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 that failed, he enlisted Branch Rickey's aid in the formation of a third major league, the Continental, with New York as the key franchise.

When Darnley died in 1927 his widow presented the urn to the Marylebone Cricket Club and that was the key event in establishing the urn as the physical embodiment of the legendary ashes.

When spotting aircraft, observers notice the key attributes of an aircraft.

When the Data Encryption Standard cipher was released in 1977, a key length of 56 bits was thought to be sufficient.

When Kennedy ran for president in 1960, one of his key election issues was an alleged " missile gap ", with the Soviets leading.

When the key is pressed, the tangent strikes the strings above, causing them to sound in a similar fashion to the hammering technique on a guitar.

When the key is released, the tangent loses contact with the string and the vibration of the string is silenced by strips of damping cloth.

When the keyboard processor detects that a key has changed state, it sends a signal to the CPU indicating the scan code of the key and its new state.

When information was being collected about a user, information stored in the optional tables would be found by searching for this key.

When a key is requested, first the node checks the local data store.

When switched into 6309 Native Mode ( as opposed to the default 6809-compatible mode ) many key instructions will complete in fewer clock cycles.

When the key is released by the player, the far end returns to its rest position and the jack falls back.

* When the front of the key is pressed, the back of the key rises, the jack is lifted, and the plectrum plucks the string.

When the key is pressed, the jack is raised, and the plectrum touches the string and begins to bend.

When the player releases the key, the jack falls back down under its own weight, and the plectrum pivots backwards to allow it to pass the string.

* When the key is released, the jack falls back down under its own weight, and the plectrum passes back under the string.

When depressed, the upper key lifts the " dogleg " jack ( jack A ) upwards.

When one of these keys is pressed, it will cause its control unit, historically, an 3174 or IBM 3274 but later the mainframe integrated communications adapter, to generate an I / O interrupt and present a special code identifying which key was pressed.

When a given task is appropriate for a team, task design can play a key role in team effectiveness ( Sundstrom, et al., 2000 ).

When a key is pressed, the foil tightly clings to the surface of the PC board, forming a daisy chain of two capacitors between contact pads and itself separated with thin soldermask, and thus " shorting " the contact pads with an easily detectable drop of capacitive reactance between them.

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

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

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 regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

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 he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.