Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heard stories of five-percenters, deep-freezers, influence peddlers, mink coats, RFC irregularities, cheap and party politics guiding policies of Government offices, influence of gambling interests in high places, and what not. Someone then suggested that the President return home (from Florida) and clean house, whereupon the President, in a most unconvincing manner, insisted that his house was clean and that there were only honorable men in his household...
Firemen and student bunkers attempted to extinguish the flames with water, whereupon a quart of hydrochloric said, a half pound of metalic sodium, two and a half pounds of lithium bromide, and five gallons of faming sulfuric acid exploded...
...burgeoning defense agencies had been solving their manpower troubles by offering applicants the top civil service pay scales-from $11,200 to $14,000 a year. Last year Congress provided for 400 such jobs in the entire federal service. This year the lid was lifted for the defense agencies, whereupon an estimated 500 candidates in these agencies alone were clamoring for such pay. Last week the President issued an executive order limiting the agencies to 150 such jobs...
...Network is not without its human side. A favorite story of the station tells of the consternation caused during a discussion of coeducation by a Harvard and a Radcliffe student. The young man, declaring himself a mysoganist, was complaining that women were troublesome and a waste of time. Whereupon his companion cooed sweetly into the microphone, "Then why are you holding my knee...
...falcon . . . dashes away as quickly as its hood is removed and the hawker releases the bird from his wrist. It promptly mounts to a height of perhaps half a mile, and "waits on" in circling flight above its owner until prey is flushed, whereupon the falcon dives to the attack in its incredibly swift stoop. It is not unusual for a peregrine 2,000 feet in the sky to get down and kill its quarry pigeon before the prey has traveled 100 yards. A breath-taking sight...