Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Native Dancer, the idea was to win at that disadvantage. Whereupon the idea for Handicapper Campbell would be to put on more weight next time; and so on until the Dancer is beaten or retires...
...Fifth Amend ment Communist [get] a hurry-up honorable discharge after I had written Secretary Stevens asking he be court-martialed?" To find out, McCarthy called to the stand Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwicker, Camp Kilmer's commander. Said the general: regulations prevented him from discussing security cases. Whereupon Joe McCarthy ordered the doors shut for a closed session...
...limit: 1,500. ¶ From Boston came two hopeful plans to discover potential juvenile delinquents before they start smashing windows or smoking reefers. One system, devised by Harvard Law School Criminologist Sheldon Glueck and his wife Eleanor, depends on a detailed survey of a pupil's family surroundings, whereupon investigators can rate the child according to a scale of the Gluecks' devising. The other method, invented by Boston University's William C. Kvaraceus, includes both a check list for rating delinquency conditions and a handy set of multiple choice questions for pupils to be surveyed. (Sample...
...Doddering old Mustafa el Nahas, Wafd Premier, once got a certain Madame de Buisson with child, whereupon her humiliated husband killed himself. On another occasion the Wafd party-largely composed of poor peasants-paid ?6,000 to a Polish newswoman to get her to leave the country after she had had an affair with Nahas...
According to the plans, on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 10 a.m., the street mob was to take over Teheran, whereupon Mohammed Mossadegh was to take over the government. Meeting in secrecy, Mossadegh's lieutenants had worked out the grand plan. First they formed a secret National Resistance Movement, uniting, among others, discontented rich and powerful bazaar merchants, university hotheads and rebellious army officers of the secret Black Spider Committee. Then they got together with the outlawed Communist Tudeh party, setting up an all-powerful six-man committee to run the revolt...