Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Firemen and student bunkers attempted to extinguish the flames with water, whereupon a quart of hydrochloric said, a half pound of metalic sodium, two and a half pounds of lithium bromide, and five gallons of faming sulfuric acid exploded...
...burgeoning defense agencies had been solving their manpower troubles by offering applicants the top civil service pay scales-from $11,200 to $14,000 a year. Last year Congress provided for 400 such jobs in the entire federal service. This year the lid was lifted for the defense agencies, whereupon an estimated 500 candidates in these agencies alone were clamoring for such pay. Last week the President issued an executive order limiting the agencies to 150 such jobs...
...Network is not without its human side. A favorite story of the station tells of the consternation caused during a discussion of coeducation by a Harvard and a Radcliffe student. The young man, declaring himself a mysoganist, was complaining that women were troublesome and a waste of time. Whereupon his companion cooed sweetly into the microphone, "Then why are you holding my knee...
...falcon . . . dashes away as quickly as its hood is removed and the hawker releases the bird from his wrist. It promptly mounts to a height of perhaps half a mile, and "waits on" in circling flight above its owner until prey is flushed, whereupon the falcon dives to the attack in its incredibly swift stoop. It is not unusual for a peregrine 2,000 feet in the sky to get down and kill its quarry pigeon before the prey has traveled 100 yards. A breath-taking sight...
Lord Woolton ("Uncle Fred") was forced to come to the aid of the lady chairman. Beaming, he raised his hands and calmed the multitude. Then he said blandly: "This is magnificent. You want the figure of 300,000 put in?" There were roars of approval. Whereupon Lord Woolton purred: "I am sure that those of us on the platform here would be very glad to have such a figure put in." The conference joyously passed a resolution including 300,000. The Labor Party had promised only 200,000 new houses. But serious Tory back-room policymakers like R. A. Butler...