Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...records to be broken, were not all that preoccupied the heavyhearted Hungarian Olympic team. Fresh from the ordeal of a revolution at home in which many had fought and for which victory seemed certain at the time of their leaving, the young athletes heard the bad news soon afterward during a brief stayover in Communist Czechoslovakia. "I am regaining control of their physical condition," said Chief Coach Mihaly Igloi, when his boys and girls were settled at last in Melbourne, "but their minds are in Hungary...
...Afterward, in defending Carlisle against charges of chicanery, Coach Pop Warner said, "The public expects the Indian to employ trickery and we try to oblige...
...Afterward, the Crimson was treated to a party and a play entitled "Win-some Winnie...
...entry into politics up to his nomination for President in 1860, newspapers in his own Illinois and across the country could -not seem to spell his first name right. They called him "Abram" Lincoln-and, in the very story of his nomination, so did the New York Times. (Soon afterward, papers began running instructions on how to pronounce "Lincoln.") The Chicago Times repeatedly misquoted him in its report of the Gettysburg address ("Four score and ten years ago . . ."). To its credit, the New York Times ran a letter-perfect full text of the address (followed by "continued applause"), though...
...editorial hatchetmen kept swinging to the end-and even afterward. Of his assassination, the Dallas Herald wrote: "God almighty ordered this event." Houston's Tri-Weekly Telegraph crowed: "From now until God's judgment day, the minds of men will not cease to thrill at the killing of Abraham Lincoln." But the press was not altogether blind to history. In 1864, during Lincoln's campaign for a second term, the Chicago Tribune stumped for him with prophetic words: "Half a century hence, to have lived in this age will be fame. To have served it well will...