The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.

Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.

The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.

The second half of the sixteenth century in England was the setting for a violent and long controversy over the moral quality of renaissance literature, especially the drama.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

The second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.

Andre Malraux's The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg was written in the early years of the second World War, during a period of enforced leisure when he was taken prisoner by the Germans after the fall of France.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

His first aerodynamic experiments, an investigation of the air resistance of surfaces, was carried out by dropping the surface to be investigated together with a measuring apparatus down a vertical cable stretched between the second level of the Eiffel Tower and the ground.

The 1MB machine ( 128k of ROM, 128k of video RAM, 768k of system RAM ) promised graphics with 256 colours on-screen simultaneously, could handle 3 million pixels per second, output 8 channel stereo and had a blitter chip that allowed vertical and horizontal hardware scrolling.

During fast shutter speeds, the focal-plane shutter would form a ' slit ' whereby the second shutter curtain was closely following the first opening shutter curtain to produce a narrow, vertical opening, with the shutter slit moving horizontally.

Later, Nikon again pioneered the use of titanium for vertical shutters, using a special honeycomb pattern on the blades to reduce their weight and achieve world-record speeds in 1982 of 1 / 4000 second for non-sync shooting, and 1 / 250 with x-sync.

The most common format is a vertical column of six circles, with holes to be covered for a given note shown filled with black, and a plus sign (+) at the top for notes in the second octave.

For 240 by 144 dots / inch, the print head would make one pass, printing 240 by 72 dots / inch, then the printer would advance the paper by half of the vertical dot pitch ( 1 / 144 inch ), then the print head would make a second pass.

Typically 35mm film SLRs could sync flash at only up to 1 / 60th second if the camera has horizontal run cloth curtains, and 1 / 125th if using a vertical run metal shutter.

When the apex of the vertical flight occurred after a coasting flight of about 247 seconds, a radio signal from the ground ignited the eleven-rocket cluster of the second stage, separating the tub from the instrument section.

It is associated with the following components: 白, 手, 扌, 斤 ( both with and without the T ), 牛 ( without the vertical downward stroke ), and of course the two left-falling strokes ( I cannot find the unicode glyph that represents them ) that one would expect from the second key in the zone ( see above for an explanation ).

It still has the large square marquee and the vertical sign, however the balcony area was transformed into a separate upstairs room to house a second screen.

Since the vertical blank period occurs at the start of every displayed frame ( PAL: 50 times a second, NTSC: 60 times a second ), timing the code to run during this period guarantees a regular " heartbeat " which is useful for timing-dependent functions.

If the mirrors have vertical edges then the left edge of the field of view is the plane through the right edge of the first mirror and the edge of the second mirror which is on the right when looked at directly, but on the left in the mirror image.

This is in contrast with practices in Denmark where the dead were buried below small mounds with a vertical stratigraphy: the oldest below the ground, the second above this grave, and occasionally even a third burial above those.

Double whole rests are drawn as filled-in rectangles occupying the whole vertical space between the second and third lines from the top of the musical staff.

The second crossing was as vertical lift bridge at Dain City, Ontario which also remains in use as the Trillium Rail Canal line.

The second plot shows that when disturbed from the vertical position, the pendulum now starts an oscillation around the vertical position ().

Tapping may either be achieved by hand tapping by using a set of taps first tap, second tap & final ( finish ) tap or using a machine to do the tapping, such as a lathe, radial drilling machine, bench type drill machine, pillar type drill machine, vertical milling machines, HMCs, VMCs.

" In this device, each thermometer is suspended within a vertical tube of polished metal, and that tube is in turn suspended within a second metal tube of slightly larger diameter ; these double tubes serve to isolate the thermometers from radiant heating.

However, certain alterations to a pistol or revolver, such as the addition of a second vertical handgrip, create a weapon that no longer meets the definition of pistol or revolver.

A second consonant is specified by a small mark, appended to the inside of the vertical bar, pushing any u or ü mark to the left side.

Faster shutter speeds are achieved by the second curtain closing before the first one has fully opened ; this results in a vertical slit that travels horizontally across the film.

Quoted directly from the Snakeboard patent Abstract and Claims: " This invention relates to a skateboard comprising two footboards each of the footboards including a foot platform and wheel-set which carries two wheels in axial alignment fixed to the underside of the platform, a spacer element for holding the footboards in a spaced relationship and a pivot arrangement having a vertical pivot axis connecting each footboard to the spacer element to enable both footboards to pivot relatively to the spacer element, each wheel set including a wheel body, wheel axles which are fixed to and project from the opposite sides of the body with the wheels being journaled for rotation on the axles, a first pivot pin being attached to the wheel body with its axis in a vertical direction, a support member on the wheel body, a second pivot pin pivotally connecting the foot platform to the support member with its pivot axis normal to the wheel axis, and resilient suspension means between the support member and the underside of the foot platform for holding the platform horizontal, said pivot arrangement being pivotally engaged with the first pivot pin.

It can be considered the second stage of economic integration.

The second treats states and the national government as the primary factors for integration.

Money laundering often occurs in three steps: first, cash is introduced into the financial system by some means (" placement "), the second involves carrying out complex financial transactions in order to camouflage the illegal source (" layering "), and the final step entails acquiring wealth generated from the transactions of the illicit funds (" integration ").

An output bandwidth of one hertz is equivalent to half a second of integration time.

( The second ~ is not part of the conjecture and is proved by integration by parts.

The official 2002 election study found that immigration and integration problems were the second most important issue for voters after issues concerning the health care system.

Portugal is a proponent of European integration and held the presidency of the European Union for the second time during the first half of 2000, and again in the second half of 2007.

A second integration yields its trajectory,

The second commonly encountered style is the Debian style which is designed to make it easier to have an installed application automatically provide mail integration support without having the administrator edit configuration files.

His novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration of not only blacks yet also of male homosexuals — depicting as well some internalized impediments to such individuals ' quest for acceptance — namely in his second novel, Giovanni's Room ( 1956 ), written well before the equality of homosexuals was widely espoused in America.

However, in 1962, at the Daughters ' second convention, national president Jaye Bell again urged for the pragmatic approach of integration and patience with a slow criminal justice system.

Although the leadership and ritual privileges were initially men-only, as in Orthodox Jewish practice, the " second wave " of American feminism soon led to the full integration of women in these communities.

During his second term, Mitterrand focused on foreign policy and European integration.

This is best treated in four main stages, involving theory associated with: ( 1 ) derivation of a formula for " escape probability ", by considering electron tunneling through a rounded triangular barrier ; ( 2 ) an integration over internal electron states to obtain the " total energy distribution "; ( 3 ) a second integration, to obtain the emission current density as a function of local barrier field and local work function ; ( 4 ) conversion of this to a formula for current as a function of applied voltage.

The major accomplishments of his second term were enforcing the integration of the state's public schools and establishing a medical school at the University of Kentucky which was later named the Chandler Medical Center in his honor.

Historian John Paul Hill considers this unlikely, however, because two of Chandler's strongest allies, Connie Mack and Walter Briggs, Sr., were ardently opposed to integration while William DeWitt, the second owner in the American League to integrate, voted against him.

Just as he had as baseball commissioner, Chandler faced the issue of racial integration during his second term as governor.

The competitive banking environment, and the need for effective integration of two administrations, led the Bank to re-assess and modernize business practices and methods through the second half of the 1950s.

The bounds of integration are the zeros of the first equation minus the second.

The second one can be addressed by calculus techniques, but also in some cases by contour integration, Fourier transforms and other more advanced methods.

For long duration sounds ( greater than 1 second ), the moment by moment perception of loudness will be based on the integration of the preceding 600 – 1, 000 ms.

The accessory parameters that arise as constants of integration are related to the eigenvalues of the second order differential equation.