Word: thereupon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water down the resolution rapping Cuba, warmly embraced Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa (who happens to be Arcaya's fifth cousin). A phone call from Caracas summoned Arcaya off the floor. "You will return a hero of the Communists but not a friend of mine," said Betancourt, who thereupon ordered Arcaya to step aside and let another delegation official sign the resolution...
...pack in the i.soo-meter race. Then, with disheartening ease, he moved past the leaders and began to draw away. Rounding the last turn, he saw his coach waving a white shirt as a signal that he had a chance to break his own world record of 3:36. Thereupon Australia's Herb Elliott, 22. sprinted down the middle of the track and broke the tape...
...cent a pound, in expectation of the cut -and in fear that Cuba would dump its surplus sugar on the world market. Instead, Cuba raised its minimum export price from $3 to $3.25 a hundred pounds in an effort to recover part of its losses on sugar sales. Thereupon, in heavy trading world sugar futures shot up again, only to level off at week...
Boulder, Colo., after inquiring politely, "Have you been taken care of. sir?", Manager Claude Meyers of the new Safeway supermarket was told "I sure have" by an unidentified customer who thereupon fled with a stolen...
...late as 1958, France was still stubbornly rejecting any talk of Togo independence. Then under prodding from Togo's able pro-Western nationalist, Sylvanus Olympic, 57, the U.N. ordered an election in which Olympio's Committee for Togolese Unity swept two-thirds of the seats, and thereupon negotiated Togo's independence...