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When they strike a " scorehole ", a very large deposit of methane and water, their fortune seems assured, and Teri expects to marry the boy she has been courting ; when it turns out he has married someone else, she grumpily agrees to one more year of school at least, and she and Telemachus take on the job of shepherding a group of younger children to the school at Red Sands City.
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When and they
When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.
When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.
When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.
When they learn you're in the hills though, they'll rally, don't worry about that ''.
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 they were ready to leave, Benson and Ramey walked back around the rear of the trailer.
When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.
When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.
When they reached the school, a gang of boys and girls were already there playing `` crack the whip '' in front of the schoolhouse.
When they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.
When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;
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 it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )
When the Southern States exercised their `` right to secede '', they formed what they officially styled `` The Confederate States of America ''.
When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.
When they express themselves it is incandescent hatred that shines forth, the rage of repudiation, the ecstasy of negation.
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 words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.
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 and strike
When the resistance is suddenly removed without warning, the patient's arm may swing up and even strike themselves.
When ITV did return, its first evening schedule included a special " catch-up " edition of Coronation Street, in which storylines which would have taken place during the strike were explained away in the form of a narrative chat between Len Fairclough and Bet Lynch.
When the newspapers went on strike he read the funny papers on the radio.
When Standard Fruit offered a new wage equivalent to US $ 1. 75 per day, the strike ultimately collapsed.
When the monsoon winds change, cyclones sometimes strike the shores of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.
When the Mauritanian miners went on a two-month strike in the late 1960s the army intervened and eight miners were killed.
When the coconut supply was halted by the strike, resourceful Ricardo Gracia made the executive decision to relocate the ingredients of the Coco-Loco inside hollowed out pineapples ( evidently the pineapple cutters ’ union had not followed suit with a strike of their own ).
When share warrants are issued, the company must strike out the name of the shareholder from its register of members and state the date of issue of the warrant and the number of shares to which it relates.
When the god did not strike him down, the people were amazed and converted to Christianity.
When oil was discovered at the Maracaibo strike in 1922, Venezuela's dictator, Juan Vicente Gómez, allowed US oil companies to write Venezuela's petroleum law.
When Menelaus wants to strike the finishing blow, Hector kills him to protect his brother.
When they strike the atmosphere, they can create large showers of secondary particles that are detected on Earth's surface.
When the ARU struck the Pullman Palace Car Company over pay cuts, President Grover Cleveland used the United States Army to break the strike.
When both fields equalize, the energy stored in the spring is released to strike the hammer against the ribbon and prints a dot on the paper.
When that fails, the Emperor goads Luke to strike him down to save the Rebels, who are losing a battle with the Empire on and over the forest moon of Endor.
When overtures intended to bring about new elections and PPP participation in the government were brushed aside, the largely Indo-Guyanese sugar work force went on a bitter strike.
When one chooses an abstract domain, one typically has to strike a balance between keeping fine-grained relationships, and high computational costs.
When they strike the antenna of a radio receiver, the waves excite similar ( but less powerful ) radio frequency currents in it.
When the strike started on 3 May 1926, Bevan soon emerged as one of the leaders of the South Wales miners.
When Anakin arrives, Windu is standing over the disarmed Palpatine, prepared to strike.
When he begins, however, the log shouts out, " Don't strike me too hard!
When the middle horizontal wheel has made 1 revolution, the carriage will have gone 1 li and the wooden figure in the lower story will strike the drum.
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