As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

`` How -- with what??

He'd told Hank Maguire and Luis Hernandez about his wife's refusal to come with him and about what he now intended to do.

He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.

`` And now '', said Tilghman with deadly calm, `` I'll repeat what I said.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.

Among the policy makers, generals, physicists, psychologists and others charged with controlling the actions of the button pushers and their `` hardware '', the answers to my questions varied partly according to a man's flair for what the professionals in this field call `` scenarios ''.

Travelers entering from the desert were confounded by what must have seemed an illusion: a great garden filled with nightingales and roses, cut by canals and terraced promenades, studded with water tanks of turquoise tile in which were reflected the glistening blue curves of a hundred domes.

We are worried about what people may do with them -- that some crazy fool may `` push the button ''.

When confronted with a drunk or an insane person I have no notion of what any one of them might do to me or to himself or to others.

I believe that what I do has some effect on his actions and I have learned, in a way, to commune with drunks, but certainly my actions seem to resemble more nearly the performance of a rain dance than the carrying out of an experiment in physics.

Today the private detective will also investigate insurance claims or handle divorce cases, but his primary function remains what it has always been, to assist those who have money in their unending struggle with those who have not.

And with Progressivism the Religion of Humanity was replacing what Gabriel called Christian supernaturalism.

For the President had dealt with the matter humbly, in what he conceived as the democratic way.

No consideration of risk urges itself upon him now: for this is what the mind does with the ideas on which it has not properly focussed.

Yet with a mind less shallow, if less sharp, than some of the fortune-happy syndicates which back him, he feels what he cannot formulate ; ;

In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.

Although the conditions were ripe for industrial unrest — Communist influence in the union movement was then at its peak, and the right-wing faction in Cabinet was openly agitating for a showdown with the unions — the combination of strong economic growth and Holt's enlightened approach to industrial relations saw the number of working hours lost to strikes fall dramatically, from over two million in 1949 to just 439, 000 in 1958.

Holt's disappearance at the end of 1967 forced the party to choose a " wild card " successor from the Senate after the leading contender, deputy Liberal leader William McMahon, was unexpectedly eliminated from the contest due to a dispute with their Coalition partners, the Country Party.

In economics, Holt's tenure began with the phasing in of Australia's new system of decimal currency, launched on 14 February 1966, and it was marked by a major realignment of commercial and military ties away from the UK and towards the US and Asia.

Reported in The Australian on 1 July 1966, Holt's speech concluded with a remark which has come to be seen as encapsulating his unquestioning support for Johnson, for America's Vietnam policy and for continued Australian military involvement in the Vietnam War:

There were many rumours surrounding Holt's death, including claims that he had committed suicide or faked his own death in order to run away with his mistress.

With John Gorton becoming Prime Minister after Holt's death, Askin came into conflict with the Commonwealth Government over Gorton's determination to maintain federal command over taxation and in June 1968 declared that he could veto any form of state taxation.

He remained a Senator until, in accordance with the Westminster tradition that the Prime Minister is a member of the lower house of parliament, he resigned on 1 February 1968 in order to contest the House of Representatives by-election for the electorate of Higgins in south Melbourne ( necessitated by Holt's death ).

Dimondale almost merged with the Eaton Rapids School district, however due to Mr. Wood's prior mentor / student relationship with Holt's Superintendent ( Maurice Pernert ), the merge with Holt's school system took place.

The Holt's retain close ties to their hometown, and each summer they hold " The Holt Brothers ' Football Camp " where every Gibsonville child is provided with a day of football and fun.

* Nick Holt's Guys and Dolls television documentary for North One Television ( renamed " Love Me, Love My Doll " for broadcast on BBC America ) follows the lives of four men who live with RealDolls.

Most of the specific incidents in the 1932 film that plaintiffs claim were taken from the book, i. e., Holt's killing of the ape, Tarzan's killing of the lion with a stranglehold, and Holt's asking Jane if she can use a gun, are not in the 1981 film.

On August 14, 2009, it was announced via Blabbermouth. net that Nothingface would be disbanding, with Maxwell citing Holt's lack of work ethic as the main reason for an unfinished album three years in the making, as well as his decision to leave.

The Holt family had long ties to the railroad company, and these were undoubtedly useful in Holt's striking a deal with the bondholders.

After almost rejecting the group due to him not being initially impressed with the looks of Patsy Holt before Holt and the group sang to him during an audition, which prompted Robinson to change his mind, signing the group and changing the name of both the group ( into The Blue Belles, based from a Newtown subsidiary, Blue Belle Records ) and Holt's own name, from Patsy Holt to Patti LaBelle.

Holt's long tenure at Columbia came to an end when he had an argument with studio chief Harry Cohn.

In the runoff primary, Johnson prevailed with 210, 543 ballots ( 51. 9 percent ) to Holt's 195, 442 votes ( 48. 1 percent ).

As Holt's health began to be an issue, the Warren was subdivided in 1884 with the land around the immediate building's grounds being sold off-and the family returning to Britain for the remaining years of his life, where he passed away in 1888.

The estate stables were demolished some time between 1884 and 1886, with the nearby Ferncourt Public School being originally built as a house " Prosna " by Polish born artist, Gracius Joseph Broinowski, from sandstone blocks of the stable, and a cedar staircase and marble mantelpiece purchased from Holt's estate installed in it.

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

' " His biographer Trefousse concludes that, while his courageous stand for the Union paid handsome political dividends, Johnson did not succeed in the White House because of his failure to outgrow his Jeffersonian-Jacksonian background ; put in other words, " Johnson was a child of his time, but he failed to grow with it.

Many of these were part of the corruption indulged in by Scott and the Pennsylvania's president, J. Edgar Thomson, which consisted of inside trading in companies that the railroad did business with, or payoffs made by contracting parties " as part of a quid pro quo ", as biographer David Nasaw writes.

" Maybe with the giving away of his money ," commented biographer Joseph Wall, " he would justify what he had done to get that money.

The biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer believes that Mozart's rivalry with Salieri could have originated with an incident in 1781 when Mozart applied to be the music teacher of Princess Elisabeth of Württemberg, and Salieri was selected instead because of his reputation as a singing teacher.

This biography depicts Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape has an absolute connection to the divine truth, which always is synonymous with that of Athanasius as the biographer.

Written in Greek around 360 by Athanasius of Alexandria, it depicts Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape has an absolute connection to the divine truth, which always is in harmony with that of Athanasius as the biographer.

It was reserved for his biographer Karl Benrath to justify him, and to represent him as a fervent evangelist and at the same time as a speculative thinker with a passion for free inquiry, always learning and unlearning and arguing out difficult questions with himself in his dialogues, frequently without attaining to any absolute conviction.

Chaplin's childhood was fraught with poverty and hardship, prompting biographer David Robinson to describe his eventual trajectory as " the most dramatic of all the rags to riches stories ever told.

However, according to his biographer, Albert Paine, Twain seemed to take issue more with what he saw as Mary Baker Eddy's cult of personality than with the actual ideas of Christian Science saying:

According to biographer Keay Davidson, Sagan's " inner war " was a result of his close relations with both his parents, who were in many ways " opposites ".

In the ensuing conversation with Harty, as described by biographer David Buckley, " the singer made hardly any sense at all throughout what was quite an extensive interview.

By now he had broken his drug addiction ; biographer David Buckley writes that Isolar II was " Bowie's first tour for five years in which he had probably not anaesthetised himself with copious quantities of cocaine before taking the stage.

" As described by biographer Christopher Sandford, " The record dashed such high hopes with dubious choices, and production that spelt the end — for fifteen years — of Bowie's partnership with Eno.

According to Capra biographer Joseph McBride, Capra " obviously felt a strong identification with the story of a Jewish immigrant who grows up in the ghetto of New York ... and feels he has to deny his ethnic origins to rise to success in America.

Although he spoke with apprehension at his award speech about the danger which the authority of the prize would lend to an economist, the prize brought much greater public awareness of Hayek and has been described by his biographer as " the great rejuvenating event in his life ".

This has been confirmed by Hollywood biographer E. J. Fleming, who has recounted that, during a particularly difficult scene, Gable erupted publicly, screaming: " I can't go on with this picture.

Published in late 1939, biographer Philip Heselton noted that the book was " a very competent first work of fiction ", with strong allusions to the build-up which proceeded World War II.

Beginning in 1910, with the publication of " The Oedipus-Complex as An Explanation of Hamlet's Mystery: Study in Motive ," Ernest Jones — a psychoanalyst and Freud's biographer — developed Freud's ideas into a series of essays that culminated in his book Hamlet and Oedipus ( 1949 ).

Major was an active Young Conservative and according to his biographer Anthony Seldon brought " youthful exuberance " to the Tories in Brixton, but was often in trouble with the professional agent Marion Standing.