Word: afterthought
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Appellate Action. In Trento, Italy, informed that her laborer husband had been fired from his job, Mrs. Speranza Antonelli knocked him out with a club, had an afterthought, dropped in on his foreman, knocked him unconscious...
...Malaya, was snared in a Kuala Lumpur nightspot by a nifty, wild-hipped dancer billed as the Cuban H-Bomb. As flashbulbs popped, she bussed him moistly. Tourist-on-the-Loose Morrison, sheepish but happy, said: "I had no time to defend myself." Then he had a grim afterthought: "I hope this picture doesn't get back to England." Later, as most British newspaper readers chuckled over the picture, Morrison's stay-at-home wife Margaret gamely commented: "After all, it is a good will visit...
...studies, nevertheless, this famous octogenarian has maintained a disinterested, if controversial, stand; he is a scientist first and foremost, a politician only in afterthought. To some members of the Government Department Siegfried represents the Third Republic incarnate. His own countrymen, however, often compare him with Justice Holmes--a liberal and a skeptic...
...wife, who wore a gold pin shaped like a poodle with ruby eyes on a fashionably faded denim dress, spoke up for the culprit. "Maybe," she said, "he's just neurotic. You know, a member of the out-group trying to get in. Or maybe," the afterthought was startling, "maybe he's just trying to be funny...
Pearson's agreement to talk trade came almost as an afterthought to a week devoted to rounds of parties, sightseeing tours, and long office calls on senior Soviet functionaries. Three of his Russian hosts once cornered Pearson at a Canadian Embassy luncheon and demanded to know why Canada refuses to sell Russia strategic aluminum, copper, and nickel. Pearson smoothly replied that the metals are in short supply. "Where?" demanded ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov. "In Russia," smiled Pearson...