They are opposed on their harrowing mission by the evil Sauron and his Black Riders.
Like the war it chronicles, its main characters' stories have not yet come to a close; Birdy and the others are all up for reassignment after a harrowing mission that one of their crew does not survive.
His death leaves John H. Glenn Jr., who flew the first orbital mission on Feb. 20, 1962, and later became a United States senator from Ohio, as the last survivor of the Mercury 7. When Lieutenant Commander Carpenter splashed down off Puerto Rico in his Aurora 7 capsule on May 24, 1962, after a harrowing mission, he had fulfilled a dream.
There's no shower, so cosmonauts use moist towelettes to keep themselves clean, or relatively clean.... Describes a recent harrowing mission... Russian officials were soon forced to admit that they do not replace equipment when its life expectancy is reached; they wait for equipment to break down, and then they replace it.
My Dad says "I saw the tulips spelling out 'Thank You, Yanks.' It was the best sight in the world -- second only to spotting the famous White Cliffs of Dover late in the afternoon after completing yet another harrowing mission".
In the video, craggy-faced veterans of the 101st Airborne recounted harrowing war stories of rescue missions and daring attacks in hushed tones.
Last fall, like car-pool moms with a harrowing new mission, they had begun driving people to detox facilities all over the state any place that could take them, sometimes as far as five hours away.
Two months later, during another harrowing night mission, Kerrey, after sustaining the mutilating wound that sent him home for good, stayed with his men under fire to supervise their evacuation.
Last fall, like car-pool moms with a harrowing new mission, they had begun driving people to detox facilities all over the state — any place that could take them, sometimes as far as five hours away.
