Andy Ross had just started swinging an ax at his second willow when the distant blast of a rifle sounded.

I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

In 1959, a second women's barbershop organization started as a break off from Sweet Adelines due to ideological differences.

The local economy is based upon tourism directed to the beaches of the Costa Blanca and particularly the second residence construction boom which started in the 1960s and reinvigorated again by the late 1990s.

Bursa Technical University is the second public university of Bursa and it established in 2010, started education in 2011 – 2012 academic year.

Construction of the second line started in December 2008, which is due to be opened according to initial forecasts by the end of 2012.

In 2006, Love started recording what was going to be her second solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean, collaborating with again with Perry and Billy Corgan in the writing and recording.

During this time, whilst touring Japan, they conceived and started their second record label, Ninja Tune, which continues to release diverse music by like-minded artists.

Earnhardt started off the 1995 season by finishing second in the Daytona 500 to Sterling Marlin.

1996 for Earnhardt started just as it had done in 1993 – he dominated Speedweeks only to finish second in the Daytona 500 to Dale Jarrett for a second time.

In the tumultuous 2008 season, the Cowboys started off strong, going 3 – 0 for the second straight year, en route to a 4 – 1 start.

The term started to get its modern negative meaning with Cornelius Sulla's ascension to the dictatorship following Sulla's second civil war, making himself the first Dictator in more than a century ( during which the office was ostensibly abolished ) as well as de facto eliminating the time limit and need of senatorial acclamation, although he avoided a major constitutional crisis by resigning the office after about one year due to poor health, dying shortly after.

In the meantime, the second and larger sea-borne invasion had started.

Then another, even more numerous, army of invaders started a second naval invasion of the Balkans.

And the second course of action led to my going to Pakistan a month or so after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for the purpose of coordinating with the Pakistanis a joint response, the purpose of which would be to make the Soviets bleed for as much and as long as is possible ; and we engaged in that effort in a collaborative sense with the Saudis, the Egyptians, the British, the Chinese, and we started providing weapons to the Mujaheddin, from various sources again – for example, some Soviet arms from the Egyptians and the Chinese.

The season started with a boost from pitcher Ken Forsch, who threw a no-hitter the Braves the second game of the season.

Schwitters started a second Merzbau while in exile in Lysaker nearby Oslo, Norway in 1937 but abandoned it in 1940 when the Nazis invaded ; this Merzbau was subsequently destroyed in a fire in 1951.

In the second half of the twentieth century remote control locomotives started to enter service in switching operations, being remotely controlled by an operator outside of the locomotive cab.

By the time he was 17, Baum established a second amateur journal, The Stamp Collector, printed an 11-page pamphlet called Baum's Complete Stamp Dealers ' Directory, and started a stamp dealership with friends.

In the second half of the 17th century lutes, vihuelas and similar instruments started losing popularity, and almost no music had been written for the instrument after 1750.

Both teams started the game in white, but by the second quarter the Vikings were able to obtain their purple tops.

MOS Technology, Inc. (" MOS " being short for Metal Oxide Semiconductor ) was originally started in 1969 by Allen-Bradley to provide a second source for Texas Instruments ( TI ) designed electronic calculators and the chips inside them.

Hence, the passing of time was more discernible in the very early years, such as the graduation of Spider-Man ; and what started as children or teenaged characters, such as Kitty Pryde, Franklin Richards, Valeria Richards, Power Pack, or the New Mutants are all allowed to age at wildly shifting rates ( in the second case even backwards at times ), whereas surrounding characters somewhat dependent on a certain age limit do not change at all.

started with a second place each for Hulme and Bruce in the first two Grands Prix, but in June Bruce was killed in a crash at Goodwood while testing the new M8D Can-Am car.

Instead of the light being placed at right angles in relation to the line of vision, Both started moving it to a diagonal position from the back of the picture.

Atari's earlier 7800 games listing showed Millipede as one of the games in the line up ; however, it does not appear that it was ever started or worked on.

A major programme of remedial work on the West Coast Main Line started in 1997 and finished in 2009, far over budget (£ 10bn ), many years late and still not bringing the line up to the standards originally proposed by Railtrack.

For instance, basketball legend, Michael Jordan became an active entrepreneur involved with many sports related ventures including investing a minority stake in the Charlotte Bobcats, Paul Newman started his own salad dressing business after leaving behind a distinguished acting career, or rap musician, Birdman started his own record label, clothing line, and an oil business.

It separated the Commodore and Amiga operations into separate divisions and quickly started using the brand name on a line of PCs sold in Europe.

Although Infocom started out with Zork, and although the Zork world was the centerpiece of their product line throughout the Zork and Enchanter series, the company quickly branched out into a wide variety of story lines: fantasy, science-fiction, mystery, horror, historical adventure, children's stories, and others that defied categories.

The Iraqis in the meantime started the construction of the line from the border to their current railhead at Ramadi.

A feasibility study started in November 2009 for a line connecting Havelian 750 km ( 466 mi ) away in Pakistan and Kashgar 350 km ( 217 mi ) in China.

He was thought to have started studying Islam at an early age, primarily with his father, ʿAbd al-Wahhab as his family was from a line of scholars of the Hanbali school of jurisprudence.

The line started to decay after the loss of Nola by Ludovico, who was also forced to accept the Senese suzerainty over Pitigliano.

In the 17th century, Sanskrit and Marathi, both written in the Devanagari script, started using the vertical bar (|) to end a line of prose and double vertical bars (||) in verse.

One line was the IBM PC compatible Intel i286 based Vectra Series started 1986.

The first tram line in Seoul started operation between Seodaemun and Cheongnyangni in December 1898.

He got even more attention when Ditka started putting him in the game at the fullback position during offensive plays near the opponent's goal line.

The Packers then started their second possession at their own 3-yard line, and in the opening minutes of the second quarter, they drove 84 yards to the Raiders 13-yard line.

Miami started the ensuing drive with just 1: 15 left in the half, and quarterback Bob Griese completed three consecutive passes, two to receiver Paul Warfield and one to running back Jim Kiick, for 44 total yards to reach the Dallas 24-yard line.

With 1: 22 left in the game, Staubach started out the drive with an 11-yard scramble to midfield, and then followed it up with a 12-yard completion to Preston Pearson at the Steelers 38-yard line.

In what became known as The Drive, the Broncos started from their own 2-yard line, trailing 20-13, with 5: 32 left to play.

Reich started out well, completing his first 2 passes, including a 38-yard completion to Reed to advance the ball to the Dallas 22-yard line.

As he started to showboat just before crossing the goal line, Don Beebe raced in from behind and knocked the ball out of Lett's arm and into the end zone.

The Bills started their ensuing drive from their own 22-yard line and managed to reach their own 36.

Green Bay forced New England to punt on the opening possession of the game and started their first drive with great field position after receiver Desmond Howard returned the ball 32 yards to the Packers 46-yard line.