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When and I
When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, ``
I think he's going
to give us work
''.
When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle
I noticed how the clerk winced
.
When I asked
him what, if anything,
I could do
about it,
he surprised me by referring me
to the director of the hall
.
When I went for my interview with the director
I saw why
.
When I fell on my back,
I saw
a vulture hovering
.
When my Uncle offered me
a part-time job which would take care of my normal expenses and give me time
to paint
I accepted
.

``
When I was in college
'',
I grinned, ``
I remember
a poem
I had
to read in my lit class
.

``
When I came
up, damnit,
I thought
I was going down
.
When I question them as
to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy,
I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who
have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;
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 it comes
to this,
I shall prefer emigrating
to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty --
to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy
'' ( His emphasis )
When confronted with
a drunk or an insane person
I have no notion of what any one of them might do
to me or
to himself or
to others
.
When Heidegger and Sartre speak of
a contrast between being and existence, they may be right,
I don't
know, but their language is too philosophical for me
.
When and show
When Nan Patterson,
a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in
a Floradora road
show, rode down Broadway in
a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab
to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that
he had shot himself although experts said
he could not
have done so
.
When the young biologist, Dr. Ballard, began
to show interest in our daughter Elizabeth, this induced
a corresponding interest, on our part, in
him.
When Fosdick showed the letter
to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't
show this
to the President or he'll stop the war
''.
When people
are confronted with unpleasant and potentially harmful stimuli such as foul odors or tastes, PET-scans
show increased bloodflow in the amygdala
.
When Alexander was trying
to show that
he is divine so that the Greeks and Macedonians would perform proskynesis
to him, Anaxarchus said that Alexander could " more justly be considered
a god than Dionysus or Heracles " ( Arrian, 104 )
When Sultan Murad V began
to show signs of paranoia, madness and continuous fainting and vomiting even on the day of his coronation and threw himself into
a pool yelling at his guards
to protect his life, they were afraid the public would become outraged and revolt
to bring the former Sultan back
.
When the Governor saw that
he was confessing his Christianity publicly, not caring what might happen
to him,
he ordered
him not
to show up in the city
.
When asked if his wisecracking and talking on the bandstand came from his medicine
show experience,
he said
it did not
.
When Macbeth returns
to the witches later in the play, they
show him an apparation of the murdered Banquo, along with eight of his descendants
.
When the appropriate conditions above
are satisfied
a system is said
to be asymptotically stable: the variables of an asymptotically stable control system always decrease from their initial value and do not
show permanent oscillations
.
When they opened the bag
to show the guards,
it appeared no longer
to hold her head but
to be full of rose petals
.
When he moved
to the United States, Desi Arnaz turned
to show business
to support himself
.
When Kaye asked
to be released from his radio contract in mid-1946,
he agreed not
to accept another regular radio
show for one year and also
to limit his guest appearances on the radio programs of others
.
When the expedition returned
to Ticonderoga two days later, some of the men were greatly disappointed that they had nothing
to show for the effort and risks they took
.
When compared
to patients with the most common types of aphasia, patients with expressive aphasia tend
to show the most improvement within the first year
.
When his father's ring was sent
to him,
he begged that his father would
show mercy
to his mother, and that all his companions would plead with Henry
to set her free
.
When the client doesn't
show up, K
. explores the cathedral which is empty except for an old woman and
a church official
.
When a freedman of Nero was giving
a gladiatorial
show at Antium, the public porticoes were covered with paintings, so we
are told, containing life-like portraits of all the gladiators and assistants
.
When they warned
him that they would ask Charles Gounod instead and then threatened
to engage Richard Wagner's services, Verdi began
to show considerable interest, and agreements were signed in June 1870
.
When Hera learned that Semele, daughter of Cadmus King of Thebes, was pregnant by Zeus, she disguised herself as Semele's nurse and persuaded the princess
to insist that Zeus
show himself
to her in his true form
.
When Baum had been touring New York State in the title role, the actor playing the ghost fell through the floorboards, and the rural audience thought
it was part of the
show and demanded that the actor repeat the fall, because they thought
it was funny
.
When studying inorganic compounds, one often encounters parts of the different classes of inorganic chemistry ( an organometallic compound is characterized by its coordination chemistry, and may
show interesting solid state properties ).

Rajiv Gandhi on
a live TV
show said of the carnage, "
When a big tree falls, the earth shakes
.
When he repeatedly tried
to evade his regular medical check-ups, school nurse Annie Ghazikhanian recognized that something odd was going on with
him and pressured
him to show her the wound
.
When and up
When the meal was ready,
he told Jones
to wash
up, and going into the front room, woke the girl
.
When the station wagon drew abreast of the dusty dirt road that led
up to the porch of the Culver house, Pamela turned the wheel, guiding the car
to its familiar parking spot close
to the house, and stopped
.
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 she appeared, two or three of the little girls jumped
up and down, yelling, `` Goody, goody
''.
When he came back
to the schoolhouse, his mind was made
up.
When I try
to work out my reasons for feeling that this passage is of critical significance,
I come
up with the following ideas, which
I shall express very briefly here and revert
to in
a later essay
.
When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors
up the Irrawaddy River
.
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 the victory cheer went
up this officer found himself still mounted, with his horse pressed broadside against Cleburne's log parapet in
a tangled group of infantrymen
.
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 Partisan and Kenyon set
up shop, Mencken was still accepted as an arbiter of taste ( remember Hergesheimer??
When he had stored his stock in the great oak chest, locked the two big hasps and secured the additional chain, tied the fly of the tent, and picked
up the cash box,
he moved
up the darkening street
.
When I'd delivered myself of that gem there was nothing
to do but order
up another drink
.
When would the oyabun like
to bring his guests
up here
''??

``
When Konishi gets back with the jeep,
I want
you to round
up two or three Japanese boys
.
When his arm came
up I ducked away but
it caught me on the side of the neck, watering my eyes, and
I backed off
to cough
.
When Linda Kay had put
up her breakfast dishes and mopped her linoleum rugs, she would go
to the Big House
.
When that was broken
up after the First World War, its name was changed once more
.
When changing from one color
to another, whether working on right or wrong side, pick
up the new strand from underneath dropped strand
.
When the resin has hardened, mix
up another batch with
a pigment added if
you wish
.

``
When working from one of my sketches
I square
it up and project its linear form freehand
to the watercolor sheet with charcoal
.
When I looked
up the actual date of his birth and found
it to be March 15th,
I realized that Roy was born under the right zodiacal sign for
a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 )
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