Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gate to the back door, off limits to reporters and photographers. One morning congressional leaders turned up at 8 a.m. for orange juice and coffee, and a briefing by Joint Chieftain Omar Bradley and CIAdministrator Allen Dulles on the military-diplomatic situation the world over. The situation, they agreed afterward, was "grim...
...life. Almost from the beginning, businessmen began complaining that the slots were siphoning money away from legitimate channels of trade. Doctors & dentists began having trouble collecting their bills. Restaurant owners said that slotclubs were luring away their customers with 79? steaks, and luring away the customers' money afterward. As a result, in rapid and indignant succession, Idaho's bigger cities began banning slot machines...
...swarmed up the Raman's sides, only to be deluged by an avalanche of cold water from the tanker's sea hoses. Sergeant Mangold finally made it aboard and stomped to the tanker's bridge. "I didn't know if they understood German," he explained afterward. "But there was one language they did understand." He jabbed a pistol into Mardin's back and snapped, "Stop the ship...
...inspect his latest purchase: a $4,000-plus black Chrysler sedan, with chrome-wire wheels, electrically operated windows and seat controls. "It's got so many gadgets on it," said Motorist Truman, "I'll have to go to engineering school so I can handle it." Shortly afterward, the new owner backed the car out of the agency garage, whooshed straight across the street and rammed lightly into a utility pole on the curbing...
...most of it home. They were featured performers, but, even on the bandstand, they dressed in peasanty blouses run up by their economical grandmother Guilfoyle. They were on the road most of the time, playing dance halls, Italian socials, college proms, barn dances in tobacco warehouses until 2 a.m. Afterward they would pile into their bus and ride through the night to the next stop. The girls were chaperoned by their Uncle George Guilfoyle. He would hold the second seat in the bus for the girls (Bandleader Pastor would have the front one), and Uncle George would guard protectively from...