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Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters

Allyssa Lee, of Entertainment Weekly, said that the book has 12 riveting, touching autobiographical accounts that look past the bars to lay bare lives that would normally have gone unheard and that the book deserves an audience.


1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

Éamonn Morrissey was forced to emigrate to Australia, Jim Treacy was ruled out due to injury, Kieran Purcell couldn’t play because of appendicitis and star forward Eddie Keher couldn’t play because of a broken collar bone.

Âşık İbretî

He went to Elbistan, Kahramanmaraş and started to working as photographer but he couldn't adapt to the city and returned his hometown.

Bachendri Pal

Bachendri Pal along with Premlata Agarwal and a group of ace climbers, which includes Mt. Everest summiteers have quietly arrived in Uttarkashi and carried out relief and rescue operations in the remotest high altitude villages of the Himalayas that have been ravaged in the 2013 North India floods, where even the Indian Army jawans couldn't reach.

Billy Mundi

According to Frank Zappa, Holzman "offered Billy Mundi a huge amount of money, a place to live, the whole package — we'll make you a star, you'll work with these top-grade musicians instead of those comedy guys... But I don't blame Billy for taking the job, because at that time we were so poor he was living in the Albert Hotel and he couldn't get enough to eat — he used to come in and tell us how he'd quell his appetite by drinking the hot water in the shower...".

Can-Am

Well-established European manufacturers like Ferrari and BRM appeared at various times with little success, March tried to get a share of the lucrative market in 1970-1 but couldn't establish themselves, and Ford flitted across the scene with a number of unsuccessful cars based on the GT40 and its successors.

East London NHS Foundation Trust

In May 2013 the Trust took over the Health E1 clinic in Brick Lane which had been run by nursing staff with GPs and other specialist nurses for those who couldn’t register with a practice because they had no settled address.

Elsje Christiaens

Shortly after Elsje had come to Amsterdam from her native Jutland to seek work as a maid, she got into an argument with her landlady at the Damrak because she couldn't pay the rent.

FC Inter Turku

FC Inter was founded in 1990 by Stefan Håkans, the managing director of the towage and salvage company Alfons Håkans, allegedly after his 11-year-old son couldn't fit into any of the other youth teams in Turku.

FK ASK

Through the entire 1930s ASK was always close to the top but it couldn't win another Latvian title as Olimpija Liepāja and Rīgas FK usually came out with more points at the end of the season, that came only during German occupation of Latvia during World War II.

Foua Toloa

He was sacked in June 2012 "after New Zealand’s Foreign Minister, Murray McCully, had indicated he couldn’t work with him".

Gem Archer

"We went to the pub and I couldn't stand not knowing if I was a part of the band. After less than half a pint of Guinness I said, 'What does Liam say?' And Noel said, 'It's my fucking band. I'll have who I want.'"

HC Vityaz

But Chekhov's goon-full roster, which general manager Alexei Zhamnov wishes to shape after the 1990s Chicago Blackhawks for whom he played, just couldn't bring good enough performances to repeat the feat.

Hilary du Pré

Daniel Barenboim – who has always teetered on the edge of villainy in du Pré-revering quarters—said, "Couldn't they have waited until I was dead?".

Irwin Silber

:"I liked Irwin, but I couldn't relate to it. Miles Davis would be accused of something similar when he made the album Bitches Brew...what I did to break away was to take simple folk changes and put new images and attitudes into them."

Izz ad-Din Mas'ud

He knew he couldn't keep Aleppo and Mosul under his governance, as the eyes of Salahu'd-Din were on Aleppo, so he reached an agreement with his brother Imad ad-Din Zengi II the governor of Sinjar to exchange Sinjar with Aleppo; in 1182 Izz ad-Din became the governor of Sinjar, in 1193 he went back to Mosul where he got sick and died.

J.M.K.E.

Meanwhile Estonia had regained its independence and J.M.K.E. couldn't continue with their anti-Soviet songs (what was the point?), so they found their new "enemy" in the invading "burger-culture", increasing poverty, and other early-capitalistic distresses.

Japanese television drama

For example, in the Fuji TV drama Densha Otoko, the opening song and some of the background music had to be replaced in the release that aired on the Nippon Golden Network because they couldn't get the rights to use the music.

Jin Long

Jin capatilised on his opponent's mistakes and won the match 5–1, but couldn't continue his run in the tournament in the next round as he lost 2–5 to Robert Milkins.

Joe Schultz

In a later anthology on managers Bouton edited, I Managed Good, But Boy Did They Play Bad, however, Bouton noted Schultz's sense of humor and added that, given the circumstances of the last-place team, "I couldn't have had a better manager than Joe Schultz."

Johann Martin Schleyer

According to his own report, the idea of an international language arose out of a conversation he had with one of his parishioners, a semi-literate German peasant whose son had emigrated to America and could no longer be reached by mail because the United States Postal Service couldn't read the father's handwriting.

Jonathan Temple

In 1849, after Los Angeles was ordered by California's military governor to conduct a survey, but couldn't pay for the work, Temple paid for the Ord Survey out of his own funds, and then was repaid by the sale of lots created in the survey.

Kamandag

Senator Bong Revilla, Jr. was offered the role of Haring Saban, a Snake King, but couldn't take it because of his busy schedule with politics and his sci-fi film Resiklo.

Kenny Jay

He would go in the ring with a big name who really couldn't do much and make him look good, and he could get in there with a Danny Hodge or Verne Gagne and make them look even better than they were.

Kyle Reese

Michael Biehn almost did not get the role of Reese because, at his audition, he spoke in a Southern accent after having just auditioned for a role in a stage production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof earlier that day and couldn't shake the accent, and the producers did not want Reese to seem regionalized.

Let the Sun Shine

Oh, and as if we couldn't be any more impressed, apparently there’s even a "Cyndi Lauper-esque track" waiting on his album.

Luminous Orange

Although they couldn't meet the request to play at Collette Millennium Party in Paris 2001 and CMJ Music Marathon 2001 (due to 9/11), they played at CMJ 2004 and SXSW 2006 & 2007 with good response.

Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau

-- This article is not titled in English because the creator of the article couldn't find authoritative use of this or any other English name --> is a photography gallery in Gentilly, Paris, created to commemorate the Parisian photographer Robert Doisneau.

Margaret Weis Productions

Due to licensing issues they couldn't use any of the characters that appeared exclusively in the television series Firefly.

Mark Middleton

Despite the success of their singles "Take Me There" with singer Mýa and rappers Mase and Blinky Blink, "Girlfriend/Boyfriend" with Janet Jackson, and rappers Ja Rule and Eve, and "Think About You", the album couldn't live up to the success of their 1994 debut and 1996 second album Another Level.

Mat Taram bin Sa'al

Utoh was then brought to Sabak Bernam Police Station where he related his story, telling that he couldn't remember anything that happened after he was pushed off the train.

Metal Priestess

Special and James Brown, among others, had been working on a session in LA when he picked up a copy of Beyond the Valley of 1984 and couldn't stop playing it.

Mimpi

Anggun couldn't reach her big popularity actually when release her rock debut, Dunia Aku Punya in 1986.

Minghags: The Movie

Just when you thought the plot couldn't be any more contrived, the triteness increases as Lenny and Rut Ru up the ante, culminating in cameos by Jimmy Pop and Jared Hasselhoff of the Bloodhound Gang, Don Vito, Rake Yohn, Compton Ass Terry, The Dudesons, Phil Margera, April Margera, Brandon Novak, Gina Lynn, Jess Margera, Chad I. Ginsburg, Ryan Gee, Joe Frantz!

Miss Hungary

In 1936 Zsa Zsa Gabor won the title, but she was underaged so she couldn't compete in Miss Europe.

MTR Western

State Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser said, "Gov. Gregoire has been making it harder and harder for businesses to survive here in our state for three years, so it's no surprise that her campaign hired a bus with Oregon license plates to save money. The symbolism of Gov. Gregoire's bus tour couldn't be plainer."

Murray Kempton

He was known for his rococo style, so much so that in his collection Hooking Up, Tom Wolfe wrote that "Kempton used so many elegant British double and triple negatives, half the time you couldn’t figure out what he was saying."

Parliamentary Services Act

Some were skeptical of how much effect reviving the act would have on Parliamentary independence; Nazri argued he couldn't "see any less independence among MPs in the last 13 years without the PSA", and constitutional scholar Shad Saleem Faruqi called it a "merely symbolic gesture".

Penrhyn Castle

Hanging on its walls is one of the finest art collections in North Wales, with works by artists such as Rembrandt - (Catrina Hooghsaet, valued at up to £40m, the Dutch Culture Ministry tried to buy the painting for Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum in 2007 but couldn’t meet the asking price)-

Roosevelt Union Free School District

“I knew then there had to be a problem with the deficit,” he said, “but at that time I couldn’t tell how large the deficit was.”- Richard P. Mills.

Samson Raphaelson

All directed by Lubitsch, the three were Trouble in Paradise, Heaven Can Wait, and Raphaelson’s favorite, The Shop Around the Corner, which had starred James Stewart and Margaret Sullivan and which Kael wrote was “as close to perfection as a movie made by mortals is ever likely to be; it couldn’t be the airy wonder it was without the structure Raphaelson built into it.” (The story was remade in 1998 as You've Got Mail, with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.)

Spain at the 2006 Winter Olympics

María José Rienda entered the Olympics having won three World Cup events on the season, including the last giant slalom before the Olympic Games, but couldn't repeat this form in Turin, as she finished 13th in the giant slalom.

Stefan Nerezov

These successful military operations couldn't prevent the Romanian Army from threatening the rear of the Bulgarian Army and reaching the vicinity of capital Sofia which forced the Bulgarian capitulation.

Swede Knox

Knox, as a linesman, later filled in as referee during a game in Toronto in the early 1990s, when Don Koharski couldn't finish the game and Kevin Maguire made his NHL officiating debut as a linesman.

Syamantaka

But it couldn't get away with it, for shortly after, it was attacked by Jambavan, described as king of the 'bears' or 'gorillas' according to different scriptures, who killed it after a fierce fight and took off with the booty.

Tom Phoebus

Although Tom couldn't hit for average, he hit his two major league home runs against all-stars Jim Coates (1967) and Jim Kaat (1968).

Valkenburg resistance

This posed a problem for historian Loe de Jong when he wrote his famous Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, because he couldn't get any information.

VI Queen Elisabeth Music Competition

The Soviet violin school couldn't attain a third victory after the successes of David Oistrakh in 1937 and Leonid Kogan in 1951 as Berl Senofsky managed to beat Julian Sitkovetsky.

Virtual Console

When asked if Virtual Boy games were going to be available for download on the Virtual Console for the Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime told Kotaku that he couldn't answer, as he was unfamiliar with the platform.

Vladimír Šlechta

Vladimír Šlechta couldn't study a second school in České Budějovice that’s why he studied Secondary Grammar School in Trhové Sviny.

You Were Never Lovelier

Here, as in the "Pick Yourself Up" and "Bojangles of Harlem" numbers from Swing Time, Kern belied his claim that he couldn't write in the Swing style.


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