Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes of the world, he does. But Sandra starts tasting the lees of her marriage almost before she sips its joys. The wedding night, which she has pictured as a ritual of tenderness, is reduced to a matter of crass urgency. "Afterward he didn't give me a loving look, call me his darling and his queen . . . He reached for the cigarettes." After she stretches his small monthly paycheck to the limit, he carps querulously: "Is it all gone so soon...
...Town. Soon afterward, the pasha's runners, some 400 men in high red conical hats, whose duty is to cry their master's will to the people, were racing through the streets crying: "Workmen, you must go to work tomorrow. Shopkeepers, your shops must remain open!" Frenchmen who heard and understood nodded in satisfaction; maybe there would be no trouble after all. But in the vast jungle of tin-roofed hovels known locally as Bidonville (Can Town), an angry mob was forming. There the criers were beaten up before they could deliver their message. Glib agitators harangued little...
...arrest of his son and offered Mrs. Ousman the privilege of prescribing his death in any way she saw fit, with the added promise that his head should be stuck on a pike outside the British embassy. The widow declined the offer and accepted $70,000 in damages. Soon afterward the old King cut his son's sentence to a jail term with 20 lashes each month. The fault, he had decided, had been not so much the prince's as that of the foreigners who had taught him to drink. Several months later the King issued...
...black South Africa lives. Some fetched water from filth-encrusted boreholes that had served the whole of Albertynsville; others, ladling out Red Cross soup, porridge and stew to matchstick-legged Negro children, discovered that never in their lives had these children tasted anything so nourishing. Said one white rescuer afterward: "The place had no drainage, no sanitation, no streets and no lighting. Outside the houses, there were open latrines, pits and great piles of rotting rubbish, swarming with millions of swollen flies. Albertynsville," he added solemnly, "must not be allowed to rise again...
Good news had become a rare luxury for Pauline Claude and her Adrien. Eight years ago they had both become too old and feeble to hold their jobs any longer as joint caretakers of a rickety apartment house. Soon afterward, Pauline had gone to a permanent bed in the hospital. Adrien himself had become too weak to do even the odd jobs that were left to him. The presents he brought his wife on his regular trips to the hospital often meant going without meals himself. Yet, childless for 43 years of marriage, they both loved children, and their greatest...