When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When they were first written, there was evidently no thought of their being published, and those which refer to the writer's love for Mrs. Meynell particularly have the ring of truth.

When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

When they first married he had been working in the fields all day, and she would get in the car and drive to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot meal.

When the first sprinkling of green appears I remove the board.

When solving an equation that involves division as well as other steps, do all the division steps first to reduce those parts of the equation to their numerical value.

When you first acquire a pool, we earnestly recommend -- for your own mental health -- a good long chat with your insurance agent.

When these groups were first formed many prominent and accomplished decorators could not have had the advantage of school training since interior design courses were rare and undeveloped during their youth.

When it comes to rate of early growth, the Indian python leads with a figure of about 3 feet 6 inches per year for the first two years, more or less.

When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( Af ), the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments, and very little in others.

When we examine what each master says was his first collage we see that much the same thing happens in each.

When the chance came, they first eliminated cold cereal once a week, then gradually converted to hot fresh-ground cereal every day.

When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.

When the husband drops the case and returns to his wife, both seem sorry they brought the matter up in the first place.

When he at last did go to his room, he couldn't sleep and instead paced up and down before his little image of Acala, thinking first of Charlotte's tale of the man at Ryusenji, then of his biwa and the invisible Pacific waters.

When first informed he disbelieved the crow and turned all crows black ( where they were previously white ) as a punishment for spreading untruths.

When they were first occupied, the present-day islands including Milos with its important obsidian production were probably still connected to the mainland.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

When questioned by the Sadducees about the resurrection of the dead ( in a context relating to who one's spouse would be if one had been married several times in life ), Jesus said that marriage will be irrelevant after the resurrection as the resurrected will be ( at least in this respect ) like the angels in heaven.

When Claudius decided to marry her, he persuaded a group of senators that the marriage should be arranged in the public interest.

When Pope Clement VII refused to annul the marriage, Henry defied him by assuming supremacy over religious matters.

When having legal status recognized, or defined in law, as in ancient China, concubinage was akin, although inferior, to marriage.

When permission for marriage was granted by the upper strata of the society, the permission process required a human exchange ( mi-brjes, ).

When this marriage unraveled, Comden complained that Day cared more for her " animal friends " than she did for him.

When he died the titles passed to his eldest son from his second marriage to Harriet Douglas, the fifth Earl.

When Charles finally did propose marriage to Amanda later in 1979, the circumstances were tragically changed, and she refused him.

" When the narrator is separated from Ruth, with whom he has fallen in love, he is free to explore other sexual ( and religious ) possibilities before deciding at the end of the poem to participate in the ritualistic order marriage represents.

When Carlson countered that conservatives " are always arguing against ' special rights ' for gays ," Falwell said that equal access to housing, civil marriage, and employment are basic rights, not special rights.

When Lemmy was 10, his mother married George Willis, who already had two older children from a previous marriage, Patricia and Tony, with whom Lemmy did not get along.

When the king saw Anne for the first time in late December 1539, a week before the scheduled wedding, he did not find her attractive but was unable, for diplomatic reasons and in the absence of a suitable pretext, to cancel the marriage.

When a man is married to more than one wife at a time, the relationship is called polygyny, and there is no marriage bond between the wives ; and when a woman is married to more than one husband at a time, it is called polyandry, and there is no marriage bond between the husbands.

When Jack apologises to Gwendolen during his marriage proposal it is for not being wicked:

When a couple views marriage as the next step and goes for it without reevaluating the relationship and making sure they are getting married for the right reasons, or because they have put so much time and resources into it already and it would be harder to break up, then the marriage will most likely not be successful.

When she became pregnant with the chief editor's child in 1926, he proposed marriage.

" When Goro tries to tell her about the Japanese law of marriage, Butterfly interrupts and tells him that the Japanese law is not the law of her country, the United States.

When it became clear that Pope Clement VII would not annul the marriage, the breaking of the power of the Catholic Church in England began.

When the treaty arranging the marriage of Margaret and Eric was signed at Roxburgh on 25 July 1281, Alexander III's younger son David had already died in June 1281, leaving the King of Scots with only one legitimate son, Alexander.

When sex education is contentiously debated, the chief controversial points are whether covering child sexuality is valuable or detrimental ; the use of birth control such as condoms and hormonal contraception ; and the impact of such use on pregnancy outside marriage, teenage pregnancy, and the transmission of STIs.

When she falls into a depression after learning of his affair with Penhaligon and the birth of their third child fails to improve their marriage, Judith seeks solace with Fitz's brother, Danny, and very nearly begins an affair with him.

" When asked to comment on the news of Eastwood's marriage to Dina Ruiz in 1996, Sondra Locke told People magazine " The only thing that's sad is that there are several women in his life who are the mothers of his children, and he chose to marry one who is not.

When Kiernan left him for a woman and marriage he was distraught, and Kiernan's death four years later at 26 delivered another blow.