Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

It is the last of the three tests of manhood which the women impose, to discover if a male is worthy of survival there.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Other countries, some of which I visited last month, have similar needs.

but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.

I ask you to do me the last favour of reading them by 8 to-morrow evening, about which time I shall come to say my sad good-bye.

There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

The same can be said about the half-hearted Cuban invasion mounted by the administration last April, which, we trust, is not symptomatic of the methods to be invoked in holding off the felonious Khrushchev.

The U.N.-chartered plane which was flying from the conference city of Ndola in Northern Rhodesia had been riddled with machinegun bullets last weekend and was newly repaired.

His successor, Secretary Goldberg, also has been guessing wrong on a drop in the unemployment rate which has been holding just under 7 per cent for the last 11 months.

There are some clubs which claim they learned something about pitching to him last year.

The bill which passed the Assembly last May and is now pending in the Senate should be given careful scrutiny.

It reappears, in whole or part, whenever a new crisis exposes the reality: in Cuba last spring ( with which the Dominican events of last month should be paired ) ; ;

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.

That girl last night, what was her name??

At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

It was practically the last move that McBride made of his own volition.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

My last impression as they led him off to a stockade was of his pale face

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

Incidentally, there was an Atlas firing last night.

Fortunately the hole was found at last and plugged.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.

Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.

When they reached Augusta last week, together they had won five of the 13 tournaments to date.

To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

England won the last Test at The Oval by one wicket.

Australia went 2 – 0 up after three Tests, but England won the Fourth Test by 3 runs ( after a 70-run last wicket stand ) to set up the final decider, which was drawn.

The rain-affected Third Test ended with the last two Australian batsmen holding out for a draw and England won the Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to follow-on for the first time in 191 Tests.

During his reign, Spain lost its last colonies in the Americas ( Cuba and Puerto Rico ) and the Philippines ; fought and, after several setbacks, won a war in Morocco ; witnessed the start of the Spanish Generation of 1927, and endured the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.

* In 406 BC, after years of defeats in the wake of the annihilation of their vast invasion force in Sicily, the Athenians at last won a naval victory at Arginusae over the Spartans.

Although the Falcons won 3 of their last 4 games after the return of Michael Vick, they ended up with a dismal 5 – 11 record that year.

It turned out that the Cubs and Giants ended the season tied for first place, so the game was indeed replayed, and the Cubs won the game, the pennant, and subsequently the World Series ( the last Cubs Series victory to date, as it turns out ).

The Lions would only lose a single match on the rest of the tour, and won the test series against New Zealand, winning and drawing the last two games, to take the series two wins to one.

The Lions did however lose the first three tests to South Africa, winning the last one, though the series had already been won by the Springboks.

The partnership which makes the last bid then becomes the " declaring side " and is said to have ' won ' the auction.

Bowls is played at the Commonwealth Games ; the last being held in Delhi, India, where Natalie Melmore ( England ) and Robert Weale ( Wales ) won the singles Gold Medals.

They won three straight pennants, and participated in all four of the Temple Cup Championship Series, winning the last two of them.

This would prove the last time the Liberals won a majority in their own right.

Chile won its formal independence when San Martín defeated the last large Spanish force on Chilean soil at the Battle of Maipú on April 5, 1818.

The White Sox last won the World Series in 2005 when they played the Houston Astros and swept them in four games.

Among his best-known films are Cleopatra ; Samson and Delilah ; The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ; and The Ten Commandments, which was his last and most successful film.

The Browns, who lost the last game of the regular season to the Lions only a week before, won their second NFL crown 56 – 10.

The Great Britain team won the last MacRobertson International Croquet Shield tournament, which is the major international test tour trophy in association croquet.

They led the Wild Card by 1. 5 games over San Francisco and Houston on September 25, and both of those teams lost that day, giving the Cubs a chance at increasing the lead to a commanding 2. 5 games with only eight games remaining in the season, but reliever LaTroy Hawkins blew a save to the Mets, and the Cubs lost the game in extra innings, a defeat that seemingly deflated the team, as they proceeded to drop 6 of their last 8 games as the Astros won the Wild Card.

Instead, the Rockies dropped even further, finishing 72 – 90 and in last place in the West as the Diamondbacks won the division in just their second year of existence.

They won their last 14 of 15 games, including 11 in a row, the most of any team in the 2007 season and an all-time franchise record.

On the last day of the season, Young won both games of a doubleheader.

The last words he uttered were, ‘ I have loved justice and hated iniquity, and therefore I die in exile .” Gregory VII must have felt he died in utter failure, and to many of his contemporaries it appeared Henry IV and Antipope Clement III had won.