Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Picked officers took downtown Havana's Cabana fortress. Others seized naval and air centers. From these bases they took control of police stations, communication centers, the labor palace. The rest of the island-there were only two regiments outside Havana-fell soon afterward. The young officers crowded round Batista at his table in Columbia and crowed: "Fulge, we're in!" Prío took refuge at the Mexican embassy. "We are the law," proclaimed Batista, sending tanks and armored cars through the streets of Havana...
...Soon afterward, Batista married his present wife, Marta Fernández. The President had literally run into her with his car a few years earlier while she was riding a bicycle down Fifth Avenue in Havana's swank Miramar district. She has borne Batista three children. He also had three children by his first wife...
...Soon afterward, naval historians began to doubt Cox's guilt, wondered if he had been made a scapegoat for a sorry U.S. defeat. Arguments in the third lieutenant's favor: the Chesapeake was fresh from refitting, manned by a green crew. Just before she sailed out to meet the Shannon, many of her men were drunk. The court-martial testimony showed that Cox, who was 23, fought his guns bravely until the crews deserted; then, cutlass in hand, he rushed up on deck to repel the boarders. Cox probably did not realize he was in command when...
Friends who saw her afterward recall that Mrs. Roosevelt - a stoic who feels deeply that one pays bills on time, keeps engagements on the minute, and does not give way to emotion - paced the floor with tears squeezing slowly from between her eyelids. She was not crying for herself...
...scholars have long known, Maria Cosway was merely being coy: far from hating Jefferson, she was a great & good friend of the U.S. minister, and eventually her request was granted. Whatever happened to the painting afterward? Until this week, it was one of the minor puzzles in the story of gallant Mr. Jefferson's famous Paris romance...