When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.

When it finally sank in, the crowd swarmed onto the field, cheering loudly and chairing Boyle and Spofforth to the pavilion.

When the Greeks left without killing Ajax, despite their sacrifices Athena became so angry that she persuaded Zeus to send a storm that sank many of their ships.

When U-41 surfaced near Baralong, the latter opened fire while continuing to fly the American flag, and sank the U-boat.

When the dummy monster broke loose from the Pisces during filming and sank to the bottom of the loch, Vickers executives capitalised on the loss and ' monster fever ' by allowing the sub to do a bit of exploring.

When in the course of the year the king sank into a condition of mental torpor, Struensee's authority became paramount.

When Ravel awoke from the anaesthesia, he asked for his brother, but quickly sank into a deep coma, from which he never awoke.

When Arnold and his troops, making up the rear guard of the army, abandoned Fort Saint-Jean, they burned or sank all the boats they could not use, and set fire to the sawmill and the fort.

When far out at sea, he removed his heel, and the canoe sank.

When a ship foundered, local wreckers would scavenge what they could of the ship's cargo before it sank, hiding their pilfered rum behind, and sometimes in, the same large sand dunes where the Wright Brothers would later perform glider tests, before flying their first plane from level ground nearby.

When HMS Conqueror sank the ARA General Belgrano during the 1982 Falklands war she used the " point and shoot " 21 " Mark VIII torpedoes rather than her Tigerfish.

When his ship sank, he saved himself from drowning by clinging to a barrel.

When the glaciers of the north of the island of Great Britain melted, the south of England sank slightly, flooding the Solent valley and Southampton Water to form their characteristic rias ( flooded estuaries ).

When the original Tombs building was condemned and demolished at the end of the century, builders sank enormous concrete caissons to bedrock, as much as 140 feet below street level, in order to give its replacement more secure foundations.

When the Israeli missile boats reached the range of their own missiles they fired five Gabriel missiles and sank one Komar and one Osa class missile boat immediately and damaged the second Komar.

When the coconut sank, a drum would be beaten to signal the end of a round.

When he let out a surprised cry, Melusina caught sight of him, and her bath immediately sank into the solid rock, carrying her with it.

When Grand Central Depot was opened in the 1870s, the railroad tracks between 56th and 96th Streets were sank out of sight, and, in 1888, Park Avenue was extended to the Harlem River.

When the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge sank, it severed the anchor cables of the bridge parallel to it.

When the sank in 1963, SOSUS helped determine its location.

When she washed the blood away, the spindle fell from her hand and sank out of sight.

When the ferry MV Bukoba sank in Lake Victoria in 1996, taking al-Qaeda co-founder Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri with it, Mohammed was one of the individuals sent to the scene by al-Qaeda, attempting to verify that Abu Ubaidah was dead, and had not in fact defected.

When they eventually decided to depart for England, their ship almost sank in a storm before it reached Margate.

When aircraft from four Japanese carriers attacked Midway Island, the three U. S. carriers, warned by broken Japanese codes and waiting in ambush, attacked and sank three enemy carriers – Akagi, Kaga, Soryu.

When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

When analyzing a pitcher's statistics, some useful categories to consider include K / 9IP ( strikeouts per nine innings ), K / BB ( strikeouts per walk ), HR / 9, WHIP ( walks plus hits per inning pitched ) and OOPS ( opponent on-base plus slugging ).

When short on time, 2 × 2 boxes ( created by a square of 9 dots ) is good for beginners, and 5 × 5 is good for experts.

When Saint Paul returned to Jerusalem after his conversion, Barnabas took him and introduced him to the apostles ( 9: 27 ).

When the sperm breaks through the hard outer shell of the egg a new cell embryo is formed, which, in humans, grows to full size in 9 months.

When appropriate, the second line may begin with a ' form ' number — e. g., 1 stands for history and criticism of a subject, 2 for a bibliography, 5 for a dictionary, 6 for an atlas or maps, 7 for a periodical, 8 for a society or university publication, 9 for a collection of works by different authors.

She starred in the western film The Ballad of Josie ( 1967 ) and starred in a comedy film centered on the Northeast blackout of November 9, 1965 called Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

When referring to disk storage capacities it usually means 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > bytes, often stated explicitly on the manufacturer's permanent sticker.

When the mask is used in a real scenario, or as part of a drill, there is 9 seconds to put the gas mask on and clear and seal.

When using the minimum loads, 9. 0 grains ( 0. 58 g ) of AA # 2 yield a velocity of 1126 ft / s ( 343 m / s ), and 19. 5 grains ( 1. 26 g ) of # 9 yield 1364 ft / s ( 416 m / s ).

When family friend John T. Ford opened 1, 500-seat Ford's Theatre on November 9 in Washington, D. C., Booth was one of the first leading men to appear there, playing in Charles Selby's The Marble Heart.

When Madison assumed office in 1809, the federal government had a surplus of $ 9, 500, 000 and by 1810 the national debt continued to be reduced and taxes had been cut.

When Lawrence died on June 9, 2000, the New York Times called him " One of America's leading modern figurative painters " and " among the most impassioned visual chroniclers of the African-American experience.

When she was 9 years old, she composed and delivered an hour-long speech in Latin to some of the most distinguished intellectuals of the day.

When ultra-heat treatment ( UHT ) is combined with sterile handling and container technology ( such as aseptic packaging ), it can even be stored unrefrigerated for 6 to 9 months.

When the votes were counted, the party doubled its federal vote from 1. 9 million ( PDS result in 2002 ) to more than 4 million — including an electoral breakthrough in industrial Saarland where, for the first time in a western state, it surpassed the Greens and FDP due, in large part to Lafontaine's popularity and Saarland roots.

When it was first discovered, scientists estimated that the largest Quetzalcoatlus fossils came from an individual with a wingspan as large as 15. 9 meters ( 52. 2 feet ), choosing the middle of three extrapolations from the proportions of other pterosaurs that gave an estimate of 11, 15. 5 and 21 meters respectively ( 36 feet, 50. 85 feet, 68. 9 feet ).

When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, in Operation Barbarossa, the Red Army's ground forces had 303 divisions and 22 separate brigades ( 4. 8 million soldiers ), including 166 divisions and 9 brigades ( 2. 9 million soldiers ) garrisoned in the western military districts.

When Wood joined the Packers in 1960, he was converted to a free safety and he went on to make the All-Pro team 9 times in his 12 year career.

When Baghdad fell to U. S-led forces on 9 April, marked symbolically by the toppling of his statue by iconoclasts, Saddam was nowhere to be found.

When Watson took over as general manager, the company produced $ 9 million in revenue and had more than 1300 employees.

When Gagarin and Titov were informed of the decision during a meeting on April 9, Gagarin was very happy, and Titov was disappointed.