Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soon afterward, the offensive began to roll. Len Hall became a White House regular. Last month Ike appointed Arizona's ex-Governor Howard Pyle as administrative assistant in charge of patronage on federal-state projects. A few days later, he called in Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie to urge him to run against Democrat Warren Magnuson for the Senate in 1956. Last week Ike approved plans to talk personally to every Republican national committeeman, every member of the financial committee, every state chairman, and delegates from every major Republican women's group...
...name will live in history," wrote King George V at the death of Colonel T. E. Lawrence. Soon afterward, in a biographical sketch, Winston Churchill added: "That is true; it will live in English letters; it will live in the traditions of the Royal Air Force; it will live in the annals of war and in the legends of Arabia...
...points. If a team thinks it can anticipate a tossup question, it is free to interrupt Ludden before he finishes, but if the answer is incorrect, there is a five-point penalty.This can be demoralizing: last week Rutgers incorrectly anticipated the first question and never got going afterward...
...December Charles Nagel, in charge of the Brooklyn Museum, got the nod from St. Louis (his home town). Soon afterward Edgar Schenck, director of the Albright Gallery in Buffalo, was tapped by Brooklyn. Schenck frankly stated his reasons for shifting: "Better salary and wider scope of activity...
...Afterward, Communist Chou tendered a great banquet (on the menu: swallow's-nest soup, kidney, chicken, fish, shark's fins, crab, abalone, mushrooms, Peking duck, broccoli in oyster sauce). Toasts were drunk in Chinese wine. The Chinese showed a movie in color, a harrowing love story. Both sides issued a short statement: "We feel that these talks have been useful." Then Hammarskjold flew back to New York via the Pacific, completing an around-the-world swing. On leaving, he sent Chou his "sincere personal thanks...