There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.

He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.

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

Rob Roy was well aware of the importance of this mission, and he would walk in front of the President, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.

Mr. Hammarskjold was in Africa on a mission of peace.

The oyabun was entertaining a group of dignitaries, the secretary said, businessmen from Tokyo for the most part, and Kayabashi wished to show them the mission.

At the same time, it was unlikely that any businessmen would spend a day in a Christian mission out of mere curiosity.

He was not going to lose the mission by default, and whatever reason Kayabashi had for bringing his little sight-seeing group to the mission, he was going to be in for a surprise.

Finally, if the mission of the Trial was to convict anti-Semitism, how could it have failed to post before the world the contrasting fates of the countries in which the Final Solution was aided by native Jew-haters -- i.e., Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia -- and those in which it met the obstacle of human solidarity -- Denmark, Holland, Italy, Bulgaria, France??

The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.

But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the conflict between him and the Hunkerish society was not something which could be evaporated into a genteel difference about clerical decorum.

In the beginning of April 2012, when a new military Coup d ' état was under preparation, the Angolan regime decided to withdraw its military mission from Guinea-Bissau.

The Reverend Nangle expanded his mission into Mweelin, where a ' school ' was built.

However, during the time of Arianism's flowering in Constantinople, the Gothic convert Ulfilas ( later the subject of the letter of Auxentius cited above ) was sent as a missionary to the Gothic barbarians across the Danube, a mission favored for political reasons by emperor Constantius II.

Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.

It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit ; Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while the final Apollo 17 mission marked the sixth Moon landing and the ninth manned mission beyond low Earth orbit.

While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited Earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and eventually to a lunar landing.

The radiation environment near Io in particular was very unhealthy for Galileos systems, and so these flybys were saved for the extended mission when loss of the spacecraft would be more acceptable.

He founded Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch, also located near Kerrville, whose mission is to care for stray, abused and aging animals ; more than 1, 000 dogs have been saved from animal euthanasia.

He makes a deal in which the memory of his Mars mission is replaced by a false memory of his deepest desire as analyzed by psychiatrists-that he saved the world from an alien invasion at the age of 9.

Under the impression that he had been infected with the fatal disease hyper-malaria during a covert quasi-military mission for Mom, the Professor asked Zoidberg, whom he had previously saved from a yeti, to promise that when the latent disease would manifest itself in later years that Zoidberg would euthanize him, to which he agreed.

The maned spacecraft Soyuz 1 was launched with the expectation of " union " with the manned Soyuz 2 craft, but even before the second craft was launched, it became apparent that the Soyuz 2 mission had to be canceled before the landing of Soyuz 1 – this saved the lives of the crew of Soyuz 2.

At the mission, Sky claims he wants to be saved, impressing Sarah with his knowledge of the Bible.

The colonists at Jamestown were saved only by the timely arrival of a supply mission headed by Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, better known as " Lord Delaware ", less than 3 weeks later.

However, only three trajectory correction maneuvers were necessary, which saved fuel which would be usable during MRO's extended mission.

Measures to reduce the expenditure were evaluated and based on the analysis, enough propellant could be saved to complete the planned 9-day plus science mission.

Despite the failure of UNAMIR in its main mission, its humanitarian services during the 1994 genocide are recognized to this day as having saved the lives of thousands or tens of thousands of Rwandan Tutsi and Hutu moderates who would have otherwise been killed.

The Board sponsored the Raoul Wallenberg mission to Budapest and allowed an increasing number of Jews to enter the U. S. in 1944 and 1945 ; as many as 200, 000 Jews were saved in this way.

* Dominique Paradis: A French Intelligence agent met by James Bond whilst being saved in the mission " Paris Prelude ".

Brainwave is saved by the JSA, Mister Mind is apprehended thanks to the Atom infiltrating Brainwave's head-as part of an undercover mission to confirm whether Adam was brainwashing his comrades -, and Nemesis and Alex both die during the battle when Alex loses control of Eclipso.

He captained one of Lord De La Warr's ships in the successful rescue mission to Virginia in 1610 which saved the colony from starvation.

However, the press itself and the punches were saved, and the mission was able to continue printing in six months.

Kurita's retreat saved Yamato and the remainder of the IJN 2nd Fleet from certain destruction, but he had failed to complete his mission, attacking the amphibious forces in Leyte Gulf.

Ruby Sales, the teenager whose life Daniels saved, went on to attend Episcopal Theological School ( now Episcopal Divinity School ) herself, and has gone on to work as a human rights advocate in Washington, D. C. as well as founding an inner-city mission dedicated to Daniels.

The facility made the news in January 2008 with what The Guardian called " the world's biggest rescue mission of its kind ," when it saved 88 capuchin monkeys from a laboratory in Santiago, Chile, where some of the animals had been kept in solitary cages for up to 20 years.

* IEEE Spectrum: " Titan Calling: How a Swedish engineer saved a once-in-a-lifetime mission to Saturn's mysterious moon "

On his first mission with the fledgling Justice League, Triumph seemingly " saved the world ", but was teleported into a dimensional limbo that also affected the timestream, resulting in no one having any memory of him and his original peers now being veterans.

When his father planned on writing an article on how John saved New York City by finding the bomb the Green Goblin planted, John warned him it would lead to an investigation that would pull him from a coming space mission.

A suspect during the Reign of Terror, he was twice arrested: the first time in September 1793, liberated after the intervention of Joseph Augustin Crassous ( representative on mission to Seine-et-Oise ); the second time in June 1794 ( paradoxically, on orders from the same Crassous )-threatened with the guillotine, he was saved by a relative of his who stole his record of prosecution, thus causing a delay long enough for Lebrun to be saved by the Thermidorian Reaction.

That all changed when Mack Bolan saved his life during his mission against Julian DiGeorge.