Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mill, Taft was confronted by a line of angry men, greeted by a din of jeers and catcalls. Disregarding the advice of city detectives, he ordered his car slowed down. He leaned out his car window, grinned and said: "Hello there, fellows." Most of the strikers, he reported afterward, "smiled back at me when I waved and seemed glad to meet a notorious person." Inside the mill, Taft got a friendly reception from other workers, some of whom turned away from their furnaces and rollers to shake his hand...
...departure from Lever Bros. (TIME, Jan. 30), went back to work last week. Still young (41) and ambitious, Chuck Luckman and Los Angeles Architect William Pereira formed a 50-50 partnership. Luckman graduated (University of Illinois '31) as an architect, though he went into the soap business shortly afterward; Pereira is an old friend and college classmate. The firm, specializing in commercial and institutional structures, has $25 million in business on hand...
...Afterward, Walker said to newsmen: "We will not give up an inch of ground that is not already lost . . . There's no thought in the mind of anybody in this Army-even though we might be so disposed-that there can possibly be a Dunkirk. It would be impossible...
...Victor Deckx, he had listened politely enough when a white-robed monk came to the church recently to preach a mission against the ungodly superstitions present in Witgoor; but when it came time to pass the plate, Victor had pointedly ignored Martha Minnen's outstretched offering. Soon afterward Martha's children came home from school complaining that no one would play with a witch's kids. That was when Martha decided...
...before the final, the reconditioned Patty went through a four-hour doubles match, longest in Wimbledon history (one set went to 31-29). Patty looked like a limp rag afterward, and for the singles the smart money was on wiry, 22-year-old Sedgman, whose austere training habits include calisthenics and jogging around Wimbledon Common. Patty declined an invitation to a party at a West End nightclub...