Word: afterwards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Saud. A military band boomed out the Jordanian national anthem and 21 guns cracked a salute. Hashemite and hated enemy had got together. That evening, 71-year-old Ibn Saud, father of more than 30 living sons, gave one of the most magnificent dinners of his life. Afterward, the one-eyed old lion of the desert and the gloomy, unstable King of Jordan talked well into the night...
...first experiences was hunger. "For months and months our diet . . . consisted of yellow maize flour, which was made into thin soup, thick porridge, or small buns. When the pangs of hunger became very acute, we ate a handful of raw, uncooked flour. It tasted sweet, but one got hiccups afterward...
...Brown Coach Alva Kelley said afterward, "We tried every kind of defensive maneuver; none of them did any good...
...later board of Princeton trustees referred to Belcher as "the Founder patron, and benefactor of the college" but the good Governor may have doubted the value of his project when he was stricken with palsy at the Princeton Commencement of 1750. He died soon afterward, but not before leaving strict orders that he be buried in Cambridge and that his two sons be sent to Harvard...
...husband told police that he was roused by an alarm clock Tuesday morning, and shortly afterward noticed that his wife was virtually lifeless in bed. He rushed her to the hospital...