists began during this period, most notably Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jerry Fallwell, and Pat Robertson.

In 1956 the Tate Gallery held a major exhibition of his work, " Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism ," in the catalogue to which he declared that " Vorticism, in fact, was what I, personally, did and said at a certain period "— a statement which brought forth a series of " Vortex Pamphlets " from his fellow " BLAST " signatory William Roberts.

Lewis Roberts Binford ( November 21, 1931 – April 11, 2011 ) was an American archaeologist known for his influential work in archaeological theory, ethnoarchaeology and the Paleolithic period.

The whole area of the Village was gradually developed over a period of 45 years by three different architects, Harry Redfern, Edwin Lutyens and David Roberts.

Christopher Barker writing in the Guardian about this period: “ On many occasions through the early Sixties, writers and painters such as David Gascoyne, Paddy Kavanagh, Roberts MacBryde and Colquhoun and Paddy Swift lived downstairs from Smart and his wife, Agnes, wrote cookbooks with Smart would gather at Westbourne Terrace in Paddington, our family home at that time.

Before 1920 Johnson had gained a reputation as a pianist on the East coast on a par with Eubie Blake and Luckey Roberts and made dozens of superb player piano roll recordings for Aeolian, Perfection ( the label of the Standard Music Roll Co., Orange, NJ ), Artempo ( label of Bennett & White, Inc., Newark, NJ ), Rythmodik, and QRS during the period from 1917 – 1927.

Smiling that killer smile, shedding those winning tears, delivering great lines with effortless charm, Roberts is back where she rightly belongs-not in grey period costume, but as the sexy queen of laughs ".

Roberts may have burned some letters from this period in shame at his wife's drinking problem, but he was unusually frank in a letter to a friend, David Ramsay Hay.

He edited Science Fantasy magazine for a period from 1964 to 1966, appointed by David Warburton of Roberts and Vinter Ltd .; and the successor Impulse for its first few issues in 1966 before handing the reins to Harry Harrison.

Around the same period, the growing availability of music in the tonic sol-fa notation, promoted by the likes of Eleazar Roberts, allowed congregations to read music more fluently.

The following year the Welsh Guards were dispatched to the province again and during this period lost Guardsman David Roberts in a landmine explosion.

This period of exile coincided with the peaks of several fast bowlers ' careers, including Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thomson, Andy Roberts, and Michael Holding.

It overtook its rival for a period from the early to mid-1980s with anchors David Hartman and Joan Lunden, from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s with Charlie Gibson and Lunden, also in April 2012 with Roberts and Stephanopoulos, and in August 2012 with Amy Robach and Josh Elliott substituting for Roberts and Stephanopoulos.

" ( Marston, 194 ) Roberts was not the only Methodist minister to be formally charged by the Genesee Conference in this period, all done so in an avowed effort to stamp out " Naziritism " ( i. e. the minority-power reform movement ).

However, Roberts attempted to avoid secession, waiting during his probation period to appeal his case directly to the General Conference of the MEC to be held in 1860.

" The Golden Age " is also a term used to describe the Golden Age of Piracy, the time period from 1690 to 1725 when well-known pirates such as Edward Teach ( Blackbeard ) and Bartholomew Roberts were preying on mercantile ships, and sometimes even blockading ports, on both sides of the Atlantic.

The branch line supporters are bitterly opposed by bus operators Alec Pearce ( Ewan Roberts ) and Vernon Crump ( Jack MacGowran ), but, despite the fears of town clerk George Blakeworth ( Naunton Wayne ), the supporters persuade the Ministry of Transport to grant them a month's trial period with an inspection at the end.

Roberts was an expert maker of picture frames, and during the period 1903-1914, when he painted relatively little, much of his income apparently came from this work.

As the band focused on a heavier, more brutal sound near the end of this period, it would also result in the creation of another side project, the Dave Brockie Experience, a band created by frontman Dave Brockie along with rhythm guitarist Mike Derks and drummer Brad Roberts as a way of continuing the comedic sound found on albums like We Kill Everything while maintaining a more serious focus in releases by Gwar.

During this period, Roberts made several speeches warning about the possibility of western separatism.

Roberts remained loyal to the Liberal Party during this period.

Roberts ( 1998 ) uses 13, 000 BP for the end of the period.

Roberts placed his military revolution around 1560 – 1660 as the period in which linear tactics were developed to take advantage of the increasingly effective fire weapons ; however, that chronology has been challenged by many scholars.