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Word: thenceforth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long after, Francis of Assisi turned to prayer and fasting. Haled into an episcopal court for selling some of his merchant father's best fabrics to help a poor priest, he stepped out of his fine clothes before the stunned bishop and handed them back to his father, thenceforth renounced the ways of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Assisi Today | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...handed it to Hussein's grandfather Abdullah "one Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem," as he later said. Churchill was repaying Abdullah's fighting services to Britain in Lawrence of Arabia's desert campaign (another hunk-Mesopotamia, now Iraq-was given to Abdullah's brother Feisal). Thenceforth, while Britain's Glubb Pasha built the British-equipped Arab Legion into Islam's sprucest fighting force, Abdullah ruled the sandy wastes as a Bedouin black-tent state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: The Education of a King | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...after his dramatic four months' holdout in the U.S. legation in Budapest, U.S. Minister to Hungary Edward Thompson Wailes. Career Diplomat Tom Wailes arrived in Budapest last November in the midst of Hungary's upheaval, never got to present his credentials to the short-lived Nagy government, thenceforth refused to present them to the Communist Kadar regime because it "did not represent the people." Under persistent and rising Communist pressure to recognize the Kadar puppets, Diplomat Wailes took a final step to avoid doing so: he arranged with Washington to order him back "on consultation," then slipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Diplomats at Work, Mar. 25, 1957 | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...between "fiddling with cake-baking," he roamed the city's fabled restaurants, pored over cookbooks. For Dick's tenth birthday party he whipped out a succulent Lobster Newburg ("not exactly for a kid's stomach, but that's what he wanted"). Permanently intrigued, Dick thenceforth stirred while "The Skipper" mixed the local delicacies of Manila, Tsingtao or New Orleans. In Panama, on lazy Saturday afternoons, the gourmets caught and charcoal-grilled barracuda, red snapper or king mackerel together off Farallón Sucio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED SERVICES: Semper Chow | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...Britain's doughty Poetess Dame Edith (Façade) Sitwell, 68, and Cinemactress Marilyn (The Seven Year Itch) Monroe, 29, met in Hollywood last year, Dame Edith's life has not been the same. Intrigued by the incongruity of the two ladies, the world's press thenceforth gleefully linked their names on the least pretext. Last week, Dame Edith was asked about Marilyn again, reached the end of her rope, cried: "If I hear that young woman's name again I shall shriek! Being a polite and, I hope, chivalrous woman, I said to her . . . that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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