Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commencement Day, 1913. In it, Hamilton Vaughan Ball '13 tells how Wetherbee suddenly appeared at the door, "walked to the door, of the bedroom and standing on my roommate's trunk ran his hand along the top of the door. He then asked me to do the same whereupon I discovered a round wooden plug set in the top. We removed the door found a corkscrew and with Mr. Wetherbee acting as Master of Ceremonies opened the hole." After explaining the documents to Bail and his roommate, Wetherbee then went off to find Amory and all four of them again...
...legs and back and almost lifted from the floor by his hair and ears. Once in an effort to open his clasped hands five guards pinned him to his cell wall, hit him repeatedly in the body and forced open his fingers and thumb one by one, whereupon he struck them back...
...irrigation, but a sensible water development program required mutual agreements with hostile neighbors. Last week, against the objections of Syria and in open defiance of the U.N., Israel went steadily ahead day & night with a canal project to divert part of the Jordan's waters for hydroelectric power, whereupon the State Department announced that it would withhold U.S. economic aid ($65 million last year) until the Israelis stop work on the canal...
...making money to keep his little family in plush surroundings that he is a stranger in his own house. At a rare homecoming, his dog nips at his heels, his wife sings Remember Me, and he finds that his son has ground up his favorite slippers in the Disposall, whereupon he decides to stay home more often and become reacquainted with his family. This homey theme is developed with lighthearted good humor and is ably performed by Thomas and his TV wife, Jean Hagen. Sponsors: Speidel Co. and the American Tobacco...
...Magyars and executed his most famous exploit after accepting a challenge of the Turkish commander to single combat. At the first charge, Smith's lance, he says, "passed the Turke throw the sight of his Beaver, face, head and all, that he fell dead to the ground." Whereupon Smith cut off the fellow's head and presented it to the Hungarian commander, "who kindly accepted it." Smith says he made the same disposition of two other Turks who sallied out to avenge their chief, and in consequence got a coat of arms from the Prince of Hungary...