Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the scandal began to be uncovered in 1973, Connally, according to the indictment, decided to cook up an alibi with Jacobsen: the pair agreed to testify under oath that although Jacobsen had offered the money to Connally, the Treasury chief had refused to take it. Whereupon, the story went, Jacobsen put the cash in a safe-deposit box in a bank in Austin. To make the alibi stick, the prosecution believes, Connally gave Jacobsen $10,000 out of his own pocket to place...
...miserably devours chocolates; 2) meets and falls in love with an itinerant oil geologist; 3) heroically goes off her feed in order to turn herself into what looks like a young Angela Lansbury, only to discover 4) that her lover, back from prospecting in Iran, actually prefers fat girls, whereupon 5) the cellulite freak abruptly departs and 6) a sadder but psychologically thinner Lynn sets out to face the future, like a reformed alcoholic with a missionary taste for Diet Pepsi...
...shot. Appalled at French decadence, the Chinese ban automobiles, alcohol and sex, mais alors, c 'est impossible! Mao's minions then decide to let the French indulge themselves in their vices and suffer the consequences, but the captors are eventually corrupted and abruptly ordered home to Peking, whereupon a handful of absurd partisans "liberate" Paris...
...miners give no indication of halting their costly strike, meaning Heath will have to find more money for them if he is returned to office. Last week he ordered his Pay Board to get cracking on a possible settlement beyond the 16% increase the government has offered, whereupon Wilson accused him of asking for a man date to pay the miners after the election what he refused to pay them before. "For the first time in history," Wilson declared, "we have a general leading his troops into battle with the deliberate aim of giving in if he wins...
...from the modish mustachio of Dick Williams. He spent a lot of time under Leo Durocher for the Giants, and emerged in his own right as a manager for "Frisco in 1962-64. He took over Finley's Kansas City Athletics in 1966 and broke with Charles in 1968, whereupon he flew to the Indians. Alvin never got along that well with management, and GM Gabe Paul ousted him in 1970. He reminds me a lot of Hank Bauer, the crusty if effective skipper...