Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of the last war. The least pleasing bit of fiction is "The Accident" by a young Texas writer called Terry Southern. An excerpt from a novel, it is well-told and at times exciting, but it lacks orientation; one wants to know what came previously and what comes afterward...
...commercial airline. The colonel last year sold his converted B-17 Flying Fortress in the canny belief it had worn out, had his judgment confirmed when it crashed shortly afterward...
...running like a dry creek," warned the pro-Eisenhower Scripps-Howard newspapers one gloomy campaign day last August, but soon afterward came the flood tide that steadily carried Ike to victory in the election. In retrospect, the days of the dry creek defined Ike Eisenhower as a man who first sets his goals, then sits back disconcertingly until he has decided how to get there. Last week the Eisenhower Administration was in a similar dry-creek period, a painful interlude where the objectives were set but the Administration was getting nowhere. Items...
Albert Woolson was only 17 when he joined the Army. It was October 1864, the war was almost over-and Albert felt he had to hurry for his share of glory. His father, a New York man, had lost a leg at Shiloh, and afterward had taken his family west to New Janesville, Minn. Albert learned the "rifle art" from a Winnebago Indian named Winneshake, and thus prepared, enlisted in the First Minnesota Regiment of Heavy Artillery...
Between numbers the packed hall resounded to roars and whistles of approval and the stamping of teen-age feet. Afterward, it took the performers 45 minutes to fight their way through the ecstatic crowd outside. For U.S. Jazz Impresario Norman Granz, it was a comfortably reassuring beginning for his second annual invasion of Europe with his package show, "Jazz at the Philharmonic." In the next ten weeks, he and his musical tourists expect to put on much the same kind of program - and get the same kind of flat tering attention - in such cities as Oslo, Brussels, Paris, Geneva, Zurich...