At the slope's base coils of concertina stretched out of eye range like a wild tangle of children's hoops, stopped simultaneously, weirdly poised as if awaiting the magic of the child's touch to start them all rolling again.

At the start of her program there were evidences of pique.

At the start of a new industrial age in the 18th century, it was believed that " people are the riches of the nation ", and there was a general faith in an economy that paid its workers low wages because high wages meant workers would work less.

At the end of the novel, Grand says he is much happier ; he has written to Jeanne and made a fresh start on his book.

At first, people indulge in fantasies, imagining the missing person's return, but then they start to feel like prisoners, drifting through life with nothing left but the past, since they do not know how long into the future their ordeal may last.

At the start of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, Doubleday's division was the second infantry division on the field to reinforce the cavalry division of Brig.

At the start of World War I, thousands of the French Cuirassiers rode out to engage the German Cavalry who likewise used helmets and armour.

At the start of the game, it has survived over 10 years in complete isolation from the rest of the world and is an example of an arcology in cyberpunk genre.

At the end of each line the beam returns to the start of the next line ; the end of the last line is a link that returns to the top of the screen.

At the start of his career, he won public attention by creating small, intimate modestly scaled works in unconventional media and with eccentric subject matter.

At some speeds the airflow over the control surfaces will become turbulent, and the controls will start to flutter.

At the start of the Cold War, bombers were the only means to take nuclear weapons to enemy targets, and had the role of deterrence.

At the start of the next session, affairs were handled by a triumvirate of Granby, Disraeli, and John Charles Herries – indicative of the tension between Disraeli and the rest of the party, who needed his talents but mistrusted the man.

At the start of the rally, the server and receiver stand in diagonally opposite service courts ( see court dimensions ).

At the start of a match, the shuttlecock is cast and the side towards which the shuttlecock is pointing serves first.

At the start of 2007, the BWF introduced a new tournament structure for the highest level tournaments aside from those in level one: the BWF Super Series.

At the start of each round, the rectangular playing arena contains a prearranged pattern of coloured " bubbles ".

At the start of a game, play is more or less random, the only strategy is to avoid adding the third side to any box.

At the start of each game, the doubling cube is placed on the bar with the number 64 showing ; the cube is then said to be " centered, on 1 ".

At the start of the First World War, the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1914 was passed which granted temporary powers to HM Treasury for issuing banknotes to the value of £ 1 and 10 /- ( ten shillings ) in the UK.

At its start it produced mechanical adding machines, and later moved into programmable ledgers and then computers.

At the start of the war, only the German army was thus prepared with all tanks " radio equipped ".

At the start of 2011, the Beano VIP pages were dropped from the comic, but the online features remain.

At the start of 2008, there were 59 building societies in the UK, with total assets exceeding £ 360 billion.

At this level students could start to move on their own.

At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.

At that time, during the Civil War, Union muskets were being manufactured in Providence and the drills to drill them were being hand-filed with rattail files.

At its 1864 convention, the Republican Party selected Andrew Johnson, a War Democrat from the Southern state of Tennessee, as his running mate.

At the same time, David H. Price's work on American anthropology during the Cold War provides detailed accounts of the pursuit and dismissal of several anthropologists from their jobs for communist sympathies.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Johnston was the commander of the U. S. Army Department of the Pacific in California.

At the end of World War II the US Army occupied Obersalzberg, to prevent Hitler from retreating with the Wehrmacht into the mountains.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain – At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

* 1813 – At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia ( now San Sebastián ), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town.

At the close of the Second World War the British government announced its intention to abolish the penal settlement.

At the time Italy was involved in World War II and Roma were playing at the Stadio del Partito Nazionale Fascista.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations.

At the end of the Peloponnesian War Lysander restored the scattered remnants of the old inhabitants to the island, which was used by the Spartans as a base for operations against Athens in the Corinthian War.

At its mouth was the scene of the decisive battle in 405 by which Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet, ending the Peloponnesian War.

* 1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class " A " League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.

At first selling slowly, it rapidly became a lasting success, and its appeal to English musicians had helped to make it widely known before World War I, when its themes struck a powerful chord with English readers.

At one point in the post-WWll / Cold War era, the U. S. Embassy in Bonn was America's largest, " comparable, with its thousands of staff, to the Baghdad embassy today.

At the end of World War I in 1918, a republic was proclaimed in Berlin.

At that point, Corbett shot Booth with his Colt revolver despite Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton's orders that Booth should be taken alive.

At a War Cabinet meeting, held on 31 October 1917, Balfour suggested that a declaration favorable to Zionist aspirations would allow Great Britain " to carry on extremely useful propaganda both in Russia and America "

At that time Ormsby-Gore, speaking for the government in Commons, said, " The draft as originally put up by Lord Balfour was not the final draft approved by the War Cabinet.