In vinyl foam, the big news was the development of techniques for coating fabrics with the material ( for details, see P. 395 ).

Two great cities, Osaka and Sakaii, have been burned to the ground, each one almost as big as London, and not one house left standing, and it is reported above 300, 000 men have lost their lives, “ yet the old Emperor Ogusho Same hath prevailed and Fidaia Same either been slain or fled secretly away, that no news is to be heard of him .” Jesuits, priests, and friars are banished by the emperor and their churches and monasteries pulled down ; they put the fault on the arrival of the English ; it is said if Fidaia Same had prevailed against the emperor, he promised them entrance again, when without doubt all the English would have been driven out of Japan.

The first Persian Gulf War in 1991 was a watershed event for CNN that catapulted the channel past the " big three " American networks for the first time in its history, largely due to an unprecedented, historical scoop: CNN was the only news outlet with the ability to communicate from inside Iraq during the initial hours of the Coalition bombing campaign, with live reports from the al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad by reporters Bernard Shaw, John Holliman, and Peter Arnett.

In August 1775, the Six Nations staged a big council fire near Albany, after news of Bunker Hill had made war seem imminent.

During the Golden Age of Radio, radio featured genres and formats popular in other forms of American entertainment — adventure, comedy, drama, horror, mystery, musical variety, romance, thrillers — along with classical music concerts, big band remotes, farm reports, news and commentary, panel discussions, quiz shows ( beginning with Professor Quiz ), sidewalk interviews ( on Vox Pop ), broadcasts, talent shows and weather forecasts.

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At an emotional and financial low, Navin is soon contacted by Stan Fox with exciting news: His glasses invention, now called the Opti-Grab, is selling big and he's entitled to half of the profits.

After the tabloid-fuelled controversy surrounding the single, and an appearance on Top of the Pops, the Adverts became big news.

With a mission to provide big programmes for all licence-fee payers, it has sport, news, current affairs, and documentaries.

The divorce became big news in Romanian tabloids, not only because of her fame but also the nature of the divorce and his status as a high-profile music producer.

Ward Morehouse of The New York Sun declared, " The big news about Annie Get Your Gun is that it reveals Ethel Merman in her best form since Anything Goes ... She shouts the Berlin music with good effect.

She remained at Today for fifteen years with co-host Matt Lauer and NBC News until May 31, 2006, when she announced that she would be going to CBS to anchor the CBS Evening News, becoming the first solo female anchor of the " big three " weekday nightly news broadcasts.

And while child abuse is unfortunately no big news, lynching still is.

Along with his friend Kenji, he is one of the first civilians to see Pretty Sammy in action, and they spread the word around school about the big news about the magical girl.

In 1759, The Marathas under Sadashivrao Bhau ( referred to as the Bhau or Bhao in sources ) responded to the news of the Afghans ' return to North India by sending a big army to North.

The newspaper was designed to be read in 20 minutes, containing small stories rather than big political or world news that would feature in non-tabloid newspapers, such as The Times or The Guardian.

This edict was big news in Houston, and Houstonians, long known for their charitable nature and unconditional love of Biggio, reacted very negatively to MLB.

It showed about 20 hours per day of syndicated programs from the " big three " networks in the United States, with local news and talk programs.

In 1928, the big news was the use of four-wheel mechanical brakes.

Television news magazines provide several stories not seen on regular newscasts, including celebrity profiles, coverage of big businesses, hidden camera techniques, better international coverage, exposing and correcting injustices, in-depth coverage of a headline story, and hot topic interviews.

The big news was under the hood, where a new 370-horsepower 455 cubic-inch V8 replaced the 430 V8 used from 1967 to 1969.

Shortly after arriving, the leader of the group says he has " big news " for them all.

The big news for 1950 was the two-door hardtop, or Special Club Coupe as Chrysler called it, in the New Yorker series.

The strip focused primarily on college life, although it sometimes made references to big news stories of the time ( such as the incident at Three Mile Island in 1979 ).

Figger we got to be plumb careful with any of you Highlands big shots ''.

The water in Thor's big swimming pool had been covered with a blanket of thick, foamy soapsuds -- fashioned, of course, from zing -- Joyce had dived from the board into the pool, then swirled and cavorted in her luxurious `` bath '' while cameras rolled.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.

He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.

Within seconds the big barn was blasted into smoking splinters, with every outlaw either dead or injured inside.

For several months now, Jack Carter, a big overgrown boy of fifteen with a fuzzy, pimpled face and greenish catlike eyes with a lot of red in them, had been haunted by a dream, a vision, of a Woman.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

This was the big man with the proprietory air and the beetling, shaggy eyebrows.

Real big, with shoulders out to here, and hair all over him like a grizzly.

Then they were tumbling again, and the big man reached into the same pocket he had gone for earlier, and came up with a vicious switchblade.

The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.

If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

One cannot but wonder whether these doubts about the success of Khrushchev's agricultural policy have not at least something to do with one of the big surprises provided by this Congress -- the obsessive harping on the crimes and misdeeds of the `` anti-party group '' -- Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich and others -- including the eighty-year-old Marshal Voroshilov.

`` P. J. '' -- as Ludie called the town -- was crowded with summer people who came to the mountains to escape the heat in the big cities.

For it is such a distinguished place, with such fine works of art and such a big library, that there can be little doubt but that the owner has become depraved by all this culture.

A rowdy with a big blob of a nose roared.

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

`` There's a big boat anchored near the Place De La Concorde, with a swimming pool in it -- didn't you notice it??

It had gone big with the Hollywood girls when he told them his sister was an editor of Art And Apparel.

A scant half mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace, the air about them scented with stock, and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime tree at the foot of the garden.