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 the platform is aligned, the reflected image of the crossed hairs can be seen exactly superimposed upon the original crossed hairs.

When he was told that no one had seen Burton since then, he thought of three other places that were possibilities.

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.

" a Christian ( Minaah ) once asked Abbahu in a tone of mockery, whereupon he replied: " When you will be wrapped in darkness, for it says, ' Behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the nations ; then shall the Lord rise upon thee and His glory shall be seen on thee ' lx. 2 ," ( Sanhedrin 99a ).

When their son, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr, was born on 5 May 1925, Chaplin sent Grey and the child into hiding: it was seen as too close to their wedding, so a fake birth announcement was made to the press at the end of June.

When the deal is complete, all players pick up their cards, or ' hand ', and hold them in such a way that the faces can be seen by the holder of the cards but not the other players, or vice versa depending on the game.

When brain tissue from a CJD patient is examined under a microscope, many tiny holes can be seen where whole areas of nerve cells have died.

When a monarch does act, political controversy can often ensue, partially because the neutrality of the crown is seen to be compromised in favour of a partisan goal, while some political scientists champion the idea of an " interventionist monarch " as a check against possible illegal action by politicians.

When the term was coined around 1989, Chardonnay was seen as a drink of affluent people.

When Chicago was founded in 1833, most of the early building began around the mouth of the Chicago River, as can be seen on a map of the city's original 58 blocks.

When the Beagle made its first stop ashore at St Jago, Darwin found rock formations which seen " through Lyell's eyes " gave him a revolutionary insight into the geological history of the island, an insight he applied throughout his travels.

When the centrifugal force term is expressed in terms of parameters of the rotating frame, replacing with, it can be seen that it is the same centrifugal force previously derived for rotating reference frames.

When this field is instead studied using the QED vacuum of quantum electrodynamics, it is seen that the plates do affect the virtual photons which constitute the field, and generate a net force — either an attraction or a repulsion depending on the specific arrangement of the two plates.

When the orbital eccentricities of cubewanos and plutinos are compared, it can be seen that the cubewanos form a clear ' belt ' outside Neptune's orbit, whereas the plutinos approach, or even cross Neptune's orbit.

When pain is present as a symptom of CMT, it is comparable to that seen in other peripheral neuropathies, as well as Postherpetic neuralgia and Complex regional pain syndrome, among other diseases.

It is also well documented that a hemispheric asymmetry occurs in the PFC: When encoding memories, the Left Dorsolateral PFC ( LPFC ) is activated, and when retrieving memories, activation is seen in the Right Dorsolateral PFC ( RPFC ).

When the military added psychiatric screening to its induction process, it included homosexuality as a disqualifying trait, then seen as a form of psychopathology.

When he rewards their work with little clothes, they are so delighted, that they run away and are never seen again.

When travelling abroad, the governor-general is seen as the representative of Australia, and of the Queen of Australia, and is treated as a head of state.

When granite and other similar rocks weather, two primary effects are seen.

When seen from above, a sexually mature female hamster has a trim tail line ; a male's tail line bulges on both sides.

When the Soviet Union abandoned the Marxist Najibullah regime and withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989 ( the regime finally fell in 1992 ), the victory was seen by many Muslims as the triumph of Islamic faith over superior military power and technology that could be duplicated elsewhere.

When the Amin regime was collapsing, he fled to Kenya with his family, fearful that he would be seen as a collaborator ; this was more likely because he was a member of the Langi tribe, many of whom were persecuted by Amin, whereas Akii-Bua was cited by Amin as an example of a Langi who was doing well.

When seen from above, the twist can be clockwise ( right yarn over left ) or counterclockwise ( left yarn over right ); these are denoted as right-and left-plaited stitches, respectively.

When seen from a distance, juveniles can be confused with other cetacean species, such as the false killer whale or Risso's dolphin.