Why not make a beginning with a united and disarmed Germany whose neutrality and immunity from nuclear bombing would be guaranteed by the Big Four powers and the United States??

The first time was in 1955 when a full-dress Big Four summit meeting produced the `` spirit of Geneva ''.

On the third occasion -- another Big Four summit session at Paris a year ago -- there was no problem of an illusory `` spirit ''.

Irritating to Hastings is the fact that Poirot will sometimes conceal from him important details of his plans, as in The Big Four where Hastings is kept in the dark throughout the climax.

A brief passage in The Big Four furnishes possible information about Poirot's birth or at least childhood in or near the town of Spa, Belgium: " But we did not go into Spa itself.

In terms of a rudimentary chronology, Poirot speaks of retiring to grow marrows in Chapter 18 of The Big Four ( 1927 ), which places that novel out of published order before Roger Ackroyd.

In " The Big Four " ( 1927 ) Poirot feigned his death and subsequent funeral in order to launch a surprise attack on the Big Four.

Hastings is a man who is capable of great bravery and courage, facing death unflinchingly when confronted by The Big Four and possessing unwavering loyalty towards Poirot.

However, when forced to choose between Poirot and his wife in that novel, he initially chooses to betray Poirot to the Big Four so that they would not torture and kill his wife.

Those films will be: Labours of Hercules ; Dead Man ’ s Folly ; The Big Four ; Elephants Can Remember ; and Curtain.

* 1967 – Andy Hui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor ( Big Four )

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

The " Big Four " were joint-stock public companies and they continued to run the railway system until 31 December 1947.

It was formed from the nationalisation of the " Big Four " British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages between 1994 and 1997.

It was financed and built through " The Big Four " ( who called themselves " The Associates "): Sacramento, California businessmen Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins.

* TVO Big Ideas: Freeman Dyson on Living Through Four Revolutions, by Freeman Dyson ( video ) June 1, 2011 at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada

Several banks also have rewards programs, including three of the Big Four banks of the United States -- Wells Fargo being the lone exception, CapitalOne, and Citizens Financial Group.

In Mitchell's teenage years, she is known to have written a 400-page novel about girls in a boarding school, The Big Four.

The 1910 season was marked by one of the most sensational transfers in Victorian football history, when Andy Curran masterminded the clearance of Carlton ’ s famed “ Big Four ” of ‘ Mallee ’ Johnson, Fred Jinks, Charlie Hammond and Frank ‘ Silver ’ Caine to North Melbourne.

* The accountancy market is controlled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and Ernst & Young ( commonly known as the Big Four )

The most successful pulp magazines were Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book and Short Stories described by some pulp historians as " The Big Four ".

In November 1971 the Astros and Cincinnati Reds made one of the most blockbuster trades in the history of the sport, and helped create The Big Red Machine of the 1970s, with the Reds getting the better end of the deal.

Settling in Southern California, Mitchell and her popular songs like " Big Yellow Taxi " and " Woodstock " helped define an era and a generation.

The Force is composed of the psionic energy from all living beings, past, present and future, and is sometimes referred to as an embodiment of rebirth and destructive transformation through " burning away what doesn't work ", and helped to restart the universe before the Big Bang.

Skate punk innovators also pointed in other directions: Big Boys helped establish funkcore, while Venice, California's Suicidal Tendencies had a formative effect on the heavy metal – influenced crossover thrash style.

They agree that he had a vision, and his optimism helped popularize the remarkable plan of building a transcontinental railroad, convinced the Big Four to finance it, and was instrumental in securing Congressional passage of the 1862 law.

Films such as The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep are considered classics and helped launch the careers of legendary actors such as Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner.

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

Lawrence courted government as his sponsor in the early years of the Manhattan Project, the American effort to produce the first atomic bomb during World War II, and along with Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins ( which helped develop the proximity fuse ), and the MIT Radiation Laboratory ( which helped to develop radar ) ushered in the era of " Big Science ".

Basie hitched his star to some of the most famous vocalists of the 1950s and 1960s, which helped keep the Big Band sound alive and added greatly to his recording catalog.

* The Big Knockover ( Random House, 1966 ; an important collection, edited by Lillian Hellman, that helped revive Hammett's literary reputation ; includes the unfinished novel Tulip ).

That year, Reeves performed solo at Motown 25, which alongside some of their songs being placed on the Big Chill soundtrack, helped Reeves and the Vandellas gain a new audience.

Big Stoop: A Mongol who Connie helped when he was being picked on by bullies and sticks with the trio out of gratitude.

Hunter contributes to many charities, including the " Torii Hunter Project Education Initiative ," which provides college scholarships to students in California, Arkansas, Nevada and Minnesota, the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas, a partnership with Major League Baseball to help maintain and improve baseball diamonds in inner cities, the Big Brothers and the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and in addition, Hunter helped fund construction of a youth softball field in Placentia, California in 2008.

The following year, he helped produce The Big Fall and Pure Danger.

Haight-Ashbury became a countercultural capital, and bands like Jefferson Airplane, Loading Zone, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe and the Fish, Santana, The Charlatans, Big Brother & the Holding Company and the Grateful Dead helped to launch the blues-and folk-rock scene ; other bands, like Moby Grape and The Flamin ' Groovies used a more country-influenced sound, while Cold Blood incorporated R & B and Orkustra played a sort of freeform psychedelia.

* — 2003 — In the recurring skit " Journey to Ernie ", Big Bird occasionally found himself in outer space, where he was helped by a Yip Yip in his search for Ernie

A greatest hits compilation, Parts of the Process, helped to sustain momentum and featured two new tracks-" What's Your Name " ( featuring a rhyming cameo from Big Daddy Kane ) and " I Can't Stand It.

While at the University of Minnesota, he was a member of the varsity wrestling team, reaching the Big Ten semifinals ; and helped introduce the sport to Minnesota high schools by putting on exhibition matches around the state.

Joyce's timepieces can be found as far afield as Singapore and Kabul ; and helped to build Big Ben in London.

Betty Wood ( née Henderson ), a dancer who helped revive the Big Apple in the 1990s, first saw the dance there, and six months later she won a dance contest and become nicknamed " Big Apple Betty.

In 1979, Pete Rose added further fuel in The Big Red Machine being part of the rivalry when he signed with the Phillies and helped them win their first World Series championship in.

Take the High Road helped STV to produce the only soap for the ITV network which was not made by the " Big Five " companies.