Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British plan (if it could be called a plan) was to let Nahas Pasha's incompetent government discredit itself completely, whereupon the King, who dislikes Nahas, would fire him. Moderates would come to power and make a deal with the British. It didn't work out that way in Iran...
...visit Pablo Picasso in his home on the Riviera. They beg him for a bird, big and strong, to carry a little girl to Wonderland. "To Wonderland?" asks Picasso, rubbing his chin. "What's wrong with this little girl?" "She's afraid of war," whispers the wind. Whereupon Picasso seizes his pen and draws a white dove...
...Whereupon Icardi made a point which, whether he is guilty or innocent, has considerable force. Said he: "It is unthinkable that an American espionage agent should be brought to trial by the very enemy against which he fought." Icardi said that he would fight extradition, but was ready and eager to stand trial in a U.S. court. He even offered to go back into the Army to make that possible. The Government, however, still said that no U.S. court could try him, even if he went back into the Army...
...exclusive Heliopolis suburb. There, in exile, guarded by the Egyptian police of his friend King Farouk, plus ten Palestinian toughs, sits the Mufti, the Middle East's greatest malcontent and plotter. The Mufti hated Abdullah because he had counted on Abdullah's arms to whip the Jews, whereupon the Mufti would take over all Palestine. Instead, Abdullah made peace with the Jews and personally annexed parts of Palestine to his tiny kingdom...
When the smugglers have gone, Johnnie starts to skedaddle home, and accidentally tweaks off the corpse's beard, whereupon he notices a locket slung around the fleshless neck. Inside the locket is a ciphered message that leads, after two murders and a mort of escapes and chases, to a diamond "as big as a pigeon's egg" that lies hidden in the wall of an ancient well in Caris-brooke Castle. Thence away to a fence for such merchandise in The Hague, who cheats poor Johnnie out of his diamond and lands him aboard a brig bound...