Word: afterthought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidate for the senate. Jimmy smiled from ear to ear: that big, wide Jimmy smile, and Ashley spent the rest of the time walking around the platform, endearing herself and her father to the crowd of Democratic notables. Tsongas was clearly the man of the day, King a hesitant afterthought. And perhaps somebody told Carter he should visit Lynn to endorse the Democratic ticket partly as a favor to U.S. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.), whose son Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill III, rests as King's hesitant running mate, and partly for Tsongas...
...attackers took one student's wallet, which was empty, and attempted to take the other's. "Money seemed to be an afterthought," said one of the students...
...President joined the lobbying effort with his disarming soft sell. One of his targets was Nebraska's Democratic Senator Ed Zorinsky, who was recuperating from a double hernia operation. Carter phoned him last month to wish him a speedy recovery, then added as though it were an afterthought: "Keep your mind open on the energy bill." Zorinsky finally voted...
...proposed zoning change. "That's not the way we're going to do it," Perez replies, pulling out a pen. "What they have to do is buy this piece here and start subdividing like this." During the meeting, he reads out his resolutions, adding, almost as an afterthought, "Moved by Mr. Petrovich, seconded by Mr. Kirby and adopted unanimously...
...sympathetic defenders. Columnist Peregrine Worsthorne of the Daily Telegraph, a staunch monarchist, insists that "royal black sheep there are bound to be" and argues that it is no crime for a Windsor woman to admire younger men, particularly in England's second Elizabethan age. "Admittedly," adds Worsthorne in afterthought, "Roddy Llewellyn is no Essex or Walter Raleigh, but then she herself is no virgin queen." The princess's defenders also recall Margaret's pathetic trauma of 1955, when she was forced to end her much publicized romance with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend...