" Washington quickly became the oldest team in the NFL and earned the nickname " The Over the Hill Gang.

Washington quickly forced Miami to punt on their next possession, and punt returner Mike Nelms's 12-yard return gave the Redskins great field position at the Dolphins 41-yard line.

) The Broncos quickly forced Washington to punt, and once again Elway displayed his superb scrambling skills.

Later in April, Gen. Sherman, without consulting Washington, concluded an agreement with Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to effect the latter's surrender, believing it to be consistent with Lincoln's recent statements to him at City Point ; Secretary Stanton and Grant quickly surmised the terms were much too lenient.

Another song, " Kid Stuff ", was added and quickly removed during the Washington, D. C. tryout when Laurents convinced the others it was helping tip the balance of the show into typical musical comedy.

The subsequent bankruptcy of WorldCom, which quickly surpassed Enron as the then biggest bankruptcy in history ( the record is now held by Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual ) led to a domino effect of accounting and like corporate scandals that continue to tarnish American business practices.

In July 2009, while undergoing radiation therapy, he was interviewed by the Washington Post: " I recovered very quickly after my surgery, and I've been hoping that my better-than-average constitution will keep the worst effects of radiation at bay.

More fond of life on a small ship, and knowing that young officers in the submarine service were advancing quickly, Rickover went to Washington and volunteered for submarine duty.

King County in Washington and the states of Maryland, Massachusetts, and Connecticut quickly followed suit.

Smith's naïve and honest nature allows the unforgiving Washington press to take advantage of him, quickly tarnishing Smith's reputation with ridiculous front page pictures and headlines branding him a bumpkin.

The armed regulars were stopped by provosts and the ensuing quarrel quickly escalated into a shoot-out on Washington Street, during which one guardsman was killed and five others were wounded.

Military burials were previously held at the United States Soldiers ' National Cemetery in Washington, D. C., but it was quickly filling.

In a column in the Washington Post, Griswold wrote: " It quickly becomes apparent to any person who has considerable experience with classified material that there is massive over classification and that the principal concern of the classifiers is not with national security, but with governmental embarrassment of one sort or another.

When Washington set up his first administration, and the first Congress began passing laws, both quickly discovered an inconvenient gap in the constitutional design of the government: It had no provision for a regional administrative structure stretching throughout the country.

Hillsborough Township quickly took its place in history as the path General George Washington and his troops traveled from the Battle of Princeton to winter quarters in Morristown.

Washington tried to use the Youghiogheny River as a means to reach Fort Duquesne quickly, but was forced to abandon the river passage by the waterfalls in the Ohiopyle area.

Washington was forced to quickly build a fort to prepare for the oncoming French attack.

The army retreated all the way to Washington, with the Confederate Army advancing quickly behind it.

At the same time, Cooke influenced the establishment of national banks, and organized a national bank at Washington and another at Philadelphia almost as quickly as Congress could authorize the institutions.

Similarly, flights taking off to the north are required to climb quickly and take a steep left turn, to avoid contact with the Washington Monument or flight over the White House.

As would be the case with later Israeli-Arab peace initiatives, Washington was taken by surprise ; the White House and State Department were particularly concerned that Sadat was merely reaching out to reacquire Sinai as quickly as possible, putting aside the Palestinian problem.

The impact of Paine's thin little pamphlet upon the general call for independence, upon the other Founding Fathers and their construction of the Declaration of Independence, and upon the common folk, many of whom would soon join General Washington to fight the British military, was quickly spread and deeply felt.

Although Dole hadn't lived regularly in North Carolina since 1959 and had been a resident of the Washington area for most of the time since the mid-1960s, the state and national Republican establishment quickly cleared the field for her.

Washington took up headquarters on Broadway and quickly set to work.

Parson Weems's George Washington became the symbol of honesty and the father image of the uniting States.

Overnight he became the most available man in Washington.

The reports of President Nasser's pledges which Hammarskjold was relaying from Cairo to Washington became increasingly incomprehensible to other diplomats, including the Israeli Foreign Minister, Mrs. Golda Meir.

" Le Monde Diplomatique's editor, Ignacio Ramonet's, expression of " the one-way thought " ( la pensée unique ) became slang against neoliberal policies and the Washington consensus.

* Revolution of 1930: Second military overthrow of government, in which President Washington Luís was replaced by Getúlio Vargas, who became the Provisional President.

The Volta Laboratory and the Volta Bureau were earlier located at Bell's father's house at 1527 35th Street in Washington, D. C., where its carriage house became their headquarters in 1889.

Along with Rhodes and Green, Tyrone Willingham became the head coach at Stanford, then later Notre Dame and Washington.

In 1999 Otto Reich, a lobbyist in Washington on behalf of Bacardi, drafted section 211 of the 1999 Omnibus appropriations act, a bill that became known as the Bacardi Act.

In 1983, Harold Washington became the first black mayor of the city of Chicago.

Indeed, the convoy averaged only 5 mph from Washington, D. C. to San Francisco ; later the improvement of highways became a signature issue for Eisenhower as President.

After leaving Villanova, McLean became associated with famed folk music agent Harold Leventhal, and for the next six years performed at venues and events including the Bitter End and the Gaslight Cafe in New York, the Newport Folk Festival, the Cellar Door in Washington, D. C., and the Troubadour in Los Angeles.

He soon became skilled, and promoted a plan for publishing, in Washington, portraits of eminent American statesmen ; however, he met with but slight encouragement.

Susan married William Bradford, who became Chief Justice of Pennsylvania and Attorney General under George Washington.

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, who later became known as Frederick Douglass, was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, between Hillsboro and Cordova, probably in his grandmother's shack east of Tappers Corner () and west of Tuckahoe Creek.

* In 1962, his home in Anacostia ( Washington, DC ) became part of the National Park System, and in 1988 was designated the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site.

Dontrelle Willis became the 13th member of the Black Aces when he defeated the Washington Nationals to earn his 20th win.

After both his father and older brother died when he was young, Washington became personally and professionally attached to the powerful William Fairfax, who promoted his career as a surveyor and soldier.

As the leader of the first successful revolution against a colonial empire in world history, Washington became an international icon for liberation and nationalism, especially in France and Latin America.

According to the Julian calendar and Annunciation Style of enumerating years, then in use in the British Empire, Washington was born on February 11, 1731 ; when the Gregorian calendar was implemented in the British Empire in 1752, in accordance with the provisions of the Calendar ( New Style ) Act 1750, his birth date became February 22, 1732.

Washington also met with Tanacharison ( also called " Half-King ") and other Iroquois leaders allied to Virginia at Logstown to secure their support in case of conflict with the French ; Washington and Tanacharison became friends and allies.

Washington opposed the 1765 Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the colonies, and began taking a leading role in the growing colonial resistance when protests against the Townshend Acts ( enacted in 1767 ) became widespread.

Gary attended the University of Washington ( UW ) hoping to become a mathematics teacher, but became increasingly interested in computer technology.

Knowing the potential ramifications on his presidential aspirations if such knowledge became public, Hoover struck a deal with Robert Russa Moton, the prominent African-American successor to Booker T. Washington as president of the Tuskegee Institute.