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" It was for this reason that the creators of Star Trek decided to create a backstory for the Maquis in several episodes of Deep Space Nine and The Next Generation, and they named them after the French guerrilla fighters of the Second World War.
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The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.
He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.
It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.
It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.
He was naked except for a clout.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.
But it was not easy for him and he often slipped.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??
At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.
That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.
It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.
I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.
Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.
He was readying a batch of sourdough biscuits for the Dutch oven.
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The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.
`` The reason for that report was to settle the matter of the list.
`` How about your press conference three days later -- what was the reason for that??
He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.
If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.
The great spectacle was a source of rancor, and Son et Lumiere, which the French were trying to promote with the Athenians, was the reason.
The position of the new camp was admirably selected and well fortified, its easily defensible nature being one good reason why Howe did not attack it.
But Edward was invading Scotland for precisely the same reason, and his insubordinate vassal was the ally of the king of France.
While he was at it, the philosopher of the Kremlin contributed an additional assist to the rule of reason by bellowing at those in the west who can't appreciate coexistence thru suicide.
Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American plane by a demented Algerian with a gun.
There was good reason for Gen. Taylor to make an inspection trip at this time.
The three would never meet again, but for some reason or other Mr. Podger was sure he would always remember the incident.
The reason was to speed up domestic production in the USSR, which Khrushchev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end the permanent recession in Russian living standards.
Just because Cheddi Jagan, new boss of British Guiana, was educated in the United States is no reason to think he isn't a Red.
With good reason it appeared that a new day was upon divided Christendom.
In fact, he intimated clearly that that was the reason that Wilson had been sent here -- to make a larger contribution of dollar money.
He explained his errand, but without bothering much to make it plausible, for he felt something well up in him which was the reason why he had fled the army.
One reason the portwatchers let Sposato take them over was to get the protection of his musclemen.
He was not going to lose the mission by default, and whatever reason Kayabashi had for bringing his little sight-seeing group to the mission, he was going to be in for a surprise.
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The show's creators originally wanted Phil Silvers in the lead role of Pseudolus, but he turned them down, allegedly because he would have to perform onstage without his glasses, and his vision was so poor that he feared tripping into the orchestra pit.
* In the film Tron, a programmer was physically transferred to the program world, where programs were personalities, resembling the forms of their creators.
This new sauce was an instant success, and was gratefully named in honor of its creators.
A disclaimer before the 1996 film Fargo makes the claim that it is based on a true story, but this was repudiated by its creators, the Coen brothers, saying that people would more readily believe something outlandish if told that it actually happened, per the " truth is stranger than fiction " idiom.
The language was initially called Oak after an oak tree that stood outside Gosling's office ; it went by the name Green later, and was later renamed Java, from Java coffee, said to be consumed in large quantities by the language's creators.
Jack Kirby ( August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994 ), born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium.
The acronym was coined by Kelly Johnson, lead engineer at the Lockheed Skunk Works ( creators of the Lockheed U-2 and SR-71 Blackbird spy planes, among many others ).
Modeled on the successful collaborative approach and the compression technologies developed by the Joint Photographic Experts Group and CCITT's Experts Group on Telephony ( creators of the JPEG image compression standard and the H. 261 standard for video conferencing respectively ), the Moving Picture Experts Group ( MPEG ) working group was established in January 1988.
* In 2000, Macrovision acquired Globetrotter, creators of the FLEXlm, which was subsequently renamed Flexnet.
Historian Werner Maser stated that " the claim that the Soviet Union was at the time threatened by Hitler, as Stalin supposed ,... is a legend, to whose creators Stalin himself belonged.
The film was marketed with the tagline: " From the creators of Bad Taste, comes a film with no taste at all!
Two years after the web site was launched, the creators sold a majority share to a consortium of investors led by Doug Dohring.
The same month, Doug Dohring was introduced to the creators of the site and, along with other investors, bought a majority share in January of the following year.
This was not necessarily evidence of electoral fraud ( being no worse than modern voting instruction cards ), but their being dumped in the well may suggest that their creators wished to hide them.
Romano Scarpa ( September 27, 1927, Venice – April 23, 2005, Málaga ) was one of the most famous Italian creators of Disney comics.
He has influenced many younger creators ( Giorgio Cavazzano was his inker during the Sixties ) and many have attempted to imitate his style.
The concept of the Maquis was intentionally introduced by the creators of Deep Space Nine so that it could play a plot device in the upcoming Voyager, which was scheduled to begin airing in 1995.
The book was initially published by Pacific Comics, briefly by Eclipse Comics, then Marvel Comics under their since-discontinued Epic Comics imprint ( which allowed creators to retain copyrights ), then Image Comics, and currently Dark Horse Comics.
The series creators have said that the Clangers, living in vacuum, did not actually communicate by sound, but rather by a type of nuclear magnetic resonance, which was translated to audible whistles for the human audience.
Further, it appears that " the creators DeCSS have taken Fawcus ' code almost verbatim-the only alteration was the removal of Fawcus ' copyright header and a paragraph containing commentaries, and a change of the function names.
Interleaf's " Active Documents " functionality, integrated into its text and graphics editing products in the early 1990s, was the first to give document creators programmatic access ( via LISP ) to virtually all of the document's elements, structures, and software capabilities.
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