Word: postscript
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...written his landlady's phone number in a last-minute postscript, and Dr. Cook got a long-distance call through with no delay. A maid answered. Dr. Cook asked her to go out to Bob and Shari's little cottage and call his son to the phone. When the maid returned and told Dr. Cook she could not rouse anybody, he shouted back at her: "Go out there and break in a window...
HEAVEN CAN WAIT! screamed the eight-column headline on the sports page of the Los Angeles Times. ANGELS IN 15T ON 4TH. Then a postscript: AND DODGERS...
...only new finding: a grim postscript from the Swedish Royal Medical Board. Contrary to earlier belief, the Secretary-General did not die instantly when he was thrown clear of the burning plane, but lay struggling for air in the bush until he suffocated because of injuries to his lungs, chest and spine...
Cold War Currency. Writing his own postscript to the invasion, Fidel Castro last week turned the 1,000 prisoners he took at the Bay of Pigs into cold war currency. Recalling Spain's exchange of Napoleon's soldiers for pigs,* Castro told a crowd of whooping peasants: "We are a little more refined. We will exchange them for bulldozers." The price would be 500 bulldozers. "Otherwise they must pay by hard work, very hard work, digging trenches and building fortifications." After a weekend celebration of his newly awarded Lenin Peace Prize, Castro sent a committee of ten prisoners...
...father took over the London embassy. Informed that Peter was an animal lover, the President pointed out India's "fascinating possibilities (although I gather that cobras have to be handled professionally)," encouraged the lad to think of himself as part of "a junior Peace Corps," added an intimate postscript: "I wish a little that I were going also...