From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

He was less to see, but Feathertop took him in, too, just to keep the records straight.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

`` It was foolish of him to keep them, whatever they were.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.

And one cannot but wonder whether Marshal Malinovsky, who was blowing hot and cold, exalting peace but also almost openly considering the possibility of preventive war against the West, wasn't trying to keep the Chinese quiet.

Their only hope of survival was to hold to the road and keep marching.

The equation was simple: wealth brought them happiness, and their united front to the world was their warning that they meant to keep everything they had, let no one in on the secrets.

In any event Rector sent him to the local hospital to have it checked, telling him to keep his ears open while he was in the village to see if he could find out what Kayabashi was planning.

She was personally sloppy, and when she had colds would blow her nose in the same handkerchief all day and keep it, soaking wet, dangling from her waist, and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt on her calves.

But he knew how important it was for her to keep her figure.

This resulted in an improved appearance, but was followed by an increase in printing cost that necessitated the institution of major economies to keep within the total of allocated funds.

They figured prominently in the Balafrej government of May, 1958, which the King was reportedly determined to keep in office until elections could be held.

Soon after the method changed, visitors began asking how he managed to irrigate his soil to keep it looking moist, when in reality, it was the soil treatment alone that accomplished this.

Greene was in actuality a young ruffian from Kent, who had broken with his parents in order to keep the company he preferred -- pimps, panders and whores.

I was careful to keep my feet, the seat of the least worthy spirits, from pointing at anyone's head, where the worthiest spirits reside.

to keep them out of homes, even in the 1900's, was a chore.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

To keep 'em scattered somewhat and yet herd 'em was called `` loose herdin' ''.

I'm sending you a couple of customers -- yeah -- just get them out of my hair and keep them out -- I don't give a damn what you tell them -- only don't believe a word they say -- they're out to make trouble for me and it is up to you to stop them -- I don't care how -- and one more thing -- Cate's Cafe closed at eleven like always last night and Rose and Clarence Corsi left for Quebec yesterday -- some shrine or other -- I think it was called Saint Simon's -- yeah, yesterday.

This was going to be it now, any second, and what he had to remember was to keep his eye on the razor, no matter what, even if Roberts should feint with a kick to the groin, the deadly hand was his exclusive concern.

once the pool of recruits diminishes, the congregation is helpless -- friendly contacts no longer keep it going.

: Till nobler men keep once again

It is often useful to be able to compute the variance in a single pass, inspecting each value only once ; for example, when the data are being collected without enough storage to keep all the values, or when costs of memory access dominate those of computation.

AMD designed the CPU with more robust x86 instruction decoding capabilities than that of K6, to enhance its ability to keep more data in-flight at once.

They were once used to keep moths away, owing to the leaf's lauric acid content that gives it insecticidal properties.

" He continued, " We believe that by attacking with tanks we can achieve a higher rate of movement than has been hitherto obtainable, and — what is perhaps even more important — that we can keep moving once a breakthrough has been made.

Unstable colloidal suspensions of low-volume fraction form clustered liquid suspensions, wherein individual clusters of particles fall to the bottom of the suspension ( or float to the top if the particles are less dense than the suspending medium ) once the clusters are of sufficient size for the Brownian forces that work to keep the particles in suspension to be overcome by gravitational forces.

He once wrote, " Land of my fathers, and my fathers can keep it ".

When a general said in a meeting " We should throw in a nuke once in a while to keep the other side guessing ," Dyson became alarmed and obtained permission to write an objective report discussing the pros and cons of using such weapons from a purely military point of view.

Learning to tune a traditional kora is arguably as difficult as learning to play it, and many people entranced by the sound while in Africa buy a kora and then find themselves unable to keep it in tune once they are home, relegating it to the status of ornament.

The skins, which were made almost entirely of collagen, would form a natural glue while drying and once taken off the frame they would keep their form.

They were unaware that, although Singer believes that some lives are so blighted from the beginning that their parents may decide their lives are not worth living, in other cases, once the decision is made to keep them alive, everything that can be done to improve the quality of their life should, to Singer's mind, be done.

It speaks volumes that despite his involvement in the murders of Benedict VI and John XIV, and the atrocities that ensued once he became pope in 984, he still had enough support to keep him in power for eleven months.

Better by far to lose six men and keep your ship than lose your entire crew " she warns, and tells Odysseus to bid Scylla's mother, the river nymph Crataeis, to prevent her from pouncing more than once.

" They now inform him that " at a certain stage of intoxication, no human power could keep from setting out, with impressive unction, to tell about a wonderful adventure which he had once had with his grandfather's old ram — and the mention of the ram in the first sentence was as far as any man had heard him get, concerning it.

Throughout her speech she kept stressing that “ we should keep things going while things are stirring ” and fears that once the fight for colored rights settles down, it would take a long time to warm people back up to the idea of colored women ’ s having equal rights.

Though Mrs. Harding did keep a little red book of those who had offended her, the executive mansion was now once again open to the public, including the annual Easter egg roll.

Those who are unable to keep such a strict fast are encouraged to eat only a little, and then only xerophagy ( uncooked food ) once a day.

Clark quickly realizes that once Uncle Tom is released, no matter what happens, their kidnappers will have little reason to keep their prisoners alive.

Anonymity, once lost, can almost never be regained as those interested in breaching it will often keep ( and have often kept ) records of such discoveries.

The worker bees huddle around the queen bee at the center of the cluster, shivering in order to keep the center between at the start of winter ( during the broodless period ) and once the queen resumes laying.

The sting and associated venom sac of honey bees are also modified so as to pull free of the body once lodged ( autotomy ), and the sting apparatus has its own musculature and ganglion which allow it to keep delivering venom once detached.

At liftoff the engine typically burns both fuels, gradually changing the mixture over altitude in order to keep the exhaust plume " tuned " ( a strategy similar in concept to the plug nozzle but using a normal bell ), eventually switching entirely to LH2 once the kerosene is burned off.

A SAX parser only needs to report each parsing event as it happens, and normally discards almost all of that information once reported ( it does, however, keep some things, for example a list of all elements that have not been closed yet, in order to catch later errors such as end-tags in the wrong order ).