During the American Civil War, Confederate General Thomas Stonewall Jackson, a former instructor at VMI, used Crozet's tunnel to transfer his " foot cavalry " ( in modern times, this would be known as a rapid deployment force ) from the Shenandoah Valley to the east side of the Blue Ridge quickly, to the puzzlement and consternation of Union military leaders.

Instead, he stubbornly continued building his short-line railroad through some of the most rugged terrain of the Mountain State, to the increasing puzzlement of the leaders of the big railroads.

Instead, he stubbornly continued building his Deepwater Railroad, to the increasing puzzlement of the two big railroads.

The board members themselves, who did not create the rankings and were unaware of it until the list was published, expressed disappointment and puzzlement.

On September 1, 1928, King Amanullah convoked the Loya Jirga to Paghman to the puzzlement of many delegates, who found themselves at odds with the dress-code and modernization of the country.

On September 1, 1928, King Amanullah convoked the Loya Jirga to Paghman to the puzzlement of many delegates, who found themselves at odds with the dress-code.

" When Max Roach's first records with Charlie Parker were released by Savoy in 1945 ," jazz historian Burt Korall wrote in the Oxford Companion to Jazz, " drummers experienced awe and puzzlement and even fear.

The song's gigantic success posed an ever-bigger puzzlement for The Beatles ' producer, George Martin, and manager, Brian Epstein: why were The Beatles running up hit after hit in Britain, but utterly flopping on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean?

Thus Grossman solves the central crux of Weber's analysis: his puzzlement over how enough people were recruited into early capitalist manufacturing.

In a letter to the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, Menzel admitted the phenomenon must be real and expressed puzzlement, wondering why the fireballs should be so confined to New Mexico if they were natural phenomena.

Much to puzzlement of the McFalane staff it was decided to end the dragon line despite the fact that it did so well and no licensing had to be paid on it.

This action caused considerable puzzlement since up until that time Pomare had been considered neutral, by himself and almost every one else.

To his puzzlement, there suddenly was no haze.

Anderson notes that " either the encounter with Fortinbras ' army nor Hamlet's brush with buccaneers appears in any of the play's sources – to the puzzlement of numerous literary critics.

When first discovered, particle diffraction was a source of great puzzlement.

Each instalment ends with Dr. Bob and his nurses looking around in puzzlement as a disembodied narrator tells viewers to " tune in next time, when you'll hear Nurse Piggy / Dr Bob / Nurse Janice say ....", whereupon one of the three ' medics ' will prompt a corny response from one of the others.

Such an examination challenged the implicit moral beliefs of the interlocutors, bringing out inadequacies and inconsistencies in their beliefs, and usually resulting in puzzlement known as aporia.

The extinction of the Rocky Mountain locust has been a source of puzzlement.

Midway through the film, Sean Astin had to leave, much to the puzzlement of his costars, and without ever getting to say a personal message to Cyndi Lauper that he intended to.

Little wonder that, of all the Symphony's movements, this has come in for the greatest amount of criticism and puzzlement ( it has been seen by many as something of a let-down and somewhat superficial, dodging questions set by the previous movements ): its virtually unrelenting mood of celebration seems quite at odds with the dark character of the earlier movements – " a vigorous life-asserting pageant of Mahlerian blatancy ", is how Michael Kennedy describes it.

Part of the puzzlement here is because of the limitations of imagination: influenced by his Princeton colleague, Saul Kripke, Nagel believes that any type identity statement that identified a physical state type with a mental state type would be, if true, necessarily true.

Cuccurullo sent a tape and a request for an audition, but was turned down, with some puzzlement.

An expression of disbelief or puzzlement.

", often received with bemusement or puzzlement by the listener.

Kádár and Béla Kovács noted with puzzlement the leadership's total lack of interest in the domestic Communist's experience and outlook.

But even a more independent assessment of Mr. Kerry can lead to puzzlement.

Her puzzlement is interrupted by the noises of a tremendous struggle coming from the library and two gunshots.

The introduction of code-letter names has been a source of much puzzlement and misunderstandings, especially among foreigners.

His excitement turns to puzzlement and then outright anger after learning that it had the initials J. S.

Socrates brings Meno to aporia ( puzzlement ) on the question of what virtue is.

The early Southwest Conference football leaders -- Texas, Arkansas and Texas A & M -- made a big dent in the statistics last week.

Their leaders are theologians, and they are often social ministries affiliated to big churches.

In 2010, leaked diplomatic cables revealed that Mubarak expressed animosity toward Iran in private meetings, saying the Iranian leaders are " big, fat liars ", and that Iran's backing of terrorism is " well-known ".

* The Constitution house of Isfahan ; in Isfahan ; Iran is a house that belonged to Haj Aqa Nourollah ( one of the big political leaders in the constitution era of Iran and Isfahan ).

Serbia's most powerful and influential politician in Tito-era Yugoslavia was Aleksandar Ranković, one of the " big four " Yugoslav leaders, alongside Josip Broz Tito, Edvard Kardelj, and Milovan Đilas.

* List of British big band leaders

He was a member of Red Nichols's orchestra in 1930, and because of Nichols, Miller played in the pit bands of two Broadway shows, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy ( where his bandmates included big band leaders Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa ).

He also criticized the leaders of both parties for failing to address the crisis adequately, most notably attacking conservative Senate Democratic Leader Joseph Robinson of Arkansas for his apparent closeness with President Herbert Hoover and ties to big business.

This was later revealed to be caused by collusion by the leaders of the big railroads, notably Alexander Cassatt, William Kissam Vanderbilt, and Frederick J. Kimball, who sought to control shipping rates and coal prices, and prevent any newcomers from entry.

By the time the leaders of the big railroads finally realized that the Deepwater and Tidewater railroads were related, the rights-of-way were secure, and the new competitor could not be blocked.

Thus, the leaders of the big railroads finally learned the source of William Nelson Page's deep pockets.

In a new era that strove for political stability and economic development, party leaders considered the four big rights politically destabilizing.

During the 1960s, he continued his television career, with guest appearances on such series as The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Route 66 ( a moving portrayal of a doomed pilot in the two-part episode " Fly Away Home "); Alfred Hitchcock Presents ; Perry Mason ( one of four actors in four consecutive episodes substituting for series star Raymond Burr, who was recovering from surgery ); Wagon Train ( a 90-minute colour episode as an English big game hunter who, in a display of amazing marksmanship, is able to kill an Indian chief from a great distance ); The Great Adventure ( in an installment of this anthology series about remarkable events in American history, he portrayed Confederate president Jefferson Davis ); Daniel Boone, ( in episodes " The Sound of Wings " and " First in War, First in Peace "); Lost in Space ( another two-part episode — as an all-powerful alien zookeeper, " The Keeper ", he worked one last time with his Third Man costar Jonathan Harris ); The Time Tunnel ( as Captain Smith of The Titanic, in the series ' 9 September 1966 premiere episode ); Batman ( as the villainous Sandman, in league with Julie Newmar's Catwoman ); three episodes of The Invaders ( as a malign variation of the Klaatu persona, culminating in a parallel plot also involving an assembly of world leaders ); an episode of I Spy (" Lana "); and two episodes of The F. B. I.

Like Benny Goodman and other leaders of big bands, Shaw fashioned a small group from within the band.

Despite personnel changes, Jimmy remained one of the top big band leaders after World War II and into the 1950s, always updating the sound of his band, but the big band business was beginning to decline.

The show, called “ Stage Show ,” was a huge hit, and gave other big band leaders hope in a business that was steadily declining.

" Ballagh condemned the hypocrisy of political leaders, saying: " I know arts funding is not a big issue for people struggling to put food on the table but we are talking about the soul of the nation.

:‘ They practically control both parties, write political platforms, make catspaws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business.

From the mid-70s he recorded and worked as a session man in the genres noted previously, performed with the big band leaders Louie Bellson, Bill Holman and Bill Berry and was principal soloist for Tony Bennett and Lena Horne.

The revolution was big, and was supported by the people who elected their own leaders in many places of Cyprus.

One of the leaders is Yevgeny Dvoskin, a criminal who had been in prison with Ivankov in 1995 and was deported in 2001 for breaking immigration regulations ; the other is Konstantin " Gizya " Ginzburg, who is reportedly the current " big boss " of Russian organized crime in America after it was suspected that Ivankov handed over his control to him.

To prevent this development, the union leaders under Carl Legien and the representatives of big industry under Hugo Stinnes and Carl Friedrich von Siemens met in Berlin from 9 to 12 November.

People would receive their mail through the stations and post messages, which were read several times during the day: calls for a meeting of women from the Comité de Amas de Casa ( Housewives ' Committee ); messages from union leaders about their negotiations with the government in the capital ; messages of love between young people ; the announcement of a new play by the Nuevos Horizontes theater group ( often staged on the platform of a big truck, with workers illuminating the scene with their own lamps ); and announcements of sport activities, burials, births and festivities.