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Williams and attitude
During one of the last rehearsals before the tour commenced, the group confronted Williams about his attitude and stated they wanted to do the tour without him.
* Vanessa L. Williams as Mrs. Huxley, the Queen of Trash ; she at first, has a cocky attitude, and thinks Elmo is unworthy, but later discovers he is worthy, with help.
In Carry On up the Khyber, Kenneth Williams ' character refers to an over-enthusiastic gongman's attitude as " rank stupidity ".
tensions rose between Williams and the rest of Fortune, in particular his former X Division rival Kazarian, who thought he had a bad attitude.
Hughes and Williams are somewhere in the middle — her work is serious, yet with a lot of hardboiled " attitude ," while his forte is the philosophical smile and shrug.
In 2006, one of the umpires in that match, Murray Bird, alleged this to be true, stating that he had wanted to award votes to Williams, but that his colleague on the day, Peter Russo, had overruled him on the basis of Williams ' negative attitude towards them.
Du Bois, Robert F. Williams, and Fred Shuttlesworth, for his cautious approach, his suspicion of grassroots organizations, and his conciliatory attitude towards white anticommunism.
The following week tensions rose between former rivals and Fortune stable mates Kazarian and Douglas Williams, when Williams claimed he had not been given a chance to spotlight his talent, after joining Fortune, while Kazarian claimed Williams had a bad attitude and dubbed himself, Styles, Roode and Storm the " Core Four " of Fortune.
Heaven, Hell, and the Divine Despot may descend to earth and have offspring in the Hamlet theme which involves a child's " ambivalent attitude " toward its parents and off of which are spun such variants as Oedipus and Orestes ( Bodkin 1934: 11-15, cited in Williams 1973: 221 ), or all may remain at the divine level, as in the situation with Milton's God and Satan, or Aeschylus's Zeus and Prometheus:
His attitude does not differ much, in fact, from that of Williams already referred to, accepting Braham ’ s talents only in the context of supposed distasteful practices of his people.

Williams and led
In 1981, defectors from the moderate wing of the Labour Party, led by former Cabinet ministers Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Shirley Williams, founded the Social Democratic Party.
At the start of 1986, Essendon were considered unbackable for three successive flags, but a succession of injuries to key players Paul Van der Haar ( only fifteen games from 1986 to 1988 ), Tim Watson, Darren Williams, Roger Merrett and Simon Madden led the club to win only eight of its last eighteen games in 1986 and only nine games ( plus a draw with Geelong ) in 1987.
That minor league franchise won the PCL title in 1937, led by then-18-year-old San Diegan Ted Williams.
Cincinnati's defense was also led by defensive backs Louis Breeden and Ken Riley, and Linebackers Bo Harris, Jim LeClair, and Reggie Williams, who intercepted four passes and recovered three fumbles.
The Redskins, who were making their fourth Super Bowl after posting an 11-4 regular season record, were led by quarterback Doug Williams.
The secondary was led by Pro Bowl defensive back Carnell Lake and Willie Williams, who led the team with 7 interceptions and 122 return yards.
St. Louis also had an outstanding secondary, led by Dre ' Bly ( 6 interceptions, 150 return yards, and 2 touchdowns ), Pro Bowler Aeneas Williams ( 4 interceptions, 69 return yards, 2 touchdowns ), and Dexter McCleon ( 4 interceptions, 66 yards ).
However, the outbreak of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War led to the recovery of oil prices and Williams remained in office.
With the maturation of quarterback Doug Williams and future 4-time Pro Bowl tight end Jimmie Giles, the first 1000-yard rushing season from running back Ricky Bell, and a smothering, league-leading defense led by future NFL Hall of Famer Lee Roy Selmon, the Bucs kicked off the season with five consecutive victories, a stunning performance that landed them on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Williams was a two-time American League Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) winner, led the league in batting six times, and won the Triple Crown twice.
In the winter, the Red Sox traded right fielder Ben Chapman to the Cleveland Indians to make room for Williams on the roster, with Williams inheriting Chapman's number 9 on his uniform opposed to Williams ' number 5 in the previous spring training, even though Chapman had hit. 340 in the previous season, which led Boston Globe sports journalist Gerry Moore to quip, " Not since Joe DiMaggio broke in with the Yankees by " five for five " in St. Petersberg in 1936 has any baseball rookie received the nationwide publicity that has been accorded this spring to Theodore Francis Williams ".
Williams led the league with 135 runs scored and 37 home runs, and he finished third with 335 total bases, the most home runs, runs scored, and total bases by a Red Sox player since Jimmie Foxx's in 1938 .< ref ><< http :// www. baseball-reference. com / teams / BOS / leaders_bat_50. shtml >></ ref > Williams placed second in MVP voting, with Joe DiMaggio winning with 291 votes to 254 votes on the strength of his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak and large number of RBIs.
In, Williams batted. 388 to lead the Major Leagues, and remarkably at the age of 40 in 1958, he led the American League with a. 328 batting average.
Despite the cheers and adulation of most of his fans, the occasional boos directed at him in Fenway Park led Williams to stop tipping his cap in acknowledgement after a home run.
This assertion actually led to a split in the relationship between Ty Cobb and Ted Williams.
Williams ' best season as a manager was 1969 when he led the expansion Senators to an 86 – 76 record in the team's only winning season in Washington.
Social Club – this led to Williams ' lifelong affinity for the team.
In 1840, at Monmouth's Shire Hall, Chartist protesters John Frost, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones became the last men in Britain to be sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered after being found guilty of treason following riots in Newport that led to 20 deaths.
The 18th century also saw the Welsh Methodist revival, led by Daniel Rowland, Howell Harris and William Williams Pantycelyn.

Williams and writer
* Jules Williams, writer, Director, Producer author of The Weigh Forward
* Raymond Williams ( 1921 – 1988 ) academic, critic and writer was born and brought up locally.
CBS cancelled the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition, " Classical Gas ", on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer.
One writer ( whom Williams thought was Mel Webb, who Williams called a " grouchy old guy ", although the identity of the writer remains unknown ) completely left Williams off his ballot, who would have tied DiMaggio or won if one writer who had voted Williams as second had voted him first.
After having hit for the league's Triple Crown in 1947, Williams narrowly lost the MVP award in a vote where one midwestern newspaper writer left Williams entirely off his ten-player ballot.
A Red Smith profile from 1956 describes one Boston writer trying to convince Ted Williams that first cheering and then booing a ballplayer was no different from a moviegoer applauding a " western " movie actor one day and saying the next " He stinks!
* March 4 – William Carlos Williams, American writer, stroke ( b. 1883 )
Thomas Lanier " Tennessee " Williams III ( March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983 ) was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater.
Most likely the truth is that to the end of his life Williams was as vibrant, creative and experimental a writer as ever, yet he succumbed to the slow torture of his critics.
The board is composed of economics consultant Arthur Laffer, economics writer Stephen Moore, public law policy expert Victor Schwartz, economics professor Richard Vedder, and public policy activist Bob Williams.
Williams " worked harder at being a writer than he did at being a physician " but excelled at both.
Maximian's swift appointment by Diocletian as Caesar is taken by the writer Stephen Williams and historian Timothy Barnes to mean that the two men were longterm allies, that their respective roles were pre-agreed and that Maximian had probably supported Diocletian during his campaign against Carinus ( r. 283 – 285 ) but there is no direct evidence for this.

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