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Williams and best
-- The best 2-year-old pacing mile up to date at Ben White Raceway has been that of Mary Liner ( Mainliner-Highland Ellen ), a member of the Dick Williams stable, who was clocked 2:25.
Guitarist Christopher Parkening is quoted in the book Classical Gas: The Music of Mason Williams as saying that it is the most requested guitar piece besides Malagueña and perhaps the best known instrumental guitar piece today.
His later author discoveries included Tanith Lee, Jennifer Roberson, Michael Shea, Ian Wallace, Tad Williams, Celia S. Friedman, and C. J. Cherryh, whose Downbelow Station ( 1982 ) was the first DAW book to win the Hugo Award for best novel.
In a 2005 interview, one of slam's best known poets Saul Williams praised the youth poetry slam movement, explaining:
The two-handed grip gained popularity in the 1970s as Björn Borg, Chris Evert, Jimmy Connors, and later Mats Wilander and Marat Safin used it to great effect, and it is now used by a large number of the world's best players, including Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams.
Williams ' baseball season of 1941 is often considered to be the best offensive season of all time.
" As a further indication, of the ten best seasons for OPS, short for On-Base Plus Slugging Percentage, a popular modern measure of offensive productivity, four each were achieved by Ruth and Bonds, and two by Williams.
Martin Williams said: " Duke Ellington lived long enough to hear himself named among our best composers.
The best known film based upon the Nights is Disney's Aladdin, an animated musical adventure featuring Robin Williams as the voice of the Genie.
Williams adapted much of his best known work for the cinema.
Williams received virtually all of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama, including several New York Drama Critics ' Circle awards, a Tony Award for best play for The Rose Tattoo ( 1951 ) and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1948 ) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1955 ).
While the university's School of Journalism was regarded one of the world's best, Williams found his classes boring and was distracted by his unrequited love for a girl.
The Poetry Society of America continues to honor William Carlos Williams by presenting an annual award in his name for the best book of poetry published by a small, non-profit or university press.
The McLaren MP4 / 13 was the first car designed by Adrian Newey, aerodynamicist who had the merit of having designed the best car when he was with the Williams team.
The best known today is the Williams tube developed in England, but there were a number of others that had been developed independently by various research labs.
* Claire Miller ( Davida Williams ): is Kate's new best friend.
Phillips and Williams later noted that compounds of silicon, germanium, arsenic and antimony with the poor metals, ' are probably best classed as alloys '.
* Eli Williams ( Alex Désert ) is Jonathan Turner's best friend who becomes the media teacher at John Adams High.
The system, constantly named one of the best public schools in the State of Georgia, is served by Superintendent Dr. H. Phillip Williams.
Pharo, the English alternate spelling of Pharaoh, was easy to learn, quick and, when played honestly, the odds for a player were the best of all gambling games, as records Gilly Williams in a letter to George Selwyn in 1752.
Their adopted son, James MacArthur, was also an actor, best known for playing " Danny Williams " on the American television series Hawaii Five-O.
Sir Ifor Williams offered a date prior to 1100, based on linguistic and historical arguments, while later Saunders Lewis set forth a number of arguments for a date between 1170 and 1190 ; Thomas Charles-Edwards, in a paper published in 1970, discussed the strengths and weaknesses of both viewpoints, and while critical of the arguments of both scholars, noted that the language of the stories best fits the 11th century, although much more work is needed.
Ted Williams claimed Chylak to be " the best ever at his craft.
Williams buried his wife and child as best he could.

Williams and season
For the 1960-1961 season, The Carleton Players have announced Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca, The Knight Of The Burning Pestle by Beaumont and Fletcher and A Moon For The Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill, with a pre-season production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.
However, injuries mounted during the season with the team losing several starters for the year, such as Kyle Kosier, Felix Jones, safety Roy Williams and punter Mat McBriar, and several other starters playing with injuries.
In week five, with starting wide receiver Roy Williams sidelined by injury, receiver Miles Austin got his first start of the season and had a record setting day ( 250 yards receiving and 2 TDs ) to help lead Dallas to an overtime win over Kansas City.
Since then, only Ted Williams ( 1960, 29 ), Dave Kingman ( 1986 ; 35 ), Mark McGwire ( 2001 ; 29 ), and Barry Bonds ( 2007 ; 28 ) have hit as many or more homers in their final season.
The Jaguars lost starting guards Vince Manuwai and Maurice Williams for the season within the first quarter of the opening game.
The play-by-play announcer is former BBC Radio commentator Callum Williams who began broadcasting with the 2011 season.
During the 1999 NFL Draft, Ditka traded all of his picks for that season, as well as the first-round and third-round picks for the following season, to the Washington Redskins in order to draft University of Texas Heisman Trophy running back Ricky Williams in the first round.
On March 21, 2012, Commissioner Goodell announced that, as a result of the bounty scandal and the NFL's investigation, Sean Payton has been suspended for one year, Gregg Williams indefinitely, and Mickey Loomis for the first eight regular season games.
Goodell will meet with Williams again after the 2012 season to determine the coach's status.
Matt Williams was very good ( 38 HR, 110 RBI,. 294 BA ), with Robby Thompson and Will Clark ( in his last season with the Giants ) providing offensive support.
The strike denied Matt Williams a chance to beat Roger Maris's single season home run recordhe had 43 HR in 115 team games, and was thus on pace for 60 when the strike hit with 47 games left to play ( Bonds had 37, on pace for 52 ).
The Padres would finish dead last in the strike-shortened 1994 season, but Gwynn hit. 394 that year ( the most since Ted Williams hit over. 400 in 1941 ).
Their replacements, Elijah Pitts and Jim Grabowski, were both injured early in the season, forcing Green Bay coach Vince Lombardi to use veteran reserve running back Donny Anderson and rookie Travis Williams.
The Redskins, who were making their fourth Super Bowl after posting an 11-4 regular season record, were led by quarterback Doug Williams.
After Williams entered the season as a backup, he was promoted to starter midway through the season.
Williams played just one game in 1986, and spent most of the 1987 season on the bench.
Williams had played extremely well in his five regular season games, passing for 1, 156 yards, 11 touchdowns and five interceptions.
Elway had won the NFL Most Valuable Player Award and was selected to start for the AFC in the Pro Bowl, while Williams had played just five regular season games in the 1987 season.
Meanwhile, the Bills first defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, 37 14, avenging a 33 6 Monday night loss during the regular season in which the Chiefs gained over 247 rushing yards, with running backs Harvey Williams and Christian Okoye recording over 100 rushing yards each.
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 kept them in contention for most of the season ; their 86 76 record would be its only winning season in Washington.

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