Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long afterward Nelson Johnson left for Peking and one of the most important posts in the U. S. diplomatic service. He carried with him the supply of little paper airplanes. For ten years since then, U. S. Far Eastern policy has ridden on little paper wings-unpredictable, steered by prankish winds-which Nelson Johnson, most of the time roaring with laughter, has launched...
...Afterward Schutzstaffel men claimed they found in the university an anti-Nazi broadcasting station and secret printing plant. Soon Prague heard the crack of firing squads. Nine Czech students were executed, and all universities in the Protectorate were closed for three years, treatment no less harsh than the Tsars used to give their rebellious undergraduates. Over 2,000 people were arrested in Prague. Eight hundred were almost immediately released, but the Nazis were said to be sending many of the rest to the notorious Buchenwald prison camp in Germany near Weimar...
...Afterward, the Rev. Mr. Wilson confessed that he had wondered as he recited the prayer, whether its reference to "enemies" would be taken to mean the King's enemies in war. He hoped not, said Dr. Wilson; he had read a peacetime prayer denoting spiritual, moral and material obstacles to Christian faith. The English Church has more militant prayers for victory...
...prosecutors then was Clyde Roark Hoey, who as Governor of North Carolina now has the power to pardon Fred Beal. Lolling in the witness chair, Witness Beal declared that Party leaders deliberately made the trial a vehicle for Communist propaganda, inflaming the southern jurors and dooming the defendants. Afterward, said he, Communists in Manhattan worked their false passport racket, shipped him and his fellows off "to show the Russians by our coming that there was a bad situation in America...
...bestow on his fellow sovereigns Danish King Christian X, 69, and that monarch's brother, Norwegian King Haakon VII, 67. In 1905 Norway abruptly broke away from union with Sweden, electing the Danish "Sailor Prince" Karl to become King of Norway as Haakon VII, and for many years afterward Swedish resentment over this remained keen. Thus in 1914, when Gustaf V asked the Scandinavian sovereigns to meet him at Malmo, Sweden, to adopt a common policy in the face of World War I, His Majesty was careful to buss the King of Norway on only one cheek and lightly...