There is little doubt if they had a secret ballot, they would vote for food for their family, in place of ideological purity out on the farm.

He channelled his medieval interests into a peculiar secret hobby: In a filing cabinet he maintained a collection of imaginary buildings, most of them described as being made out of some kind of metal, which he drew on little cards.

He began excavations at the city of Johore Lama, alone and in secret, as the local Sultan considered archaeologists little better than grave-robbers.

In the United States, several secret or semi-secret groups were formed explicitly to advance the rights of homosexuals as early as the turn of the 20th century, but little is known about them.

Logrolling will not occur during presidential elections, where a vast voting population necessitates that individual votes have little political power, or during secret ballot votes ( Buchanan and Tullock 1962 ).

" The Gift of the Magi " is a short story written by O. Henry ( a pen name for William Sydney Porter ), about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.

The jus augurale ( augural law ) was rigorously secret, therefore very little about the technical aspects of ceremonies and rituals has been recorded.

Although not a secret organisation, ONA usually attracts little attention.

As the U-boats continued to be the arm of the Kriegsmarine that was doing most of the fighting, by 1942 Raeder was becoming increasingly overshadowed by Admiral Karl Dönitz, who made little secret of his contempt for the " battleship admiral " Raeder, and started to act more and more independently, for instance, dealing directly with Albert Speer in settling construction targets for the U-boats.

The most notable exceptions are probably the Dreamcast game console which includes a minimal BIOS, like the PlayStation, but can load the Windows CE operating system from the game disk allowing easily porting of games from the PC world, and the Xbox game console, which is little more than a disguised Intel-based PC running a secret, modified version of Microsoft Windows in the background.

However, after months of secret negotiations a newspaper reported that there would be little change to the border and the Free State would actually lose territory in Donegal.

Unlike many other works by King, there is little focus on the supernatural ; the only such event in the book is a telepathic vision, which forms a link to King's novel Gerald's Game ; although reviewer Sean Piccoli observed the novel otherwise contained " vintage bone-yard King: the tiny town, the secret lives.

* Fast food's yummy secret: America's second-biggest fast-food group is as successful as it is little known Special report in The Economist ( August 27, 2005 ) on Yum!

Charles of Navarre entered into secret negotiations with Edward III at Clarendon Palace, but committed himself to very little.

A secret organization, initially, little is known of the Cần Lao's early years.

In one episode, the McGees arrived in Summerfield for a visit with their old neighbor with hilarious results: McGee inadvertently learns Gildersleeve is engaged, and he practically needs to be chloroformed to perpetuate the secret a little longer.

* In Nicholas Meyer's 1976 novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Professor Moriarty is portrayed as Holmes's childhood mathematics tutor, a whining little man with a guilty secret.

Elgar accepted none of the solutions that were put forward in his lifetime, and, pleased with his little joke, took the secret with him to the grave.

Now Hitler could no longer effectively control the Skull and came to fear him, especially since the Skull had made little secret of his ambition to supplant Hitler someday.

Years later Harry Orchard, who owned a share of the Hercules Mine in the nearby mountains before it began producing, and who later confessed to dynamiting a $ 250, 000 mill belonging to the Bunker Hill Mining Company near Wardner during another miners ' uprising in 1899, would also confess to a secret, brutal and little understood role in the Colorado Labor Wars before returning to Idaho to assassinate former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg.

Barnabas attempts to kill those who he believes know his secret, but he is stopped by the ghost of his little sister Sarah.

Though many of their teachings still remain secret, little by little, members of this association — such as Master Hiroshi Doi — have been sharing their knowledge with the rest of the world.

There was a tearful secret reunion in the cook's little house, while the Queen Mother was satisfied with a hind prepared with sauce Robert.

Each of the four corner rooms contains a secret passage that leads to the room on the opposite diagonal corner of the map.

North Base is located at the north-west corner of Rogers Lake and is the site of the Air Force's most secret test programs at Edwards.

The name Bracknell is first recorded in a Winkfield Boundary Charter of AD 942 as Braccan heal, and may mean " Nook of land belonging to a man called Bracca ", from the Old English Braccan ( genitive singular of a personal name ) + heal, healh ( a corner, nook or secret place ).

Adjacent to the main boardroom at the northeast corner of the floor plate and the Thompson Room at the northwest corner, service areas are concealed within the wood panelled walls behind secret panels.

It is said that there is a secret room in the south-west corner of the castle that must remain sealed, lest anyone entering meet with disaster.

He pretended to be a proxy of the Russian department of the " Worldwide Revolutionary Union " ( which didn't exist ) and created an affiliate of a secret society called Narodnaya Rasprava ( Народная расправа, " People's Reprisal "), which, he claimed, had existed for quite some time in every corner of Russia.

One such secret passage is reported to emerge under the shop on the corner of West Street and High Street.

He dismisses Nora's agonized choice made against her conscience for the sake of his health and her years of secret efforts to free them from the ensuing obligations and danger of loss of reputation, while preserving his peace of mind, as a mere mistake that she made owing to her foolishness, one of her most endearing feminine traits.

In his words, the eucharistic rite was " a secret too sublime for my mind to understand or words to express.

In Stephen's words of mourning: By God's secret decision death took him, so that wickedness would not change his soul and false imaginations would not deceive his mind – as the Book of Wisdom teaches about early death.

In the TOS episode " Mirror, Mirror ," Spock of the Mirror Universe performed a forced mind meld on Dr. Leonard McCoy in order to learn what McCoy was keeping secret.

if any man confess his secret and hidden sins to the minister, for the unburdening of his conscience, and to receive spiritual consolation and ease of mind from him ; we ... do straitly charge and admonish him, that he does not at any time reveal and make known to any person whatsoever any crime or offence so committed to his trust and secrecy

In 1983 Lexcen commented on the controversy: " I have in mind to admit it all to the New York Yacht Club that I really owe the secret of the design to a Greek guy who helped me out and was invaluable.

Paimon teaches all arts, philosophy and sciences, and secret things ; he can reveal all mysteries of the Earth, wind and water, what the mind is, and everything the conjurer wants to know, gives good familiars, dignities and confirms them, binds men to the conjurer's will.

He hoped that society would eventually reach the state where calm reason would replace all violence and force, that mind could eventually make matter subservient to it, and that intelligence could discover the secret of immortality.

With that goal in mind, Schleicher opened secret talks with the SA in 1931.

Gaining the power to " move things with her mind ", Prue battles with maintaining control of her newfound powers and keeping her identity as a witch secret.

As William of Tyre says, " this being the situation, the count at last revealed the secret thought of his mind and did not try to conceal to what end all his plans were.

Danny's phenomenal mind compels him to seek knowledge other than that permitted by his father, and he spends his spare time reading voraciously in secret in the public library.

At length, sick with longing for those glittering sunset streets and cryptical hill lanes among ancient tiled roofs, nor able sleeping or waking to drive them from his mind, Carter resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark to where unknown Kadath, veiled in cloud and crowned with unimagined stars, holds secret and nocturnal the onyx castle of the Great Ones.

Giskard allows Baley to remember this knowledge of Giskard's abilities, but puts a block in Baley's mind that prevents him from revealing the secret.

If you want to know your true nature, you must have yourself in mind all the time, until the secret of your being stands revealed.

Back in reality, Talia reveals to the Sirens that just a few hours prior, an unknown benefactor had offered up a massive reward to whoever could kidnap and deliver Catwoman to him, with the hopes that he could penetrate her mind and learn Batman's secret identity.

Eventually, Matilda develops a particularly strong bond with Miss Honey over time after a classmate's practical joke on the headmistress leads Matilda to discover her secret telekinetic powers by using her mind to tip over a glass of water containing a salamander on Miss Trunchbull.

But he faced a strong opposition and finally changed his mind, allowing secret ballot to take place.

Whilst keeping his mission a secret from his fellow students, Cody sneaks around the estate and confirms that Diaz and Duncan are working together and that they have a working prototype of the mind control device, evidenced when Duncan makes a dog serve drinks and play the piano.

On the May 10 episode of Impact Wrestling, Kazarian revealed that he originally aligned himself with Daniels to keep him from revealing Styles ' secret, but changed his mind after learning what the secret was.

Hoping that by sharing the secret of his true duties he can change Molly's mind, he tells her that he is an assassin.

" Throughout the inhabited world, in all times and under every circumstance, the myths of man have flourished ; and they have been the living inspiration of whatever else may have appeared out of the activities of the human body and mind ... Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation.

Grodd probed Solovar's mind to find the secret of mind control, so he could control Gorilla City and use the inhbitants to take over the World, but Solovar breaks out of his cage and tells the Flash, so the Flash defeats him and apparently knocks the power of mind control from his mind.