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When the ambassadors of the Senate, entreating for peace, tried to intimidate him with hints of what the despairing citizens might accomplish, he laughed and gave his celebrated answer: " The thicker the hay, the easier mowed!
When the florist shop put up signs for a mayoral and city council candidates who opposed the eminent domain abuse, workers at city hall started putting up bales of hay to block the sign.
When a local Television reporter asked who ordered the bales of hay to be put up, city workers refused to comment.
When they slept in barns, it was often on piles of wet straw or hay.
When the hay is loaded onto a ship bound for Arabia, so are they.
When caused by pollens of any plants, it is called " pollinosis ", and if specifically caused by grass pollens, it is known as " hay fever ".
When preservationists began restoration work in the 1930s, the original cherry-railed gallery was returned from a local barn where it had served as a hay loft for more than a century.
* When the sun shineth, make hay.
When electricity arrived, the bale spear, pulley and track system were replaced by long motorized bale conveyors known as hay elevators.
When built a typical Gangte house is mostly erected out of wood, hay and bamboo.
When he comes to the line, the shooter will place (" stage ") his guns as required by the stage description ( for instance, he may put his rifle on a hay bale to the left of the start position and his shotgun on a hay bale to the right of where he starts the stage, or perhaps his pistols on a table or countertop.
When harvesting switchgrass for hay, the first cutting occurs at the late boot stage – around mid-June.
When using it as an impersonal verb, it uses the conjugated form hay.
When the monster bear was later weighed on a hay scale, it tipped the beam at 1, 500 pounds ( one of the largest grizzly bears ever captured alive ).
When Roberts first arrived on the Grand Prix scene, motorcycle racers were competing for as little prize money as $ 200, at venues such as Imatra in Finland that featured railroad crossings and hay bales wrapped around telephone poles.
When the coast is clear, Homer and Marge have inspired sexual intercourse in the hay loft.
When the hay was fed to the stock the wire was cut and hung in bundles around the farm.

When and wagon
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 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 he returned home, the station wagon loaded with tools, Jinny had gone with a friend to some meeting in the village, using the recently purchased second car.
When the two cars were equidistant from him, the station wagon started up again and the Ford gathered speed.
When pairs of horses are used in drawing a wagon or coach it is usual for the outer side of each pair to be connected to reins and the inside of the bits connected by a short bridging strap or rope.
When Midas grew up to be a handsome and valiant man, the Phrygians were harassed by civil discord, and consulting the oracle, they were told that a wagon would bring them a king, who would put an end to their discord.
When the first patrol wagon arrived, Inspector Pine recalled that the crowd — most of whom were homosexual — had grown to at least ten times the number of people who were arrested, and they all became very quiet.
When they were eight or from home near the crossing of the Terre Bleu, they were met by the Native Americans and all, save Rebecca and Abraham Baker, were stripped of their clothing and left to find their way home in this plight ; the wagon loaded with venison, intended for the wedding feast, was also robbed.
When Sunday comes, Mother Maria informs Smith that he will be driving the sisters to Mass in his station wagon.
When the Los Angeles Fire Department was formed in 1886, it had 4 fire stations, two steam fire engines, two hose reels, a hose wagon, a 65 ' aerial ladder truck, 31 paid firefighters, 24 reserve firefighters and 11 horses to protect 30 square miles ( 77 km² ) and a population of 50, 000.
When the Dallas area was being settled by American pioneers, many of the settlers traveled by wagon trains along the old Shawnee Trail.
When a model range includes multiple body styles, such as sedan, hatchback and station wagon, the models typically share their platform, drivetrain and bodywork forward of the A-pillar.
When a new body style was added, Packard introduced a station wagon instead of a 2-door hardtop as buyers requested.
When not toiling for the witch-woman, she is kept in the form of a multicoloured bird chained by a silver thread to a Gypsy wagon.
When a stray log upsets the wagon, the coffin is knocked out, Cash ’ s broken leg is reinjured, and the team of mules drowns.
When the leader of one small wagon train heading for Oregon Territory died, he assumed leadership and thus ended up on Puget Sound.
When the redesigned KF Laser was introduced in March 1990, the wagon continued in a sole GL specification, with minor upgrades until 1994, when Australian production of the Laser ceased.
When the plant closed in 1997, Ford dropped the Laser and introduced the Ford Escort hatchback and sedan, having already introduced the Escort wagon.
When the train came in at 9: 45 p. m., they backed a wagon up to the express car and unloaded all the contents.
When mowing rye, the villagers let some stalks stand, tie flowers among them, and when finished with their work gather around them and shout three times: “ Fru Gaue, you keep some fodder, this year on the wagon .” In Prignitz, they call her fru Gode and leave a bunch of grain standing in each field which they call “ Fru Gode ’ s portion .” In the district of Hameln, it was custom, if a reaper while binding sheaves passed over one, to jeer and call out: “ Is that for fru Gauen?
I was drunk and making an ass out of myself and they were concerned about it .... I'd clean up for a little while then I'd fall off the wagon, like addicts do .... When everything blew up, everybody kind of lost their minds .... I was clean for about a month ... well, semi-clean ; I can't bullshit about that ... but I fell off the wagon after the Kurt Cobain thing.
In the 1940 film " His Girl Friday ", McCue, one of the press room reporters, jokes that " Mrs. Phoebe DeWolfe " gave birth to a pickaninny in a patrol wagon, concluding, " When the pickaninny was born the Rifle Squad examined him carefully to see if it was Earl Williams.
When Chevrolet proposed a simulated woodgrain option for the Chevy Vega Kammback wagon for the 1973 model year, after a gap of four years of applying woodgrain film on the Caprice, the Vega's production schedule made smooth application of the applique difficult without wrinkles and heavy scrappage — and requiring retraining by the film supplier.

When and had
When he had finished he led him and the mare to the porch.
When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:
When several minutes had passed and Curt hadn't emerged from the livery stable, Brenner reentered the hotel and faced Summers across the counter.
When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.
`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.
When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.
When they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.
When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.
When, in 1832, the South Carolina nullifiers adopted the principle of state interposition which Madison had advanced in his old Virginia Resolve, they elicited no encouragement from that senior statesman.
When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.
When Peter B. Kyne ( Pride Of Palomar, 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese, did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition??
When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.
When May came the Caravan had already crossed the Equator.
When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.
When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.
When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.
When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??
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.
When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.
When the captives arrived in Boston, `` the chaplain ( of their captors ) went to prayers in the open streets, that the people might take notice what they had done in a holy manner, and in the name of the Lord ''.

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