But for the safety of Southeast Asia, and for the sake of the Laotian people -- who would not be well-ruled by either militant minority now engaged in the fighting -- this last big effort to seal that country from the cold war had to be made.

Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.

The early Southwest Conference football leaders -- Texas, Arkansas and Texas A & M -- made a big dent in the statistics last week.

Divided almost equally into two parts, it consisted of `` The Evolution Of The Blues '', narrated by Jon Hendricks, who had presented it last year at the Monterey, Calif., Jazz Festival, and an hour-long session of Maynard Ferguson and his orchestra, a blasting big band.

The Gulf News published on 30 November 2011, saying " This is the biggest drug bust of its kind in 2011 and the second big one in the last three years worldwide ," said Dr. Wadia Maalouf, International expert at the United Nation's Drug and Crime office.

a 8 days ban from August 12, 1959 after the August 7 flood ( 八七水災 ), the last big flood before the 88 Taiwan Flood.

By the last years of the 19th century, The British Museum's collections had increased so much that the Museum building was no longer big enough for them.

If Smith really is a big spender but is " not " soft on crime, then both Smith's remark about Jones and Jones's last remark about Smith are paradoxical.

Marvin's last big role was in Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One ( 1980 ), a war film based on Fuller's own war experiences.

Being the last big primary before the last two states voted on June 3, Puerto Rico's Democratic presidential primary attracted historic levels of national media coverage.

The last big action against the RAF took place on 27 June 1993.

We could still record, but this is our last big tour, I think.

" I think developers are being poorly served by the fact that the big companies have dominated the work of the W3C over the last year.

In his last scholarly work in 1908, Constitutional Government of the United States, Wilson said that the presidency " will be as big as and as influential as the man who occupies it ".

The last big event organised by the Nazi Sports Body, called Deutsches Turn-und-Sportfest ( Gym and Sports Festivities ), took place in Breslau from 26 to 31 July 1938.

Exploitation of the area by " big mining companies with their mechanical dredges " would last well into the 20th century.

Richard Joseph Daley ( May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976 ) served for 21 years as the mayor and undisputed Democratic boss of Chicago and is considered by historians to be the " last of the big city bosses.

Kennedy used his large, well-funded campaign organization to win the nomination, secure endorsements, and with the aid of the last of the big-city bosses to get out the vote in the big cities.

In the last part of the Neolithic, evidence is found for the Corded Ware and Bell Beaker cultures in the south of the Netherlands, but these cultures also do not seem to have had a big impact in all of Belgium.

It has not been opened since the early 1900s however, when the last of the big steamboats disappeared.

* Mistahi-maskwa ( recorded as Mistihui ' muskwa or as Mistahimusqua ; better known as Big Bear in English and as Gros Ours in French ), Chief of the Plains Cree, born about 1825, son of the Ojibwa-Chief Mukitou (‘ Black Powder ’), mastered his native language, the Cree language, as well as Ojibwe language, led the last resistance to the dispersal of the Cree on many reservations and asked for a big total reserve, a revolt of the young warriors under the leadership of one of his sons in 1885 destroyed these plans, died 17 January 1888 on the Poundmaker reservation in North Battleford in Saskatchewan.

Actor Nicolas Cage, born Nicolas Coppola, chose a new last name to avoid comparisons to his uncle, director Francis Ford Coppola, who gave him his big break in the movie Peggy Sue Got Married.

During this stage of the battle, Vice-Admiral George Ayscue, on the grounded Prince Royal — one of the nine remaining " big ships " —, surrendered, the last time in history for an English admiral in battle.

His last film, the big budget production A Farewell to Arms ( 1957 ) starring Jones and Rock Hudson, was ill received.

April sales also were 5% below those of April last year, when volume reached a record for any month, $18.9 billion ( see chart on Page One ).

Nonetheless Feline broke the Stranglers in Europe and reached No. 4 in the UK chart in January 1983 ( their last studio album to break the UK Top 10 ).

During this period, she had her last US chart single with a cover of Smokey Robinson's " Get Ready ", previously a hit for The Temptations, and some months later a top-five hit for Rare Earth.

After White took part in a Quincy Jones record titled Back on the Block, on the song titled " The Secret Garden ( Sweet Seduction Suite )", which topped the R & B chart in 1990, he mounted an effective comeback with several albums, each one more successful than the last.

The single " Pretty As You Feel ," excerpted from a longer jam on the LP with lead vocals by Joey Covington, its composer, was the last Jefferson Airplane single to place on the US singles chart, peaking at No. 60.

Undaunted, The 5th Dimension covered the same song virtually note-for-note ( except for the last verse's upward modulation ), and their early 1967 version climbed into the top 20 on both R & B and pop stations and peaked at # 16 on the Hot 100, opening the fivesome's chart career.

The last voice transmission received on Howland Island from Earhart indicated she and Noonan were flying along a line of position ( taken from a " sun line " running on 157 – 337 degrees ) which Noonan would have calculated and drawn on a chart as passing through Howland.

The last known doo-wop hit was " It's Alright " by Huey Lewis and the News, which reached number 6 on the U. S. Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in June 1993.

The last important development in instrumental rock before the British Invasion was Lonnie Mack's version of Chuck Berry's " Memphis ", which soared to # 5 on the Billboard Pop chart in June, 1963.

All three achieved moderate chart success, and her next 1986 album, Le visage de l ' amour, would become her last album of completely new recordings ( except the final song being " Mourir sur scène ").

The album broke through the Top 40 chart ( the last BS & T LP to do so ) and spawned a single (" So Long Dixie ", chart peak: 44 ) that received some airplay.

The first single, " All I Wanted ," became the last Kansas single to hit the Billboard Top 40 chart, peaking at No. 19.

It also went to # 36 on the R & R Country chart-the last time Martin had a song this high in the charts was in 1965, with the song " I Will ", which reached # 10 on the Pop chart.

" Promises " would be the only single from the album to chart in the US and last single before their hiatus.

The title track, again written and sung by Gates, was the band's last Top 10 hit, peaking at No. 9 on the singles chart.

* November 1 – After seven years off the top of the charts, Elvis Presley hits No. 1 on the Billboard chart with " Suspicious Minds " ( his last no.

On 23 September 1973 Burke charted with his 31st and last 45 when " Please Don't Say Goodbye to Me " b / w " See That Girl " ( Amherst 736 ) charted at # 91 on the R & B chart.

Diamond's record sales slumped somewhat in the 1980s and 1990s, his last single to make the Billboard's Pop Singles chart coming in 1986.

Their last single to chart was 1967's " Last Minute Miracle ", which peaked at # 99.

" Last Minute Miracle ", the last single by The Shirelles to chart

Her last top ten single on the pop charts was 1963's " Losing You " ( No. 6 ), while she continued to have other chart songs such as her 1966 song " Coming On Strong " and " Is It True?

" I'm Me Again " became Francis ' last single to chart on the AC charts.

Their last well known hit was " Second Chance " ( 1989 ) was a No. 1 hit on Billboards adult contemporary chart.

Just like its predecessor, Infinite reached No. 1 in the Finnish chart, the last time one of their albums would do so until the release of Elysium in 2011.