Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bechuanaland there is no happier word than pula, which means first "rain," and hence almost everything else that is good. Last week in a tidy suburban cottage outside London, a handsome, long-legged law student gazed at his comely,wife of eight years and murmured a heartfelt "Pula" Soon afterward he canceled his plans for a December bar examination, put his Croydon cottage up for sale and made plans to go home. "From now on," he said, "I'm going to be a farmer...
...though the intervening years were fraught with war babies. The reasons for the President's failure in this respect are not completely clear. The President blames the Democrats, who, he maintains, voted against his bill 215 to 9. He fails to point out that a majority of Democrats afterward voted for a similar bill, which the Republicans managed to kill through their shenanigans over the Powell amendment. Thinking to make political capital by supporting the enforcement of integration through restriction of federal aid, the Republicans voted for the Powell amendment. Then using the amendment as their excuse, they proceeded...
...Afterward, Coach Michelosen and his assistants could find some small satisfaction in their narrow escape. Now the Panthers would surely get down to work: their opening game had been less a victory than a bucket of ice water in the face...
Carefully J.D.R. Jr. stepped out of his car, walked indoors, and soon afterward was busily going through a sheaf of papers at his kneehole desk in the small office to the right of the front door. Though nominally retired since 1954, he is interested in many of the island's good works. Unobtrusively, he is building a small public park on the old Dane estate on a scenic headland near Seal Harbor, acquiring more land for the island's roomy Acadia National Park, paying the hospital bills of a local family, laying plans for the removal of more...
Though retired now, and careful not to overdo, J.D.R. Jr. is still the head of the clan. Each day in The Eyrie he rises at 7, breakfasts at 8 (he takes no coffee, no tea), starts work on his projects at 9. Lunch is served at noon, and afterward he takes a ritualistic one-hour nap, getting into pajamas, sleeping soundly. Sometimes he works through the afternoon; sometimes he relaxes among his Oriental wood carvings and Chinese Buddhas; sometimes he takes the second Mrs. Rockefeller (his beloved Abby died in 1948; in 1951 he married Martha Baird Allen, widow...