Search Details

Word: afterwards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...radio tape of an earlier performance, and with just two days' preparation stepped up to the conductor's podium in Carnegie Hall. "I did my job; I'm surprised it caused such a stir," said Hillis after earning a standing ovation. How did she feel afterward? "I was blind, deaf and my feet hurt. I felt a great relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 14, 1977 | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...Algebra 1 but who try and do their best." Civics Teacher Jerry Kotsovos, who is held in awe by students as Marshfield's most demanding teacher, feels that "students aren't being challenged enough. They complain that I make them work, I make them think. But they're glad afterward." He conducts his classes as vigorous discussion groups Margaret Burdg, who has the prim and proper air of an old-fashioned English teacher, team-teaches with History Teacher Connell an English-history course called American Culture. She says grade inflation has lowered a D from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools Under Fire | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...enter a local chess competition. His table, however was separated from the rest and he could not have tea with other players afterward. Woods won the championship He may not leave the town limits of East London (50 square miles) during his ban and is therefore forbidden to play a chess match in East London's sister city, Port Elizabeth If he and his wife go to a restaurant, a friend may stop to say hello but may not sit down: that would constitute a meeting with more than one person since his wife is considered another person when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Silent Bystander | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Theft of office equipment is nothing new in Manhattan, but the latest rip-off story tears at the heart strings. Two well-dressed men walked into one of the fancier nursing homes on the Upper East Side during visiting hours and were soon afterward seen solicitously wheeling a 90-year-old woman out of the building, presumably for an afternoon airing. The bewildered lady was found sitting in her wheelchair, abandoned at a street corner, some time later. Her ostensibly helpful visitors had vanished-and so too had the electric typewriter they had apparently hidden under a blanket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Take the Lady, Roll Her and Run | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...years afterward, Cao's countrymen traded and established settlements near the river's mouth. But they did not go too far inland; 100 miles upstream lay a series of 32 cataracts now known as Livingstone Falls. A stretch of white water, appropriately named the Cauldron of Hell, stopped early explorers as effectively as if it were the edge of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beats from the Heart of Darkness | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

Previous | 461 | 462 | 463 | 464 | 465 | 466 | 467 | 468 | 469 | 470 | 471 | 472 | 473 | 474 | 475 | 476 | 477 | 478 | 479 | 480 | 481 | Next