It took them an hour before they came to the first houses of Kelseyville.

When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.

I ducked just as the first strand broke somewhere down the line and came whipping over the sideboards.

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

Their first collaboration came close.

The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.

Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

The first time I went there he asked me to bring him water from Flagler's well -- water that reminded him of his first days in the mountains -- and before I came the next time I filled a five-gallon jug for him and brought it to the hospital.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

In 1949 the Council of Europe came into existence, a purely consultative parliamentary body but the first organ of political rather than functional unity.

I hated you when I first came in.

Mr. Devey first came to Sprague in 1953 as a Product Specialist in the Field Engineering Department, coming from the Office of Naval Research in Washington, D. C., where he was an electronic scientist engaged in undersea warfare studies.

( Gastronomes have long argued about which came first, the Palace's or Antoine's.

But not even our first pool-side gatherings came anywhere near those rosy fantasies.

The first attempts to isolate TSH came a decade later, when Janssen and Loeser ( 1931 ) used trichloroacetic acid to separate the soluble TSH from insoluble impurities.

Which came first??

Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.

The first productive period came when he was considering poetry as a vocation, before he had decided to write fiction for a living ( in his note for Who's Who he wrote that he `` wrote verses 1865 - 1868 ; ;

When the chance came, they first eliminated cold cereal once a week, then gradually converted to hot fresh-ground cereal every day.

O'Banion's first conflict with the police came in 1909, at seventeen, when he was committed to Bridewell Prison for three months for burglary ; ;

At the end of the performance, Dave and Max came out into the brilliantly lit foyer among a surge of gowned and tuxedoed first nighters.

While the first accusation proved to be false, Heilmann's connection with the Stasi remained controversial.

It was on Moscow Radio, on 2 June 1945, that the first accusation directly against Pius XII of refusing to speak out against the exterminations in Nazi concentration camps.

Hall and Popkin defend Mill against this accusation pointing out that he begins Chapter Four by asserting that “ that questions of ultimate ends do not admit of proof, in the ordinary acceptation of the term ” and that this is “ common to all first principles .” According to Hall and Popkin, therefore, Mill does not attempt to “ establish that what people do desire is desirable but merely attempts to make the principles acceptable .” The type of “ proof ” Mill is offering " consists only of some considerations which, Mill thought, might induce an honest and reasonable man to accept utilitarianism ".

Since I received the first accusation twenty-two years after Baby and Child Care was originally published -- and since those who write about how harmful my book is invariably assure me they've never used it -- I think it's clear that the hostility is to my politics rather than my pediatric advice.

And though I've been denying the accusation for twenty-five years, one of the first questions I get from many reporters and interviewers is, " Doctor Spock, are you still permissive?

When shown mugshots, the victim's wife identified Barrow as one of the shooters, even though he had stayed outside in the car ; it was his first murder accusation.

However, after being provoked to anger by Oedipus ' accusation first that he has no foresight and then that Tiresias had had a hand in the murder, he reveals that in fact it was Oedipus himself who had ( unwittingly ) committed the crime.

: This and several other similar examples effectively proved that Swadesh's formula would not work on all available material — a serious accusation considering that evidence that can be used to " calibrate " the meaning of L ( i. e. language history recorded during prolonged periods of time ) is not overwhelmingly large in the first place.

That accusation was probably because Twister was the first popular American game to use human bodies as playing pieces.

What would become the Long Parliament first met in November 1640 — Pym had avoided an accusation of treason and rose to leader of the opposition to the king.

A first petition was withdrawn ; but a subsequent appeal in March 1830 led to a presbyterial visitation, and an accusation of heresy.

The first recorded accusation was made in 1247 at Beelitz south of Potsdam.

The accusation of host desecration gradually ceased after the Reformation when first Martin Luther in 1523 and then Sigismund August of Poland in 1558 were among those who repudiated the accusation.

Origen ( c. 185 – 254 ) is led to speak of the Ophites ( Contra Celsum 5: 28 ) by an accusation of Celsus that the Christians counted seven heavens, and spoke of the Creator as an accursed divinity, inasmuch as he was worthy of execration for cursing the serpent who introduced the first human beings to the knowledge of good and evil.

It was one of the first literary works to transform the accusation of idolatry against the Order, to magic use.

The story of William of Norwich ( d. 1144 ) is often cited as the first known accusation of ritual murder against Jews.

When Diana first accused the Prince of Wales of adultery with Camilla Parker Bowles, Soames told the BBC that the accusation, and Diana's fear of being slandered by her husband's courtiers, stemmed merely from Diana's mental illness, and " the advanced stages of paranoia ".

The first is the accusation of the king, presented to Pope Boniface IX on April 23, 1393, by Archbishop John of Jenštejn, who went immediately to Rome together with the new abbot of Kladruby.

It is the first known medieval accusation of the blood libel of ritual murder against Jews.

This has led to the accusation, first voiced by the anti-Semitic writer Johann Andreas Eisenmenger in his Entdecktes Judenthum, that " Yeshu " was always such a deliberately insulting term for Jesus.

Yet, the liberal social and economic policies, derived from the new political constitution and the “ spiritual socialism ” philosophy of President Arévalo Bermejo, provoked the ruling class gentry and the urban bourgeoisie to first distrust, and then accuse the President of Guatemala of supporting communism — a serious personal imputation and political accusation during the Cold War, of which the US Government took serious note.

This pledge is usually abandoned when an opponent is perceived to be " going negative ," with the first retaliatory attack being, ironically, an accusation that the opponent is a negative campaigner.

While staying in the court of Lysimachus, Arsinoe's intrigues led to the accusation of Lysimachus ' first son, Agathocles, of treason and to his execution.