When Dien Bien Phu fell in May 1954, Ike refused to intervene despite urgings from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Vice President and the head of NCS.

When Al Posen originated the idea of National Cartoonists Society tours to entertain American servicemen, he became the NCS Director of Overseas Shows.

When the award name was changed in 1954, all of the prior eight winners were given Reuben statuettes designed by and named after the NCS ' first president, Rube Goldberg.

When he started school at the age of five-and-a-half, he could not understand why the alphabet begins with the letter A, instead of C, as in the scale.

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 the two cars were equidistant from him, the station wagon started up again and the Ford gathered speed.

When the ballplayers started to carry the catcher off the field he said: `` That ought to teach the sonofabitch ''.

When his brother and his infant son died, Andrew ascended the throne and started to grant royal domains to his partisans.

When people started to study scientifically how to fly, people began to understand the basics of air and aerodynamics.

When the Falcons started playing in a dome, the team switched to their dark uniforms for home games but have worn their white uniforms at home a few times since switching to the dome.

When a service started up on a machine, it registered a name for itself as chosen by a human administrator.

When the Mexican-American War started, Pike joined the cavalry and was commissioned as a troop commander, serving in the Battle of Buena Vista.

Beethoven's friend Anton Schindler, later said: " When he started working on the fourth movement the struggle began as never before.

When she started to illustrate, she chose first the traditional rhymes and stories, " Cinderella ", " Sleeping Beauty ", " Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves ", " Puss-in-boots ", and " Red Riding Hood ".

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

When the Polish words and melodies started to become popular, including many new secular pastorals ( pastoralka, or shepherd's songs ), they were not written down originally, but rather taught among people by heart.

When the infant BBC Television service was started in 1936, Rediffusion, which had supplied cable radio services since 1928, started providing " Pipe TV " to its customers who had difficulties tuning into the weak TV broadcast signal.

When hammerless designs started to become common, the O / U design was introduced, and most modern sporting doubles are O / U designs.

When the Israeli nuclear program started later that decade, a location not far from the city was chosen for the Negev Nuclear Research Center due to its relative isolation in the desert and availability of housing.

When activities are started or finished, EV is accumulated according to the earning rule.

When the United States resumed EVAs on April 7, 1983, astronauts started using an Extravehicular Mobility Unit ( EMU ) for self-contained life support independent of the spacecraft.

When the power supply to the amplifier is first switched on, electronic noise in the circuit provides a signal to get oscillations started.

When the worldwide film boom started, he, and the few other people in the German film business, continued to sell prints of their own films outright, which put them at a disadvantage.

When Douglass was about twelve years old, Hugh Auld's wife Sophia started teaching him the alphabet despite the fact that it was against the law to teach slaves to read.

When the injunction came into force versions later than 5. 5. 10 left the network or were disabled as users started them.

When Bosman was sixteen, he started writing short stories for the national Sunday newspaper ( the Sunday Times ).

When the " Salvador Ibáñez " workshop was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War, the " Ibanez Salvador " guitars were no longer available, so Hoshino Gakki bought the " Ibanez Salvador " brand name rights and started making Spanish acoustic guitars in 1935, at first using the " Ibanez Salvador " brand name, and then later using the " Ibanez " brand name.

When Ronald Reagan took office, Laxalt's close ties with Reagan proved useful, and Reagan canceled the new shelter system in 1981, calling it " a Rube Goldberg scheme ".

When ZZ Top started, Beard was known by the nickname " Rube " and was credited as " Rube Beard " on the first album and on Tres Hombres, the band's third album, but is listed under his real name on Rio Grande Mud, their second album.

When asked about her place of birth, Goldberg often stated Kaunas rather than Königsberg.

When the First World War broke out, three-year-old Goldberg had to escape with her parents to Russia, where they spent a year in hard conditions.

When Frankfurter retired in 1962 and President John F. Kennedy named labor lawyer Arthur Goldberg to replace him, Warren finally had the fifth liberal vote for his majority.

When the bike spontaneously exploded without any visible reason, Goldberg realized what was going on, and asked, " Who do I get to kill first?

When the case, Rostker v. Goldberg, reached the Supreme Court in 1981, they were supported by a men's rights group and multiple women's groups, including the National Organization for Women.

When the scandal broke, Goldberg defended his mother and Tripp during the ensuing media firestorm.

When Mark Goldberg bought Crystal Palace, he bought just the club and former Palace chairman Ron Noades retained Selhurst Park, having purchased it from the club in 1986.

When the nWo split, Hennig and Rude joined the NWO Wolfpac, and they tried to motivate Konnan to defeat Goldberg, who was undefeated at the time.

When Konnan was defeated by Goldberg, Rude and Hennig attacked him, later joining nWo Hollywood, the rivals of the Wolfpac.

When founding member Rob Burger ( the trio's accordionist and pianist ) left the trio in late 2004, Mark Orton and Carla Kihlstedt replaced him with both Goldberg and Parkins, presenting a new, though closely related, ensemble — the Tin Hat Quartet — for two short concert tours in the U. S. in January and April 2005.

When Frankfurter retired in 1962 and President John F. Kennedy named labor union lawyer Arthur Goldberg to replace him, Warren finally had the fifth vote for his liberal majority.

When Mulligan realized that actress Whoopi Goldberg had improvised the sequence too negatively, Levin was able to edit the sequence in such a way to make it feel less dark.

When Bill Goldberg came to WWE in 2003, his first feud was against The Rock, who on the April 21, 2003 edition of Raw brought in Gill, once again under his Gillberg gimmick, to mock Goldberg.

When discussing what RF Video refers to as " infamous one finger pin with Hogan ", Nash said that Goldberg was the one who caused that rumor to be spread and that he had not begun booking until February 1999.

When playing these gigs, the group played a set alone and then joined up with the orchestra to perform an orchestral version of Kamen's rock song " Anaconda ," and Kamen's song " Winter Child ", based on the Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations.

When Spelling-Goldberg Productions disbanded, Goldberg took some rights to some series and Spelling Television retained others.

When McCann returns, he and Goldberg interrogate Stanley with a series of ambiguous, rhetorical questions, tormenting him to complete collapse.