Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

He had considered throwing erasers or flipping paperwads at someone or pulling the hair of the girl sitting in front of him, but he couldn't take a chance on either of these possibilities: the teacher probably would make him stand face-to-wall in a corner instead of stay in after school.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

The Indochina struggle was a war to stay out of in 1954, when Gen. Ridgway estimated it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 divisions at the outset to win a war the French were losing.

After a lengthy workout yesterday, an open date, Hemus said that Bob Nieman definitely would stay in the lineup.

Mr. Clifton would have preferred death and bankruptcy to having his son stay with his wife's people without contributing to his and his family's upkeep, and besides that there were the things that had to be bought for the baby, milk and orange juice and vitamins and soap, just plain soap.

With this movie-to-be in London, and new faces about her there, she would soon be a more tranquil, a wiser person, all the better for her stay out here.

Rambert finally has a chance to escape, but he decides to stay, saying that he would feel ashamed of himself if he left.

He decides to stay in the city and continue to help fight the plague, saying that he would feel ashamed of himself if he pursued a merely private happiness.

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

This means that during the summer season, the younger members of the family, teenage boys and girls, would take the cattle to graze on the hillside and they would stay in the houses of the Deserted Village.

Many anarchists also argue that private defense and court agencies would have to have a good reputation in order to stay in business.

The 2018 bomber would thus be able to stay for extended periods on a same location ( called persistence ).

For instance, the baseband model of the signal would require a lowpass filter with cutoff frequency of at least to stay intact, and the physical passband channel would require a passband filter of at least to stay intact.

But in the end, the Christian lord Olaf Tryggvason, who has a great fate and luck, arrived with his christened men, and whoever slain by a Christian would stay dead.

Assuming that 10 – 15 % of bread is thrown away as stale, if it could be made to stay fresh another 5 – 7 days then perhaps 2 million tons of flour per year would be saved.

On January 17, 2008, Selig's contract was extended through 2012, after which he planned to retire, but then decided to stay as commissioner until the end of the 2014 season, a move approved by the owners on January 12, 2012, which would take his leadership past his 80th birthday.

This change in shape would not be stable, and the water would not stay in our artificially contrived shape, but engage in a transient exploration of many shapes until non-ideal frictional forces introduced by sloshing, either against the sides of the bucket or by the non-ideal nature of the liquid, killed the oscillations and the water settled down to the equilibrium shape.

* First, it had been shown that floating masses on a rotating geoid would collect at the equator, and stay there.

On 22 April, largely as a result of Goebbels ' influence, Hitler announced that he would not leave Berlin, but would stay and fight, and if necessary die, in defence of the capital.

That any remained was due to the legate Fimbria, who used his popularity and influence with the troops to convince them to stay.

A set of economics forces that influence the firms decision of exiting the market, such forces make it cheaper for the existing firm to stay in the market than to exit the market.

All of these influence how the bullet interacts with the target ( known by the misnomer terminal ballistics ) — does it penetrate point-on or does it turn partially or completely sideways ( sometimes erroneously referred to as tumbling ), does it stay in one piece, does it deform ( mushroom ) and how much does it deform, etc.

They have typically gone to the city because of the influence of religious ideas, often with a goal or mission in mind that they believe needs to be completed on arrival or during their stay.

Lacking the moral influence of Ben or the need to stay secret for his aunt, Peter broke out of the orphanage he was sent to and began to defeat criminals for the reward money, matters coming to a head when he nearly killed the Green Goblin in a fight.

The influence of Greek, and to a lesser extent of the Iranian languages ( like Persian and Kurdish ) and Armenian, points to a prolonged stay in Anatolia after the departure from South Asia.

However much Gielgud may have wished to stay in America, his return to London in 1937 had an enormous influence on the development of English Theatre.

Despite this, when Fischer was asked to comment on their influence on heavy metal, he replied: " No, I try to stay away from that.

They were all-powerful in the Jacobin Club, where Brissot's influence had not yet been ousted by Robespierre, and they did not hesitate to use this advantage to stir up popular passion and intimidate those who sought to stay the progress of the Revolution.

His stay in London raises his awareness how the constructions that surround us influence us.

After a short stay in South Sweden, Prem organised the organization of " white celebration " near Munich and began to paint under the influence of drugs.

After a short stay at Lambeth Palace he was appointed, through the influence of Cromwell, then chancellor of the university, to lecture on theology at the University of Cambridge ; but when he had delivered a few expositions of the Hebrew psalms, he was prevented from continuing by the papal party.

During her eight day stay on board the International Space Station, Ansari conducted four experiments for the European Space Agency, including researching the mechanisms behind anemia, how changes in muscles influence lower back pain, consequences of space radiation on ISS crew members and different species of microbes that have made a home for themselves on the space station.

His stay in Lunéville was cut short by the intervention of Russian officials, who were supervising Moldavia under the provisions of the Regulamentul Organic regime, and who believed that, through the influence of Lhommé ( a participant in the French Revolution ), students were being infused with rebellious ideas ; all Moldavian students, including Sturdza's sons and other noblemen, were withdrawn from the school in late 1835, and reassigned to Prussian education institutions.

In pages he dedicated to the influence exercised by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on Romanian thought, Tudor Vianu noted that certain Hegelian-related principles were a common attribute of the Berlin faculty during Kogălniceanu's stay.

He values his parents for their guiding influence on him since his youth and credits them with his life philosophy: " remember how you came on all your accomplishments and stay humble.

Though this stay was brief, it would have an influence on Lawler throughout his life thereafter.

Shaun finally decides to stay in Orange County with Ashley and his family because he loves them too much to leave them, and he is now able to view living in Orange County as a positive influence for his writing career, rather than a detriment.

During a stay in Parma, where he studied with Giuseppe Corso detto Celano, he formed his sacred music style ; most of his psalm settings of the 1680s and 1690s show the influence of Corso.

However, the Kralahome tells her to stay, because Mongkut is a complex man who needs her influence.

During his stay in Peru, Christiancy warned the United States about the rising British influence that was being brought about by Chile during the War of the Pacific.

His sister Jean had married Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, a country gentleman and ardent evangelical, and soon after Macaulay went to stay with them he began to come under their influence.

Partly under the influence of Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds, whom he studied during a three-years stay in England, he applied his methods to a brilliant series of portraits, especially of women.