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 the station wagon drew abreast of the dusty dirt road that led up to the porch of the Culver house, Pamela turned the wheel, guiding the car to its familiar parking spot close to the house, and stopped.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

The sleeve notes continue: " When Bill Haley was fifteen he left home with his guitar and very little else and set out on the hard road to fame and fortune.

" When fighting broke out again, Hinde saw his Batetela allies drop human arms, legs and heads on the road.

When the road reached Columbus, Tipton constructed the first bypass road ever built ; it detoured south around the west side of Columbus enroute to Seymour.

When the angle θ does not satisfy the above condition, the horizontal component of force exerted by the road does not provide the correct centripetal force, and an additional frictional force tangential to the road surface is called upon to provide the difference.

When arriving in Ghent, it is best to leave cars in Park & Ride zones next to the road.

When the Church of St. Luke in the Fields was founded in 1820 it stood in fields south of the road ( now Christopher Street ) that led from Greenwich Lane ( now Greenwich Avenue ) down to a landing on the North River.

When motorcycles were invented, some riders took to wearing heavy leather jackets to protect from road rash and wind blast ; some also wear chaps or full leather pants to protect the lower body.

When Theseus appeared in the town, his reputation had preceded him, having travelled along the notorious coastal road from Troezen and slain some of the most feared bandits there.

When the road ahead is clear, the ACC allows the vehicle to accelerate to a speed preset by the driver.

When a crossing road is at the same grade as the freeway, a bridge ( or, less often, an underpass ) will be built for the crossing road.

When the German autobahns built in the 1930s introduced higher design standards and speeds, road planners and road-builders in the United States started developing and building toll roads to similar high standards.

When rebuilt in the 1830s, the Cumberland Road became the first road in the U. S. to use the new macadam road surfacing.

When engineers cut a road up the western side of this draw, it became the main route inland off the beaches.

Despite the band achieving massive success with Slippery When Wet and New Jersey, living on the road almost destroyed the strong bond between the band members.

When chasing a car on a highway in " Marge on the Lam ", he was asked to describe his location, and replied " I'm on a road, looks to be asphalt -- aw jeez, trees, shrubs -- uh, I'm directly under the earth's Sun ... now.

When felled logs sit adjacent to a road, heavy machinery may simply lift logs onto trucks.

When Bonnie and Clyde stop on the side of the road to help Mr. Moss fix a flat tire, the police in the bushes open fire and riddle them violently.

When the road system was laid out in the 1920s, U. S. 1 was mostly assigned to the existing Atlantic Highway, which followed the Fall Line between the Piedmont and the Atlantic Coastal Plain north of Augusta.

When the New England road marking system was established in 1922, the Atlantic Highway within New England was signed as Route 1, with a Route 24 continuing north to Madawaska ; New York extended the number to New York City in 1924 with its own Route 1.