Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them stand in a corner for as long as they had been late. Once, when he himself was the offender, he cracked down on himself. "Feng Yu-hsiang is ten minutes late!" he bellowed on the drill ground. "Feng Yu-hsiang must stand in the corner for ten minutes." Whereupon he turned his back on his men and stood in a corner for ten minutes...
...seedy old men in skullcaps. A young blonde who had a perfume shop near the Trocadero told a reporter that her hat had cost 28,000 francs ($235) at Lanvin's. She sat, vibrating with anger, until a speaker mentioned Schuman's Finance Minister René Mayer, whereupon she stood up, brandished her fist, and shrieked: "That man is an idiot! Let's have some action...
...filled with presents and decorated with gay streamers, was hung from the ceiling. One by one guests were blindfolded, spun around, and allowed to crack at the pinata with a palo (stick). Usually they missed. Then the smallest child was allowed to split it open, whereupon everyone dived for the shower of candies, fruits and toys...
...House of Deputies was still arguing about what to do with the one Communist Senator (Leader Luis Carlos Prestes) and 16 Deputies who still held office. A bill to cancel the Communists' mandates recently passed the Senate. Last fortnight, it got out of a House committee, whereupon the Communists tried to stall it by proposing no less than 320 amendments. This week, on the floor, they were ready with another tried & true parliamentary technique-the filibuster...
...unfaithful wife murders her husband, just home from the war, whereupon her daughter, who has always loved father as immoderately as she has loathed mother, persuades brother to murder mother's lover. When mother hears of this event (from her son's cruel lips), she shoots herself. Her monstrously affectionate children then suffer a monstrous expiation. Demented by remorse and ingrown desire, the son shoots himself in order to join mother. Daughter determines to "live alone with the dead, and keep their secrets, and let them hound me, until the curse is paid out and the last Mannon...