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When the punchline was delivered, there would be a laugh track and the actors would close their lockers, allowing the process to start again with different people and a different joke.
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When it appeared that the mark has had as much nonsense as he or she could tolerate, Kennedy delivered his punchline: " You've been X ' ed!
When Roosevelt published his book, The Rough Riders, Dunne wrote a tongue-in-cheek review mocking the war hero with the punchline " if I was him I'd call th ' book ' Alone in Cubia '" and the nation roared.
When and was
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 ''.
When and delivered
When I'd delivered myself of that gem there was nothing to do but order up another drink.
When they heard of the Praetorians ' claim, they demanded that Claudius be delivered to them for approval, but he refused, sensing the danger that would come with complying.
When Young's career began, pitchers delivered the baseball underhand and fouls were not counted as strikes.
When Pharaoh asked the midwives why they had disobeyed his orders, the midwives told him the Hebrew women had easier labors than Egyptian women and delivered their babies before the midwife arrived.
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.
In the statement Baba proclaimed himself " one with the infinite source of everything ," and declared his intention to break his silence: " When I speak, my original message will be delivered to the world and it will have to be accepted ".
When this had been written down on paper, the mayor of the city delivered the keys to the city on Södermalm and Christian held his grand entry.
When the game score reaches three points each, the receiver chooses which side of the court ( advantage court or deuce court ) the service is to be delivered on the seventh and game-deciding point.
* When the player on the receiving side is not ready and the service is delivered.
" When Estelle Reiner died at age 94 in 2008, The New York Times referred to her as the woman " who delivered one of the most memorably funny lines in movie history ".
When Kiernan left him for a woman and marriage he was distraught, and Kiernan's death four years later at 26 delivered another blow.
When these two legions were delivered to Italy, instead of being sent to fight against the Parthians, they remained in Italy and were handed over to Pompey.
When confronting an incoming attack, the attack is parried or deflected and a counterattack is delivered at the same time.
When Lester will not tell them, Donny shoots a nearby priest ( Eva-Maria Schönecker ), and threatens to kill others if the information is not delivered.
When Hauser delivered the new instrument Segovia had ordered, Segovia passed his 1928 Hauser to his U. S. representative and close friend Sophocles Papas, who gave it to his classical guitar student, the famous jazz and classical guitarist Charlie Byrd, who used it on several records.
When the Colchians, in their pursuit of the Argonauts, likewise arrived in Drepane, and demanded that Jason's lover Medea should be delivered up to them, Alcinous declared that if she was still a virgin she should be restored to them, but if she was already the wife of Jason, he would protect her and her husband against the Colchians.
When he was not confined to his bed, he delivered lectures to ALN ( Armée de Libération Nationale ) officers at Ghardimao on the Algero-Tunisian border.
When deliveries could not be made quickly enough, additional barrels were delivered from South Africa.
When the young executive callowly asked Zinnemann to list what he had done in his career, Zinnemann delivered an elegant comeback by reportedly answering, " Sure.
When the poles for the 100, 000-watt lights were delivered, they had not been paid for.
When the Fairhaven Town Hall, a gift of Abbie Palmer ( Gifford ) Rogers, was dedicated, Mark Twain delivered a humorous speech to mark the occasion.
When the Ohio Women's Rights Convention came to Akron in 1851, Sojourner Truth extemporaneously delivered her speech named Ain't I A Woman ?, at the Universalist Old Stone Church.
When the winter finally broke the residents were able to harvest tremendous amounts of shad in Black Hole Creek and in the West Branch Susquehanna River with a seine that was delivered to them by the father-in-law of Major Ten Brook, Mr. Emmons.
When a hit is delivered, the attacker rolls a d10, adds the weapon's attack bonus, and subtracts the target's armor rating.
0.791 seconds.