In some groups, the slap bass was utilized as band percussion in lieu of a drummer ; such was the case with Bill Haley & His Saddlemen ( the forerunner group to the Comets ), which did not use drummers on recordings and live performances until late 1952 ; prior to this the slap bass was relied on for percussion, including on recordings such as Haley's versions of Rock the Joint and Rocket 88.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

Contenders for the title of " first rock and roll record " include Goree Carter's " Rock Awhile " ( 1949 ); Jimmy Preston's " Rock the Joint " ( 1949 ), which was later covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1952 ; and " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( actually an alias for Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm ), recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in March 1951.

** phencyclidine ( PCP ; Sernyl ; " Angel Dust ", " Rocket Fuel ", " Sherm ", " Killer Weed ", " Super Grass ")

* Rocket, designed by George and Robert Stephenson ; built by Robert Stephenson and Company.

; " The Rocket Man ": Astronauts of this story are few in number, so work as they desire for high pay.

; Rocket Assisted Projectile ( RAP )

One of the last successful electro-mechanical arcade games was F-1, a racing game developed by Namco and distributed by Atari in 1976 ; the game was shown in the films Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 ) and Midnight Madness ( 1980 ), as was Sega's Jet Rocket in the latter film.

Bandleader Bill Haley had previously been a country music performer ; after recording a country and western-styled version of " Rocket 88 ", a rhythm and blues song, he changed musical direction to a new sound which came to be called rock and roll.

A number of celebrities guest-starred on the series over the course of its run, including Debbie Allen, Bob Saget, Charles Rocket, Neil Patrick Harris, Lydia Cornell, Brooke Shields, Roddy McDowall, and others ; Chubby Checker, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Dr. Ruth Westheimer appeared in episodes as themselves.

Nash was one of the few bright spots for the team ; his 41 goals tied Jarome Iginla and Ilya Kovalchuk for the Rocket Richard Trophy ( as League leader in goals scored ).

Joseph Henri Maurice " The Rocket " Richard, (; ; August 4, 1921 – May 27, 2000 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) from 1942 to 1960.

* The French version of a feature film, Maurice Richard was released in November 2005 ; the English-subtitled version entitled The Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story was released in April 2006.

Occasionally, he varied the group's sound with more disparate musical influences, such as raga (" Fancy ", 1966 ), bossa nova (" No Return ", 1967 ) and calypso (" Monica ", 1968 ; " Apeman ", 1970 ; " Supersonic Rocket Ship ", 1972 ).

Both Rod Rocket and the life of Christ series credited " Filmation Associates " with " Production Design " in addition to Scheimer and Sutherland as directors ; but True Line was not officially changed into the Filmation Associates corporation until Rod Rocket entered syndication in 1963.

* Rod Rocket ( 1963 ; production design only )

Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (; born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia ; December 11, 1882September 20, 1947 ) was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a Republican.

The Napoleon of New York: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia 392 pp. popular biography online edition ; also excerpt and text search

* Vinnie Fiorello, drummer-lyricist of the band Less Than Jake ; attended Port Charlotte High School.

Fiorello La Guardia was an Episcopalian on his father's side ; his mother was from the small but significant community of Italian Jews.

" Fiorello ( Chico ): " Well, I wouldn't know about that ; I'm a stranger here myself.

Before this logo, LaGuardia used a flower with five petals, symbolizing the five boroughs of New York City ; and the first name of its namesake, Fiorello, which in Italian translates to " Little Flower.

In 1960, he, Bock and Weidman tied with Rodgers and Hammerstein for best musical ; that year, both Fiorello!

A city high school bearing Harris's name, Townsend Harris High School, soon emerged as a separate entity out of the Free Academy's secondary-level curriculum ; the school survived until 1942 when Fiorello La Guardia closed it because of budget constraints.

Later, he became a regular letter carrier ; his mail route included the home of one of his heroes, New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.

There have been many revivals of the Bodoni typeface ; ATF Bodoni and Bauer Bodoni are two of the more successful.

To a great degree, the critics were wrong ; it did not prevent Baskerville from becoming assimilated as a highly legible text face, and in fact, the high contrast between stems and hairlines became quite desirable, as is apparent in typefaces such as Bodoni, which followed in the lineage.

To illustrate, the first blessing in the King James Bible reads: `` Blessed are the poor in spirit ; ;

The new version states: `` How blest are those who know that they are poor ; ;

a poor attempt to write an idiomatic jazz concerto ; ;

Ridiculing a child for being afraid or forcing him to meet the feared situation alone are poor ways of dealing with the problem ; ;

Land which is unsuitable for arable farming usually has at least one of the following deficiencies: no source of fresh water ; too hot ( desert ); too cold ( Arctic ); too rocky ; too mountainous ; too salty ; too rainy ; too snowy ; too polluted ; or too nutrient poor.

" Richard Seddon had proclaimed the goal as early as 1884: " It is the rich and the poor ; it is the wealthy and the landowners against the middle and labouring classes.

Indeed, he must consider himself no less guilty than this poor bishop ; at least to the extent that he made no concealment of his wish that all synagogues should be destroyed, that no such places of blasphemy be further allowed to exist.

He was generous to the poor ; it was his custom to comment severely in his preaching on the public characters of his times ; and he introduced popular reforms in the order and manner of public worship.

Religion was stripped of ornament and ceremony, and made as plain and simple as possible ; sermons and songs often used repetition to get across to a rural population of poor and mostly uneducated people the necessity of turning away from sin.

:::: Kissing Agathon, I had my soul upon my lips ; for it rose, poor wretch, as though to cross over.

As a youngster living in poverty, along with his childhood friends, Johnson was an object of ridicule from members of higher social circles ; as such, he was commonly referred to as " poor white trash " by the elite in Raleigh.

In his first term in the House, he soon articulated his own brand of Jeffersonian – Jacksonian principles he would steadfastly promote throughout most of his political career ; he advocated for the interests of the poor, while maintaining an anti-abolitionist stance, insisted on limited spending by the government and opposed protective tariffs.

Johnson won a second Congressional term in 1845 against his perennial opponent, Wiliam G. Brownlow ; in this second campaign, Johnson particularly took up the mantle as defender of the poor against the aristocracy.

By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money ; on the other hand, the contrast between his life and the lives of many of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark.