Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love with her because of it, but her cold feet thankfully spare us from any romantic complications. Certain cliches must endure, however, and by the end of the movie Carla realizes that even Max needs help. The tables turn and she sends him back to his wife and family, whereupon Max almost dies and realizes that he's not fearless anymore...
...high-visibility conference -- including all concerned interests -- on checking the cost of entitlements. They talked it through for a few minutes until Clinton said, "Let's do it." Now, at 10:15, the electronic tabulation was complete, and the scoreboard showed 216-216. Deadlock would have meant defeat. Whereupon Williams and Margolies-Mezvinsky went to the rostrum and cast their ayes on paper. "I did it not so much for the budget," Williams said, "as for movement. My vote was to help us set sail again...
After a few more pleasantries, HEIDI agrees to send over one of her girls -- a trial run, as it were. When HEIDI departs, DETECTIVE LEE of the Beverly Hills police department turns off the hidden tape recorders and video camera. Three hours later, Heidi's hooker, "SAMANTHA," arrives, whereupon LEE $ receives a "prostitution violation" (solicitation) and duly arrests her. Next day the cops and their dogs come to call in Benedict Canyon...
When the meeting was opened for questions, this reporter asked why the club had not been named the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Action Council. Anne W. Walker '96, the lone woman at the meeting, expressed a desire to change the name accordingly, whereupon Whitney D. Pidot '96 contested that such action was unnecessary. Erskine added, "If you ask a woman student where she goes to school, she says Harvard University, not Radcliffe College." (Fred A. Decaro '93 added, "this is a policy issue and we shouldn't discuss...
...blacks and whites, the whites in the state had a school for nursing while the blacks had none. The politician told Marshall that he could get the state to build a school for blacks, but that Marshall had to allow the politician to use his own methods. Marshall agreed, whereupon the politician immediately called a press conference and announced that he had just witnessed a most sickening spectacle: a white female nurse washing the back of a black man. The politician then demanded that the state legislature immediately appropriate money for "a nigger school" so that this sort of thing...