She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.

She reached and reached around the dress, but there was nothing there.

She reached Pearson City at nine p.m. and went straight to the Hotel Westmore.

She was well suited to the precise work but later wrote, " this was the lowest depth I ever reached in commercial art, and although it was a period when youth and romance were in their first attendance on me, I remember it with gloom and record it with shame.

She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).

She slowly began to turn into a black poplar, the bark spreading up her legs from the earth, but just before the woody stiffness finally reached her throat and as her arms began sprouting twigs her husband Andraemon heard her cries and came to her.

She arrived in New York City in November 1938, five days before Kristallnacht, or ' night of broken glass '; when news of the event reached the U. S., Riefenstahl maintained that Hitler was innocent.

Among the tracks on The Paul Simon Songbook that were rerecorded ( some with electric backing ) for Sound of Silence were " I Am a Rock " ( which as a single reached U. S. No. 3 in the summer of 1966 ), " Leaves That Are Green ", " April Come She Will ", " A Most Peculiar Man ", and " Kathy's Song ".

" She reached up and scratched her long fingernails down both my cheeks so deeply that I had marks for about a week ,” Cowles wrote.

But they soon had another US No. 2 hit with a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's " A Hazy Shade of Winter " from the soundtrack of the film Less Than Zero, and the melancholic " If She Knew What She Wants ", written by Jules Shear, reached the U. S. Top 30 and the German Top 20.

She was thought to be near death ; her temperature at one time reached 104 degrees.

She reached the third round at the 1993 Australian Open doubles competition with Chanda Rubin.

She reached the third round at the 1993 Wimbledon Championships, and at the 1993 US Open, the American reached the fourth round ranked no.

She reached two more finals during 2002, losing in Moscow to Magdalena Maleeva and in Zürich to Patty Schnyder.

She then reached the fourth round of the Australian Open, where she lost to Justine Henin.

She also reached the semi-finals of the 200 m.

She reached the final in that event, but after knocking over the second hurdle, she abandoned the race.

* " She scored a tremendous hit in Down to the Sea in Ships ..( and ).. has reached the front rank of motion picture principal players ".

She reached the charts with " Quand tu es là ".

She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single " O Superman " reached number two on the UK pop charts.

She was posthumously described as the " undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom " who reached the status of " one of the world's leading female singers.

She was never far from controversy which reached a fever pitch when the trade unions rebelled against her proposals to reduce their powers in her 1969 white paper, ' In Place of Strife '.

She won the titles in the 100 m, 200 m and 80 m hurdles all with large margins of victory ( four tenths or more ), but narrowly missed out on a fourth win in the relay, which was won by the British team.

She qualified for the 100 m semi-finals, but forfeited a start to save herself for the hurdles race.

She qualified for the Olympics 100 m hurdles, in which she was eliminated in the semi-finals, but her health continued to deteriorate even further.

She retained her hurdles title in 1995.

She was hampered by many injuries, but managed to win a bronze medal in the high hurdles event at the 1986 Commonwealth Games.

She won it in the 80 m hurdles event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, after establishing the new world record during the semi-final.

She was a versatile athlete, capable of excellent results in sprint events, hurdles races and jumps.

She was outstanding at high jump, long jump and hurdles.

She also finished fourth in the 80m hurdles.

She transformed herself from a junior hurdles champion to a two-time US champion at 400 m. In 2003, she shifted gears by concentrating on the 100 m and in 2004 she won the US Olympic Trials over the short sprint.

She won the 400 m hurdles gold medal at the 1997 World Championships in Athens.

She competed in swimming, hurdles, hammer, curling, track cycling, sprint and kayak slalom.

She faced several hurdles — the company was operating in an environment with sub-optimal infrastructure and personally, she had credibility issues to overcome: she was a 25-year-old first-generation woman entrepreneur without business experience.

She also competed in the 100 metres hurdles and long jump on limited occasions.

She won 100 / 200 m sprint doubles at the 1998 and 2002 Swedish National Championships, and won a fifth outdoor title in the 100 m hurdles in 2006.

She ran at the next edition of the world competition in 2000 and, after coming sixth in the 100 m hurdles, she claimed her first medal with the Swedish women's 4 × 100 m relay team.

She moved up an age level to take part in the 2001 European Athletics U23 Championships and she won the silver medal in the 100 m hurdles, finishing behind her sister.

She was chosen to represent Sweden in the hurdles at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics and she ran a career best of 12. 85 seconds to make her first major outdoor final.

She came sixth in the hurdles final and later ran a Swedish record of 43. 67 seconds in the 4 × 100 m relay, in a team comprising the Kallur twins, Emma Rienas and Carolina Klüft.

She competes in the 400 m hurdles and the 400 m event.

She runs in the 400 metres and the 400 metres hurdles ( which she started in 2005 ).

She made her Olympic debut at the 1980 Games, placing 4th in the 100m hurdles.

She has also competed in 400 m hurdles

She won the 100 m hurdles at the 2009 national championships, giving her the opportunity to compete at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin that year where she won another bronze medal.