When Charlie came up from the beach for his four-o'clock pill, the whole establishment ( gaudy enough when seen through mist and fog ) looked like a floodlit modern painting -- great blocks of dizzy color, punctuated at regular intervals by the glaring white of five community refrigerators.

When first informed he disbelieved the crow and turned all crows black ( where they were previously white ) as a punishment for spreading untruths.

When scratched with a sharp implement, an exothermic reaction occurs and white fumes are given off as metallic antimony is formed ; when rubbed with a pestle in a mortar, a strong detonation occurs.

When initially expelled by or removed from the whale, the fatty precursor of ambergris is pale white in color ( sometimes streaked with black ), soft, with a strong fecal smell.

When the Falcons started playing in a dome, the team switched to their dark uniforms for home games but have worn their white uniforms at home a few times since switching to the dome.

The monochrome combinations still existing in the 1950s are standardized by the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) as capital letters A through N. When color television was introduced, the hue and saturation information was added to the monochrome signals in a way that black & white televisions ignore.

When not celebrating Mass but still serving a liturgical function, such as the semiannual Urbi et Orbi papal blessing, some Papal Masses and some events at Ecumenical Councils, cardinal deacons can be recognized by the dalmatics they would don with the simple white mitre ( so called mitra simplex ).

:" When we see leaf-eating insects green, and bark-feeders mottled-grey ; the alpine ptarmigan white in winter, the red-grouse the colour of heather, and the black-grouse that of peaty earth, we must believe that these tints are of service to these birds and insects in preserving them from danger.

When slavery became institutionalized in the North American colonies, white men, whether or not they were married, sometimes took enslaved women as concubines.

When the Dallas Cowboys franchise debuted in 1960, the team's uniform included a white helmet adorned with a simple blue star and a blue-white-blue stripe down the center crown.

When this happens genetically within the eyes or ears, this white mutation can be lethal to their development, causing hearing or vision problems.

When the pilgrim is around from Mecca, he / she must dress in Ihram clothing, which consists of two white sheets.

For instance, in two studies by the American Mosaic Project, racial inequality in the United States was framed as either “ Black Disadvantage ” or “ White Privilege .” When the term “ black disadvantage ” was used to describe racial inequality, white participants felt less collectively responsible for the harm done to the out-group, which lessened collective guilt.

When hemoglobin combines with CO, it forms a very bright red compound called carboxyhemoglobin, which may cause the skin of CO poisoning victims to appear pink in death, instead of white or blue.

When heat is applied to the meat a chemical reaction happens that turns the hemoglobin white.

When perched with the wings folded, ivory-bills of both sexes present a large patch of white on the lower back, roughly triangular in shape.

He recorded a number of tracks with the Dapps, a white Cincinnati bar band, including the hit " I Can't Stand Myself ( When You Touch Me )".

* When a white horse is not a horse

When Brando reported to the induction center, he answered a questionnaire provided to him by saying his race was " human ", his color was " Seasonal-oyster white to beige ", and he told an Army doctor that he was psycho neurotic.

When asked what kind of bourbon she wants, she becomes flustered ( having only ordered the drink to show off how cosmopolitan she has become ) and orders a white wine spritzer instead.

) When a vote is successful, the ballots are burned alone, sending white smoke ( fumata bianca ) through the chimney and announcing to the world the election of a new pope.

When the paint is wet it is pink in color but upon drying it regains its original white color.

When feathered it was similar in color to that of the adult female, but its feathers were tipped with white, giving it a scaled appearance.

When a beam of white light passes from air into a material having an index of refraction that varies with frequency, a phenomenon known as dispersion occurs, in which different coloured components of the white light are refracted at different angles, i. e., they bend by different amounts at the interface, so that they become separated.

She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.

When the North enthusiastically rallied behind the national flag after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Lincoln concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort.

When she was half a mile away, Baralong ran up a signal flag indicating that she was going to rescue Nicosians crew.

When U-41 surfaced near Baralong, the latter opened fire while continuing to fly the American flag, and sank the U-boat.

When this flag is turned on for a file ( which can be accomplished by a computer program or by a human user ), the file can be examined, but it cannot be modified.

:* When is pressed, a " message " from the flag register tells the permanent memory that the operation to be done is " addition ".

When the green flag waved, Earnhardt was leading Derrike Cope.

When Hitler and his army chiefs asked for a pretext for the invasion of Poland in 1939, Himmler, Heydrich, and Heinrich Müller masterminded and carried out a false flag project code-named Operation Himmler.

When Union forces retook Nashville the following year, Driver was able to bring out his flag and hoist it from the state capitol spire, the last time it flew from a flagpole.

When Hitler asked for a pretext for the invasion of Poland in 1939, Himmler, Heydrich, and Heinrich Müller masterminded a false flag plan code-named Operation Himmler.

When the system time is set to certain dates, the image of the HUNT Team in the main menu will show one of the characters wearing or holding a holiday-themed item, such as a Santa hat or an American flag.

When a jumper " scratches ," the seated official will raise a red flag and the jumper who was " on deck ," or up next, prepares to jump.

When the team was renamed the Titans, the club introduced a new logo: A circle with three stars, similar to that found on the flag of Tennessee containing a large " T " with a trail of flames similar to a comet.

When questioned by the police he responded: " Yes ; that is my flag ; I burned it.

When NOAA was established in 1970 and the Coast and Geodetic Survey's assets became a part of NOAA, NOAA based its own flag on that of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.

When the governor general undertakes a state visit, however, the national flag is generally employed to mark his or her presence.

When we label something as a certain genre, we also flag these same characteristics as contributing to what we already believe the genre to be.

When people begin to trust instructions, they tend to associate social capital with them, as symbolized by a brand, flag or label.

When they arrived, they were told that they would be discussing the merge between the two tribes, which would happen the next day, where they would decide on a new name and paint a new flag.

When a rider crashes, track marshals upstream of the incident wave a yellow flag, prohibiting passing in that area ; one corner farther upstream, a stationary yellow flag is shown.

When Gandhi was in prison, Sardar Patel was asked by Members of Congress to lead the satyagraha in Nagpur in 1923 against a law banning the raising of the Indian flag.

When the city was freed from the British, General Nathaniel Green presented its leaders with the Moultrie Flag, describing it as the first American flag flown in the South.

When he was arrested for desecrating a flag in Prague, Mayerová's parents took her into the country, in hope that this would end their relationship.

When used from a standalone flagpole, the size of the flag is recommended to have a width equaling a fourth of the height of the pole.