Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exception. To the stirring strains of the regimental band's bag pipes, fifes and drums, the Queen Mum presented her troops with fresh sprigs of three-leaf clover, which they stuck into the braiding of their caps. Then the commanding officer cried, "Three cheers for the Queen Mother!" whereupon there was a rousing "Hip, hip, hooray!" As the band struck up the chords of the St. Patrick's Day march and the men filed past their royal chief, Irish eyes were brightly smiling...
Suddenly a police officer asked if I was there, and if so did I know someone named Sharon. Confused, I answered yes, whereupon the police asked me to come downstairs. After a jumbled series of conversations, I learned that Sharon had set off the alarm by running into my basement, which I had forgotten to lock, when she was parking her van in front of my house and a man approached...
...plot has two businessmen, Matthew Hollis (Michael Caine) and Victor Lyons (Joseph Bologna), their marriages in disarray, renting a house in Rio in order to share a vacation with their adolescent daughters. Whereupon Jennifer Lyons (Michelle Johnson, whose awkwardness may be attributed in part to the fact that she is a model rather than an actress and in part to the fact that she is required to do about half her scenes nude to the waist) seduces "Uncle Matthew." The joke-if the word can be applied here-is that she is cool and sophisticated, while he gets all flustered...
...August, a 29-year-old Florence, S.C. man named Larry Gurley was killed by four officers who suspected him stealing a lawn mower. The cops say they chased Gurley into a wooded area, wrestled him to the ground and handcuffed him, whereupon he suddenly died...
...residence of President Chaim Herzog. Waving to a band of reporters and photographers, Meridor trotted up the stairs to the paneled, book-lined office where Herzog was awaiting him. "The Prime Minister asked me to convey to the President of the state his letter of resignation," said the Secretary, whereupon he handed Herzog a white envelope. The letter inside was brief: "Mr. President, I hereby submit my resignation from the office of Prime Minister. Yours respectfully, and with all good wishes to you and your family for a happy New Year, Menachem Begin." Business done, the two men chatted briefly...