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 lost the semifinal match to Evgeny Bareev, who in turn lost to Kasparov.

She lost the US Open semifinal to eventual champion Serena Williams.

She won the first semifinal, and thus qualified for the final with her song " Amante de la luna ", but ultimately came second to Soraya.

She did not win a tournament but consistently reached tournament finals and semifinals, with the highlight being her semifinal loss to Navratilova at the US Open.

She returned to win a small tournament at Mahwah just before the US Open where, in one of the most anticipated matches of the year, she encountered Navratilova in a semifinal.

She started the year strongly, with six tournament victories heading into the French Open, the highlight being at the tournament in Miami, where she defeated Martina Navratilova in a semifinal and Chris Evert in the final and conceded only 20 games in the seven rounds of the tournament.

She had struggled to beat Monica Seles in their semifinal 6 – 3, 3 – 6, 6 – 3.

She then won her eighth German Open, but there were signs that her form was worsening as she almost lost to Julie Halard in a quarterfinal. Back-to-back losses followed ; Graf lost to Mary Pierce in a French Open semifinal, 6 – 2, 6 – 2, and followed that with a first-round straight-sets loss at Wimbledon to Lori McNeil, her first loss in a first round Grand Slam tournament in ten years.

She made two further comebacks against Durr ( 2 – 6, 6 – 2, 6 – 3 ) and Lesley Hunt ( 4 – 6, 6 – 2, 6 – 3 ), both seasoned professionals, before losing to Billie Jean King in a semifinal ( 6 – 3, 6 – 2 ).

She defeated Anastasia Myskina in a quarterfinal and Maria Sharapova in a semifinal, and then came back to defeat Henin in the final.

She defeated the defending champion, Serena Williams, in a controversial semifinal 6 – 2, 4 – 6, 7 – 5 which saw Henin failing to acknowledge her raised hand during Williams service motion, a breach in tennis etiquette.

She then defeated former US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in a semifinal before defeating Francesca Schiavone in the final.

She defeated Clijsters ( who was seeded second ) in a semifinal 6 – 4, 7 – 6 ( 4 ) but lost the final to Mauresmo.

She returned one year later to perform in the second semifinal of Melodifestivalen 2007 with the song " Kom ".

She played matches at 30 events, reaching one final, one semifinal, and seven quarterfinals.

She lost in the 2004 Athens Olympics semifinal to Justine Henin, having led 5 – 1 in the final set.

She beat Kiki Bertens in the first round, Anabel Medina Garrigues in the second round and 3rd seed Dominika Cibulkova in the quarterfinals to reach her first semifinal of the year.

She also achieved semifinal finishes in Warsaw and Sopot, plus a quarterfinal finish in Bol.

She also beat Steffi Graf in a semifinal of the WTA Tour Championships but lost the final to Monica Seles in the event's first-ever five-set final 6 – 4, 5 – 7, 3 – 6, 6 – 4, 6 – 2.

She also won the German Open, beating Hingis in a semifinal and Amanda Coetzer in the final.

She defeated the reigning Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova in a semifinal 7 – 6, 7 – 6.

She reached the Australian Open Semifinals in 2004 and became the first Colombian tennis player to reach a Grand Slam semifinal.

She then lost her semifinal match against world no.

She lost in the semifinal, in an epic match against Nadia Petrova, 6 – 1 7 – 6 ( 2 ).

She won the doubles title with Hantuchová, defeating Yan and Zheng in the semifinal 6 – 3 3 – 6 6 – 3, and Ting Li and Tiantian Sun 6 – 4 6 – 4 in the final.