Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe's president is the first to admit that his growing college is still far from ideal. The most critical problems are of course financial. During the war and the years afterward, spiraling costs took a severe toll on the school's resources. Jordan tersely summarizes the strictures of these lean years in a sentence from his Report to the Trustees for 1949-50: "We have necessarily grown somewhat shabby during these recent years when the preparation of a budget could only be described as an act of faith...
...performance, to Soprano Seefried, "is like giving birth. And I know what I say; my daughter is almost four. Afterward you are empty, physically empty. Before, you have this thing, like a little world inside you, and then you give it, and you are empty. It is a terrible thing, not an easy thing." But that is the way Soprano Seefried likes it to be. "I do not make a career," she says. "I make a life...
...tell him in a private conversation, and Churchill watched it from about five yards away. "I can see it all as if it were yesterday. He [Stalin] seemed to be delighted. A new bomb! Of extraordinary power! Probably decisive on the whole Japanese war! What a bit of luck!" Afterward, Churchill asked Truman: "How did it go?" The President answered: "He never asked a question." The reason for Stalin's lack of curiosity became clear in later years, but in this account Churchill does not go into postwar disclosures of espionage...
...Soon afterward Fred became a glazier in the Northumberland town of South Shields. With only an ancient cat named Dimpy for company, he settled down to a life of solitude punctuated only by occasional memories of the wife he had loved and the son he had lost. Then, one day this month. Fred was called in by a neighbor to fix a broken windowpane. Over the inevitable cup of tea, the lonely man, now 77, told his story. "Why, that's funny." said another neighbor who had dropped in. "I heard almost the same story from a bus conductor...
...tables and playing the trap drums in a dance band, started with the Bell System by digging holes, setting poles and stringing wire. He climbed up the pole through engineering and operating departments, and in 1949 took over as boss of A.T. & T.'s Long Lines Department. Shortly afterward, he became vice president in charge of Bell operations and engineering...