Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miracle when the heart of a man newly dead is lifted from his chest and installed in another man who is dying -- whereupon the heart comes throbbing to life in the chest of the second man, and he walks away and lives on for years? The event is repeated every day on medical assembly lines around the world. What is surgical plumbing today would have been a biblical masterpiece of wonder. Even commonplace achievements of technology, like telephones, fax machines, television, communications satellites and computers, suffuse the earth with a sort of preternatural glow. The people of the industrialized world...
...amount of lighting at night in the yard as well as in the Cambridge Common? David Battat '91 met with the Cambridge City Council a few years ago and took several council members around the Common one night to show them just how dark and unsafe it actually was, whereupon the city of Cambridge installed new lighting everywhere and razed all the bushes where muggers could hide...
...runs, the novelist has taken the plunge again. Beast (Random House; 350 pages; $21) features tentacles rather than mandibles. Otherwise it is the familiar mixture: lethal creature, relentless pursuers and vast quantities of saline solution. When waters off Bermuda become the killing grounds of a giant squid, tourism collapses. Whereupon an Ahabian fisherman, Whip Darling, clambers into a submarine and leads the hunt. All the old ingredients are present, from aqua horror ("the creature moved toward the unnatural thing") to Moby Dick denouement (" 'Here!' he shouted, and he drove the saw deep into the yawning beak"). In between are adrenal...
...only that, you'll have the cleanest credit record in town. "How's his payment history?" one computer may ask another. "He pays early!" the other may flash back. "Aw, c'mon," the first computer will say. "No, really! Here -- look!" Whereupon the first computer will look over the second computer's shoulder and sniff its perfume, and airline reservations clerks around the country will frown and say, "Sorry, my system just went down." All because...
...statement describing the incident, Moses said that she entered the Coop's music section on December 11 and initially decided to buy a new L.L. Cool J compact disc. After reconsidering her decision, she put the CD back and left the store, whereupon she was stopped by two security guards who asked to search her bag, Moses said...