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Sentence Examples It was the fifth in a series of retrospectives of local artists funded by local philanthropist Harold Wood. Today's poem is a verse from Byron's Childe Harold, speaking of pathless places. A brooch to mark 15 or more years of service went to Mrs Hutchinson, with a tie tack for Lt Col Harold Washington. The apothecary, Harold, was robbed of some herbs and balms, as I am sure you know. The first was a fine gold Tissot, bequeathed to me by my Uncle Harold, along with a venerable pair of tan brogues. Harold Taylor, an anti-fox hunting campaigner, is also hopeful the bill will be passed. The combined forces of Harold and Tostig drove Gruffydd back into Wales, and in 1063 caused his downfall and death. Harold Thomson's handkerchief showed the bullet hole and powder burns from the highwayman's gunshot. Harold Ings, 86, a bombardier with the Royal Artillery was one of the soldiers whose unit was surrounded by Germans in occupied France. He established his own studio in his garden at Isleworth, London, with Harold Bastick as his cameraman. Harold Bloom, the Yale professor and literary critic, has been on a helluva roll. From Auckland, Vivian had been an orchestral conductor while Harold played clarinet. Harold said he couldn't get down comfortably to play shots because he cricked his neck a few days ago. It tells of a meeting with Harold Larwood long after the infamous bodyline series. Residents in Harold are being encouraged to ease congestion in the borough, save money, cut pollution and make travelling easier by car sharing. Harold had won fame and wealth as a Viking, and had been an important personage at the Byzantine Court. Increased safety measures by Royal Mail will soon mean cycling posties in Harold will be wearing crash helmets. Harold loved to boast about the achievements of his family members from his great grandchildren, of which he had ten, to his own children. Childe Harold appeared under his imprint, as did most of Byron's other work. King Harold is dead, fallen in a day of savage fighting against Duke William of Normandy. Show More Sentences We had a friend at court, one that secured for me two meetings with Harold Wilson. In a similar vein, Harold Lewis notes the importance of covenant in framing our lives sacramentally and relationally. Wildlife photographer Harold Hems records an unusually sited nest under a waterfall in a position usually associated with dippers. Our minds get tricks and attitudes as our bodies do, thought Harold, and age stiffens them into unalterableness. Is the movie Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle good product placement or a 90-minute ad? For his letter leaves the impression that the author of Childe Harold had no daughter by his half-sister, Augusta. He would phone dear Harold in the middle of the night to make sure the rushes had arrived. The veterans in the group marched behind the standard of the Wiltshire Regiment that was carried by Harold Dunn. A few of us passed Harold, patted him on the back and stammered ill-fitting words of sympathy. The author biog at Amazon.com reveals that Danielewski is a pupil of Harold Bloom, and I can believe it. Therefore, Harold could plan to use his fire power on a certain strip of land knowing that the Normans would have to use this. Even if, like Harold Wilson in 1974-76, he had already decided to step down, he would be ill-advised to announce this before the eleventh hour. And Leeds North West Labour MP Harold Best also believes there is a case for toughening the rules. But as Harold says, to all intents and purposes, they are very accepting of Camilla. The resurgence of the Anglo-Saxons under Harold at Hastings hides from view an earlier period of Viking domination of England. A golden wyvern was featured on the flag of King Harold of Wessex and is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry. After defeating Harold at the Battle of Hastings, William gained control over England by the use of the Feudal System. It was the 1930 series against a weakish MCC team captained by Harold Gilligan. When I had left the sight range of Harold I opened the map and began to study it. You half expect to see Harold Lloyd or Ben Turpin run across the frame chasing their wind blown hat. Show More Sentences Nearly helpless, Harold was forced to swear an oath of fealty to William and to swear further that he would advocate William's cause in England. He performed at Harold Washington's mayoral inauguration in 1987, at Washington's funeral, and at Chicago's sesquicentennial. The last act of the witenagemot in England was to choose Harold, Earl of Wessex, as King in 1066, a fatal choice. The witenagemot chose Harold, earl of Wessex, although his only claim to the throne was his availability. Naturally Lou doesn't want to spend the extra cash on staff, but this time Harold is being the top and putting his foot down about it. Whenever Harold falters, Albert produces one of his pained, sorrowful looks and laments about being a burden to him. By September, Harold decided that the threat had been reduced and he allowed his part-time troops to disperse. When William defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, it changed the future of English forever. Harold succeeded to his father's titles in 1053, becoming the most powerful man in England. Harold was crowned King of England in succession to Edward the Confessor. The English under King Harold make a brave stand, but their pointed sticks and voodoo rattles are as nothing against the Normans' tanks, airplanes, and modern artillery. Got to find that man, Harold vowed, and he did, locating an unassuming barber in South Brooklyn. Otherwise, laugh along as Harold improvises an elephant trunk, chews on leaves, swelters in a hot desert sun, deals with mischievous thieving monkeys, and more. He's got his head down over his glass, and I say, 'Mr. bogart, my name is Harold Conrad. The private sokes of Stigand and Harold, however, gradually disappeared when cathedral, castle and Mancroft were raised on the sites of the sokes. Station improvements are being considered for Shenfield while Gidea Park, Harold Wood and Brentwood are in line for platform extensions and station revamps. Harold Evans, author of two histories of America, just published his memoir, My paper chase. Part of Harold Evans' autobiography, My paper chase, just out in paperback, describes his travels in America. Harold smoothed her ash-blonde curls and kissed her forehead. Never shy, Harold told the mobsters they had it wrong if they thought they could get tough with Winchell. Show More Sentences The Rapture did not come to pass on May 21, but soothsayer Harold Camping has rescheduled it for this Friday. In 1055, Earl Siward of Northumbria died whilst his son, Waltheof, was too young to succeed him, and Harold manoeuvred his brother Tostig into the earldom. Despite his reputation as a showman and author of bons mots, Harold Macmillan felt physically ill before each bout. Harold entertained everyone with impressions of his namesake, Evans. The first concert for the year, on March 26, features virtuoso pianist Harold Brown, who has travelled the world performing solo recitals and playing with symphony orchestras. But thanks to funnyman Harold Ramis and Delta Tau Chi he launched an era of laughter. Either the flush would come giving Harold the win, doubling his stack, and solidly ensconcing him in second place, or else he would be out of the tournament. The Griswold family makes the trip to a theme park in this Harold Ramis classic. The troupe stages the critically acclaimed Being Harold Pinter, a play about helpless characters with a KGB-esque twist. Both Harold and Vita viewed the rise of socialism with horror and dismay. Lou and Harold are trying to work out the colour scheme for their pub. A five-thousand-dollar check to the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, of which Winchell was the chairman, would help, Harold suggested. Likely, Harold would have accepted the short shrift with his usual cynic's grace. Raphael, for example, is very fond of Harold Nicolson, while Epstein seems to prefer Isaac Bashevis Singer to Flaubert. Once, when he was doing the second Ali-Spinks fight in New Orleans, Harold and mara had an all-time argument. Harold is his own person, and he's going to do a terrific job tonight. Yeah, like Kathmandu and Monte Carlo, Maine and Monrovia, Harold had been to Vegas before. The contraceptive pill had been made available for the first time a year earlier, Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister and Sean Connery played James Bond for the first time. We made some extra stops, and sped past the small huddle of yellow-coated policemen on the track half way between Brentwood and Harold Wood looking at body parts on the track. Lincoln expert Harold Holzer talks about the relationship between politicians and the press then and now. Show More Sentences When Sidney steps out of the room to take one of many cell phone calls, Harold works up the nerve to go over to the actress and introduce himself. Harold and mara remarried after nearly 30 years of living in sin, smoked a last joint together, and that was it. The original production, directed as an exercise in splendiferous irony by Harold Prince and Michael Bennett, was by my lights the finest musical of its decade. Lunchtime came and went, with Harold bringing a tray of simple sandwiches along the explanation that Mr. Lake had to step out for a meeting and sent his apologies. There was the time Harold helped the boys, fixing that dicey scene with Walter Winchell. Harold Ramis made a passel of great comedies, but he never made one better than groundhog Day. A hand puppet called Harold is used to get across the message to the youngest children while older pupils learn about healthy lifestyles and the implications of drug abuse. When acton died in 1953, no will was found and his estate was inherited by Harold. Eventually he was defeated by Harold Godwinson in 1063 and later killed by his own men in a deal to secure peace with England. In late 1062 Harold Godwinson obtained the king's approval for a surprise attack on Gruffydd's court at Rhuddlan. Following Gruffydd's death, Harold married his widow Ealdgyth, though she was to be widowed again three years later. Bleddyn ap Cynfyn and his brother Rhiwallon came to an agreement with Harold and were given the rule of Gwynedd and Powys. William founded a monastery at the site of the battle, the high altar of the abbey church supposedly placed at the spot where Harold died. Duke William claimed that he had been promised the throne by King Edward and that Harold had sworn agreement to this. The bulk of his forces were militia who needed to harvest their crops, so on 8 September Harold dismissed the militia and the fleet. Some of the early contemporary French accounts mention an emissary or emissaries sent by Harold to William, which is likely. It is not known whether the English pursuit was ordered by Harold or if it was spontaneous. Wace relates that Harold ordered his men to stay in their formations but no other account gives this detail. Harold appears to have died late in the battle, although accounts in the various sources are contradictory. The Carmen states that Duke William killed Harold, but this is unlikely, as such a feat would have been recorded elsewhere. Show More Sentences The Chronicle of Battle Abbey states that no one knew who killed Harold, as it happened in the press of battle. Another biographer of Harold, Peter Rex, after discussing the various accounts, concludes that it is not possible to declare how Harold died. The fact that Harold had dismissed his forces in southern England on 8 September also contributed to the defeat. William was the more experienced military leader, and in addition the lack of cavalry on the English side allowed Harold fewer tactical options. Some writers have criticised Harold for not exploiting the opportunity offered by the rumoured death of William early in the battle. New plans were brought forward by Harold Wilson's government in 1975 and 1976 which confined devolution to Scotland and Wales. In 1983, Harold Washington became the first black mayor of the city of Chicago. Beeching's secondment from ICI ended early in June 1965 after Harold Wilson's attempt to get him to produce a transport plan failed. While playing for Deans, Giggs was observed regularly by local newsagent and Old Trafford steward Harold Wood. Following the election of the Labour Party's Harold Wilson as Prime Minister in 1974, Jones became a tax exile. After playing Oscar Wilde's lover John Gray in 1997's Wilde he took his first role as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the blockbuster film Titanic. Harold Harefoot became king of England after Cnut's death and Viking rule of England ceased. Distinguished scientists, such as Harold Jeffreys and Charles Schuchert, were outspoken critics of continental drift. His paper was published as a criticism of the Labour government of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan. When Edward the Confessor died in January 1066, Harold Godwinson was selected as king, possibly because Edgar was considered too young. The site was first excavated in 1926, near Folsom, New Mexico, under the direction of Harold Cook and Jesse Figgins. In 1975, a new terminal was opened by the then incumbent Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Tostig had been a major commander in these wars attacking in the north while his brother Harold Godwinson marched up from the south. There, they were met by Earl Harold, who had been sent by King Edward to negotiate with them and thus did not bring his forces. Harold Godwinson persuaded King Edward the Confessor to agree to the demands of the rebels. Show More Sentences At a meeting of the king and his council, Tostig publicly accused Harold of fomenting the rebellion. It was likely that Harold had exiled his brother to ensure peace and loyalty in the north. He raided the coast as far as Sandwich but was forced to retreat when King Harold called out land and naval forces. The birthdates of the children are unknown, but Harold was the second son, Sweyn being the eldest. Edith married Edward on 23 January 1045 and, around that time, Harold became Earl of East Anglia. It is possible that Harold led some of the ships from his earldom that were sent to Sandwich in 1045 against Magnus. Harold probably entered the relationship in part to secure support in his new earldom. When in 1051 Earl Godwin was sent into exile, Harold accompanied his father and helped him to regain his position a year later. Duke William arrived soon afterward and ordered Guy to turn Harold over to him. Harold then apparently accompanied William to battle against William's enemy, Conan II, Duke of Brittany. After Edward's death, the Normans were quick to point out that in accepting the crown of England, Harold had broken this alleged oath. On 8 September, with provisions running out, Harold disbanded his army and returned to London. Harold led his army north on a forced march from London, reached Yorkshire in four days, and caught Hardrada by surprise. On 25 September, in the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Harold defeated Hardrada and Tostig, who were both killed. Tostig asked what his brother Harold would be willing to give Hardrada for his trouble. The notion that Harold died by an arrow to the eye is a popular belief today, but this historical legend is subject to much scholarly debate. When King Edward the Confessor died in 1066, the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada challenged his successor as King of England, Harold Godwinson. Hardrada was killed, and his Norwegian army defeated, by Harold Godwinson on 25 September 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Sprague de Camp's Harold Shea met with Thor, as with other Norse gods, in the very first of Shea's many fantasy adventures. Letters to friends in England such as Harold Laski and Frederick Pollock contain frank discussion of his decisions and his fellow justices. Show More Sentences Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton received the Earldom often awarded to former Prime Ministers after they retired from the House of Commons. On 13 September 1922 Sir Donald Maclean told Harold Laski that Asquith was devoted to bridge and small talk and did not do enough real work. Playwright Harold Pinter and former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad accused Blair of war crimes. He married Charlotte Atwood, 12 years his senior and a cousin of Harold Davidson, the famous rector of Stiffkey. She and her chaperone, Miss Wiggin, visit the publishing house of Harold and Fruing Warne, who decide to publish her book. At the end of 1924 Walpole met Harold Cheevers, who soon became his friend and companion and remained so for the rest of Walpole's life. John died in 1920, and his son Harold not only continued the business but took it to the present size and range of confectionery it has today. Xenopsychiatry. Yvette Heloise Renaud. Xenopsychology. Harold Nelson Bennett. Xenosociology. They bought La Pietra, where she bore a son, Harold, the following year. A gray, a unit named for the pioneering British radiobiologist Louis Harold Gray, is the amount of energy absorbed per mass unit of tissue. He picks up a railroad tie and throws it at Harold who easily catches it and throws it back at Fargo. Founding NCFF Executive Board members include Sandra Champion, Harold Evensky, Tom Grzymala, Don Rembert and Knut Rostad. But I learned quickly, thanks to industry icons like Roger Bissonnette, Norm Sima and Harold Kosova, among others. Murdoch began to make his mark on the paper by appointing Harold Evans as his replacement. His brother Tostig and Harold Hardrada, King of Norway, attempted a takeover in the north, having won the Battle of Fulford. Harold Godwinson had agreed to support William's claim after being imprisoned in Normandy, by Guy of Ponthieu. However, Harold Godwinson was forced immediately to march his army back down to the South where William the Conqueror was landing. The site was surveyed and excavated intermittently between 1908 and 1922 by a team of workmen under the direction of Harold St George Gray. Finally, on the death of Edward the Confessor in 1066, Harold became king, reuniting the earldom of Wessex with the crown. Godwine and his second son Harold kept the peace off the Sussex coast by using Bosham and Pevensey to drive away pirates. Show More Sentences In 1064 Harold sailed from Bosham, from where a storm cast him up in Normandy. Edward died in January 1066 without an obvious successor, and an English nobleman, Harold Godwinson, took the throne. First, Harald Hardrada of Norway took York in September, but was defeated by Harold at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, in Yorkshire. Alfred was captured by Godwin, Earl of Wessex who turned him over to Harold Harefoot. In 1037 Harold was accepted as king, and the following year he expelled Emma, who retreated to Bruges. Soon afterwards, her brother Harold and her Danish cousin Beorn Estrithson, were also given earldoms in southern England. Godwin himself died in 1053 and although Harold succeeded to his earldom of Wessex, none of his other brothers were earls at this date. They defeated Earl Ralph at Hereford, and Harold had to collect forces from nearly all of England to drive the invaders back into Wales. He escaped, but when Harold and Tostig attacked again the following year, he retreated and was killed by Welsh enemies. Edward and Harold were then able to impose vassalage on some Welsh princes. They met Harold at Northampton, and Tostig accused Harold before the king of conspiring with the rebels. On 6 January he was buried in Westminster Abbey, and Harold was crowned on the same day. The Normans claimed that Edward sent Harold to Normandy in about 1064 to confirm the promise of the succession to William. Harold marched south to confront him, leaving a significant portion of his army in the north. Edward's immediate successor was the Earl of Wessex, Harold Godwinson, the richest and most powerful of the English aristocrats. The two earls had rushed to engage the Norwegian forces before King Harold could arrive from the south. It is unclear when Harold learned of William's landing, but it was probably while he was travelling south. Although Harold attempted to surprise the Normans, William's scouts reported the English arrival to the duke. About 18 other named individuals can reasonably be assumed to have fought with Harold at Hastings, including two of his other relatives. Waltham Abbey, which had been founded by Harold, later claimed that his body had been buried there secretly. Show More Sentences Later legends claimed that Harold did not die at Hastings, but escaped and became a hermit at Chester. Members of King Harold Godwinson's family sought refuge in Ireland and used their bases in that country for unsuccessful invasions of England. William argued that Edward had previously promised the throne to him, and that Harold had sworn to support William's claim. Alfred returned to England in 1036 to visit his mother and perhaps to challenge Harold as king. One story implicates Earl Godwin of Wessex in Alfred's subsequent death, but others blame Harold. It may have been Norman propaganda designed to discredit Harold, who had emerged as the main contender to succeed King Edward. Later English sources stated that Harold had been elected as king by the clergy and magnates of England. The last claimant was William of Normandy, against whose anticipated invasion King Harold Godwinson made most of his preparations. But the families of Harold and his brothers did lose their lands, as did some others who had fought against William at Hastings. It fell to the Queen to appoint Harold Macmillan as the new prime minister, after taking the advice of ministers. Others like Harold Macmillan were dismayed by the damage Churchill's support for the King had done to the Arms and the Covenant Movement. Labour was also in government from 1964 to 1970 under Harold Wilson and from 1974 to 1979, first under Wilson and then James Callaghan. In 1963, Gaitskell's sudden death from a heart attack made way for Harold Wilson to lead the party. After losing the 1970 general election, Labour returned to opposition, but retained Harold Wilson as Leader. When Harold Wilson requested a dissolution late in 1974, the Queen granted his request as Heath had already failed to form a coalition. Years ago Damon Runyon wrote a column about how Harold never wore a hat. For that purpose Harold had of course to trust to the landfyrd, the militia of the shires. There is also a King David Kindergarten, featured in the community centre of Harold House. He was awarded his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 and began to undertake research in number theory supervised by Harold Davenport. Harold Wilson appointed Frank Cousins and Patrick Gordon Walker to the 1964 cabinet despite their not being MPs at the time. Show More Sentences Reiman and Harold Bloom, the modern idea of Shelley could not be more different. Cole was a powerful influence on the life of the young Harold Wilson, whom he taught, worked with and convinced to join the Labour Party. American literary critic Harold Bloom placed Dickens among the greatest Western Writers of all time. In 1994, literary critic Harold Bloom placed Eliot among the most important Western writers of all time. The production was directed by Harold Prince, who had also earlier directed Evita. The designated leaders so far include superstars like Harold Varmus, a Nobel laureate, and Eric Lander, genome meister. The following year he appeared in adaptations of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Harold Pinter's The Collection. From the late 1960s he found new plays that suited him, by authors including Alan Bennett, David Storey and Harold Pinter. The career of Harold Lloyd, one of the top screen comedians of the 1920s, declined precipitously. On 5 December 1976, with principal photography finished, the 007 Stage was formally opened by the former Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Harold Wagstaff made his debut for England in 1908 against the touring Kangaroos team at 17 years and 228 days. The second Lions tour down under in 1914, led by Harold Wagstaff, became the stuff of legend. Two members of the team, centre Harold Wagstaff and wing Albert Rosenfeld were honoured by inclusion in the original Rugby League Hall of Fame. Ray appealed to the referee, Harold Hilton, but before they could do anything Compston had removed the ball and given Ray a good lie. The Enterprise's skipper Harold Vanderbilt won the selection trials with great difficulty. The Labour Party under Harold Wilson won the October 1974 election by a tiny majority of only three seats. Harold marched his army back down to the south coast, where he met William's army, at a place now called Battle just outside Hastings. During this time, Harold Godwinson led a campaign of raids which dented the authority in Wales. Instead a minority Labour government was formed under Harold Wilson but with no formal support from Thorpe. General Auchinleck, although he had checked Rommel's advance at the First Battle of El Alamein, was replaced by General Harold Alexander. Show More Sentences Labour was to remain out of office for the next thirteen years, until 1964, when Harold Wilson became Prime Minister. On 25 September 1956 the Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan met informally with Eisenhower at the White House. Important modern playwrights include Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Alan Ayckbourn, John Osborne, Michael Frayn and Arnold Wesker. From the 1960s onward, life peerages were preferred, although in 1984 Harold Macmillan was created Earl of Stockton. The Vietnam War, given lukewarm support by Harold Wilson, radicalised a new generation. For example, Harold Wilson's government would not commit troops to Vietnam. Eisenhower's opposition to UK operations in Suez under Anthony Eden and Harold Wilson's refusal to enter the war in Vietnam. Deuterium was discovered in December 1931 by Harold Urey, and tritium was prepared in 1934 by Ernest Rutherford, Mark Oliphant, and Paul Harteck. The GMC was most heavily criticised by Dame Janet Smith as part of her inquiry into the issues arising from the case of Dr Harold Shipman. In opposition, the Labour Party was deeply divided, though its Leader, Harold Wilson, remained in favour. His second play, The Birthday Party, closed after eight performances, but was enthusiastically reviewed by critic Harold Hobson. Harold Pinter earned a reputation for being notoriously pugnacious, enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding. Poetry teaches us how to live and you, Harold Pinter, teach us how to live. The arrival in Oxford in October 1922 of the sophisticated Etonians Harold Acton and Brian Howard changed Waugh's Oxford life. Poet Harold Massingham also attended this school and was also mentored by Fisher. He debated with the psychiatrist Harold Dearden on the subject who was diametrically opposed to Doyle's views. Notable former editors include George Alagiah, Hunter Davies, Piers Merchant, Sir Timothy Laurence, Jeremy Vine and Harold Evans. In October 1974, Harold Wilson offered Smith the post of Solicitor General for Scotland. Eisenhower mentioned the need to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at a meeting at Camp David. Gruffydd was killed by his own men on 5 August 1063 while Harold Godwinson sought to engage him in battle. Show More Sentences Everyone else wore one then, why didn't he, Runyon asked Harold. In terms of the history of classical selenography Harold Hill's work is of immense importance. The first work on microwave spectroscopy at the National Bureau of Standards was carried out in the late 1940s by Harold Lyons. Harold Ford Jr. is a former U.S. Representative from Tennessee. The tourist cabins are gone, And Harold, and Rose Dials Who lived in a tarpaper shack just off the highway, Nailed hard to the mountainside. Harold stalks Rosemary, as he presumes Kim was stalked by her assailant. Woolley and her late husband, Harold, co-founded the Pacific Trapshooting Association, and Donna became a nationally ranked trapshooter. Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent was born in 1895 among music scores and tuning forks. Harold Wilson was before my time but his very Northernness makes me think he'd have been my favourite Prime Minister. Chairman of directors Frank Brook is pictured with unveiler Harold Frith of the Leeds depot, one of the company's oldest employees. As a student in the College, from which he graduated in 1950, he had Nobel laureates Enrico Fermi and Harold Urey as teachers. The event began with the national anthem and La Borinquena, by Harold Hernandez on his cuatro, a traditional Puerto Rican guitar. The last Earl of Wessex was the luckless King Harold, the cyclopic monarch who came out second best at the Battle of Hastings. Consider how the journalistic immediacy of Childe Harold enabled Byron to overgo the Spenserian poems recently published by Campbell and Scott. Harold Evans is author of The American Century and My paper chase. Just before the dawn of the 60s, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the nation 'You've never had it so good. The GBP1,000 award was established by PEN to commemorate playwright Harold Pinter. To many, Harold Wilson was a snake in the grass and George Brown behaved like a duckbilled platypus. Phillips is the latest in a long line of great Taft dunkers, including Jordan Farmar, Al Brown, Harold Shevlin and David Enzer. Harold Greening paid pounds 690 for the impressively-restored eight-foot high yellow petrol pump by his workshop wall. Show More Sentences And he also, proleptically, makes a rude noise at Harold Bloom's dismissal, a noise we can hear all the way from here. Harold Godwinson is pictured on the tapestry rescuing two Norman knights from the quicksand in the tidal flats during a battle with Conan II, Duke of Brittany. He also retained control of much of the lands of Harold and his family, which made the king the largest secular landowner in England by a wide margin. William of Malmesbury stated that Harold died from an arrow to the eye that went into the brain, and that a knight wounded Harold at the same time. King Harold received word of their invasion and marched north, defeating the invaders and killing Tostig and Hardrada on 25 September at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. It is not clear which figure is meant to be Harold, or if both are meant. The military historian Peter Marren speculates that if Gyrth and Leofwine died early in the battle, that may have influenced Harold to stand and fight to the end. Now, more than 50 years on, Harold Pinter''s delicate cohabitational power study between an intrusive tramp and two brothers is at the revivalist stage. Harold assembled an army and a fleet to repel William's anticipated invasion force, deploying troops and ships along the English Channel for most of the summer. It is possible that if the two brothers died early in the fighting their bodies were taken to Harold, thus accounting for their being found near his body after the battle. Harold was at once challenged by two powerful neighbouring rulers. After Cnut's death in 1035 the English throne fell to Harold Harefoot, his son by his first wife, while Harthacnut, his son by Emma, became king in Denmark. Edward's immediate successor was the Earl of Wessex, Harold Godwinson, the richest and most powerful of the English aristocrats and son of Godwin, Edward's earlier opponent. Harold was forced to march south swiftly, gathering forces as he went. Gruffydd's head and the figurehead of his ship were sent to Harold. In the spring of 1063 Harold's brother Tostig led an army into north Wales while Harold led the fleet first to south Wales and then north to meet with his brother's army. Work on its W47 nuclear warhead began in 1957 at the facility that is now called the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by a team headed by John Foster and Harold Brown. Another story relates that Harold was buried at the top of a cliff. To the traditional arguments for the existence of God, Harold adds another on the basis of ideal truth, and he adapts the ontological proof to show that God is love. Other sources stated that no one knew how Harold died because the press of battle was so tight around the king that the soldiers could not see who struck the fatal blow. Show More Sentences William of Jumieges claimed that Harold was killed by the duke. The available sources are more confused about events in the afternoon, but it appears that the decisive event was the death of Harold, about which differing stories are told. Although Harold Godwinson had married Edwin and Morcar's sister Ealdgyth, the two earls may have distrusted Harold and feared that the king would replace Morcar with Tostig. Harold was an accomplished and very competitive athlete, boxing and playing football in his youth and playing paddleball and later softball regularly into his sixties. The Barnwell brothers, Frank and Harold, worked at Grampian Motors in Causewayhead, and in 1909 they designed and flew the first powered aircraft in Scotland. More recently the playwrights Alan Ayckbourn, Harold Pinter, Michael Frayn, Tom Stoppard and David Edgar have combined elements of surrealism, realism and radicalism. Conversely, the book was praised by Yorke, Graham Greene and, in glowing terms, by Harold Acton who was particularly impressed by its evocation of 1920s Oxford. Pinter's unpublished manuscripts and letters to and from him are held in the Harold Pinter Archive in the Modern Literary Manuscripts division of the British Library. In 1998, NIH director and Nobel laureate Harold Varmus came into conflict with Senator Harkin by pushing to have more NIH control of alternative medicine research. The last minority government was led by Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson for eight months after the February 1974 general election produced a hung parliament. Like almost all British dialectologists of his generation, Ellis had studied with the father of British research in the subject, Professor Harold Orton, at Leeds University. They were made famous by 1924 100 m Olympic champion Harold Abrahams who would be immortalised in Chariots of Fire, the British Oscar winning film. Harold was immediately challenged by two powerful neighbouring rulers. Eden's successor, Harold Macmillan, greatly accelerated the process of decolonisation and sought to recapture the benevolence of the United States. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Harold Macmillan, advised his Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, that the United States was fully prepared to carry out this threat. Tostig seems to have been a favourite with the king and queen, who demanded that the revolt be suppressed, but neither Harold nor anyone else would fight to support Tostig. Harold Macmillan stated that nuclear weapons would give Britain influence over targeting and American policy, and would affect strategy in the Middle East and Far East. Sweyn and Harold called up their own vassals, but neither side wanted a fight, and Godwin and Sweyn appear to have each given a son as hostage, who were sent to Normandy. Queen Elizabeth II appointed Harold Wilson, leader of the Labour Party, as prime minister, exercising her prerogative after extensive consultation with the Privy Council. In 1049 he returned to try to regain his earldom, but this was said to have been opposed by Harold and Beorn, probably because they had been given Sweyn's land in his absence. Find more words! 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