When he handed it back and I had hold of it safely, Pops was looking toward me and I said `` Now '', to Charlie and he swung the short length of lead pipe he'd meanwhile taken from his pocket, once.

When large numbers of delayed signals are mixed over several seconds, the resulting sound has the effect of being presented in a large room, and it is more commonly called reverberation or reverb for short.

When the CCITT ( now ITU-T ) was standardizing ATM, parties from the United States wanted a 64-byte payload because this was felt to be a good compromise in larger payloads optimized for data transmission and shorter payloads optimized for real-time applications like voice ; parties from Europe wanted 32-byte payloads because the small size ( and therefore short transmission times ) simplify voice applications with respect to echo cancellation.

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

When the server serves, the shuttlecock must pass over the short service line on the opponents ' court or it will count as a fault.

When short on time, 2 × 2 boxes ( created by a square of 9 dots ) is good for beginners, and 5 × 5 is good for experts.

When there is a hill to be climbed, flights of many locks in short succession may be used.

When foraging for honey, chimps will use modified short sticks to scoop the honey out of the hive, that is, if the bees are stingless.

When a soldier is killed in action, the round piece is removed by cutting the short loop with a bayonet, while the oval piece remains with the body.

When he returned to the United States, jobs were in short supply ; Kaye struggled for bookings.

When they finished in 1851, they were sent on a short tour abroad, ending with a memorable visit to the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London.

When the band was summoned to the rehearsal stage on short notice, only Holly was in their dressing room.

** " Rule 2: When undecided about the exact frame to cut on, cut long rather than short.

When they did run, it was awkwardly and with short steps in a straight line.

When people are asked to make up a random-looking sequence of coin tosses, they tend to make sequences where the proportion of heads to tails stays closer to 0. 5 in any short segment than would be predicted by chance ( insensitivity to sample size ); Kahneman and Tversky interpret this to mean that people believe short sequences of random events should be representative of longer ones.

When Galileo was viewed as a private-sector development with public-sector financial participation, European Commission program managers sought Chinese participation in pursuit of Chinese cash in the short term and privileged access to China ’ s market for positioning and timing applications in the longer term.

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

When on the ground, they stand upright and move with short hops forward, with their arms held high.

Russ won a 1972 Nebula Award for her short story " When It Changed " and a 1983 Hugo Award for her novella " Souls.

Cagney cut short his imminent tirade, saying " When I started this picture, you said that we would tangle asses before this was over.

When jazz guitarists play chords underneath a song's melody or another musician's solo improvisations, it is called " comping ", short for " accompanying " The accompanying style in most jazz styles differs from the way chordal instruments accompany in many popular styles of music.

When Dekanozov finally appeared, Ribbentrop read out a short statement saying that the Reich had been forced into " military countermeasures " because of an alleged Soviet plan to attack Germany in July 1941.

When worn with full armour, the tachi would be accompanied by a shorter blade in the form known as koshigatana (" waist sword "); a type of short sword with no hand-guard ( tsuba ) and where the hilt and scabbard meet to form the style of mounting called an aikuchi (" meeting mouth ").

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

`` When you pile your `` guy '' on the bonfire tomorrow night, I wonder how much of the true story of Guy Fawkes you will remember??

When Agamemnon came home he was slain by either Aegisthus ( in the oldest versions of the story ) or Clytemnestra.

When she persuades him to blurt out the whole story, a twist is revealed — Charlotte's little sister is a school friend of Anne's.

When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).

When filming began at the end of 1928, Chaplin had been working on the story for almost a year.

However, the story is not yet quite finished: " When the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.

When asked which of his stories was a favorite in several interviews Barks cited the ten-pager in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 146 ( Nov. 1952 ) in which Donald tells the story of the chain of unfortunate events that took place when he owned a chicken farm in a town which subsequently was renamed Omelet.

When the comic switched to the Tamers series the storylines adhered to continuity more strictly ; sometimes it would expand on subject matter not covered by the original Japanese anime ( such as Mitsuo Yamaki's past ) or the English adaptations of the television shows and movies ( such as Ryo's story or the movies that remained undubbed until 2005 ).

When payment was not forthcoming for the first story he sold to Gernsback, Wollheim formed a group with several other authors, and successfully sued for payment.

When Emily was 13, she and Anne withdrew from participation in the Angria story and began a new one about Gondal, a large island in the North Pacific.

Yet another story holds that the freestyle name evolved in Miami over confusion between two tracks produced by Tony " Pretty Boy " Butler, " Freestyle Express " by Freestyle and Debbie Deb's " When I Hear Music ".

When a new segment producer edits footage of Brooke out of a story in I Disease ( series 3 ), she becomes upset to the point where she demands that the producer be fired for it.

When possible, he includes the information in suitable occasions through dialog or in story telling.

" George Fenneman, his radio and TV announcer, good-natured foil, and lifelong friend, often related a story in subsequent years of one of his final visits to Groucho's home: When the time came to end the visit, Fenneman lifted Groucho from his wheelchair, put his arms around his torso, and began to " walk " the frail comedian backwards across the room toward his bed.

When Kemp became Dole's running mate in 1996, they appeared on the cover of the August 19, 1996 issue of Time magazine, but the pair barely edged out a story on the reported discovery of extraterrestrial life on Mars, which was so close to being the cover story that Time inset it on the cover and wrote about how difficult the decision was.

When humanist scholar George Buchanan wrote his history Rerum Scoticarum Historia in the 1570s, a great deal of lurid detail had been added to the story.

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his most-beloved character Sherlock Holmes by plunging him to his death over the Reichenbach Falls with his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty, the public's demand for Holmes was so great that Doyle was compelled to bring him back to life in a subsequent story, where he details that Holmes had merely faked his death.

When one storyline ends there are several other story threads at differing stages of development.

When the protagonists are captured and imprisoned by a Norman baron, Scott interrupts the story to exclaim: It is grievous to think that those valiant barons, to whose stand against the crown the liberties of England were indebted for their existence, should themselves have been such dreadful oppressors, and capable of excesses contrary not only to the laws of England, but to those of nature and humanity.

When I was nine or ten years old, the assigned reading in the class was “ The Man without a Country ", a short story by Edward Everett Hale.

When said gadget went out of control, Urd used her angel to save Skuld, thus unlocking World Of Elegance, and also revealing the back story as to why Urd couldn't initially call her and why she had Scarlet's egg in the first place-Urd wanted to " try again " since she had believed that she had sealed her angel away forever at its own birth.

When little was revealed about the nature of the film writer Pat Rushin suggested that his short story " Vow: A Prolix Parable " was an example of the screenplay's sensibility.