Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well," happy Auguste told some friends soon afterward, "I'm soon going to marry a young widow." Lucienne dimpled prettily: "Ah, but I'm not a young widow." "Aha," countered Auguste roguishly, "but you soon will...
...invariably drinks a cup of tea on rising and takes an icy shower immediately afterward. At his mess, grace is said before each meal. He insists that his shoes be coated with a combination of vaseline and boot polish at night, left fallow until morning and then polished vehemently for maximum glitter. He fondly hopes that Marine officers will once more take to carrying swagger sticks, and in the field he is never without his own oversized version, a polished length of Haitian Coco-macaque wood. His hobbies are muscular: riding, spearfishing, fly-casting. A red-handled fly swatter reposes...
Each November, the 190 Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. hold a meeting in Washington, D.C., and afterward issue a joint statement. The statement is for practical purposes the voice of U.S. Roman Catholicism, commenting on the moral state of the nation and key-noting issues which the church believes deserve special attention in the coming year. This year's statement, released this week, explores the relations of church & state. Excerpts...
...years. In pain, his eyes seeing dimly through cataracts, he stumbled over the biblical phraseology in his Hebrew address, interjected: "I can't go on." But go on he did, to the end of the address and for almost four lonely and physically painful years afterward. One morning last week, a few days before his 78th birthday, his heart stopped, and Chaim Weizmann, the man, died...
...parish priest slapped whitewash on the fearful roster, and the villagers clamped their jaws shut and tried to forget it. But five months later the man named first on the list was shot to death in the woods. A shepherd and a woman followed him to their graves soon afterward. Then, in July 1950, the police caught up with Outlaw Liandru and clapped him into jail...