When Ping died in 6 CE, the Empress Dowager appointed Wang Mang to act as emperor for the child Liu Ying ( d. 25 CE ).

When a revolutionary gives a speech to try to drum up support for the army approaching despite rain in the north, Wang Lung and O-Lan realize the drought is over.

When Wang Lung discovers that Lotus has seduced Younger Son ( Roland Lui ), he orders his son to leave.

When it reached Datong on August 18, reports from garrison commanders persuaded Wang Zhen that a campaign into the steppe would be too dangerous.

When An Wang died of cancer in 1990 he left behind an impressive technical and philanthropic legacy.

When he was 17, he moved to the United States with the intention of studying towards eventually entering medical school, but Wang changed his mind and ended up in the arts, studying film and television at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.

* When Chon Wang is fighting the police in New York City, it is a blatant reference to the Keystone Cops of early silent film.

* When Chon Wang and Roy are entering the Jubilee party, the string quartet plays an uncredited baroque version of the Rolling Stones ' " Paint it Black " ( just before the piece by Boccherini ).

When Wallace, a member of Roy's gang, kills Wang's uncle, Wang chases the outlaws down.

When Wang finds Roy buried in the sand, he demands to know the direction to Carson City.

When Wang comes out the other side of the mountain, he gets involved with a Sioux tribe by saving a boy chased by the Crow tribe and ends up reluctantly marrying the tribe chief's daughter, Falling Leaves.

When they get to Carson City, Roy discovers that both he and Wang, now identified as the " Shanghai Kid " are wanted by Lo Fong's ally Marshal Nathan Van Cleef, and the two of them narrowly escape.

When Wang Ling rebuked Chen Ping and Zhou Bo in private for going against Emperor Gaozu's law, they rationalised that their compliance with the grand empress dowager's wishes was necessary to protect the empire and the Liu clan.

When Emperor Ping died as a child in AD 6, Wang Mang chose ( to his own advantage ) an infant successor, the Emperor Ruzi, who had only been born in AD 5.

When Wang Mang's powerful uncle Wang Feng ( 王鳳, commander of the armed forces 33 BC-22 BC ) grew ill, Wang Mang cared for him near his sick bed day and night, and attended to his medical and personal needs.

When Wang Mang saw this, he rebuked the official and ordered that Empress Dowager Fu's seat be moved to the side, which drew great ire from Empress Dowager Fu, who then refused to attend the banquet.

When Wang started his campaign against Xiongnu, he requisitioned the forces of Korean tribes within Xin borders.

When those who violated the coinage policy and their neighbors were all arrested, Wang made these condemned people soldiers.

When Wang Mang first became regent, he accomplished many great deeds to become the basis for his greater evil acts, but these were only acts of ordinary treacherous men.

When this alleged plot was reported to Emperor Xuanzong by Wei Zhigu, Emperor Xuanzong, who had already received advice from Wang Ju ( 王琚 ), Zhang Shuo, and Cui Riyong to act first, did so.

When pressure from KMT troops became too great, Mao abandoned Maoping and withdrew up the mountain to Wang Zuo's stronghold at Dajing ( Big Well ), from which they could control the mountain passes.

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 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 ).

When he looked up again, he seemed almost contented.

When he looked in the back, Mrs. Gertrude Parker was marking keno cards.

When Charlie came up from the beach for his four-o'clock pill, the whole establishment ( gaudy enough when seen through mist and fog ) looked like a floodlit modern painting -- great blocks of dizzy color, punctuated at regular intervals by the glaring white of five community refrigerators.

When Mercer looked on helplessly, the half-man twisted over on his side, his pink dusty back turned to Mercer, and wept hoarsely and quietly to himself.

When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).

When doctors could not help Alexei, the Tsarina looked everywhere for help, ultimately turning to her best friend, Anna Vyrubova, to secure the help of the charismatic peasant healer Rasputin in 1905.

When the shell was warmed, milk would turn brown therefore the writing would appear on what looked like blank paper.

When the vote was nearing, and the constitution still looked likely to be defeated, Madison pleaded with a small group of anti-federalists, and promised them he would push for a bill of rights later if they changed their votes.

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

When he looked into a pool of water he also discovered that he now had a very handsome face.

When she first appears before gods and mortals, " wonder seized them " as they looked upon her.

When viewing the finished film, it looked like the girl disappeared suddenly after the magician's gesture.

When he returned to the west in 205 BC, Antiochus found that with the death of Ptolemy IV, the situation now looked propitious for another western campaign.

When Edward VI became ill in 1553, his advisers looked to the possible imminent accession of the Catholic Lady Mary, and feared that she would overturn all the reforms made during Edward's reign.

When new issues of nativism, prohibition and anti-slavery burst on the scene in the mid-1850s, no one looked to the quickly disintegrating Whig party for answers.

" When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

When victory looked near, Gallienus made the mistake of approaching the city walls too closely and was gravely injured, compelling him to withdraw the campaign.

When the women who were close to menopause were looked at separately, the adverse effects on the heart were not seen and in fact some suggestion of beneficial effects was seen.

When compared side to side, Oldsmobile looked dated next to its price-point competitor DeSoto.

When Stevenson continued to state that he was not a candidate, President Truman and the Democratic Party leadership looked for other prospective candidates.

When he returned to San Marcos in 1965, after having signed the Higher Education Act of 1965, Johnson looked back:

When John Wood took the role in 1990, he played the later scenes in clothes that looked like cast-offs, inviting deliberate parallels with the uncared-for in modern Western societies.

When Gandhi embarked on a fast-unto-death protesting the separate electorates allocated for untouchables, Patel looked after Gandhi closely and himself refrained from partaking of food.