I saw Little Billy rise and fire almost point blank and an Indian's face became shattered flesh and bone.

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.

From the moment of the occupation Lublin became a focal point.

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

they had also had to generalize it -- to the point, finally, where the illusion of depth and relief became abstracted from specific three-dimensional entities and was rendered largely as the illusion of depth and relief as such: as a disembodied attribute and expropriated property detached from everything not itself.

At this point Charles C. Hanch, long an advocate of patent peace in the industry, became chairman of the patents committee of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, successor to the Automobile Board of Trade.

He made use of the time by undertaking far more intensive fieldwork than had been done by British anthropologists, and his classic ethnography, Argonauts of the Western Pacific ( 1922 ) advocated an approach to fieldwork that became standard in the field: getting " the native's point of view " through participant observation.

In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.

Akira, who at this point planned to become a painter, moved in with him, and the two brothers became inseparable.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

The WSF became a periodic meeting: in 2002 and 2003 it was held again in Porto Alegre and became a rallying point for worldwide protest against the American invasion of Iraq.

Following its construction, the Arc de Triomphe became the rallying point of French troops parading after successful military campaigns and for the annual Bastille Day Military Parade.

His doctrinal positions became the starting point for the Franciscan school of theology.

The question eventually became the focal point for a philosophical issue ( the theory of possible worlds ) and a theological topic on the distinction between God's absolute power ( potentia absoluta ) and His ordained power ( potentia ordinata ).

Located in São José dos Campos, the CTA became the focal point for the arms industry.

Indeed, in the largest biological weapons accident known – the anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk ( now Yekaterinburg ) in the Soviet Union in 1979, sheep became ill with anthrax as far as 200 kilometers from the release point of the organism from a military facility in the southeastern portion of the city ( known as Compound 19 and still off limits to visitors today, see Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak ).

" After wearing glasses for a while, his eyes became adjusted to the lenses, and at that point he became nearsighted and really did need glasses, which would years later establish John as one of the most famous " four-eyes " in rock and roll, though Holly is widely considered to be the first.

At some point, cetus became synonymous with whale ( cf.

At what point during the war Teach joined the fighting is, in keeping with the record of most of his life before he became a pirate, unknown.

As a former British privateer, Hornigold attacked only his old enemies, but for his crew, the sight of British vessels filled with valuable cargo passing by unharmed became too much, and at some point toward the end of 1717 he was demoted.

" Jim Rob ", as he became known, drifted for several years, traveling from town to town to try to earn a living, at one point almost losing his life when he nearly fell from a moving train, and later being chased by railroad police.

During the medieval period many towns were granted self-governance by the Crown, at which point they became referred to as boroughs.

* The Halloween special, titled " Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest ( Butt-O-Ween )," involved them attempting to trick-or-treat in ridiculous costumes -- i. e. Beavis dressed up as a giant "' nad " by wearing underpants on his head and Butt-Head becoming nachos by pouring hot cheese-sauce over his head, although at one point he said he was dressed up as a dumb-ass.

The central high point of the citadel rises like a giant natural obelisk complete with a military observation post at the top, with a giant cross at its apex ; at the foot of the observatory lies St. George's church, in a classical style punctuated by six Doric columns, as opposed to the Byzantine architectural style of the greater part of Greek Orthodox churches.

Her stories tended to be ecologically based and at one point featured giant killer flowers.

At one point, the actor kicked at Letterman's head while wearing giant platform shoes, after which Letterman ended the segment, walking off the stage and saying " I'm going to go check on the Top Ten.

The Sierra Nevada contains Yosemite Valley, famous for its glacially-carved domes, and Sequoia National Park, home to the largest trees on Earth, the giant sequoia trees, and the highest point in the contiguous United States, Mount Whitney.

In addition to this, opponents of clearfelling point out that the forests survived for centuries without clearfelling and that it takes perhaps 300 years to replace a giant tree, commercially valuable only as woodchip, and therefore designated as " waste " by the harvesters.

If the giant kills Jack, we have missed the whole point of the story .” This observation, however, is from the Cold War perspective, wherein the West are the " good " and the East is " evil ", implying that the story's ending with the British Secret Service agent killed by East German border guards is a victory for Evil.

Larger surf at the bay went unridden for years until November 7, 1957 when a handful of surfers finally paddled out and rode the giant waves that break off the northern point of the bay.

In " Clever Cinders ", the Opies observe that the heroine incinerates a giant by shoving him into an oven in a manner similar to Gretel, and point out that a ruse involving a twig in a Swedish tale resembles Hansel's trick of the dry bone.

In the Dick King-Smith novel Dragon Boy, looking at the adventures of a boy called John as he is raised by dragons after the death of his parents, it is implied that John-whose full name is John Little-will become the Little John of the Robin Hood mythos, the novel noting at one point that ' Little John ' will become a giant of a man in future thanks to his healthy meals at the dragons ' table.

If the giant kills Jack, we have missed the whole point of the story.

However, even this cataclysm does not drive the locals to open up to their alien visitors, so the crewmen deploy a device working as a giant lens or laser, capable of displaying images ( but also concentrating beams to the point of being a powerful weapon ) and following a suggestion by Tempe, show the Quintans a " fairy tale " by projecting a cartoon onto Quinta's clouds.

Ieyasu sent one of his commanders, Ōkubo Tadayo, to plant his giant golden fan standard ( uma-jirushi ) to serve as a rallying point at Saigadake, where the high plains began to drop off.

Once the air density thinned to the point that helicopter flight was impractical, the vehicle would continue its ascent on pure rocket power, with the rotor acting as a giant turbopump.

At one point he writes: "... we are at fault in not slaying them ..." a passage that " may be termed the first work of modern antisemitism, and a giant step forward on the road to the Holocaust.

Her most powerful attack is the ' Aoi Tatsumaki ' ( Blue Whirlwind ), in which her hair turns into a giant blue tornado that invariably rips away all of her clothing ( but generally at this point most of her clothing has already been ripped away anyway ).

In 1997, he announced the project to build an amusement park in Ebreichsdorf, which would have included a giant globe representing the earth that would have been 110 m high and visible from every point in the Viennese Basin.

At this point, the surface temperature of the star, now typically a red giant, will remain approximately constant as its luminosity and radius increase drastically.

: Under this giant redwood, the Palo Alto, November 6 – 11, 1769, camped Portola and his band on the expedition that discovered San Francisco Bay, this was the assembling point for their reconnoitering parties.

Ungar returned from the restroom in the middle of the hand, at which point ( to Sexton's surprise ) was thrilled that his money was involved in such a giant pot.

The endpoint of the original Alderson point in the Mote system opens within the photosphere of Murcheson's Eye, a red giant star.

Bishop, Stunner and the rest of the party distract the giant vehicle with their gunfire, while Ash eventually runs up behind the Citadel and uses her RPG to blow out the back, its weak point.

* Intentionally induced spatial disorientation ( by use of giant mirrors ) was a major plot point in the two-part TaleSpin episode, " A Bad Reflection on You.