Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were virtually unknown in 15th century England -which had reached about the same stage of political ethics as Russia is enjoying today. Lord Protector Richard arrested and executed his brother's advisers. Conveniently, a friar preached a sermon on the ominous text: "Bastard slips shall not take root," whereupon Richard declared his brother's children illegitimate, and took the throne himself. For a short time, the little prince and his brother were seen by passers-by "shooting at butts ... on the Tower greens." Then they disappeared. Atween Two Feather Beds. "Some said," writes a contemporary chronicler, "they were...
...dressing table. He is betting on the mamba's being not only a fearsome and deadly reptile, but one with the habit of seeking its dead mate. The relict of the dead mamba arrives on schedule and bites Helen in the neck. She dies in a few seconds. Whereupon "I", moved to a mamba-like revenge, ambushes Henry in the jungle and shoots him as dead as Hemingway's Mrs. Francis Macomber shot Mr. Francis Macomber. It is a neat story, but only its expertise on herpetology, lycanthropy and the flora and fauna of the Congo raises...
...examining conscientious objectors for good faith, Strachey appeared, surrounded by his family and padded against the reality of hard benches with a private, pale blue air cushion. Asked the tribunal's spokesman: "What would you do, Mr. Strachey, if you saw an Uhlan attempting to rape your sister?" Whereupon, as Garnett tells it, "Lytton looked at his sisters in turn, as though trying to visualize the scene, and gravely replied in his high voice : 'I should try to interpose my own body...
...when her radar picked up Stockholm, was sounding regulation fog signals. Andrea Doria's radar indicated that Stockholm would pass clear to starboard; Andrea Doria altered to port for greater clearance. "Thereafter, Stockholm's lights loomed out of the fog off Andrea Doria's starboard bow, whereupon her (Andrea Doria's) rudder was put hard left, and she sounded two short blasts of her whistle, indicating she was altering course to port. No whistle signal was heard from Stockholm, and shortly thereafter, her stem struck Andrea Doria on the starboard side near the bridge...
...Democratic drumfire finally got too heavy for the Administration, and President Eisenhower gladly canceled the Dixon-Yates contract when the city of Memphis decided that it would build its own municipal plant. Whereupon Dixon-Yates (actually a combine of the Southern Co. and Middle South Utilities, Inc.) went to court demanding from the Government $3,534,778.45 it had already expended on the project. Last week Attorney General Herbert Brownell's Justice Department braked to a halt, wheeled about, asked the Court of Claims to dismiss the Dixon-Yates suit because-in the Department's words-the contract...