There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.

He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.

Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.

Rob Roy was well aware of the importance of this mission, and he would walk in front of the President, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

On the basis of the long chronicle of military history Funston and his brethren assumed that the issue was insoluble and that anyone interested in a mission like Fosdick's was an impractical idealist or a do-gooder.

Mr. Hammarskjold was in Africa on a mission of peace.

The oyabun was entertaining a group of dignitaries, the secretary said, businessmen from Tokyo for the most part, and Kayabashi wished to show them the mission.

At the same time, it was unlikely that any businessmen would spend a day in a Christian mission out of mere curiosity.

He was not going to lose the mission by default, and whatever reason Kayabashi had for bringing his little sight-seeing group to the mission, he was going to be in for a surprise.

Finally, if the mission of the Trial was to convict anti-Semitism, how could it have failed to post before the world the contrasting fates of the countries in which the Final Solution was aided by native Jew-haters -- i.e., Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia -- and those in which it met the obstacle of human solidarity -- Denmark, Holland, Italy, Bulgaria, France??

The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.

But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the conflict between him and the Hunkerish society was not something which could be evaporated into a genteel difference about clerical decorum.

In the beginning of April 2012, when a new military Coup d ' état was under preparation, the Angolan regime decided to withdraw its military mission from Guinea-Bissau.

The Reverend Nangle expanded his mission into Mweelin, where a ' school ' was built.

However, during the time of Arianism's flowering in Constantinople, the Gothic convert Ulfilas ( later the subject of the letter of Auxentius cited above ) was sent as a missionary to the Gothic barbarians across the Danube, a mission favored for political reasons by emperor Constantius II.

Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.

It stands alone in sending manned missions beyond low Earth orbit ; Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit another celestial body, while the final Apollo 17 mission marked the sixth Moon landing and the ninth manned mission beyond low Earth orbit.

While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited Earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and eventually to a lunar landing.

Most Southern Baptist and National Baptist congregations, by contrast, generally relate more closely to external groups such as mission agencies and educational institutions than do those of independent persuasion.

In addition, humanitarian intervention by multinational forces became more frequent and the media began to play a big role, particularly in the lead up to the 1999 NATO mission in Yugoslavia, while by contrast, the 1994 Rwandan Genocide had little attention.

By contrast, Ewing and Lundstrom came to their conclusions on what happened to Butch after interviewing the still living survivors of O ’ Hare ’ s last mission: F6F pilot Skon, TBF radar officer Rand, and TBF gunner Kernan.

In contrast with the SASR's reconnaissance role, when operating in the counter terrorism role SASR units are only tasked with the mission statement " to rescue the hostages ".

In contrast to the previous king, Jessadabodindra, Mongkut didn't see the importance of sending envoys to the Qing dynasty court, as the mission symbolised Siam's subjection to the Qing emperors and because the Qing dynasty was then not so powerful as it had once been, as it was itself threatened by Western powers.

Its mission, in its own words, is to provide " a contrast to Cuban media and provide its listeners with an uncensored view of current events.

In contrast to Star Wars, the ship featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Discovery One's course took it directly through the asteroid belt in the novel, without real fear of collision on the part of the mission organizers.

By contrast, LISA is a dedicated mission that will use laser interferometry to achieve a much higher sensitivity.

A generation younger than Ibrăileanu, George Călinescu also noted the contrast between Mihail Kogălniceanu and his predecessors, as two sets of " Messianist " intellectuals — in this contrast, Heliade Rădulescu was " hazy and egotistic ", whereas Kogălniceanu and others had " a mission which they knew how to translate into positive terms ".

The liturgy for Kingdomtide stressed charity and assistance to the poor, in contrast to the preceding Sundays after Pentecost, when a more spiritual mission was emphasized.

Finally, after a mission in the south, which lasted from July 1794 to March 1795 and in which he showed moderation in contrast to the directives of the Reign of Terror, he was arrested on May 28, 1795, but was released by the amnesty of the year IV.

In contrast the clergymen had established their mission aimed at converting the Tupi – Guarani indigenous Brazilians to the Catholic faith, as well as to make it easier for the Portuguese crown to rule them.

Commentators often contrast the Great Commission with the earlier Limited Commission of, in which they were to restrict their mission to their fellow Jews, to whom Jesus referred to as " the lost sheep of the house of Israel " ().

In contrast to the reason for the original Cylons ' genocidal mission, religion is the primary motivation of the Cylon race in the re-imagined series.

The diphthong may reduce to, as in widow: cites a three-way contrast, a mission, emission, and omission.

By contrast, " segment architecture " defines a simple roadmap for a core mission area, business service, or enterprise service.

Through trade and travel across the seas the American Merchant Marine is carrying out its historic mission of linking the United States of America with friendly nations across the seas ; ;

Money had to exhaust its " historic mission " ( continue to be used until it became redundant ), and then would be transformed into bookkeeping receipts for statisticians, and only in the more distant future would it might not be required even for that role.

Fredric Jameson has said that " Stalinism was [...] a success and fulfilled its historic mission, socially as well as economically " given that it " modernised the Soviet Union, transforming a peasant society into an industrial state with a literate population and a remarkable scientific superstructure.

It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism.

The Decorative Arts Center of Ohio is a not-for-profit museum whose mission is to foster knowledge and appreciation of the decorative arts ; celebrate the architecture and heritage of the Reese-Peters House ; and enhance the vitality and integrity of historic Lancaster.

Mission San Xavier del Bac is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles ( 16 km ) south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O ' odham San Xavier Indian Reservation.

* Seven mission sites are designated National Historic Landmarks, fourteen are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and all are designated as California Historical Landmarks for their historic, architectural, and archaeological significance ;

The Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is a fully functioning Roman Catholic mission and a historic landmark in San Gabriel, California.

In the 20th century, the Civilian Conservation Corps ( CCC ) pledged to restore the mission if enough land could be provided to convert it into a historic landmark.

The Lincoln Highway Association was re-formed in 1992 with the mission, "... to identify, preserve, and improve access to the remaining portions of the Lincoln Highway and its associated historic sites.

Scenes for the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo were filmed around the historic plaza, including the historic mission, of San Juan Bautista in the fall of 1957.

Fort Hill, located on the highest land in the town, is a historic native village and was the site of a Jesuit mission in the 17th Century, built by the remains of an earlier, " Owasco ," village.

Ham's name is an acronym for the lab that prepared him for his historic mission — the Holloman Aerospace Medical Center, located at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

WMF describes its mission as " to preserve important historic architectural sites and works of art without regard to national boundaries ".

He was the first commander of the cosmonaut corps and the cosmonaut who commanded the historic Voskhod 2 mission which saw the first man walk in space in 1965.

Only through collective action, trade union activities, could the working class begin to achieve consciousness of itself, the nature of the world, and its purported historic mission.

The reconstructed Jesuit mission, Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, is now a historic park operated by the province of Ontario.

* " KDA part of historic space project " – On KDA's involvement in the Cassini-Huygens mission ( from KOG's news archive, 17 January 2005 )

It is often called the Cradle of the Nation, being the site of the first permanent mission station in the country, and it has some of the most historic buildings in the country.

During World War II Frankfurter was presented with a historic opportunity to pursue a mission in the service of humanity.

Sharma, then a Squadron Leader and pilot with the Indian Air Force embarked on a historic mission in 1984 as part of a joint space program between the Indian Space Research Organisation and the Soviet Intercosmos space program, and spent eight days in space aboard the Salyut 7 space station.

A firm commitment to evangelism amongst students, the authority of the Bible and collaborative cross-cultural mission are historic features of this ministry.

Murray summarizes Christendom values as: a commitment to hierarchy and the status quo ; the loss of lay involvement ; institutional values rather than community focus ; church at the centre of society rather than the margins ; the use of political power to bring in the Kingdom ; religious compulsion ; punitive rather than restorative justice ; marginalisation of women, the poor, and dissident movements ; inattentiveness to the criticisms of those outraged by the historic association of Christianity with patriarchy, warfare, injustice and patronage ; partiality for respectability and top-down mission ; attractional evangelism ; assuming the Christian story is known ; and a preoccupation with the rich and powerful.