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When Gretzky was 14, his family arranged for him to move to and play hockey in Toronto, partly to further his career, and partly to remove him from the uncomfortable pressure he faced in his hometown.
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When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.
When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.
When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.
When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.
When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.
`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.
When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.
`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.
When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.
When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.
When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.
When he was eight he began violin lessons.
When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.
When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.
When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.
When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.
When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.
When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.
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When the Congo received its independence in 1960 there were, among its 13.5 million people, exactly 14 university graduates.
When the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, he fled and left Spain, but did not abdicate the throne.
When fully built out, the neighborhood is projected to have 14, 000 residents.
When Augustus died in 14, Claudius — then 23 — appealed to his uncle Tiberius to allow him to begin the cursus honorum.
When they returned to San Francisco for their final series with the Giants on September 14, the Rockies had once again built a large Wild Card lead.
When Griffith was 14, his mother abandoned the farm and moved the family to Louisville, where she opened a boarding house.
When he died, on 14 November of the year 565, he left no children.
When as a result, Tiso had the Slovak regional government issue a declaration of independence on 14 March 1939, the ensuing crisis in Czech-Slovak relations was used as a pretext to summon the Czecho-Slovak President Emil Hácha to Berlin over his " failure " to keep order in his country.
When Augustus died in 14 AD, his political powers passed to his adopted son Tiberius ; the Roman Principate had begun.
When the law was passed in 1701, Sophia ( age 71 ), five of her children ( ages 35 to 41 ), and three legitimate grandchildren ( ages 14 to 18 ) were alive.
When they reached the nearest train station at North Creek, at 5: 22 am on September 14, he received another telegram informing him that McKinley had died a few hours earlier.
When presidential candidate John F. Kennedy visited the University on October 14, 1960, he gave an impromptu speech on the steps of the Michigan Union that led to a University of Michigan student movement which contributed to the establishment of the Peace Corps.
When she was 14, Victoria met 28-year-old Canning Woodhull ( listed as " Channing " in some records ), a doctor from a town outside Rochester, New York.
When Nora Guthrie was institutionalized, Woody Guthrie was 14.
When Mariner 9 arrived at Mars on 14 November 1971, planetary scientists were surprised to find the atmosphere was thick with " a planet-wide robe of dust, the largest storm ever observed.
When the spectrum is reckoned per frequency interval, the Sun's peak emission appears at a frequency of 3. 43 x 10 < sup > 14 </ sup > Hz ; this means that the peak emission per unit frequency is at 3. 43 x 10 < sup > 14 </ sup > Hz, which corresponds to a wavelength of 883 nm and is well into the infrared.
When she was 14 years old, Loren entered a beauty contest in Naples and, while not winning, was selected as one of the finalists.
When Winfield Scott Stratton died on 14 September 1902, he left the bulk of his estate for the establishment of the Myron Stratton Home, for " the aged poor and dependent children ;" named for his father Myron Stratton.
When he was about 14, his father took him to observe a lynching, from the window of his father's plant, of a young black man accused of rape.
When that was not forthcoming, he and three other Welsh Liberals ( David Alfred Thomas, Herbert Lewis and Frank Edwards ) refused the whip on 14 April 1892 but accepted Lord Rosebery's assurance and rejoined the official Liberals on 29 May.
When the Federal Parliamentary Labor caucus met on 14 November 1916, lengthy discussions ensued until Hughes walked out with 24 other Labor members.
When Kerr announced his resignation as Governor-General on 14 July 1977, Whitlam commented, " How fitting that the last of the Bourbons should bow out on Bastille Day.
When he was 14, in January of 1766, he became organist of the parish San Lorenzo in Dámaso.
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