Word: afterthought
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...statement. When he could be heard, he added, "because, my friends, I assure you that these are people who couldn't care less about the good of our party." The crowd roared anew. Ike later explained that he had penciled the remark into his speech almost as an afterthought to express his "resentment" at journalists who "write think pieces and ascribe motives to others when they don't know what they are talking about." Ike was irritated weeks ago by a New York Herald Tribune column by Roscoe Drummond, who interpreted a Trib-solicited Eisenhower statement as meaning...
...sculpture occupies a sort of blue-velours-lined grotto, bathed in the beams of 50 spotlights. Toward the darker wings, 400 hanging half-watt blue lights gently twinkle, serving as automatic votive lamps. Behind the sculpture looms a 25-ft.-high theatrically draped cross, like a pious afterthought, while piped-in Gregorian chants tranquilize the atmosphere...
Despite the humor of this chapter, The McLandress Dimension is not a great success. First of all, its seven essays do not hang together; several seem to have little connection with the others. In a few cases, Mr. Epernay appears to have inserted Dr. McLandress almost as an afterthought into essays in which he plays no real part...
Lamar's comments on the contributions of these two gridders indicate his reluctance to single out any players from a team that shows over-all excellence. "Leo? He's a fine defensive player," and then, almost as an afterthought, "and he can run with the ball." Of Diamond, "He plays his position well...
...anyone's ever suspecting that they were in fact new Rovers. Past Rover styling had been so stodgy that it appealed mostly to old ladies and to the slower-moving among Britain's landed gentry. Rover concentrated so much on engineering that styling was almost an afterthought. "This is an engineer's company," says lanky Peter Wilks, 43, Rover's director of engineering and a former racing driver. "That means nobody pushes engineers around here, but it means we also get the blame...