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The fall of Safed was a blow to Arab morale throughout the region ..... With the invasion of Palestine by regular Arab armies believed to be imminent-once the British had finally left in elven or twelve days ' time-many Arabs felt that prudence dictated their departure until the Jews had been defeated and they could return to their homes.
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She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.
Lincoln saw that the act of secession made the issue for the Union a vital one: Whether it was a Union of sovereign citizens that should continue to live, or an association of sovereign states that must fall prey either to `` anarchy or despotism ''.
After that, he declared, `` to return to freedom was to fall to one's knees before the real world and adore it ''.
As summer cooled into fall and winter, even so the relationship between the two men continued to grow colder by the day, and by December of 1834 it was icy.
J. T. Shotwell was appalled by such spurious history as that which attributed the fall of the Carolingian empire to the woolen trade, and he urged Adams to `` transform his essay into a real history, embodying not merely those facts which fit into his theory, but also the modifications and exceptions ''.
Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.
And she was made to fall in love with him again there in the rutted dirt driveway standing in the cold fog, mad as she was at his going away when he really didn't have to, mad at their both having got older in a life that seemed to have taken no more than a week to go by.
But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.
Demand for parts for home entertainment was strong in the first half, but purchases were cut back to lower levels during the fall as set manufacturers reduced their own operating rates.
`` What a nasty fall was there ''!!
A back pressure was then introduced, and the rise or fall of the material in the manometer indicated which was greater, the normal pressure in the block or the back pressure.
There followed a long and sometimes bitter discussion of the feasibility of elections for the fall of 1957, in which it appears that the Minister of the Interior took the most pessimistic view and that the Istiqlal was something less than enthusiastic.
Until the Charter of Liberties was issued in the fall of 1958, there were no guarantees of the right to assemble or to organize for political purposes.
Voting preparations began in the fall of 1959, although the actual demarcation and planning for the rural communes was completed in 1958.
Let us suppose that the animal did not in fact fall into the trap and did not suffer at all, but that we mistakenly believe it did, and say as before that its suffering was an evil thing.
In the fall of 1878, the `` Popular Telegraph Line '' was established between Manchester and Factory Point by the owners, Paul W. Orvis, Henry Gray, J. N. Hard, and Clark J. Wait.
In November 1900 surveying was done under John Marsden on the east mountains to ascertain if it would be possible to get sufficient water and fall to operate an electric power plant.
The roof was about ready to fall in on Diane's little world, but it took nothing less than the Egyptian revolution to bring it down.
Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.
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Since a fall or blow might have caused it, a cold pack was usually first aid.
Fearing that the forts might fall into French hands, Lieutenant General Sir Colin Campbell instructed Royal Engineers to blow the forts up.
The fall of General Gordon in Khartoum, Sudan, in 1885 was a major blow to Gladstone's popularity.
During the fall, a number of cottonwood trees release cotton-like clouds of seeds that blow through the air and streets, blanketing them with a snow-like cover.
Jinga's coalition began to fall apart ; the absence of their Dutch allies with their firearms, and the strong position of Correia de Sá, delivered a deadly blow to the morale of the native forces.
Removing market distortions had the net effect of making prices fall, a further blow to plantations in the British Virgin Islands.
It was recommended that when delivering a blow that at the end of it the back leg and foot should be compassed about so as to fall roughly into a line with the front foot and the point of the weapon.
" The very banality and innocence of the first act only allowed the blow to fall afterward with more awful effect.
Except during Santa Ana ( northeast ) wind events ( usually fall and winter ), gusty southwest winds blow over Palmdale almost every afternoon and evening all year round.
The plan was in principle a repeat of the double invasion of the previous year, this time with the main blow to fall in the Low Countries.
The budget caused a split in the government and caused him to fall out with Aneurin Bevan who resigned over this issue, seeing the prescription charges as a blow to the principle of a free health service.
And the priests shall blow upon trumpets, and when you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall give a great shouting, that the walls of the city shall fall down ; all the people shall go up every man against his opponent.
The choice for the last offensive was whether the major blow should fall on the Fifth Army or the Eighth Army front.
By lifting the intermediate lever with a jack that disengages in its highest position, the Cristofori action made it possible for the hammer to fall ( after its initial blow ) to a position considerably lower than the highest position to which the key had lifted it.
The phrase " משיב הרוח ומוריד הגשם " (" He causes the wind to blow and the rain to fall ") is inserted in the second benediction of the Amidah, known as גבורות ( Powers ), throughout the rainy half of the year ( ימות הגשמים, yemot hageshamim, i. e., between Sukkot and Passover ).
A rider supported by stirrups was less likely to fall off while fighting, and could deliver a blow with a weapon that more fully employed the weight and momentum of horse and rider.
Sabena's demise meant a sharp fall in passenger traffic, a blow the airport only slowly recovered from.
Since 2005, there are also inflatable snow globes which blow tiny styrofoam beads around on the inside, the blower's air jet picking them up and through a tube to the top, where they fall down inside the clear vinyl front.
The break in a bone usually occurs as a result of an impact injury, such as a fall or blow to the shoulder.
The fall of the Soviet bloc was also a strong blow to the party, turning the renewal process into one where Marxism began to be abandoned by party leaders.
Biblical scholars regard the triconsonantal root of hawah ( הוה ), as a more likely origin for the name Yahweh ( יהוה ); hawah literally means blow / fall, and thus Yahweh would be he who blows / he who certain things fall, suggesting the interpretation of a storm deity.
Meanwhile, every effort was made to ensure the Ottomans believed the blow would fall once more against Gaza.
In addition to their regular shedding, they blow their coat twice a year ( in the spring and fall ).
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