Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soon afterward, the police picked him up unconscious on the ground outside. Beside him were the remnants of his identity cards which he had tried to burn before passing out. "I've just killed a man," he gasped when he regained consciousness. "It was all a matter of politics...
...pious hope that the need for assistance might persuade Peron to restore full civil liberties and stop acting like a cut-rate dictator. For better or worse, the new U.S. policy would be to help Argentina get up on her feet first, and worry about internal reforms afterward...
...hotel next door to Boston's North Station. That evening he went out to dinner at the Beacon Hill home of his old friend, Professor Kenneth B. Murdock. Though their talk was mostly of books and poetry, Matthie seemed unusually depressed. About 11:30 he said goodbye. Shortly afterward he got to his room in the downtown hotel, spread out a note to whom it might concern. "I have taken this room in order to do what I have to do," it said. "How much the state of the world has to do with my state of mind...
...sounding 94 pieces. They bowed and blew their way through Howard Hanson's Romantic Symphony No. 2, then wound things up with resounding performances of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor and Sibelius' Finlandia. As usual, they mingled with the audience afterward, but this time they had something special to talk about. With the proceeds from their concert, 70 of them would climb aboard a Stratocruiser in two weeks, take off, kit & caboodle, for a two-month tour of Scandinavia...
...later, Andy followed his wife home. He was greeted by the blast of a .45, died instantly with a bullet through his heart. When (as she later testified) Yvette "heard his blood" oozing from his chest, she ran to the home of a neighbor, screaming "I shot him!" Soon afterward an Air Force MP found Andy's body in the Madsen living room close by a note written by Yvette: "I know my husband will beat me up. My only defense is to shoot him, the heel, the rat, the low creature...