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Mr. George Hough ( Oct. 30 ) sounds like a business man who waits until the last minute to leave his home or shop.
Andy invented a job to keep him busy, sending him ahead to El Dorado to supervise last minute arrangements.
Salinger said the work President Kennedy, advisers, and members of his staff were doing on the address involved composition and wording, rather than last minute decisions on administration plans to meet the latest Berlin crisis precipitated by Russia's demands and proposals for the city.
He saw that Dolores intended to wait until the last minute, thinking he would get nervous.
( Originally, a team was supposed to be started in Buffalo, but league ownership at the last minute removed that city from their plans in favor of the expansion Boston franchise.
Murbella recognizes their plan at the last minute, but is powerless to stop them.
Initially, Decade was to be released in 1976, but was pulled at the last minute by Young.
On the morning of 18 December, the emperor appeared to deposit the imperial insignia at the Temple of Concord, but at the last minute retraced his steps to the Imperial palace.
At the last minute Joseph V. McKee entered the race as the nominee of the new " Recovery party.
At the last minute Godzilla blasts his atomic breath into Biollante's mouth killing the monstrosity.
Stuntman Kenpachiro Satsuma ( who previously played Hedorah and Gigan in the original Godzilla films ) played Godzilla for the first time, as a replacement for another stuntman who backed out at the last minute.
The requiem was compiled and completed, but it was cancelled at the last minute ( and was not performed in Verdi's lifetime ).
Brooks surprised Lovullo by showing up last minute, ready to don his overalls and perform for the final episode.
In an attempt to win last minute votes from moderate pro-democracy lawmakers, the government amended its reform package on 19 December by proposing a gradual cut in the number of district council members appointed by the Chief Executive.
He was the mastermind behind a potential move of the club to Minneapolis that was vetoed by the rest of ownership at the last minute.
However, the Volunteers ' leader, Eoin MacNeill, found out about the plot at the last minute, and issued countermanding orders to Volunteer units around the country.
When the vote was held, the convention barely had sufficient votes to ratify, and these likely did not appear until the last minute.
At the last minute he withdrew his support from Luther.
At the 2008 Download Festival Kid Rock was meant to appear between Seether and Disturbed on the Main Stage but pulled out at the last minute.
The original backers, EMI Films, had been scared off at the last minute by the subject matter, particularly Bernard Delfont.
Liverpool finished equal with Arsenal on both points and goal difference, but lost the title on total goals scored when Arsenal scored the final goal in the last minute of the season.
HBO also had a 30 minute program of music videos, called Video Jukebox, that first aired around the time of MTV's launch and would last until late 1986.
In 1993 Fraser made a bid for the Liberal Party presidency but withdrew at the last minute following opposition to his bid due to Fraser being critical of then Liberal leader John Hewson for losing the election earlier that year.
Secretary of State Madison was ordered by President Jefferson to withhold the commissions made at the last minute by outgoing President Adams.
At the last minute, as the helicopters were arriving at Fürstenfeldbruck, the German police aboard the airplane voted to abandon their mission, without consulting the central command.

last and public
`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.
A succession of highly publicized scandals has aroused the public within the last year.
* 1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
As VanSlyck ( 1991 ) showed, the last years of the 19th century saw acceptance of the idea that free libraries should be available to the American public.
BeOS R5 is considered the last official version, but BeOS R5. 1 " Dano ", which was under development before Be's sale to Palm and included the BeOS Networking Environment ( BONE ) networking stack, was leaked to the public shortly after the company's demise.
By then Wilson was the last surviving member of Attlee's cabinet and the unveiling of the statue would be the last public appearance by Wilson, who was by then in the first stages of Alzheimer's Disease and who died in May 1995 after a decade of ill health.
The 11th Party Congress would prove to be the last congress chaired by Lenin, he suffered one stroke in May 1922, was paralysed by a second in December later that year, was removed from public life in March 1923 and died on 21 January 1924.
However, if a service ( e. g. public transport ) operates from for example, 6: 00 to 1: 00 the next day ( which may be noted as 25: 00 ), the last hour may well count as being part of the previous day ( also for the arrangement of the timetable ).
During the last half of the 19th century, government assumed expanding responsibilities for public welfare and public works improvements.
In her later years, she also visited the Empire State Building frequently, once visiting in 1991 as a guest of honor at the building's 60th anniversary, and also in May 2004, which was among her last public appearances.
Central banks, such as the Federal Reserve System banks in the United States and Bank of England in the United Kingdom, are strong players in public finance, acting as lenders of last resort as well as strong influences on monetary and credit conditions in the economy.
Fichte gave a wide range of public and private lectures in Berlin from the last decade of his life.
Most only became public in the last decades of the twentieth century, in his collected works.
And Herman's drug habit became public domain: In 1977 for instance the Wild Romance played a gig in a highschool in Almelo, the Christelijk Lyceum ; during the break Brood was caught on the toilet taking heroine or speed ( there are different reports on the type of drug, but it is a wellknown story amongst former students ), the rest of the concert was cancelled, and this also was the last time a rockconcert took place at this school for many years.
" books, scholarships, fellowships, and mosques " ( for example, " more than 1500 mosques were built and paid for with money obtained from public Saudi funds over the last 50 years "), along with training in the Kingdom for the preachers and teachers who went on to teach and work at these universities, schools, mosques, etc.
* 1969 – The Beatles ' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London.
His last public work, the mosaic mural New York in Transit, was installed in October 2001 in the Times Square subway station in New York City.
In 1976, he appeared for the last time in a motion picture, playing a movie crewman who is fired by a movie mogul, played by Art Carney, in Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, and he also made his final public appearance in that year when he was inducted into the Body Building Guild Hall of Fame.
In his last years in office, Adenauer used to take a nap after lunch and, when he was traveling abroad and had a public function to attend, he sometimes asked for a bed in a room close to where he was supposed to be speaking, so that he could rest briefly before he appeared.
As discussed by Reinhart and Rogoff ( 2009 ), excessive debt, public and private, internal and external, has repeatedly led to financial crises in almost all countries throughout the last two centuries.
London Transport was taken in to public ownership and became part of the British Transport Commission, which brought London Transport and British Railways under the same control for the first and last time.
Even though it has only come to the attention of the general public in the last few decades, lucid dreaming is not a modern discovery.
* In the United States, Memorial Day, a public holiday, is on May 30, but observed on the last Monday in May.

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