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 Estragon finally succeeds in removing his boot, he looks and feels inside but finds nothing.

" When Roger Blin asked him who or what Godot stood for, Beckett replied that it suggested itself to him by the slang word for boot in French, godillot, godasse because feet play such a prominent role in the play.

When moving from one mode to the other the state of the machine is lost from memory, and requires a sometimes lengthy " boot " process to return the machine to the " on " state.

When he touched the horse's skull with his boot a snake slithered from the skull and bit him.

When summer came, Mathew Knowles established a " boot camp " to train them in dance and vocal lessons.

When the horse stops near a dwelling, Trinity gets up, pulls on his boots, gets stung by a scorpion hiding in the boot but is clearly insusceptible to the venom then he drags his Colt 45 in holster and walks inside.

When Nikita Khrushchev came to power, the boot became charged politically in the context of the " Battle for Modesty " campaign, where rubber footwear was proclaimed as " socialism style " ( thus fashionable ), while leather, which was obviously more expensive, was derided as " capitalism style " ( thus unfashionable ).

When a ski boot is put in the ski binding, the brake pivots under the downward pressure and runs parallel with the ski allowing free movement.

When the boot comes out of the ski, the brakes spring out perpendicular to the ski and stop the ski from sliding.

When the boot was rotated forward, the slot on the toe eventually rose above the metal pyramid, allowing the toe to release from the ski.

When he touched the horse's skull with his boot a snake slithered from the skull and bit him.

* When the Apple II Plus was introduced, it included the ability to scan each expansion slot ( working downward from slot 7 to slot 1 ) for an expansion card ROM with additional boot code, and automatically call it.

When attempting to boot virtual slot 7, users would encounter the message “ APPLETALK OFFLINE .” The IIc, however, had no built-in networking capabilities, and no external device was ever released.

When Krakoa captured the original X-Men, it was Moira's students whom Charles went to first — not the second team of Wolverine, Storm, Banshee, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Thunderbird and Sunfire as it was originally believed — putting them through the psionic equivalent of boot camp and allowing them to believe they were being trained over months as X-Men.

When operating systems were distributed on compact discs, either a boot floppy or the CD itself would boot specifically, and only, to install onto a hard drive.

When the chains were removed the top half of the spur on Falklands's right boot was broken off, the damage can be seen to this day.

When a new house was built, the Polish homeowner would attract one of the domovye by placing a piece of bread down before the stove was put in, and the Russian one would coerce the old house's domovoi to move with the family by offering an old boot as a hiding place.

When the fires died away, a body was found inside the boot of a car with a face so charred it was impossible to determine the identity of the man ; the numberplate of the car was intact, however, and traced to an Alfred Arthur Rouse.

When boot was published, it was criticized for being elitist in its approach to product reviews, and for the " price is no object " philosophy of its editors.

When boot relaunched as Maximum PC, it dropped much of the elitist attitude and focused on being accessible to a wider array of PC users and gamers.

When used in military ranks, senior officers, and officers of all ranks in cavalry and other formerly mounted units of some armies, wear a form of spur in certain orders of dress which is known as the box spur, having no spur strap but a long metal prong opposite the neck, extending between the arms of the heel band, which is inserted into a specially fitted recess or " box " in the base of the boot heel.

When harvesting switchgrass for hay, the first cutting occurs at the late boot stage – around mid-June.

When Intel designed the 286, it was not designed to be able to multitask real-mode applications ; real mode was intended to be a simple way for a bootstrap loader to prepare the system and then switch to protected mode.

When he is not allowed into the base, he steals a loader ( tractor ) to break in.

When the Windows loader loads an executable into memory for execution, it checks to see if each DLL has already been loaded with the offset used when the executable was created ( not the DLL ).

When first deployed with the U. S. Army, the MLRS was used in a composite battalion consisting of two batteries of traditional artillery ( howitzers ) and one battery of MLRS SPLLs ( self-propelled loader / launchers ).

When all shots on the wafer are exposed, the wafer is unloaded by the wafer loader robot, and another wafer takes its place on the stage.

When the weapon was being fired there would be one aimer, one loader, one firer, one person to swing the guns aim left or right, a man inserting the fuzes into rounds and handing them to the loader, two gunners lying in reserve to the left and right of the gun position, and the squad leader sitting a little distance to the rear of the weapon.

When specifying the requirements for its new service rifle, the Navy emphasized that it desired a repeating rifle loaded by means of chargers or clips, but " since the conditions of service may require the use of loose cartridges, or may result in the disabling of the magazine, it is desirable that the small arm be susceptible of use as a single loader, and that the magazine be capable of being replenished by single cartridges.

When the marker is at rest, the bolt is in the " back " position, and the firing chamber is exposed to the stack of paintballs being fed by the loader.

When some thirteen records of newly and recently born individuals are collated, little or no correlation between length and distribution can be detected.

When one of the replicated devices is detected to be defective, the other copy is still operational, and is being utilized to generate a new copy on another device ( usually available operational in a pool of stand-by devices for this purpose ).

When one of the replicated devices is detected to be defective, the other copy is still operational, and is being utilized to generate a new copy on another device ( usually available operational in a pool of stand-by devices for this purpose ).

When a single photon is sent through an interferometer, it passes through both paths, interfering with itself, as waves do, yet is detected by a photomultiplier or other sensitive detector only once.

When a key is depressed, it moves a magnet, which is detected by the solid-state sensor.

When an NEA is detected it is submitted to the IAU's Minor Planet Center ( located at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ) for cataloging.

When PAH activity is reduced, phenylalanine accumulates and is converted into phenylpyruvate ( also known as phenylketone ), which is detected in the urine.

When a signal comes down an axon, the synaptic vesicles fuse with the cell membrane releasing the neurotransmitter so that it can be detected by receptor molecules on the next nerve cell.

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When they strike the atmosphere, they can create large showers of secondary particles that are detected on Earth's surface.

When the clear tape reaches one of these, enough light will pass through the tape to the photodiode to trigger the stop function ; in more sophisticated machines it will start rewinding the cassette when the trailing end is detected.

When his crime is detected, he is forced to become a double agent in a covert power struggle between the Neo-Victorians and the Chinese Celestial Kingdom.

When this energy field is detected, the shredder instantly shuts down.

When ketone bodies are measured by way of urine concentration, acetoacetic acid, along with beta-hydroxybutyric acid ( BHB ), and acetone, is what is detected.

When detected early, shunt often can be corrected through surgery.

When British scientists in Antarctica performed airborne ice-penetrating radar surveys in the early 1970s, they detected unusual radar readings at the site which suggested the presence of a liquid, freshwater lake below the ice.

When AHL is detected, SdiA regulates the rck operon on the Salmonella virulence plasmid ( pefI-srgD-srgA-srgB-rck-srgC ) and a single gene horizontal acquisition in the chromosome srgE.

When the antenna was turned by 90 degrees at the maximum of the shower, the number of detections dropped to the background level, proving that the transient signals detected by radar were indeed from meteors.

When first detected in the mid-20th century, the decline was attributed to the impact of forest-clearance by Neolithic farmers, and of elm-coppicing for animal fodder, though the numbers of settlers could not have been large.

When a ground fault is detected, the device quickly cuts off the circuit.

When measuring broadband continuum emissions, where the energy is roughly evenly distributed across the detector bandwidth, the detected signal will increase in proportion to the bandwidth of the detector ( as opposed to signals with bandwidth narrower than the detector bandpass ).

When no motion is detected, lights shut down, and the owner could save kilowatts of wasted overnight energy.

When an event is detected, it is passed on to the application where it is dealt with.

When entanglement of the cords is detected, it is highly recommended to deliver the fetuses as early as 31 weeks.