Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lord Woolton ("Uncle Fred") was forced to come to the aid of the lady chairman. Beaming, he raised his hands and calmed the multitude. Then he said blandly: "This is magnificent. You want the figure of 300,000 put in?" There were roars of approval. Whereupon Lord Woolton purred: "I am sure that those of us on the platform here would be very glad to have such a figure put in." The conference joyously passed a resolution including 300,000. The Labor Party had promised only 200,000 new houses. But serious Tory back-room policymakers like R. A. Butler...
...ride back to headquarters in a jeep. Jimmy Cannon, of the New York Post, and another correspondent also asked for a lift. Cannon, wise to the fact that a jeep's only comfortable seat is the front one, announced that it should go to the oldest man present. Whereupon, he gave his age (41) and dove for the seat. Under his own rules, however, he had to relinquish it to Osborne, who is 43. Osborne got the break that time, but he maintains that front line war coverage is basically a job for young reporters...
What they were really against, they found, was government insurance. Whereupon they hired an advertising team and raised two and a half million dollars for a "National Education Campaign" to teach people that the voluntary was the AMA's way, and that "The AMA Way is the American...
...doughty swimmers was badly shot up, and before the survivors could report that the Reds were waiting on the other side, the first amtracs had started over and run into savage mortar and machine-gun fire. Although some amtracs turned back, most of Taplett's force got across, whereupon the defenders faded away. Some were caught; naked North Koreans (see cut) were a common sight in the countryside (the marines strip them as a precaution against hidden weapons...
...press. Just look at La Nación and La Prensa. They attack me all the time. I read them every morning myself." The visitor answered: "This man Visca you have here has brought lots of bad publicity to Argentina. They say he goes around closing newspapers." Whereupon Perón pressed a button, barked an order through an interoffice microphone: "Get rid of Visca...