As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

You're the kind of bastard who sneaks up on a man from behind and hits him with a club.

The two men in overalls stood just behind the blonde-headed man.

The men behind them were Bill Doolin and five of his gang -- every man a killer.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

That other Jew, a young man too, had left that greatcoat behind, in a rich house, and marched away.

At the end of work one day, the personnel man took the applicants one at a time, asked them to sit behind the receptionist's desk and he then played the role of a number of people who might come to the receptionist with a number of queries and for a number of purposes.

Word reached the company that the man behind these depredations was Manuel Gonzales, a man with many followers, including a number who were kept in line through fear of him.

And so, after a flight southeast to Savannakhet, we found ourselves bouncing along in a Jeep right behind the Land-Rover of Prince Boun Oum of Champassak, a tall man of Churchillian mien in a bush jacket and a ten-gallon hat from Texas.

The steady roll of the drums had sounded behind him as he walked between the endless ranks of the men he had commanded, and each man about-faced and turned his back as the officer approached.

At first I was happy to throw the support of our newspaper behind this man.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

They later emigrate to Argentina, leaving Poirot behind as a " very unhappy old man.

The acre was approximately the amount of land tillable by one man behind an ox in one day.

alt = A man on a donkey walks past a palm tree, with a mosque and market behind him.

King gave the officers a pair of sunglasses he thought the man left behind and the detectives took some blood samples from the walls.

He describes his passage on ships to the wilderness-to the Company's station, which strikes Marlow as a scene of devastation: " amongst a waste of excavations "-disorganized, machinery parts here and there, now and then explosions of demolition, weakened native black men, that have been demoralized, in chains, literally being worked to death, and strolling behind them a white Company man in a uniform carrying a rifle.

Quarters are numbered from the dexter chief ( the corner nearest to the right shoulder of a man standing behind the shield ), proceeding across the top row, and then across the next row and so on.

Michael Lehmann, the man behind the original film, however, has denied that a sequel's development, saying " Winona's been talking about this for years — she brings it up every once in a while and Dan Waters and I will joke about it, but as far as I know there's no script and no plans to do the sequel.

: Does a man who has already left sixty years behind his back

According to a poll conducted in 1947, Robinson was the second most popular man in the country, behind Bing Crosby.

He is established early on as " the 3rd richest man in the world ", behind Bill Gates and the fictional Arthur Chow.

* 2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

* Mr Michael Carter — Jennings's housemaster, a man of great imperturbability and patience, with a phenomenal ability to detect dissembling and violations of school rules.

For empirical phenomenal knowledge, however, which is all that man can look for, materialism with its exact scientific methods has done most valuable service.

In September, he received good press in the Atlanta Constitution, which labeled him a " miracle man " who had " blossomed out as a wonder " after making four plays that were " phenomenal.

After the phenomenal success of her first novel, Metalious hastily penned a sequel centering on the life and loves of bestselling author Allison MacKenzie, who ironically follows in the footsteps of her mother by having an affair with a married man, her publisher Lewis Jackman.

Finkel observed " phenomenal changes " in the subject of his articles, and noted that the young man had stopped using drugs and that his attitude and his relationship with his parents had improved dramatically.

And you wonder if that is why the little man lost his job and his car and stayed drunk about a year before he straightened out and moved to St. Louis, where he got to be a big unhappy success.

Allmovie called him " the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking ", while the success of his films have led to him being labelled " the first popular Surrealist.

Following artistic success and critical acclaim in the American independent film community, he achieved mainstream renown with his far-East philosophical crime film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, shot in Jersey City and starring Forest Whitaker as a young inner-city man who has found purpose for his life by unyieldingly conforming it to the Hagakure, an 18th-century philosophy text and training manual for samurai, becoming, as directed, a terrifyingly deadly hit-man for a local mob boss to whom he may owe a debt, and who then betrays him.

This success turned Whitehouse and Higson's career, and they began to appear on shows such as Vic Reeves ' Big Night Out and extensively for the BBC, with Whitehouse appearing on A Bit of Fry and Laurie as a man with a clinical need to have his bottom fondled, and Paul Merton: The Series, then as performer on shows such as Harry Enfield's Television Programme, where he developed numerous characters including DJ Mike Smash of Smashie and Nicey alongside Harry Enfield as Nicey.

And Jones fired the two men that brought previous success to Dallas: its founding president Tex Schramm and its famed personnel man Gil Brandt.

Fanque also stands out as a black man who achieved great success and enjoyed great admiration among the British public only a few decades after Britain had abolished slavery.

Warren Farrell has created a number of words and phrases, such as ' success object ', ' genetic celebrity ', ' pay paradox ', ' from role mate to soul mate ', ' death professions ', ' glass cellar ', ' financial womb ', ' the three-option woman and the no-option man ', ' men's ABC rights ', ' the disposable sex ', and most recently ' iSocial '.

Though it has been stated that Mascagni, like Leoncavallo, was a " one-opera man " who could never repeat his first success, this is inaccurate.

Until this episode Santa Anna's reputation had been that of a cunning and crafty man, rather than a cruel one ... together with the fall of the Alamo, branded both Santa Anna and the Mexican people with a reputation for cruelty and aroused the fury of the people of Texas, the United States, and even Great Britain and France, thus considerably promoting the success of the Texas Revolution.

As much as anyone, Harmon Austin, a local man of influence, was indispensable to Garfield's success, keeping a finger on the political pulse of the district.

1831 saw the success of La Peau de Chagrin ( The Wild Ass's Skin or The Magic Skin ), a fable-like tale about a despondent young man named Raphaël de Valentin who finds an animal skin which promises great power and wealth.

At his memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral, reporters try to gain insights into this remarkable, enigmatic man from those who knew him, with little success.

During 2006 and 2007, Benigni had a lot of success touring Italy with his 90-minute " one man show " show TuttoDante (" Everything About Dante ").

As king, Edward VII proved a greater success than anyone had expected, but he was already an old man and had little time left to fulfil the role.

A man of inner perspicacity, in the years of success he was said to have lost his outer vision and thus acquired the name caecus, " blind ".

He was very able as a Minister, but without a certain Elevation of mind ... He was both the ablest Parliament man, and the ablest manager of a Parliament, that I believe ever lived ... Money, not Prerogative, was the chief Engine of his administration, and he employed it with a success that in a manner disgraced humanity ... When he found any body proof, against pecuniary temptations, which alass!

Much of the success of the album was due to the lead single, the upbeat " You Can Call Me Al ", whose lyrics describe a man experiencing an identity crisis.

In addition to his success in the business world, he had also succeeded as a young man in winning the hand of Frances ' Fran ' Voelker, a beautiful young socialite.

As a result of his success Bizet became a regular guest at Offenbach's Friday evening parties, where among other musicians he met the aged Gioachino Rossini, who presented the young man with a signed photograph.

The success of this campaign inspired U. S. President Dwight Eisenhower to dub Diệm the " miracle man " when he visited the U. S. in May 1957.

He witnessed first hand his son's success as a performer, and on February 12 heard Joseph Haydn's widely-quoted words of praise, upon hearing the string quartets Wolfgang dedicated to him, " Before God and as an honest man I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name: He has taste, and, furthermore, the most profound knowledge of composition.

It also helped launch Kathleen Turner to stardom, reintroduced Douglas as a capable leading man, and gave director Robert Zemeckis his first box-office success.

An early success, " Le Poinçonneur des Lilas ", describes the day in the life of a Paris Métro ticket man whose job it is to stamp holes in passengers ' tickets.

In the novel, Lora May ( not Lora Mae ) is less a gold digger than a woman who has always been dominated by her wealthy husband ; Rita is trying to succeed in a second marriage with a man she has never felt passionate about ; and Deborah is a plain and quiet ex-spinster whose " catch " of a husband has been disappointed in her lack of success in society.