From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

The metal strip they had taken off from was coal black against the green jungle around it.

From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.

It was decided to strip the whole area down to the bricks, and to replace the rough coats up to one inch thickness to agree with the older artists' preparation, with a mortar, one part slaked lime, three parts sand, to be put on in two layers.

Her name was Sabella, and the strip of seaweed around her neck was an emerald necklace the King gave her as a token of his undying love.

Eliminating the turret also allowed the vehicle to carry thicker armor than would otherwise be the case, although sometimes there was no roof ( or merely a strip of canvas ) to keep the overall weight down to the limit that the chassis could bear.

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

Also during this period, Capp was working at night on samples for the strip that would eventually become Li ' l Abner.

The strip was the first to regularly introduce characters and story lines having nothing to do with the nominal stars of the strip.

The technique — as invigorating as it was unorthodox — was later adopted by cartoonists like Walt Kelly and Garry Trudeau ," wrote comic strip historian Rick Marschall.

Li ' l Abner was also the subject of the first book-length, scholarly assessment of an American comic strip ever published.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

The Capp-Fisher feud was well known in cartooning circles, and it grew more personal as Capp's strip eclipsed Joe Palooka in popularity.

" The article recounted Capp's days working for an unnamed " benefactor " with a miserly, swinish personality, who Capp claimed was a never-ending source of inspiration when it came time to create a new unregenerate villain for his comic strip.

Allen Saunders, the creator of the Mary Worth strip, returned Capp's fire with the introduction of the character " Hal Rapp ," a foul-tempered, ill-mannered, and ( ironically ) inebriated cartoonist, ( Capp was a teetotaler ).

Ironically, this highly irregular policy ( along with the subsequent fame of Frank Frazetta ) has led to the misconception that his strip was " ghosted " by other hands.

In the Golden Age of the American comic strip, successful cartoonists received a great deal of attention ; their professional and private lives were reported in the press, and their celebrity was often nearly sufficient to rival their creations.

Besides his use of the comic strip to voice his opinions and display his humor, Capp was a popular guest speaker at universities, and on radio and television.

" If you have any sense of humor about your strip — and I had a sense of humor about mine — you knew that for three or four years Abner was wrong.

A thin strip of seal intestine was also used and was twisted to form a thread.

On the 1930 tour a delegation led by the Irish lock George Beamish expressed their displeasure at the fact that whilst the blue of Scotland, white of England and red of Wales were represented in the strip there was no green for Ireland.

Hot strip lighting gives instant on and off.

His strip, which appeared every week on the first page of Spirou, was a hit.

The strip was not particularly inspired, but it provided the vehicle for a fruitful situation: on 26 July, the family " Kat " was hit on the head with a brick by a mouse.

* The name " Okefenokee " has appeared many times in American pop culture, including Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo, where the characters made their home in the Okefenokee Swamp, Freddy Cannon's 1959 hit " Okefenokee ", and Larry Verne's " Okefenokee Two-Step ".

On June 7, 1908, the strip moved off the sports pages and into Hearst's San Francisco Examiner where it was syndicated by King Features and became a national hit, subsequently making Fisher the first big celebrity of the comics industry.

* Plate: the strip on the floor which the balls have to hit when they leave the skittlers ' hands.

The company scored a hit in the 1940s when it acquired the rights to a popular comic strip and released the Li ' l Abner Dogpatch Band for Christmas 1945.

The Plug strip was never a big hit, possibly because, at 9 pence, it was too expensive compared to other D. C. Thomson comics at the time, which were priced at around 5 pence.

Soon afterward she was hit by a car in the background of a S * P strip ( it turned out to be Avagadro's ), but she reappeared in the Nerdrotica offices on November 30, 2005, having recovered from her injuries, and was hired as a member of their management team.

In 1977, Strouse adapted another comic strip for the stage, creating the hit Annie, which garnered him his third Tony Award and two Grammy Awards.

A running gag in the strip was that almost every time she greeted Brad, when he was working on his car, she startled him and caused him to hit his head on the hood above him.

A pedestrian who was hit by a car in the parking lot of a strip mall was unable to sue the defendant mall owner, because the driver and owner of the vehicle were 100 % liable for plaintiff's injuries.

Charlie Brown looks embarrassed but not so worried as he was when his kite had hit Lucy's hand in a previous strip.

DeBeck's strip hit its peak of popularity with Spark Plug at about the same time the song " Barney Google ( Foxtrot )" by Billy Rose and Con Conrad was sweeping the country.

The alertness enhancing effect was, however, short and the sleepiness signs returned 5 min after the rumble strip hit.

The ball rebounded off the side of the panel and hit Filmore in the head ( this incident followed a conversation they had in which Hawthorne told Fillmore that he wouldn't pull the ball away like Lucy Van Pelt because ' We aren't living in a comic strip ').

Sometimes, a video game places the player's vital information ( such as hit points, lives, and score ) on a similar strip across the bottom or top of the screen ; this is also referred to as a status bar.

My Friend Irma, created by writer-director-producer Cy Howard, is a top-rated, long-run radio situation comedy, so popular in the late 1940s that its success escalated to films, television, a comic strip and a comic book, while Howard scored with another radio comedy hit, Life with Luigi.

As the strip reaches a 10 % deformation, the Almen strip is then hit with the same intensity for twice the amount of time.

On the August 1 episode of Raw, Laurinaitis would interrupt Triple H, telling him to strip Cena of his WWE Championship, which led to Cena to interrupt him and threaten to hit him again before Laurinaitis fled the ring.

King Features Syndicate launched the strip on January 10, 1927, not long after it was apparent that the Chicago Tribune Syndicate had scored a huge hit with Little Orphan Annie.

* In American football, the gauntlet is used as a running-back drill, in which the players swat and try to strip the ball out to get the ball carrier accustomed to being hit.

Graue continued to write the strip until his August, 2001 retirement ; on December 10, 2001, the 75-year-old Graue was killed in Flat Rock, North Carolina when a dump truck hit his car.