Word: afterthought
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...York hospital for tests to determine why he bruised so easily and bled so long. They waited for hours while uncommunicative doctors and nurses examined and drew blood from the screaming, terrified baby. Finally, a doctor emerged and coldly offered them a dreadful diagnosis and an ambiguous afterthought. "The child has classical hemophilia," he told them. "There will be compensations, you may be sure...
...Holworthy squirrels ("They'll come right through the windows and chew up your term papers"), explanations of the course catalogue ("I've marked all the good courses with an X"), and a plug for The Crimson. As he was about to make his farewells. Swanson added, almost as an afterthought...
...silence or neutralize the voices of moderation and close the Oval Office door to all but his own favorites. At first, say Rather and Gates, Haldeman tentatively tested his influence by telling Burns to leave a note, rather than re-enter Nixon's office to deliver an afterthought. The dignified Burns considered it unseemly to argue with this "officious clerk"-and Haldeman was emboldened. When he personally pulled his U.C.L.A. classmate, fellow Eagle Scout and protégé, John Ehrlichman, into position as chief domestic-affairs adviser, the die was cast...
...million, but he figures the money is well spent. The major purpose of Bond's nautical campaign is to promote his projects in Western Australia, particularly Yanchep Sun City, a recreational development near Perth. On that score, says Bond, "we have already won." Almost as an afterthought, he adds: "Only the sporting outcome of the race is left to be determined...
Here is a guy who saw limited varsity experience his junior year, filling in when Doug Eliot was injured and taking a shift here and there. He was barely noticed by the fans, and when his name was brought up it was usually as an afterthought. Some questioned his ability to become a varsity starter...