For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Almost inevitably, the first result of this technological revolution was a reaction against the methods and in many cases the conclusions of the Oxford school of Stubbs, Freeman and ( particularly ) Green regarding the nature of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain.

A good many pages of the first section are taken up with an account of the dogged determination of the prisoners to write to their wives and families -- even when it becomes clear that the Germans are simply allowing the letters to blow away in the wind.

The Twenty-second Soviet Communist Party Congress opens in Moscow today in a situation contrasting sharply with the script prepared many months ago when this meeting was first announced.

And there must be many Soviet citizens who know what is going on and who realize that before they can hope to enjoy the full life promised for 1980 they and their children must first survive.

For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

Watson turned away, sickened for the first time in many months.

In this my first year as a Member of this body I have experienced many memorable moments.

And, like many of you here present, I hold as the highlight of all, the occasion of my first meeting with the honorable Speaker of the House.

And yet, despite some disappointment with the performance of this first year of the new decade, 1960 has been a good year in many ways, with many overall measures of business having reached new peaks for the year as a whole.

In many cases the revolutionary production has offered no more than sensational effects: the first hearing was fascinating and the second disillusioning as the gap between sound and substance became clearer.

When these groups were first formed many prominent and accomplished decorators could not have had the advantage of school training since interior design courses were rare and undeveloped during their youth.

For example, instead of putting in your driveways last ( as many builders do ) you can now save money by putting them in first.

The presence of normally occurring bronchial artery-pulmonary artery anastomoses was first noted in 1721 by Ruysch, and thereafter by many others.

Emotional maturity is the result of many factors, the principal ones being the experiences of the first few years of the child's life.

but all too many observers have been misled by this fact into minimizing the degree of change which took place in the early first millennium.

Yet, in spite of this, intensive study of the taped interviews by teams of psychotherapists and linguists laid bare the surprising fact that, in the first five minutes of an initial interview, the patient often reveals as many as a dozen times just what's wrong with him ; ;

In the first place, a good many writers who are said to use folklore, do not, unless one counts an occasional superstition or tale.

wetting a wart with this saliva on wakening the first thing in the morning was supposed to cause it to disappear after only a few treatments, and strangely enough many warts did just that.

Hardly a window has been broken since Dunbar first was opened ( and vandalism in schools is a major problem in many slum areas ).

In the 1920 presidential election they had that right and many of them did vote for the first time.

For most of them, it will be their first experience in membership training, since this is a recent development in many churches.

-- The first in a series of five productions will be held in War Memorial Auditorium Thursday, Oct. 26.

Murder, She Said ( 1961, directed by George Pollock ) was the first of four British MGM productions starring Rutherford.

His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several Latin American film productions including Gaby: A True Story and Romero, and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.

Upham shows a balanced and complicated view of Cotton Mather such as this first mention: " One of Cotton Mather's most characteristic productions is the tribute to his venerated master.

therefore, that this was one of the first productions of Eusebius, if not the first after the persecutions ceased.

After leaving Paramount, she signed deals with various film companies, being cast in her first horror film roles among many other types of roles, including in The Bowery ( 1933 ) and Viva Villa ( 1934 ), both huge productions starring Wallace Beery.

In the first half of the 20th century, when psychoanalysis was at the height of its influence, its concepts were applied to Hamlet, notably by Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, and Jacques Lacan, and these studies influenced theatrical productions.

Influenced by the crossover success of Ray Charles, Brown backed away from his musical roots and incorporated productions of pop standards, finding success with his first Top 20 single, " Prisoner of Love ".

He worked as an advertising agent after studying acting at the Hickman School of Speech and Expression in Washington, D. C. His work as a theatre critic inspired him to become involved in theatre productions, first in Virginia, and then in New York.

Rediffusion did not use the play ; instead, it was made as one of the first productions of the new ITV company Yorkshire Television, and broadcast posthumously on 26 August 1968.

" The Kemble-Siddons performances were the first widely influential productions in which Lady Macbeth's villainy was presented as deeper and more powerful than Macbeth's.

Most important, though, were his skills as a beatmaker ; Marl was among the first to mine James Brown records for grooves and also learned how to craft his own drum loops through sampling, which decreased hip-hop's reliance on tinny-sounding drum machines and gave his ' 80s productions a fresh, modern flavor.

The first of these productions was in 2001 with the Hong Kong martial arts film Iron Monkey which made over $ 14 million in the United States, seven times its budget.

Among the notable German language productions is Lexx and, a German series first broadcast in 1966.

Peckinpah's next film, Major Dundee ( 1965 ), was the first of Peckinpah's many unfortunate experiences with the major studios that financed his productions.

Ever since his first Python-independent feature Jabberwocky, Gilliam has shown a propensity to work with particular actors in numerous productions.

However, other major Australian cities, including Melbourne, would not see the play for the first time until new productions were mounted after Wilde's death.

Curry first became well known with his breakthrough role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, reprising the role he played in the 1973 London and 1974 Los Angeles stage productions of The Rocky Horror Show, then later for his supporting roles as Rooster in the film adaption of Annie ( 1982 ), Lord of Darkness in the film Legend ( 1985 ), Wadsworth in the film Clue ( 1985 ) as well as a starring role as Pennywise the Clown in the horror TV miniseries It ( 1990 ), which is one of Curry's most acclaimed performances aside from Rocky Horror.

In the wake of the successful Universal Studios ad hoc syndicated package Operation Prime Time, which featured first a miniseries adaptation of John Jakes ' novel The Bastard and went on to several more productions, Paramount had earlier contemplated its own television network with the Paramount Television Service.

His first film productions were for German television, and it was during his work on the popular German Tatort ( Crime Scene ) TV series that he first met and worked with the actor Jürgen Prochnow — who would later appear as the U-boat captain in Petersen's famous Das Boot.

Although he had overseen many productions, this was the first time that he had taken complete control.

The opera's immense popularity, with some 229 productions worldwide in the following three years, is illustrated by the fact that " in Naples, for example, where the opera in its first three years had eleven stagings in six theaters, the performances totaled 190 ".

It regained some popularity from the early-1980s onward and was revived in a series of new productions at the San Francisco Opera ( 1982 ), Lyric Opera of Chicago ( 1984 ), at La Scala ( 1984 ) and the Met ( 1985 ), the 2008 stagings being the first since that time.