Word: afterthought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thanks, I said, adding as an afterthought...
...imagine you'll be like Seidman," Bok said to The Crimson's 1986 Halloween expedition to his house, adding with ghostly afterthought, "And run against the establishment...
Viewed from hip Los Angeles, Orange County has sometimes seemed a quaint appendage sprawling southward down the Pacific Coast, a pleasant afterthought with an odd weakness for white shoes and alarmists of the John Birch Society stripe. To the larger world, the county still summons up images of citrus groves and Disneyland, planned communities and the young Richard Nixon, hard- core conservatism and the late John Wayne. But today Orange County is undergoing a dramatic change, exploding with new wealth. Its economic output has more than tripled in a decade, and its population since 1970 has jumped...
...post-war period, policy making was left to the President, and Congress was involved only as an "afterthought," Miller says. This system went "unquestioned when it appeared things were successful" but was reexamined in light of the Vietnam experience, he says...
...does not mind that his giddy young wife lies dead on the floor, accidentally slain by him as she prankishly impersonated a ghost. What really inflames him is that the breakfast toast has gone cold. In a ranting fury he rings for a servant and, almost as an afterthought, gulls the hapless lackey into believing himself responsible for the killing. Then, confident of his escape and frugal to the last, Lord Are points to the remains of the meal and tells his dupe, with a dismissive flourish, "Throw the toast to the hens on your way to prison...