Word: afterthought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...itinerary when someone realized that the President-or any other mortal-would have trouble keeping up the pace of such a tour. Having promised a visit to Venezuela, Brazil and Nigeria, however, Carter was obviously obliged to follow up. Liberia was added more or less as an afterthought...
...doing, the director irreparably damages the flow of the narrative, and the next transition only calls attention to his oversight. Realizing that he has abandoned the intrepid detectives in the mid-stream of their investigation, Chabrol suddenly thrusts them back into the picture as a not-so-subtle afterthought. The policemen somehow fasten onto the idea that the husband--long ago presumed to have been the victim of a murder they cannot prove--might still be alive and kicking, but how they arrive at this uncanny hunch is never fully explained...
...takes a single pork chop. He recalls his lunch with the labor leaders. "Whew," he says. "Those fellas can be mean. They used a blowtorch on me. That's the first time George Meany has ever talked to me that way." Then comes a typical Carter afterthought: "Tough, but polite. I listened, but I don't think I satisfied them. The minimum-wage bill has labor mad. The farm-price-support bill has the farmers mad. Pretty soon we're going to announce the energy policy-and everybody will...
Harvard, the bastion of the Eastern establishment, has always been slow to adopt innovations, and Radcliffe has consistently been treated as something of an afterthought. Radcliffe's founders accepted Harvard's control in return for its high academic quality; but Baker repeatedly quotes past and present Harvard administrators speaking out against higher education for women; she shows again and again that Harvard has been unwilling to change its traditional structure to help women find a place here. The merger-nonmerger position, Baker argues, allows Radcliffe a superficial independence. Radcliffe controls the Radcliffe Institute funds, but effectively washes away responsibilities...
With the achievement of the first down now an afterthought, Johnson had to avoid Bill Emper somewhere near midfield, but the funny thing is that with the exception of the Crimson captain, and one will have to see the game films to verify this, it didn't appear that any other Harvard types came within even a life jacket of rescuing the touchdown for the home folks...