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.

Their second title, and the first to be received through a championship game, came in, two decades before the first Super Bowl game was played.

* 1974 – The Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history ( after the April 25-28, 2011 tornado outbreak ).

In just his second start, Newton threw for 432 yards against the defending Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers.

Although the Cowboys are tied with the 49ers for the second most Super Bowl victories ( Steelers have 6 ), Dallas actually holds the record, with Pittsburgh, for the most Super Bowl games played ( 8 ) and solely holds the record the most Super Bowl MVPs with 7:

# Quarterback Troy Aikman – Super Bowl XXVII – Aikman became the second Cowboys quarterback to earn the MVP honor as he led the Cowboys to victory against the Buffalo Bills.

The existence of the electroweak interactions was experimentally established in two stages, the first being the discovery of neutral currents in neutrino scattering by the Gargamelle collaboration in 1973, and the second in 1983 by the UA1 and the UA2 collaborations that involved the discovery of the W and Z gauge bosons in proton – antiproton collisions at the converted Super Proton Synchrotron.

In April 2003, Polgár finished second in The Hunguest Hotels Super Tournament in Budapest behind Nigel Short.

Dalglish also scored three days later on his Anfield debut in a 2 – 0 victory over Newcastle United, and he scored Liverpool's sixth goal when they beat Keegan's Hamburg 6 – 0 in the second leg of the 1977 UEFA Super Cup final.

The Dolphins also won Super Bowl VIII, becoming the first team to appear in three consecutive Super Bowls, and the second team ( the first AFL / AFC team ) to win back-to-back championships.

The Vikings then advanced to their second Super Bowl in franchise history, Super Bowl VIII, against the Miami Dolphins at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas.

The Vikings played in their second straight Super Bowl, Super Bowl IX ( 3rd overall ), losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 16 – 6, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans on January 12, 1975.

Between 2001 and 2005, the Patriots became the second team in NFL history ( after the Dallas Cowboys ) to win three Super Bowls in four years ( Super Bowl XXXVI, XXXVIII, and XXXIX ), and the eighth ( and most recent ) to win consecutive Super Bowls.

The Saints failed to make the playoffs in 2001 and 2002, although in the latter year they had the distinction of beating the eventual Super Bowl XXXVII champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers in both of their regular season meetings, only the second team to do so in NFL history.

As in Super Bowl XLII, Eli Manning was Super Bowl MVP, defeating Tom Brady for a second time in the Super Bowl.

The second sequel, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2001.

** MAG: Massive Action Game ( 2010 ) The second war of the S. V. E. R starts off in 2020

While their products leave much to be desired, Acme delivery service is second to none ; Wile E. can merely drop an order into a mailbox ( or enter an order on a website, as in the Looney Tunes: Back in Action movie ), and have the product in his hands within seconds.

He also appears in Looney Tunes: Back in Action, although in his second appearance, this " Tweety " is really Taz in disguise.

Every time he is thrown out of the house, he is shown wearing the same shirt although he does not always wear it when he is thrown out ( the producers never shot a second sequence with Jazz being thrown out of the house, only adjusting the original scene for time purposes ; an exception is in the episode " Community Action ", where Jazz was thrown out along with a lifesize cardboard cut-out of Bill Cosby, complete with a blooper showing Jeff Townes reshooting his flying off the house several times ).

Bonaduce had his second professional wrestling match at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's April pay-per-view event Lockdown against Eric Young, in which he lost.

The second major action, the Merseyside Dock Action, attracted between 200-600 people who occupied Liverpool docks for two days.

The Action Française spearheaded the 6 February 1934 crisis, which led to the fall of the second Cartel des gauches and to the replacement of Radical Édouard Daladier by conservative Gaston Doumergue.

Movements such as the first ( where Marx and Bakunin met ), second, third and fourth internationals, the World Social Forum, the Peoples ' Global Action and the anarchist movement seek to change society at a global level.

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics is the second work of the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises.

Established in 1980 by the Niskayuna Community Action Program ( N-CAP ) in response to a school district report on mental health needs, " Niska-Day " is traditionally celebrated on the second Saturday of May.

He is the 2005 King of the Mountain winner at Slammiversary in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, being only the second person ever to win the annual event.

The Dew Action Sports returned to Denver for its second year in 2006 during July 13 – 16.

In its second season, Exosquad was put into the " Universal Action Hour " together with Monster Force.

He was the only Representative from Iowa to score 100 percent on the joint Family Research Council Action / Focus on the Family Action Congressional Scorecard in the second session of the 109th Congress.

At the 1992 MTV Movie Awards, Point Break was nominated for three awards including " Most Desirable Male " ( Keanu Reeves ), " Most Desirable Male " ( Patrick Swayze ), and " Best Action Sequence " for the second jump from the plane.

The second edition Wonder Woman Doll was called Fly Away Action Wonder Woman with Diana Prince outfit and a cloth Wonder Woman outfit

Their 2003 Blast Action Heroes-tour went into its second round in 2004.

* APC facilitated and provided consultation and research services for the " Access " track of the Action Summit at the second Global Knowledge conference in Kuala Lumpur.

The second, Christopher Chance, first appears in Action Comics # 419 ( December 1972 ), and was created by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino.

World in Action employed many leading journalists, among them John Pilger ; Michael Parkinson ; Gordon Burns ; Rob Rohrer ; Nick Davies, Ed Vulliamy and David Leigh of The Guardian ; Alasdair Palmer of the Sunday Telegraph ; John Ware, BBC Panoramas leading investigative reporter ; Anthony Wilson, whose second career as a music impresario was immortalised in the feature film 24 Hour Party People ; Michael Gillard, creator of the Slicker business pages in the satirical magazine Private Eye ; Donal MacIntyre ; the writer Mark Hollingsworth ; Quentin McDermott, since 1999 a leading investigative reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; Tony Watson, editor of the Yorkshire Post for 13 years and editor-in-chief of the Press Association from December 2006 ; and Andrew Jennings, author of Lords of the Rings, who has campaigned vigorously for more than a decade against corruption in international sport.

In 1985, Jones phased Hoile out of his live show, and released his second studio album, Dream into Action.

Action Half-Life is the second official mod in the " Action " computer game series.