afterward

Soon afterward, business leaders filed paperwork for another ballot measure — this one to repeal the city’s business tax.

Soon afterward, in April 1937, the fascist militaries of Germany and Italy dropped bombs on a Spanish town with a name that quickly became a synonym for the slaughter of civilians: Guernica.

“Happy to be where I’m standing right now,” said Stafford afterward outside a joyous locker room.

He starts each morning by folding his hands in prayer, dunking his face in a sink full of ice water afterward.

Therrien never opened the gallery to the public but often hosted museum groups and curators, taking them to his adjacent apartment afterward and lingering over a long lunch of salad served from a giant bowl.