Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

With that act of Parliament the opponents of the stage won the day, and for more than two decades after that England had no legitimate public drama.

He smoked, as did everybody, and imbibed the various alcoholic beverages of that day, although his protestations while at Cambridge and after that he was no drunkard point to reasonable abstinence from the wild drinking bouts of some of the undergraduates and, we must add, of some of their elders including many of the regents or teachers.

The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.

water boiling on the fire for washing laundry every day, the pots scoured with river sand after each meal.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

It all began on an autumn afternoon -- and who, after all these centuries, can describe the fineness of an autumn day??

He left his home the day after New Year's wearing a mackinaw and sheepskin mittens and without a hat.

If you use a fiscal year, a year ending on the last day of any month other than December, your return is due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of your tax year.

However, if their United States income is not subject to the withholding of tax on wages, their returns are due June 15, 1962, if they use a calendar year, or the 15th day of the 6th month after the close of their fiscal year.

If you are a nonresident alien and a resident of Puerto Rico, your return is also due June 15, 1962, or the 15th day of the 6th month after the close of your fiscal year.

Returns of estates or trusts are due on or before the 15th day of the 4th month after the close of the tax year.

For example, one hebephrenic man used to annoy me, month after month, by saying, whenever I got up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day, or whenever, `` You're welcome '', in a notably condescending fashion -- as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him, and he were thus pointing up my failure to utter a humbly grateful, `` thank you '' to him at the end of each session.

Day after day Fogg shuttled back and forth on his one-man air mail route, until the farmers in their snowy barnyards and the road repairmen came to recognize the stubby plane as their link with the rest of the country.

North and south, east and west, back and forth he sailed in the land-locked bay, plowing furiously forward until land appeared, then turning to repeat the process, day after day, week after week.

This does not mean, though, that a red wine improves with prolonged aeration: there is a reasonable limit -- and wines kept over to the next meal or the next day, after they have once been opened, are never as good.

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

It was a cold, windy day, the day after Kitti's death, but Stanley Gilborn paid no attention to the blustery October wind.

Then, six weeks after the day Kitti first came into the office, Stanley announced he and Kitti were married.

These were developed as " companions " to the popular revolvers of the day, firing the same cartridge but allowing more velocity and accuracy than the revolver.

When the death sentence was passed, according to Moskalenko's later account, Beria pleaded on his knees for mercy before collapsing to the floor and wailing and crying energetically, but to no avail: the other six defendants were executed by firing squad on 23 December 1953, the same day as the trial, while Beria was fatally shot through the forehead by General Batitsky after the latter stuffed a rag into Beria's mouth to silence his bawling.

On July 5, 2008, the Grand Rapids, Michigan, Starbucks Workers Union and CNT-AIT in Seville, Spain, organized a global day of action against alleged Starbucks union-busting, in particular the firing of two union members in Grand Rapids and Seville.

It didn ’ t really matter, since he was firing me about twice a day anyways.

Unfortunately, another person was subsequently injured while firing the cannon, and again it was buried, and has not been found again to this day.

The fast-operating Lee bolt-action and large magazine capacity enabled a well-trained rifleman to perform the " Mad minute " firing 20 to 30 aimed rounds in 60 seconds, making the Lee-Enfield the fastest military bolt-action rifle of the day.

On the first day of searches, at least one false positive for explosives was produced, which Metro officials indicated could occur for a variety of reasons including if a passenger had recently been in contact with firearms or been to a firing range.

He was so badly injured from the fighting ( a doctor had already said he had no more than a day or two to live, but the execution order was still given ) that he was unable to stand before the firing squad.

Later that same day, UNIFIL observed the firing of rockets from Palestinian positions in the Tyre region into northern Israel, but none of the projectiles hit an Israeli settlement -- the gunners had been ordered to miss.

Oliver Cromwell, who arrived too late in the day to take part in the battle, later wrote disparagingly to John Hampden, " Your troopers are most of them old decayed servingmen and tapsters ; and their Royalists troopers are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality ...." Not only were the Parliamentarian cavalry not so naturally accustomed to mounted action, but they were drilled in the Dutch tactic of firing pistols and carbines from the saddle, whereas under Rupert, the Royalist cavalry would charge sword in hand, relying on shock and weight.

A typical smooth bore musket firing at a single target was only accurate to about using the military ammunition of the day, which used a much smaller bullet than the musket bore to compensate for accumulation of ash in the barrel under battlefield conditions.

Lying on the roof one day Szpilman suddenly heard a burst of firing near him.

She kept diary entries until her last day, November 7, 1944 when she was executed by a German firing squad.

Suddenly, late in the afternoon of the third day, the effect of the Armstrong artillery firing from only 20m-point blank range-destroyed one corner of the pa and the iwi in that area panicked and fled.

The following day, the Turks circled the camp firing arrows ; Manuel ordered two counterattacks, led by John Angelos and Constantine Makrodoukas respectively, but there was no renewal of a general action.

This was patently absurd considering the artillery available to the British forces consisted of 17 field pieces firing over the course of eight hours, while a major German strongpoint in World War I could potentially be the target of hundreds of the 1, 500 guns employed in the eight day preliminary barrage leading up to the Somme offensive.

On that day, two American sloops pursued British gunboats into the Richelieu River and were forced to surrender after the wind dropped and they were trapped by gunboats and artillery firing from the river banks.

On April 13, 1861, ( the day after the firing on Fort Sumter ) John H. Reagan, postmaster-general of the Confederate States of America, ordered local postmasters to return their U. S. stamps to Washington D. C. ( although it is unlikely that many did so ), while in May the Union decided to withdraw and invalidate all existing U. S. stamps, and to issue new stamps.

On 8 November 1945, King Michael's name day, an anti-communist demonstration in front of the Royal Palace in Bucharest was met with force, resulting in dozens of killed and wounded ; Soviet officers restrained Romanian soldiers and police from firing on civilians, and Soviet troops restored order.

This celebration lasts for several days and peaks on the final day with serial firing of the makeshift bamboo-rockets, some are up to 10 meters in length and propel up to 10. 000 meters.

According to The Washington Post, on the day of the firing ( December 7, 2006 ) William Kelley, a deputy to then White House Counsel Harriet Miers, said in an email that Domenici's chief of staff was " happy as a clam " about the Iglesias firing.

Previous devices generally had to cool down for many hours to allow the flashlamps and laser glass to regain their shapes after firing ( due to thermal expansion ), limiting use to one or fewer firings a day.

From late 1793 into spring, 1794, every day " batch after batch of bankers, scholars, aristocrats, priests, nuns, and wealthy merchants and their wives, mistresses, and children " were taken from the city jails to Brotteaux field, tied to stakes, and dispatched by firing squads or mobs.

In February 1944, while the rest of No. 4 continued to practice day and night assault landings and live firing exercises.