Word: afterthought
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...special cell on the top floor of the British-built Teggart Fortress in Ramleh. Meanwhile, a British reporter had sought out Mrs. Veronika Eichmann, now living in seclusion in Germany. Affirming her husband's innocence, Mrs. Eichmann was "absolutely sure" he would return home. Then, almost as an afterthought, she added: "We never discussed his work...
...throw-out, then a shoulder roll with a cutback, and a hitch kick, and a split jump, and then a tour jete. Beaming with satisfaction, her mother patted the daughter on the head, flicked a speck off her shoulder, and said: "Bye, bye, dear. See you later." As an afterthought, she turned once again and barked: "And smile...
...Sense of Urgency." As Army Chief of Staff from 1955 to 1959, Taylor fought unsuccessfully for a bigger and better-equipped Army, finally quit in frustration, and poured his theories into an outspoken book he called The Uncertain Trumpet. As a sort of casual afterthought, Taylor admitted in his book that his program would call for a budget of from $50 billion to $55 billion a year, a sum that invoked scoffing laughter in Congress. But the book caught the eye of Senator Kennedy, who contributed a blurb for the publisher: "This volume is characterized by an unmistakable honesty, clarity...
...only mechanical part of the whole process is the making of two or three legs-or perhaps four: "That's a beast or two people." The titles are an afterthought, for Chadwick's purpose is not to express any idea. "Some people want to say something visually," he says. "But I want my work to be considered for itself. What interests me is the physical result, the form, the object rather than the idea." Then why bother with making legs at all? Answers Chadwick: "One must start from somewhere or else there is chaos. And I couldn...
...China Democratic Party. Lei's crime, the authorities declared, had been to publish in his magazine articles "defaming the chief of state, creating a feeling of hostility between the government and the people, driving a wedge between the natives of Formosa and the mainlanders," etc. etc. As an afterthought, the government charged that two of Lei's magazine employees had been identified as "Communist spies...