Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even Alinsky's everyday habits and gestures are intended to demonstrate the uses of power. Once, while addressing students at an Eastern college in the campus chapel, he lit up a cigarette. The college president rose to tell him that smoking was not allowed, whereupon Alinsky started to leave. "No smoking, no speech," he announced. The embarrassed president at once relented: though having made his point, Alinsky refrained from smoking. He upholds the public's right to good service in restaurants; to get attention, he will throw a glass on the floor or bellow insults at the waiter...
...Whereupon the domino theory is poked fun at. Joe's column is read in Washington, Washington sends military and pacification men out to solve the communist menace from the north, the northern menace is actually a CIA agent, and after coup and counter coup our own embassy ends up reeling under a U. S. bombing attack...
...taking 17 of 27 matches. But at one point the Harvards found themselves down in hours, 8-7, and their own fencers looking like men trying to brash their teeth in (??) Cetrulo, he of the mighty sabre off the bench to poke and (??) a poor Trinity (??) touches to one, whereupon Keller, resembling a surgeon who didn't very much like his patient, cut up a victim five to zip. Thus inspired. Harvard's lesser lights finally quit puffing like fat men chasing a bus and got a little more art in their lunges...
...Welssman was the only Harvard with a blade to winthree bouts, he being a specialist of the foil, Mr. Welssman had a tendency to turn his back on opponents now and again, checking his progress against the scoring machine, whereupon he was fetched several stout clonis from the rear. This may not have been sporting of Trinity's lads, but it was legal, and the citizen Welssman would do well in tougher company to guard his backside with more enthusiasm...
...disgrace for a handful of radicals to disrupt the opportunities of others to get an education in our colleges today," said South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. Whereupon his student audience at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University proceeded to disrupt the Senator's speech by pelting him with marshmallows. "Don't be frightened, Senator!" shouted one heckler. "They're not bombs...