Rose Weiss, who handles all the prayer-requests that we receive, answering each letter personally, has the serene selflessness that comes from suffering: she has had many major operations, and now gets about in a limited way on braces and crutches.

* May 5 – Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets his 3, 000th major league hit.

** Athens gets hit by a major blizzard which blankets the entire city for days, causing widespread havoc.

The Silk Road gets its name from the lucrative Chinese silk trade, a major reason for the connection of trade routes into an extensive transcontinental network.

It consists largely of essays about technology and life experiences, but its major selling point is the inclusion of the incomplete novel on which Adams was working at the time of his death, The Salmon of Doubt ( from which the collection gets its title, a reference to the Irish myth of the Salmon of Knowledge ).

Usually twice a year, a major downpour comes, and ( in The Yellow Bastard ) the city gets heavy snowfall in the winter.

One of the earliest parodies of the whodunit genre in general is Englishman E. C. Bentley's ( 1875 – 1956 ) novel Trent's Last Case ( 1913 ), which introduced Philip Trent, a detective who gets everything wrong right from the start: assigned to investigate the murder of English millionaire Sigsbee Manderson, who is found shot in the library of his country house, Trent makes his first major mistake when he falls head over heels in love with the main suspect.

It gets its name from the Oise River, a major tributary of the Seine, which crosses the region after having started in Belgium and flowed through north-eastern France.

Little Rock Township gets its name from the Little Rock River that flows through the township and is one of the major tributaries of the Rock River.

May is the hometown of one of the major characters of Stephen King's The Stand, the mentally retarded Tom Cullen, who meets the deaf-mute drifter Nick Andros after Cullen gets drunk and passes out in the middle of the road.

However, he also has major psychological problems, and his life is a series of cycles — he gets rich by theft, then often ends up in prison.

He made his major acting debut in the film Like Mike which was released on July 3, 2002, in which he starred as a young orphan who gets a shot at playing in the NBA.

The Icarus myth, where the island gets its name, is a major part of the local curriculum.

The town gets a fair amount of precipitation, although major paralyzing snow and rain storms such as blizzards and hurricanes are uncommon but do happen on occasion.

The song starts as a descending minor third early in the year in April, and the interval gets wider, through a major third to a fourth as the season progresses, and in June the cuckoo " forgets its tune " and may make other calls such as ascending intervals.

This specialization gets more intense in the second year when the students concentrate on their major and minor fields of study.

This tree species is a major honey plant in the eastern United States, yielding a dark reddish, fairly strong honey which gets mixed reviews as a table honey but is favorably regarded by bakers.

The major difference between the two types of loading is the strain which would have opposite signs for tension ( positive — it gets longer ) and compression ( negative — it gets shorter ).

A DOE Task Force reporting to Richardson late in January 2000 summarized that " organizations of the NIF project failed to implement program and project management procedures and processes commensurate with a major research and development project … that … no one gets a passing grade on NIF Management: not the DOE's office of Defense Programs, not the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and not the University of California ".

In such cases the vendor / butcher gets the carcass or other major cuts of meat from a government inspected slaughterhouse and does the secondary butchering ( fabrication in USDA terms ), packaging, and labeling in its own facility.

Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, a shipbuilder and major Boeing engine subcontractor gets its name from the province.

Instead, they publicize how they will help you if your card gets stolen, or that they have the lowest interest percentage compared to the other major competitors.

Unless either the Presiding Officer makes ( or fails to correct ) a very major error in procedure or else the debate gets bogged down the Parliamentarian will generally not intervene in the proceedings unless asked by someone in the chamber.

The crisis served the first documented instance of the threat of mutual assured destruction ( MAD ) being discussed as a determining factor in a major international arms agreement.

After its merger with Google, YouTube assured the RIAA that they would find a way to pay royalties through a bulk agreement with the major record labels.

The idea is a major justification cited for large militaries, and also served as the primary motivation behind the Cold War doctrine of mutually assured destruction.

In 1761, he was promoted to major general, and in 1762, again with the assistance of his brother, was placed in command of the 22nd Regiment, which assured a command even in peacetime.

This assured the game would feature major conference champions or prestigious runners-up and cemented its status as a major bowl.

Ample water supply for household, commercial, industrial and agricultural uses is assured by 73 thousand hectares of proclaimed and protected major watersheds, regular rainfall and six major river systems.

With the assassination of the Tibetan emperor Me Agtsom in 755 in the midst of a major rebellion within the Tibetan polity, final Tang victory over the Tibetan Empire seemed all but assured.

This sacred union of Jarilo and Morana, deities of vegetation and of nature, assured abundance, fertility and blessing to the earth, and also brought temporary peace between two major Slavic gods, Perun and Veles, signifying heaven and underworld.

Since a consensus was reached regarding the standards of training and major functions of a school psychologist, the public can now be assured that all school psychologists are receiving adequate information and training to become a practitioner.

Despite the fans ' common concern that the switch to a major record label would change the band's unique sound, Isaac Brock assured fans that this would not be the case, " I don't think the new album is at all overpolished or anything.

The quality of their music had been assured because one of Japanese major record labels, Being, has been supporting them since their debut.

Premiums which were constant for the duration of the policy, were based on a method devised by the mathematician James Dodson using mortality figures for Northampton and the amount payable on death, the basic sum assured was guaranteed, a major advantage at the time.

A major factor in this move was pressure from the landowners to remove a threat to the system ( notably, Constantin Garoflid filed a complaint with the king, while Mihalache caused scandal when he publicly assured peasants that the monarch's opposition was ultimately irrelevant.

Despite the boycott and the resulting tiny Arab Sunni representation in the assembly, the major party leaders have assured the Arab Sunnis that they will have input into the new constitution.

As the election of a left-wing candidate was assured, the major left-wing parties, the Portuguese Communist Party and the People's Democratic Union, presented their own candidates.

The PGA Tour's season-ending FedEx Cup playoffs are a series of four events ; while major winners are technically not guaranteed entry into even the first playoff event, the FedEx Cup point allocations for major winners are sufficiently high that the winner of one major is essentially assured of making the top 125 in points and qualifying for the FedEx Cup playoffs.

He also assured them that the Republican movement had the support of major European powers and as such there would be no foreign invasion in support of Carol.

After playing a number of small roles pre-1900, his popularity became assured via his acclaimed performance in major roles in the premieres of two J. M.

He appeared in almost a dozen major features, mainly in the 1960s and 1970s, " but his ascent to star status was assured by a handful of short films directed by Leonid Gaidai.

Jennifer Wilbanks gained notoriety in the United States and internationally, and her story persisted as a major topic of national news coverage for some time after she was found and her safety was assured.