When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.

At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep an eye on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi's party.

This mountain was known as The Black Reef and it rose almost perpendicularly for about two hundred feet, honeycombed with caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and tall grass.

Ramsey has a thing or two to mutter about himself, for the Dallas defensive unit turned in another splendid effort against Denver, and the Texans were able to whip the dangerous Broncs without the fullbacking of a top star, Jack Spikes, though he did the team's place-kicking while nursing a knee injury.

The two top talents of the time, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, have hit the ball harder and more successfully so far this early season than at any period in careers which, to be frank about it, never have quite reached expectations.

As the world's top sportsman -- pro or amateur -- Sports Illustrated tapped golf's confident Arnold Palmer ( Time cover, May 2 ), who staged two cliffhanging rallies to win both the Masters and U.S. Open crowns, went on to win a record $80,738 for the year.

On top of everything else they were two months behind on their apartment rent, and the day Wally received written notice that he was fired, they were evicted.

Below this crack is another group of eleven parallel lines, again divided into two sections by a line perpendicular to them, but with the semicircle at the top of the intersection ; the third, sixth and ninth of these lines are marked with a cross where they intersect with the vertical line.

By using the palette to mask the top area of the display and taking care about when it changes mode it can shift the continuous graphics at the bottom of the display down in two pixel increments because the internal display counter is not incremented on blank scanlines during non-continuous graphics modes.

The first model looked like the later IBM PC ( which came on the market years later ), a rectangular base unit with two floppy drives on the front, and a monitor on top with a separate detachable keyboard.

The second incarnation was a much smaller unit the width of two 5¼ " floppy drives stacked on top of each other, and the third incarnation looked like a flattened Apple with a built-in keyboard.

The name of the taxon Apicomplexa is derived from two Latin words-apex ( top ) and complexus ( infolds )-and refers to a set of organelles in the sporozoite.

They also finished third in the Eredivisie that season, again qualifying for the UEFA Cup, after spending most of the season in the top two spots.

On the Adult Contemporary chart, all five songs were top 10 hits, with two of the five (" Baby Baby " and " That's What Love Is For ") reaching No. 1.

In its list of the top 25 game consoles of all time, IGN claimed that the main reason for the 5200's market failure was the technological superiority of its competitor, while other sources maintain that the two consoles are roughly equivalent in power.

Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League ; Cuba's West League and East League.

While some women's bicycles continue to use this frame style, there is also a variation, the mixte, which splits the top tube laterally into two thinner top tubes that bypass the seat tube on each side and connect to the rear fork ends.

The top half of the picture shows the beginning of the round, with bets placed and an initial two cards for each player.

The 1981 season saw Walsh lead the 49ers to a Super Bowl championship ; the team rose from the cellar to the top of the NFL in just two seasons.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

The latter compete in an annual single-elimination tournament that concludes with a clash between the top two teams before a university-wide audience on the Thursday before Commencement.

In 1950, he had two top ten hits, " Ida Red Likes the Boogie " and " Faded Love ", which were his last hits for a decade.

Despite this dramatic act, the Cardinals scored two runs in the top of the tenth.

Brabham himself took a couple of pole positions and two top three finishes, but did not finish half the races.

Most luthiers and experienced players agree that a good solid top ( as opposed to laminated or plywood ) is the most important factor in the tone of the guitar.

After returning to the Serie A, Roma managed to stabilise themselves as a top half club again with players such as Egisto Pandolfini, Dino Da Costa and Dane Helge Bronée.

When in form, Nimzowitsch was very dangerous with the black pieces, scoring many fine wins over top players.

In card games, a burn card is a playing card dealt from the top of a deck, and discarded (" burned "), unused by the players.

In poker, for example, the top card of the deck stub is burned at the beginning of each betting round, so that players who might have been able to read markings on that card during the previous round are less able to take advantage of that information.

* Top5: the top five players bettered this value in all of the reported seasons

At high levels of play, the formations will generally be more flexible: the top women players are capable of playing powerfully from the back-court, and will happily do so if required.

The Orioles started off the first couple weeks of the season near the top of their division as players such as Nick Markakis and newcomer Luke Scott led the team offensively.

The dealer holds the pack, face down, in one hand, and removes cards from the top of it with his or her other hand to distribute to the players, placing them face down on the table in front of the players to whom they are dealt.

The world's top 10 association croquet players as of May 2012 are Reg Bamford ( South Africa ), Robert Fulford ( England ), Robert Fletcher ( Australia ), David Maugham ( England ), Toby Garrison ( New Zealand ), Aaron Westerby ( New Zealand ), Paddy Chapman ( New Zealand ), Jamie Burch ( England ), Greg Bryant ( New Zealand ) and Ben Rothman ( USA ).

Parkinson had spent less than any other manager on purchasing players since Lennie Lawrence in the 1980s and was able to maintain a top six status despite only having the opportunity to bring in lower level players on loan.

He was also named one of the top players of the 20th century by Pelé in 1999.

He added several top international players to the side, as the club won the FA Cup in 1997 and established themselves as one of England's top sides again.

Joseph, despite being one of the highest-paid players in the NHL, spent part of the season in the minor leagues, but after Hasek was sidelined for the season with an injury, Joseph led the team to the top of the Central Division and the league standings.

About the closest that a bass player can come to this is in the case of classical bass players who win an audition at a professional orchestra or the tiny number of top session pros that are hired by recording studios.

Some countries ' top divisions feature highly paid star players ; in smaller countries and lower divisions, players may be part-timers with a second job, or amateurs.

The five top European leagues – the Premier League ( England ), La Liga ( Spain ), Serie A ( Italy ), the Bundesliga ( Germany ) and Ligue 1 ( France ) – attract most of the world's best players and each of the leagues has a total wage cost in excess of £ 600 million /€ 763 million / US $ 1. 185 billion.

For example, if the last player to draw wants three replacements but there are only two cards remaining in the deck, the dealer gives the player the one top card he can give, then shuffles together the bottom card of the deck, the burn card, and the earlier players ' discards ( but not the player's own discards ), and finally deals two more replacements to the last player.

A small minority of players ( such as Nick Reynolds of the Kingston Trio ) close tuned the instrument to D G B E to produce a deep instrument that could be played with the four-note chord shapes found on the top four strings of the guitar or ukulele.

* The top players of the day: world champion Mikhail Botvinnik, and those who had qualified for ( or been seeded into ) the inaugural Candidates Tournament in 1950: Isaac Boleslavsky, Igor Bondarevsky, David Bronstein, Max Euwe, Reuben Fine, Salo Flohr, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Andor Lilienthal, Miguel Najdorf, Samuel Reshevsky, Vasily Smyslov, Gideon Ståhlberg, and László Szabó.

It is wise to write out descriptive text ahead of time, and since the gamemaster cannot rely on his acting skills to get the personality of NPCs and monsters across, the need for music ( often considered a distraction in a normal table top game ) becomes much greater, as background music helps to set the mood for other players.