When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

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 they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he added to his Pittsburgh commitments the directorship of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1958, he conducted one hundred fifty concerts within nine months, `` commuting '' between the two cities.

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 Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.

When it was not, one of the great dramas of Washington would be presented.

When one powerful nation strives to emulate the success of another, it is only natural.

When he was in the war, he was in Law or Supplies or something like that, and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals -- just like the one we sent in for Trig -- and go away with a real glow.

When something unexpected happened, one always asked for water if one were a woman, brandy if one were a man.

When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.

When it is needed, one formula is as important as another.

When mold has more than one design cavity, make individual paper patterns.

When changing from one color to another, whether working on right or wrong side, pick up the new strand from underneath dropped strand.

`` When working from one of my sketches I square it up and project its linear form freehand to the watercolor sheet with charcoal.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.

When now we count the frequency of the 71 items in the two language families appearing in the same column or grade, or one column or grade apart, or two or three or four, we find these differences: Af

When consciousness deserts the sleeping body and the wakeful world, it continues in the myriad progressions of the ever-present past and future, in a life as vibrant and real as the one left when the body tired and required sleep.

When a hoop is won, the sequence of play continues as before.

When a pedal is off or inactive, the electric audio signal coming in to the pedal is diverted onto a " bypass ", resulting in a " dry " signal which continues on to other effects down the chain.

" He had previously been quoted as saying: " When today the Pope dies, you'll get another one tomorrow, because the Church continues.

When the ice sheet disappeared, the shield rose again, a tendency that continues to this day at a rate of about one meter per century.

When it first forms, this protective layer is only 1 – 2 nm thick but continues to slowly grow ; reaching a thickness of 25 nm in four years.

When the text was laid out on the screen 72 PPI font metric files were used, but when printed 300 PPI files were used — thus one would occasionally find characters and words slightly off, a problem that continues to this day.

When not in use, the prayer rope is traditionally wrapped around the left wrist so that it continues to remind one to pray without ceasing.

When sedimentation continues, an older rock layer becomes buried deeper as a result.

When the person jumps, the cord stretches and the jumper flies upwards again as the cord recoils, and continues to oscillate up and down until all the energy is dissipated.

When Laurie leaves for college, Brooke continues his employment with Mr. Laurence as an assistant.

When one spins and stops suddenly, fluid in the inner ear continues to rotate causing a sense of continued spinning while one's visual system no longer detects motion.

When Santa Ana conditions prevail, with winds in the lower two to three kilometers ( 1. 25-1. 8 miles ) of the atmosphere from the north through east, the lower atmosphere continues to be dry.

When the JRX-2, the first Team Losi buggy, was released, it initiated a rivalry with Team Associated that continues to this day.

When a member is excommunicated, shunning continues until the individual's death unless they repent.

When the supply voltage is removed, the voltage spike forward-biases the diode and the reactive current continues to flow through the winding, through the diode and back into the winding.

When mist rises from the forests, these are Papatuanuku's sighs as the warmth of her body yearns for Ranginui and continues to nurture mankind ( Grey 1956: 11 ).

When the machine continues to follow him, repeating his name over and over, " Franklin, Franklin, Franklin!

When motorized vehicles replaced the horse-drawn engines, the department selected white for the color of its motorized equipment — a tradition that continues to this day at both fire stations.

When the population dropped below 5, 000, Gallipolis became a village, but continues to operate under its existing city charter.

* The White Dragon 1978, by Anne McCaffrey ( 1978 ; although published prior to Dragondrums, The White Dragon continues the adventures of certain Dragondrums characters ; McCaffrey recommends reading Dragonsong, Dragonsinger and Dragondrums before The White Dragon ; The White Dragon incorporates McCaffrey's story " A Time When ")

When Yarmouth reported successive new French demands, Fox replied that the British government " continues ardently to wish for the Conclusion of Peace ".

When William left for Holland in July Marlborough was one of the Lords Justices left running the country in his absence ; but striving to reconcile his close Tory connections with that of the dutiful royal servant was difficult, leading Marlborough to complain – " The King's coldness to me still continues.

When a natural enemy is successfully established it rarely requires additional input and it continues to kill the pest with no direct help from humans and at no cost.