Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bell of Kamela" we have a new variation of a perennial hoax. Older examples include the story of the Confederate general who, returning from the wars, stashed his sword in the fork of a young tree, whence it "grew" upward along with the tree only to be found long afterward, high above the ground, by the general's grandson. Now we hear of a cowbell which, tied by a pioneer to a young sapling, is found presumably 73 years later at the top of a towering ponderosa pine...
Kuznetsov, as much at home in Kremlin committee rooms as on a man o' war's bridge, got a job working on riverboats at twelve, soon afterward joined the embryonic Soviet navy. Kuznetsov is a member of the Party Central Committee, accompanied Stalin to Yalta. During the Spanish civil war, he was reported in charge of the Loyalists' small naval forces...
...year ago Yvonne's devotion and energy won her a job as deputy to Little Napoleon. Soon afterward, in the course of her duties, according to husband Jean's testimony in court last week, a "lightning love" for the mayor struck her. She explained it all to Jean, who dutifully consulted his party superiors in Paris. Then he decided to give up Yvonne, provided that 1) the mayor get him a visa for Poland, "where I could work for my ideal"; and 2) the lovers keep their relationship respectable until he left...
...role in bringing his voice to the world. Among them was Frank Sinatra, who invited Mario to stay at his house during the furlough. Hedda Hopper and Walter Pidgeon also boosted him, and an RCA Victor agent signed him to a recording contract with a $3,000 bonus. Soon afterward, in January 1945, Mario got a medical discharge (reason: postnasal drip). He returned briefly to Hollywood to marry pretty Betty Hicks, sister of an Army friend, then headed for New York City...
...ground slowly across the Potomac, Irwin cursed impatiently, talked of his crimes, and threatened to kill "many people" if he was not obeyed. Finally he ordered a stop on a dirt road, and forced the girl to tape her fiancé's hands. Then Irwin raped her. Afterward, with a weird kind of reasonableness, he freed the boy, walked the pair to a gas station and bought them Cokes...