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When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.
When they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.
When did you last compare your present premium costs with the costs of insurance from other sources??
When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.
When the Achaeans entertained Wednesday last at their annual Carnival masquerade ball, Miss Margaret Pierson was chosen to rule over the festivities, presented at the Muncipal Auditorium and chosen as her ladies in waiting were Misses Clayton Nairne, Eleanor Eustis, Lynn Chapman, Irwin Leatherman of Robinsonville, Miss. and Helene Rowley.
When the winter tour began at Los Angeles last January there was no one in sight to challenge Palmer's towering prestige.
When they reached Augusta last week, together they had won five of the 13 tournaments to date.
`` When I was a kid '', Maris told a sportswriter last week, `` I used to follow Williams every day in the box score, just to see whether he got a hit or not ''.
When the University of Chicago's Chancellor Lawrence A. Kimpton submitted his resignation last March, a mighty talent hunt gripped the Midway.
When Continental Airlines night-coach Flight 54 took off at 11:30 one night last week, there was no reason to think it would take any longer.
When at last she could suffer the insult no longer, nor face the girl's scorn, she said in a voice overloud:
When Bobbie Evans smashed up his car, the Jaguar his wife Linda had given him for his last birthday, and himself quite thoroughly with it, driving back from an afternoon's golf at Oakmont, it seemed to mark the end of a long, miswritten chapter in the social life of the community.
When she had drained the last of the bottle and paid her bill, she came directly to my table and said:
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.
However, years of activism, and fighting for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War have left him disillusioned .</ br > When the plague epidemic is virtually over, Tarrou becomes one of its last victims, but puts up a heroic struggle before dying.
When Ted Peate, England's last batsman, came to the crease, his side needed just ten runs to win, but Peate managed only two before he was bowled by Harry Boyle.
When at last successful, he was excommunicated by Pope Callixtus II for having expelled the monks of Saint-Gilles, who had aided his enemies.
When played back forward the last echos are heard before the effected sound creating a rush like swell preceding and during playback.
When emulators of 1980s video game consoles began to appear on home computers in the late 1990s, the Atari 7800 was one of the last to be emulated.
When the last hand has finished being played, the dealer reveals the hole card, and stands or draws further cards according to the rules of the game for dealer drawing.
When this was translated into Greek in the last few centuries BCE, Kings was joined with Samuel in a four-part work called the Book of Kingdoms.
Boris Pasternak wrote his last complete book, When the Weather Clears, in 1959.
When Jesus told Lazarus ’ sister, Martha, that Lazarus would rise again, she replied, " I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day ". 11: 24 Also, one of the two main branches of the Jewish religious establishment, the Pharisees, believed in and taught the future resurrection of the body. Acts 23: 1-8
When he died in 1899 he was the last surviving cardinal who was not at least ordained a priest.
When the last period began, all hope of conciliating the Protestants was gone and the Jesuits had become a strong force.

When and dozen
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 you start the outdoor performance, you can stay outdoors without a dozen running trips into the kitchen.
When Peru's military government allowed elections for the first time in a dozen years in 1980, the Shining Path was one of the few leftist political groups that declined to take part.
When scouting a way through a mountain pass, Kemp and Tate spot a dozen Blackfeet, a normally friendly tribe, far from their normal hunting grounds.
When John H. Patterson and his brother took over the company, cash registers were expensive ($ 50 USD ) and only about a dozen of " Ritty's Incorruptible Cashier " machines were in use.
When this is done – and it will take the efforts of many keen intellects steeped in the law of at least a dozen lands and also aware of the social nexus of the law – then mankind will be able to see clearly for the first time and clearly where the common consensus of the great living social and law systems lies.
When the town celebrated its first birthday in December 1900, the town boasted two churches ( Presbyterian and Catholic ), three saloons, and nearly two dozen other businesses.
When a dozen British sailors were captured, their account of hardships encountered with food and water on the island, and the building of Fort Albion, were reported in a local newspaper.
When Hugh Walpole was published in 1952, it was praised as " among the half dozen best biographies of the century ".
When MANPADS is operated by specialists, batteries may have several dozen teams deploying separately in small sections ; self-propelled air defence guns may deploy in pairs.
More than two dozen independent theatrical and musical productions have been based on Einstein's Dreams, including a production at Chicago's National Pastime Theater in 2000, produced and directed by Patrizia Acerra and Dawn Arnold ; a production at Paradise Theater in New York in 2001, produced and directed by Paul Stancato and Brian Rhinehart ; a production at the Culture Project Theater in New York in 2003, directed by Rebecca Holderness ; a production at the People's Branch Theater in Nashville in 2003, adapted by Brian Niece and David Alford, directed by David Alford ; a musical production at the Martin Segal Theater of CUNY in New York in 2003, produced by Brian Schwartz with music and lyrics by Joshua Rosenblum and Joanne Lessner ; a production by the Underground Railway Theater in Boston in 2006 ; and a production by the University of Memphis in 2006, under the direction of Gloria Baxter ; a musical composition titled " In This World " by Paul Hoffman in 2000 and performed by the Silverwood Trio on their own CD ; and a musical composition titled " When Einstein Dreams " by Nando Michelin in 2003 and performed by the Nando Michelin Group on a Double Times Record CD.
When Pellegrini's design was revealed, a competition for the design of the façade was announced, and this elicited nearly a dozen entries, including one by Antonio Barca
When Huang Zhong did not return on time, Zhao Yun brought a dozen men with him to find Huang.
When Andrew III died in 1301, the entire kingdom was in the hands of a dozen powerful noblemen.
) When he is caught by her, in accordance with the rules of the race, they are joined in marriage by Marryin ' Sam ( whom they " pay " with a dozen eggs, two pounds of butter and six cupcakes with chocolate frosting — all of which Sam reckons to be worth about 98 cents ).
When St. Louis lawyer Sidney Redmond, one of the three dozen African Americans then admitted to the Missouri bar, informed Charles Hamilton Houston, who was leading the NAACP's legal effort against the segregationist Jim Crow laws, that Gaines was willing to be a plaintiff, Houston at first asked him if he could find someone else.
When it was finally published in mid-1945, it included an introduction by Thomas Mann, " A Message " from Edvard Beneš, and a dozen essays by contributors both Jewish and Gentile.
When Grant Morrison revived the JLA comic book in 1997, he expanded the roster to include over a dozen heroes.
When Faggin left Intel at the end of 1974 to found Zilog with Ralph Ungermann, he was department manager for MOS Research and Development with almost 80 engineers reporting to him and more than a dozen products under development.
When Balzac began writing Le Père Goriot in 1834, he had written several dozen books, including a stream of pseudonymously published potboiler novels.
When dealing with items in dozens, multiplication and division are straightforward ; for example, if a dozen eggs cost four shillings, then each egg was four pence.
He went on to either announce or host over a dozen game shows, including Say When !!
When Taoka inherited the title of kumicho, it was merely a local family with only a few dozen members.
When later asked the same question, Bishop conceded that oil companies do receive a drilling tax break, seemingly unaware of the dozen other tax breaks offered to the oil and gas industry.

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