Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woman soon enters a rival claim to the succession, and she advances her pretensions in a woman's devious way. She makes the old man promise that if she gives him a son, he will make that son his heir. Whereupon, since the old man has lost his sexual strength, she proceeds to seduce the young one. Suspecting nothing, the son connives so enthusiastically at his own disinheritance that he wins her heart as he gives her a child. The child is born and everybody is happy, but when the father disinherits the elder son in favor...
...Sand, when at a party he met pious, vixen-toothed Actress Nita ("Nixie") Naldi, who screamed forthwith: "You Bolshevik! You heathen! . . . You worm! You Pagan! You anti-Christ!" Ibanez shrilled back so excitedly that his -'upper plate fell out of his mouth into Nixie's bosom." Whereupon the hostess, "who had hoped for a stimulating evening, but not this stimulating, quickly reached down into Nixie, pulled out the teeth, rinsed them in the punch bowl, and pushed them back into [Ibánez'] mouth." Nixie got the part...
...doctors at Walter Reed Army Hospital found Dwight Eisenhower maintaining "an excellent state of health," fully recovered from his- heart attack of September 1955 and his intestinal operation of June 1956. Whereupon Ike took off from his annual physical checkup for the kind of jet-propelled week that proved every medical word...
...William C. Bullitt in anO-38F observation plane for hours over targets that his Air Force was later to lock in-Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Odessa, the Crimea. There he made his first headlines. While White was flying Bullitt into Leningrad one day, the )0-38F engine iced up, whereupon White pancaked into a field, hit a few rough spots, went over on his back. Ambassador Bullitt wired President Roosevelt: "Landed upside down. Got out right side up." Later the Russians gave White a Soviet military pilot's license. ("Tommy," quips a Washington wag, "is the only card-carrying...
They further taught us that the United States was unable to bring Japan to her knees and called upon Russia for help, whereupon the Red Army promptly brought about a surrender by crushing the Japanese Kuantung Army of a million men in Mongolia. The first American Atomic bombs which fell upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki were dismissed as insignificant while compared with the Soviet strength. The communists were as thorough as possible with this one-sided distortion of the facts, too thorough to be believable...