Never, he'd once told Joyce, had he encountered any man or situation that called for a gun.

Even when he is called upon for impromptu remarks, he has notes written on the back of handy envelopes.

That fall he submitted to Professor Baker the first acts and outlines of the following acts of several plays, six of them, according to some of his associates, and he also worked on a play that he first called Niggertown, the material for which he had collected during the summer at home.

Those who wanted to close the theaters, for example, pointed to Plato's Republic and those who wished to keep them open called on the Plato of the Ion to testify in their behalf.

Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

The Scots had found a new leader in William Wallace, and Edward's yearly expeditions across the Border called for evermounting taxes, which only increased his difficulties with the barons and the clergy.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

In a recent book called `` World Peace Through World Law '', two distinguished lawyers, Grenville Clark and Louis Sohn, call for just such an overhaul of the U.N., basing their case on the world-wide fear of a nuclear holocaust.

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

RCA Victor has an ambitious and useful project in a stereo series called `` Adventures In Music '', which is an instructional record library for elementary schools.

Where then is the sound planning and cooperation between agencies within the community that you have called for in other editorials??

when his Holiness Pope John 23, first called for an Ecumenical Council, and at the same time voiced his yearning for Christian unity, the enthusiasm among Catholic and Protestant ecumenicists was immediate.

We hoped that its practitioners and teachers might be put on some sort of reserve list and called back for refresher courses each year or so.

Someone opened the corridor door from the inside, and called for a doctor.

A voice called, and what made it even more terrible and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused for an instant, only some of them glancing toward the stone wall, from behind which the voice came.

It met these problems by the creation of the state automobile maintenance unit ( more popularly called the motor pool ), a centralized operation for the maintenance and control of all state transportation.

The Act further provides for a `` floor '' or minimum allotment, set at the 1954 level, which is called the `` base '' allotment, and a `` ceiling '' or maximum allotment, for each State.

The plan called for divestiture by Du Pont of its 63,000,000 shares of General Motors stock by equal annual distributions to its stockholders, as a dividend, over a period of ten years.

And, given probable public attitudes -- about which reasonably good estimates can be made -- what action is called for to insure necessary support??

There would, however, be a variety of other skills -- medical, agricultural, engineering -- which would be called for in the first year through the private agency programs and through the provision of technician helpers to existing development projects.

The stepped-up defense procurement called for in the 1961 Budget has already begun to make itself felt in an upturn in orders for military electronic equipment and the components that go into it, and it has been suggested that an additional $2 billion increase in total defense spending may be requested for fiscal 1962.

Chess is played on a square board of eight rows ( called ranks and denoted with numbers 1 to 8 ) and eight columns ( called files and denoted with letters a to h ) of squares.

Spin called it a " jaw-dropping act of artistic will and a fiery, proper follow-up to 1994 ’ s Live Through This " and awarded it eight out of ten stars, while Rolling Stone suggested that, " for people who enjoy watching celebrities fall apart, America's Sweetheart should be more fun than an Osbournes marathon.

Catullus's poems have been preserved in an anthology of 116 carmina ( the actual number of poems may slightly vary in various editions ), which can be divided into three parts according to their form: sixty short poems in varying metres, called polymetra, eight longer poems, and forty-eight epigrams.

Rolls of 4, 6, 8, and 10 are called " hard " or " easy " ( e. g. " six the hard way ", " easy eight ", " hard ten ") depending on whether they were rolled as a " double " or as any other combination of values, because of their significance in center table bets known as the " hard ways ".

Eight rolled the hard way, as opposed to an " easy eight " is sometimes called an " eighter from Decatur ".

: Odin laid upon the pyre the gold ring called Draupnir ; this quality attended it: that every ninth night there fell from it eight gold rings of equal weight.

Dartmouth is governed by a Board of Trustees comprising the College president ( ex officio ), the state governor ( ex officio ), 13 trustees nominated and elected by the board ( called " charter trustees "), and eight trustees nominated by alumni and elected by the board (" alumni trustees ").

On 14 May 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, a boy eight years old ( the son of Jenner's gardener ), with pus scraped from the cowpox blisters on the hands of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom, whose hide now hangs on the wall of the St George's medical school library ( now in Tooting ).

This is what has come to be called " single frame animation " or " object animation ", and it needs a slightly adapted camera that exposes only one frame for each turn of the crank handle, rather than the usual eight frames per turn.

The Shaw Festival, an annual theater festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada began as an eight week run of Don Juan in Hell ( as the long third act dream sequence of Man And Superman is called when staged alone ) and Candida in 1962, and has grown into an annual festival with over 800 performances a year, dedicated to producing the works of Shaw and his contemporaries.

Chapman states " from about the age of seven or eight I used to be an avid listener of a radio programme called The Goon Show.

There are eight urban areas ( also called a Tätort or locality ) in Hultsfred Municipality.

In Wicca the cycle of the seasons is celebrated during eight sabbats called The Wheel of the Year.

In Rap School, rapper / actor Ice-T teaches eight teens from York Preparatory School in New York called the " York Prep Crew " (" Y. P.

The highest order octet ( most significant eight bits ) in an address was designated as the network number and the remaining bits were called the rest field or host identifier and were used for host numbering within a network.

Almost four years after her marriage in December 1493, Isabella gave birth to her first child out of an eventual total of eight ; it was a daughter, Eleonora, whom they called Leonora for short.

At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone had been cast, but, alas!

The passage continues with a famous account of an interruption: " At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purpose of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas!

The number of Rashad languages, also called Tegali – Tagoi, varies among descriptions, from two ( Williamson & Blench 2000 ), three ( Ethnologue ), to eight ( Blench ms ).

The Knights primary demand was for an eight hour day ; they also called for legislation to end child and convict labor.

Byzantine music uses the eight natural, non-tempered scales called Ēkhoi, " sounds ", exclusively, and therefore the absolute pitch of each note may slightly vary each time, depending on the particular Ēkhos used.