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Washington and never
`` I suppose I can never expect to call you ' General ' after that Washington episode ''.
The award has never been presented to a member of the following five teams: Arizona Diamondbacks, Miami Marlins, New York Mets, Tampa Bay Rays, and Washington Nationals.
Although Washington never gained the commission in the British army he yearned for, in these years the young man gained valuable military, political, and leadership skills.
Though Jefferson left the cabinet voluntarily, Washington never forgave him, and never spoke to him again.
* Worst Film You Never Saw ( category for films never completed or only released in a limited fashion ): Billy Jack Goes to Washington
The Mariners are one of eight Major League Baseball teams without a World Series title, and one of two ( along with the Washington Nationals ) to never have appeared in a World Series.
Although Jefferson left the cabinet voluntarily, Washington never forgave him for his actions, and never spoke to him again.
Realizing he would never leave Monticello again he was forced to decline an invitation to Washington to attend a fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Declaration.
She and Marshall had been unable to have children, and when she brought the baby home, Marshall told her that she could " keep him, provided he did not squall ..." Marshall grew to love the boy and wrote that he " never walked the streets of Washington with as sure a certainty as he walked into my heart ", and, as the boy grew older, that he was " beautiful as an angel ; brilliant beyond his years ; lovable from every standpoint.
* In 1990, a United States Senate joint resolution to change the name of Washington Dulles to Washington Eisenhower was proposed by Senator Dole, but never passed.
** During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked, with US $ 200, 000 in ransom money, and is never seen again ( as of March 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history ).
On November 5, 1916 at Everett, Washington a group of deputized businessmen led by Sheriff Donald McRae attacked Wobblies on the steamer Verona, killing at least five union members ( six more were never accounted for and probably were lost in Puget Sound ).
Two more joined before the season but never played a game, the Cincinnati Browns and Washington Capital Cities.
In an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, Smith said that she never pressed Washington for marriage because she knew Washington's first love was politics, saying, " He was a political animal.
After Garfield's term ended, Lucretia moved to Washington to be with her husband, and the two, thereafter, never lived apart.
George Washington, who had never been to Ticonderoga ( his only visit was to be in 1783 ), believed that an overland attack from the north was unlikely, because of the alleged impregnability of Ticonderoga.
Anthony Wayne left Ticonderoga in April 1777 to join Washington's army ; he reported to Washington that " all was well ", and that the fort " can never be carried, without much loss of blood ".
However, in the playoffs, the Spurs would never find a break, losing to teams like the Washington Bullets, the Boston Celtics, the Houston Rockets, and the Los Angeles Lakers.
The primary actors never traveled to Washington for the making of the film.
Though the film won the Critics ' Award at the Berlin Film Festival it never saw popular release due to complications in securing the music rights for the 22 songs on the soundtrack, which included such big names as Dinah Washington, Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong and Earth, Wind and Fire.
Fear of Fenian attack plagued the Lower Mainland of British Columbia during the 1880s, as the Fenian Brotherhood was actively organizing in Washington and Oregon, but raids never actually materialized.

Washington and had
It really looked as if a change of the sort predicted by Booker T. Washington had been going on.
But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.
Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.
But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.
His fellow Virginian, George Washington, had stated, `` I believe no event was ever received with more heartfelt joy ''.
On May 6th, Morgan, who had returned, received from Washington orders to `` send out patrols under vigilant officers '' to keep near the enemy.
New Orleans had a notorious red-light district extending over twenty-eight city blocks, and the business-minded mayor of the city journeyed to Washington to present the case for `` the God-given right of men to be men ''.
He had written to me about a dinner he had had with the Benedictine monks at St. Anselm's Priory in Washington.
There had been reading at table, especially from two books, Pope Gregory The Great's account of St. Scholastica in his Dialogues and my own The World Of Washington Irving.
In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.
They dug up a speech he had made two years earlier as a Congressman, decrying the more than two hundred statues, monuments, and memorials which `` dot the Washington landscape as patriotic societies and zealous friends are constantly hatching new plans ''.
In the case of the Borglum statue an Interior aide was obliged to announce that there had been a misunderstanding and that the Secretary had no desire to `` hustle '' it out of Washington.
Shortly after the Chief Executive returned to Washington in midmorning from Hyannis Port, Mass., a White House spokesman said the address text still had `` quite a way to go '' toward completion.
Only Bucky Harris, the `` boy-manager '' of Washington in 1924, and Eddie Dyer of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1946 had accomplished the feat.
He obtained Congress's consent to reinstate for Grant the rank of Lieutenant General, which no officer had held since George Washington.
The state legislature had passed resolutions instructing their representatives in Washington to support pro-slavery and popular sovereignty measures such as the LeCompton Constitution and the Kansas – Nebraska Act.
Shortly after Lincoln's death, Gen. William T. Sherman reported he had, without consulting Washington, reached an armistice agreement with Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, an agreement which was unacceptable to the President and outraged Stanton, since it made no provision for emancipation of slaves or freedmen's rights.
Carnegie helped open the rail lines into Washington D. C. that the rebels had cut ; he rode the locomotive pulling the first brigade of Union troops to reach Washington D. C.
Pike died in Washington, D. C., aged 81, and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery ( against his wishes — he had left instructions for his body to be cremated ).

Washington and chance
However, the Raiders completely took over the rest of the game, preventing any chance of a Washington comeback.
On Buffalo's first play after the botched field goal attempt, Bills quarterback Jim Kelly gave Washington another chance to score by throwing an interception to Redskins safety Brad Edwards, who returned it 21 yards to the Bills 12-yard line.
Despite such problems, IMF policy in response to crises, which is supposed to be guided by neoliberal ideas such as the Washington Consensus, is to increase liberalization of the economy and decrease barriers, allowing bigger capital flight and the chance for foreign firms to shore up their monopolies.
Parker Barnes, a reinstated police officer played by Denzel Washington, is given the chance to catch him.
Washington found themselves in an early 14-0 deficit, after a long Killinger pass caught the Senators by surprise, and a poor Boynton punt gave Canton an easy chance to push in their second touchdown.
Stu Hart claimed he ran into Toots by chance while wrestling in New York City and that Mondt said he received his first wrestling lesson in 1916 from Jack Taylor, and Mondt tried to recruit Hart into a territory in Washington D. C.
In the early 1920s, a trend began of fans flocking in great numbers to the stadium to see baseball's rising stars from opposing teams ; when the New York Yankees came to Washington, the chance to see Babe Ruth brought large crowds to the ballpark.
Gary Arnold, in his review for the Washington Post, wrote, " Neither triumph nor fiasco, Strange Brew leaves plenty of room for improvement, but I hope Thomas and Moranis get the chance to demonstrate that they've learned a lot from the mixed assortment of nuttiness in their first movie comedy ".
Washington ( aware that he was working with an unknown ) stated that he wanted to give a younger generation of black actors their chance to come alive on-screen.
The antagonist in the script was not a coworker, but instead a hawkish military officer who seeks to eliminate the gigantic little girl by deploying a missile battery against her, arguing with Washington that she will ruin all cities if left unchecked, but also seeking it to be his one chance to be hailed as a hero.
The Cameo is a cultivar of apple, discovered by chance by the Caudle family in a Dryden, Washington orchard in 1987.
* Adam Sandler, George Lucas, Woody Allen, Howard Stern, Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chevy Chase, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denzel Washington, Michael Keaton, Bill Murray, Warren Beatty and Sean Connery all declined the chance to appear on the show.
A second page editorial in the Charleston Courier ( then Mississippi County, Missouri's newspaper of record ) summed up the mood prevalent in Southern-leaning border counties as the Crittenden proposals fell: " Men at Washington think there is no chance for peace, and indeed we can see but little, everything looks gloomy.
As in the case of Washington and DuBois, Washington and Thomas have areas of agreement, though DuBois would not so agree: that the best chance for an African American was in the areas of farming and country life.
Washington goes on to warn the American people to question the ulterior motives of any person or group of people who argue that the land within the borders of the United States is too large to be ruled as a republic, an argument made by many Greek philosophers and later during the debate on the proposed purchase of the Louisiana Territory, calling on the people to at least give the experiment of a large republic a chance to work before deciding it cannot be done.
By chance, Jokichi Takamine, the Japanese chemist who discovered adrenaline, was in Washington with Mr. Midzuno, the Japanese consul to New York City, on April 8.
The Buccaneers got one last chance to tie the game when they received a punt at their own 46-yard line with 1: 05 left in regulation, but Simms threw a pass that was tipped at the line of scrimmage and went into the arms of the Redskins ' Marcus Washington for a game-ending interception.
The Transition School, founded in 1980, gives a small group of talented middle school age students the chance to enter the University of Washington while also developing the skills, knowledge, and support needed to succeed in college.
Her chance came at the confluence of Hearst's near-bankruptcy and the purchase attempts by the rival The Washington Post.
Its members, which number 6, 000 as of 2006, participate in civics education, over 60 clubs, student action teams, voter registration drives, and " Benjamin Rush " Awards, which offer members a chance to earn a trip to Washington, D. C., amongst other things.
Fox ) is a hotshot young surgeon who longs to leave the drudgery of a Washington, D. C. emergency room and finally leaps at his chance at more money ( for repaying his medical school debts ) and less death as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills.
There had been speculation that Bingaman would give up the chance to run for another term to pursue a lobbyists ' job in Washington.
* A chance to tour and see much of what Washington, DC as well as surrounding areas and states have to offer.

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