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, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.

When we `` forced '' individuals to assume the corporate structure by means of taxes and other legal statutes, we adopted what I would term `` pseudo-capitalism '' and so took a major step toward socialism.

When an alphabet is adopted or developed for use in representing a given language, an orthography generally comes into being, providing rules for the spelling of words in that language.

When it was first adopted by the U. S. military, a Honeywell engineer sat in the back seat with bolt cutters to disconnect the autopilot in case of emergency.

When MLB adopted the addition of a second wild card team, the 2012 Division Series are scheduled to use the 2-3 format due to scheduling conflicts, which will revert back to the 2-2-1 format from 2013 onwards.

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Western journalists adopted the term blitzkrieg to describe this form of armoured warfare.

When benzodiazepines were first introduced, they were enthusiastically adopted for treating all forms of epilepsy.

When the Gage Dictionary finally adopted standard Canadian spelling, the Star followed suit.

When asked by reporters at the end of a televised press conference to list one of Nixon's policy ideas he had adopted, Eisenhower joked, " If you give me a week, I might think of one.

When that review found anti-gay sentiments were widely expressed and tolerated in the military, the DOD adopted a new anti-harassment policy in July 2000, though its effectiveness was disputed.

When ephemeris time was first adopted, time scales were still based on astronomical observation, as they always had been.

When FIDE reorganized after World War II it adopted regulations concerning the award of international titles.

When our ancestors adopted group-dwelling social arrangements roughly 1. 8 mya, ectoparasite loads increased dramatically.

When the administrative secretariats established by the Paris Convention ( 1883 ) and the Berne Convention ( 1886 ) merged in 1893, they located in Berne, and also adopted the term intellectual property in their new combined title, the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property.

When the army and navy were formed, the uniforms adopted by each service reflected British military and naval tradition.

When Larissa ceased minting the federal coins it shared with other Thessalian towns and adopted its own coinage in the late 5th century BC, it chose local types for its coins.

When Augustus died in 14 AD, his political powers passed to his adopted son Tiberius ; the Roman Principate had begun.

When the tribe adopted war captives, the children became part of their mother's clan and accepted in the tribe.

When they are adopted by a state, they typically result in tensions, and actual attempts at annexation are always considered a casus belli, a cause for war.

When progress and development is rapid, the faster method of political representation is adopted.

When pasta was introduced to several nations, every culture adopted different style of preparing it.

When Mark was still in diapers, the Twains adopted Jerry's baby nephew, Darryl, after Darryl's mother died.

When district elections were adopted in Berkeley in 1986 Dean was the first elected council member from District 5, she held the seat until 1994 when she was elected Mayor.

When George Westinghouse suggested using high-voltage AC instead, as it could carry electricity hundreds of miles with marginal loss of power, Edison waged a " War of Currents " to prevent AC from being adopted.