Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murder? One midnight soon afterward, the doctor, the lawyer and eight witnesses went into a snow-covered country cemetery to dig up the woman's body. The young doctor's autopsy, performed in a nearby shed, proved to the court that death had been caused by drowning and not by poison. The lawyer's client was acquitted. "All at once," says Dr. Gradwohl now, "it struck me with great force how much could depend on the proper scientific inquiry into the cause of sudden death." Last week, Dr. Gradwohl made the same point in Chicago...
...Refugee's Question. Hero Antolin was never a revolutionary. He had worked in a bank, aiming for a decent and simple life. Then he had fought for the Loyalists. Afterward, when he fled to England, Antolin left a wife and three children. The best he could do in London was to become a waiter, send occasional small amounts to his family and learn to be at ease in a new country. He admired English life and especially English regard for individual liberty. He became a British subject, found himself an English girl. But like many a refugee, he thought...
...Afterward, Capone was moved to Atlanta and Alcatraz penitentiaries, where he served 7½ years...
...Afterward, Ambassador de Lequerica, a shrewd bon vivant who has unofficially held down Spain's Washington embassy since 1948, was asked by reporters what Spain could contribute. "Spain," he replied, "is a nation absolutely ready to resist any aggression and defend Europe...
...Afterward, one passenger remembered seeing "the fence coming" and hearing someone yell: "We're going to crash." Within seconds, the National Airlines DC-4 was skidding along the sleet-coated runway of Philadelphia's International Airport. It ran off the runway, through a ditch. Its landing gear disintegrated, flames shot from a ruptured fuel tank...