Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nervous flurry, Isaacs explained to the House of Commons that his order was merely intended to put loafing spivs to work and to tap the manpower resources of the football pools, which are big business in Britain (see cut). Whereupon the Manchester Guardian commented...
...Winslow boy (Michael Newell) is dismissed, at the age of 13, from the British Royal Naval College at Osborne for stealing and cashing another boy's five-shilling postal order. Back home, he insists to his father (Alan Webb) that he is innocent, whereupon his father launches what proves a back-breaking struggle to clear his son's name. For the elder Winslow, in challenging an arm of the British Navy, has not only the law's delays and bureaucratic red tape to contend with, but the Admiralty's withering self-assurance and the House...
...exuberance at the seventh point was shared all down the line from acting captain Ken O'Donnell to hospitalized Vince Moravec, the leader O'Donnell replaced. Vince wrote a letter to the team which Dick Harlow read to them immediately before the game. Whereupon Messrs, Gannon, Lazzaro, Fiorentino, and company relayed the message to Holy Cross in a highly satisfactory manner...
...overrun by the Golden Horde of Tartars, one of whose reasons for coming back again & again was Moscow's women, much coveted on the world slave markets. Sultan Ahmed I is said to have asked his eldest son one day: "My Osman, wilt thou conquer Crete for me?" Whereupon Osman replied: "What have I to do with Crete? I will conquer the land of the white Muscovite maidens...
Direct Action. In Omaha, a customer underestimated Mrs. Nonie Anders, waltzed out of her restaurant without paying his 75? check, whereupon the 61-year-old proprietor picked up her pistol, chased the customer out to his car, conked him with the gun butt, dragged him back in and called the cops...