Word: thereupon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days later the House brought up a key amendment to the income tax bill, turned it down 47-44; 16 Republicans and 31 Democrats voted to kill. Thereupon, without even deigning to vote on the whole proposition, the legislature adjourned until next year...
...call, Burleson's Boll Weevils met again, found they simply could not agree with Byrnes. "I don't like to call the amendment a phony," grumbled Burleson, "but it's a subterfuge-it will not do what it purports to do." Most of the Boll Weevils thereupon decided to vote against the Byrnes amendment...
...slightly shorter stroke with a much faster recovery near the front end, started the race at a 47 and rowed most of the course at approximately a 38. About a quarter mile from the finish, the Penn eight, rowing at a 42, drew even with the Germans. Ratzeburg thereupon raised its stroke to a 42 or 43, and while Penn fans cheered wildly, the two boats matched stroke for stroke over the next four or five lengths...
...usual, the columnist for Lord Rothermere's London Evening News was wroth. "I come home tired and brooding over the Common Market. I switch on the telly-and what do I see? Two spiders mating. And as if that isn't enough. I am thereupon treated to the sight of two newts doing the same thing. Now love-making is a necessary and, from the point of view of those immediately involved, a most delightful thing. But it is not pretty to watch.'' Having got that off his lordship's chest. Arthur Strange Kattendyke David...
...shut off by three-fifths rather than two-thirds of the Senators present and voting. Georgia's Richard Russell had already served notice that any attempt to change the cloture rule would be met with "an all-out, last-ditch, to-the-end-of-the-road fight." Thereupon the Southern Democrats arose to start talking to death-as they had in previous years-the effort of Northern Democrats...