Then Laura took her gently and shoved her off again, toward Fritzie: Amy did not laugh -- this was work, concentration, achievement.

Winston took the clothesbrush out of the closet and went to work.

At the end of work one day, the personnel man took the applicants one at a time, asked them to sit behind the receptionist's desk and he then played the role of a number of people who might come to the receptionist with a number of queries and for a number of purposes.

But he didn't play golf, didn't seem to belong to any local clubs -- his work took him away a lot, of course -- which probably accounted for his tendency to keep to himself.

She took postgraduate work at the University of Grenoble in France and then returned to London to work on market research with an advertising firm.

As he grew into his teens, he willingly took responsibility for all chores expected of him as one of the boys in the household and became an adept axeman in his work building rail fences.

It seems that the Greeks took advantage of the observations of some older civilizations in the East and managed to work them up rationally.

Ancient civilizations took into account the mixture and the various properties it produced, such as hardness, toughness and melting point, under various conditions of temperature and work hardening, developing much of the information contained in modern alloy constitution diagrams.

Few people took notice of Nagaoka's work at the time,

Johnson's mother Mary took in work spinning and weaving to support her family.

He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art.

Cuyp took from van Goyen the straw yellow and light brown tones that are so apparent in his Dunes ( 1629 ) and the broken brush technique also very noticeable in that same work.

She has been repaying the debt from her housekeeping budget, and also from some work she got copying papers by hand, which she did secretly in her room, and took pride in her ability to earn money " as if she were a man.

Principal photography took place between soundstage and on-location work.

Because of the necessary construction work, the move took until 1999 to complete.

* W — Win: number of games where pitcher was pitching while his team took the lead and went on to win, also the starter needs to pitch at least 5 innings of work ( also related: winning percentage )

* 1958: Bulldozer operator Jerry Crew took to a newspaper office a cast of one of the enormous footprints he and other workers had seen at an isolated work site at Bluff Creek, California.

Pliny claims that division was the work of Caligula, but Dio states that in 42 CE an uprising took place, which was subdued by Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and Gnaeus Hosidius Geta, only after which the division took place.

He took every opportunity during those next five years at the job to practice drawing during breaks and after work.

This acclaimed work was presented over two discs ( unusual at the time ) and it took the idea of thematically based albums to a much higher appreciation by both critics and the public.

Her final work was a poem eulogizing Joan of Arc, the peasant girl who took a very public role in organizing French military resistance to English domination in the early 15th century.

But it was then that Hume started his great historical work The History of England, which took fifteen years and ran over a million words, to be published in six volumes in the period between 1754 and 1762, while also involved with the Canongate Theatre.

After producing the third volume of his series in 1976, he expressed such frustration with the nascent state of the then newly-developed electronic publishing tools ( especially those that provided input to phototypesetters ) that he took time out to work on typesetting and created the TeX and METAFONT tools.

The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, soleil levant ( Impression, Sunrise ), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari.

If many of these plays have been judged less compelling than his earlier work, his later work, in which satiric fury is tempered and broadened, also includes three of his acknowledged masterpieces.

A parody in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or make fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation.

He contributed his first work to satiric magazines.

His later work became more humane and less satiric, starting with Fishke ( written 1868-1888 ) and continuing with the unfinished Masoes Beniamin Hashlishi ( מסעות בנימין השלישי ) ( The Wanderings of Benjamin III, 1878 ), something of a Jewish Don Quixote.

In 1963, the poet / critic Randall Jarrell praised Shapiro's work: Karl Shapiro's poems are fresh and young and rash and live ; their hard clear outlines, their flat bold colors create a world like that of a knowing and skillful neoprimitive painting, without any of the confusion or profundity of atmosphere, of aerial perspective, but with notable visual and satiric force.

" Aravamudan himself stressed the satiric nature of the work and held that while it and Midnight's Children may appear to be more " comic epic ", " clearly those works are highly satirical " in a similar vein of postmodern satire pioneered by Joseph Heller in Catch-22.

His work lacked the self-conscious idealism, sentimentality and moralism of the Victorian era ; the historian Norman Gash asserted that " His leading male characters were coarse or shady ; his leading ladies dashing and far from virtuous ; his outlook on society satiric to the point of cynicism ".

Eugene Jules " Gene " Colan ( September 1, 1926 – June 23, 2011 ) was an American comic book artist best known for his work for Marvel Comics, where his signature titles include the superhero series Daredevil, the cult-hit satiric series Howard the Duck, and The Tomb of Dracula, considered one of comics ' classic horror series.

Wilson was inspired by the irreverent work of the various satiric Mad and Punch cartoonists, as well as the science fiction monster films of the 1950s.

Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune described it as " a brilliant, giddy satiric romp with a discreetly moralistic viewpoint beneath its high-style wit ," " a ball to watch ," and " an incredibly entertaining film with a magnificent cast ," and called Fry " a splendid director capable of visual dazzle and superb ensemble work ".

The Physicists () ( written 1961, performed 1962, and published 1962, Verlags AG " Die Arche ", Zürich, Switzerland ) is a satiric drama often recognized as the most impressive yet most easily understood work of the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

John Powers Severin ( December 26, 1921 – February 12, 2012 ) was an American comic book artist noted for his distinctive work with EC Comics, primarily on the war comics Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat ; for Marvel Comics, especially its war and Western comics ; and for his 45-year stint with the satiric magazine Cracked.

Denny on the other hand provides a very negative critique of Wroth's work ; he accused her of slander in a satiric poem, calling her a " hermaphrodite " and a " monster ".

English nineteenth century opera is very heavily drawn from the " pastoral " form of the ballad opera, and traces even of the satiric kind can be found in the work of " serious " practitioners such as John Barnett.

In mid-2009 through early-2010, a satiric " quasi-weekly " 9 episode series by Roderick entitled " 13 Songs with John " was made available through YouTube ostensibly focusing on the work he was doing in the studio.

The religious message in the work and its uncertain, possibly satiric, tone has also alienated some theorists from the work.

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

Brabham was confident he could do better than Cooper, and in late 1959 he asked Tauranac to come to the UK and work with him, initially producing upgrade kits for Sunbeam Rapier and Triumph Herald road cars at his car dealership, Jack Brabham Motors, but with the long-term aim of designing racing cars.

Some weight loss groups aim to make money, others work as charities.

Reforms are usually proposed by thinkers who aim to redress societal ills or institute societal changes, most often through a change in the education of the members of a class of people — the preparation of a ruling class to rule or a working class to work, the social hygiene of a lower or immigrant class, the preparation of citizens in a democracy or republic, etc.

The ultimate aim of any 1st AD is to ensure the film comes in on schedule while maintaining a working environment in which the Director, principal artists ( Actors ) and crew can be focused on their work.

These aim to make it simple and seamless for researchers to use GÉANT to work together, wherever they are located.

The original aim of de Garis ' work was to establish the field of " brain building " ( a term of his invention ) and to " create a trillion dollar industry within 20 years ".

He considered buying Cooper in partnership with Roy Salvadori and then in late 1959 he asked his friend Ron Tauranac to come to the UK and work with him, initially producing upgrade kits for Sunbeam Rapier and Triumph Herald road cars at his car dealership, Jack Brabham Motors, but with the long-term aim of designing racing cars.

Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project, a joint effort of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Arizona began work at the site in 2004, with the aim of continuing the topographical survey begun in 1996 and carrying out a full topographical and architectural analysis not only of the altar and temenos, but of the nearby valley where the Lykaian Games were held.

The aim of the field is to create models of biological neural systems in order to understand how biological systems work.

In the succeeding years, Polybius resided in Rome, completing his historical work while occasionally undertaking long journeys through the Mediterranean countries in the furtherance of his history, in particular with the aim of obtaining firsthand knowledge of historical sites.

In 1943, Japan and its allies declared work for the abolition of racial discrimination to be their aim at the Greater East Asia Conference.

The Bob Moog Foundation was created as a memorial, with the aim of continuing his life's work of developing electronic music.

The aim of the APCJ peer review process is to be rigorous and free of bias, ensuring that only high-quality, innovative work is published.

Its aim was to publish and publicize the work of what was, by then, a growing number of students and collaborators ( this is also the name used to refer to the group of students who developed his sociological program ).

Its aim is to explain the literary work more fully ; and this means a sensitive attention to its forms, styles and meanings.

This work assumes a group of individuals who aim to form a government, then it focuses on the problem of hiring the agents required to carry out government functions agreed upon by the members.

The main aim of this work was to improve integration of the garden and park.

The spirit and aim of this work are better understood from its Spanish name, Los Borrachos ( The Drunks ) or Los Bebedores ( the drinkers ), who are paying mock homage to a half-naked ivy-crowned young man seated on a wine barrel.

From the lack of precision in the descriptions, it would seem that Aratus was neither a mathematician nor observer or, at any rate, that in this work he did not aim at scientific accuracy.

They were one of the chief tools in the Catholic Counter-reformation, the aim of the order being to work among the poor, impressing the minds of the common people by the poverty and austerity of their life, and sometimes with sensationalist preaching, such as their use of the supposedly possessed Marthe Brossier to arouse the Paris mob against the Huguenots.

* 2006, Sarah, Duchess of York, established The Sarah Ferguson Foundation based in Toronto, which derives funds from Sarah's commercial work and private donations with the aim of supporting charities internationally that serve children and families in dire need.