There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.

There was the end of his front-page feature story, with byline.

There was no reply so he shoved it open with his foot and stepped inside.

There will be premieres of new works, made possible through Ford Foundation commissions: Carlisle Floyd's Mystery, with Phyllis Curtin as soprano soloist.

There is a New South emerging, a South losing the folksy traditions of an agrarian society with the rapidity of an avalanche -- especially within recent decades.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

There the community, faced with the need to formulate policy on the level of absolute justice, can find the answer to its problem in the absolute truth which it holds as partially experienced.

There are in The Almagest no rules for determining in advance whether a new epicycle will be required for dealing with abberations in lunar, solar, or planetary behavior.

`` There was nothing else I could do '', the maid answered, satisfied with a rather vague explanation.

There were times that he worked with both lyricists simultaneously.

There is no explanation of terms nor a qualification that most such revolts have been dealt with by force -- only a bald dogmatism that they must, because of some undefined compulsion, be so repelled.

There were four from St. John's and four from Christ's, three from Pembroke, and two from each of the colleges, Jesus, Peterhouse, Queens', and Trinity, with Caius, Clare, King's, Magdalene, and Sidney supplying one each in the ordo senioritatis.

In a pessimistic assessment of the cold war, Eden declared: `` There must be much closer unity within the West before there can be effective negotiation with the East ''.

There was considerable evidence of a tacit rapprochement with Castro in Cuba, previously a bete noire to Trujillo -- thus illustrating the way in which totalitarianism of the right and left coalesces.

There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.

There was a sniper's nest in a mountain cave, and it was picking off our men with devilish accuracy.

The Vice President said with a slight bluster, `` There isn't anyone who loves the President more than I do.

There were two liquor saloons not very far from the church, one white, that is conducted for white people with a side entrance for Negroes ; ;

There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.

There was no church like Drew Church, no preacher like Papa, who was intimate with Him, and could consign sinners to hellfire.

There have been cooing doves, chattering magpies, thieving jackdaws, a proud peacock, a silly goose, and a harpy eagle -- whom I was silly enough to mate with and who is now busy tearing at my vitals ''.

There was a glass pane in the front door, and through this he could see into a hallway where a plump woman with red hair was arranging flowers.

There are other countries where, with skillful diplomacy, we may be able by our aid to give encouragement to those groups in government which would like to press forward with economic and social reform measures to promote growth.

There has been an increase in cooperative research with other Federal agencies and civilian institutions.

There are three main markets in a basic capitalistic economy: labor, goods and services, and financial.

There are ongoing issues concerning the validity and reliability of the diagnostic categories ; the reliance on superficial symptoms ; the use of artificial dividing lines between categories and from ' normality '; possible cultural bias ; medicalization of human distress and financial conflicts of interest, including with the practice of psychiatrists and with the pharmaceutical industry ; political controversies about the inclusion or exclusion of diagnoses from the manual, in general or in regard to specific issues ; and the experience of those who are most directly affected by the manual by being diagnosed, including the consumer / survivor movement.

There were serious threats of disunion from New England, which engaged in extensive smuggling with Canada and refused to provide financial support or soldiers.

There has been, however, a relative decline in the steel sector, offset by Luxembourg's emergence as a financial center.

There are continued serious financial pressures on monthly running costs, with fuel, rations, stationery, and maintenance ' for both equipment and the estate ' rarely funded.

There were also narrow gauge lines from Nanu Oya to Nuwara Eliya, Avissawella to Yatiyantota and Avissawella to Ratnapura and Opanayaka, which were dismantled due to financial losses from their operation.

There are many specialised talk services such as Bloomberg, a financial news station.

The decision was purely financial, and Alan Horn said, " There were no delays.

There were some indications that midtown had been becoming the locus of financial services dealings even by 1911.

There are four key areas that SWIFT services fall under in the financial marketplace: Securities, Treasury & Derivatives, Trade Services and Payments & Cash Management.

There were financial failures across the country in the Panic of 1873.

There, Nasser offered the Fatah movement arms and financial support, but advised Arafat to think of peace with Israel and establishing a Palestinian state comprising the West Bank and the Gaza Strip ; Nasser was effectively ceding his leadership of the " Palestine issue " to Arafat.

There is also a notable correlation between Crusoe's spiritual and financial development, possibly signifying Defoe's belief in the Protestant work ethic.

There are public programs to offer poor families financial help to buy uniforms.

There is consensus among scholars that Solon broadened the financial and social qualifications required for election to public office.

There are no clear guidelines as to how big a share the management team must own after the acquisition in order to qualify as an MBO, as opposed to a normal leveraged buy-out in which the management invests together with the financial sponsor.

There are several financial models for analyzing default risk, such as the Jarrow-Turnbull model, Edward Altman's Z-score model, or the structural model of default by Robert C. Merton ( Merton Model ).

There is no special reason to think that Cavour now envisaged the unification of the rest of Italy under Piedmontese rule since these areas were of little interest economically and could be a financial burden, but events proved to have a life of their own.

There was a marked transference of academic and financial power in this period from the central authorities in Senate House to the individual colleges.

There were further checks on the power of each satrap: besides his secretarial scribe, his chief financial official ( Old Persian ganzabara ) and the general in charge of the regular army of his province and of the fortresses were independent of him and reported directly to the shah, periodically, in person.

There were financial difficulties during construction, but the works were eventually completed and opened in October 1779.

There are also many smaller employers, such as the Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology and offices for financial corporations.

* There is a need to make the policy more efficient and effective, as well as to further simplify it while maintaining sound financial management and controllability

There is a public institution called the Provincial of Pontevedra that provides direct services to citizens such as technical, financial and technological support to the councils of the 62 municipalities of the province of Pontevedra.

There may be little immediate financial incentive for a vendor to provide backward compatibility or interoperability.