Shortly before nine I drove my jalopy to the street facing the Lake and parked the car in shadows far enough away from the rendezvous corner but near enough to keep the corner in clear view.

Shortly before his nomination he had set forth his basic view about the problem of negotiations with the Soviet leader in these words:

Shortly before his assassination, Lincoln announced he had a new plan for southern Reconstruction.

Shortly before his marriage, for example, his future father-in-law Colonel Joseph May helped him find a job teaching at a school in Boston run by the Society of Free Enquirers, followers of Robert Owen, for a lucrative $ 1, 000 to $ 1, 200 annual salary.

Shortly afterwards Trajan was chosen by Nerva to be his successor, adopted with public fanfare in absentia by the old man shortly before his death.

Shortly before this battle the Spartan navy, of which he had received the supreme command, was totally defeated off Cnidus by a powerful Persian fleet under Conon and Pharnabazus.

Shortly before its final " flowering ", the changes in a single minute of the Blight's life are said to exceed those of 10, 000 years of human civilization.

Shortly before his death, he passed his chair on to John of La Rochelle, setting the precedent for that chair to be held by a Franciscan.

Shortly before the World Cup Charlton was involved in the Bogotá Bracelet incident in which he and Bobby Moore were accused of stealing a bracelet from a jewellery store.

Shortly after 20: 00, a dismasted hulk was spotted drifting in front of Swiftsure and Hallowell initially ordered his men to fire before rescinding the order, concerned for the identity of the strange vessel.

Shortly before his death, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church had given Pasternak the last rites.

Shortly before this, Chaplin and his wife had separated after 18 months of marriage — they were " irreconcilably mismated ", he remembered.

Shortly before 1951, Lewis Fry Richardson, in researching the possible effect of border lengths on the probability of war, noticed that the Portuguese reported their measured border with Spain to be 987 km, but the Spanish reported it as 1214 km.

Shortly before the end of the First World War in 1918, the Croatian Parliament severed relations with Austria-Hungary as the Entente armies defeated those of the Habsburgs.

Shortly before quitting, he moonlighted as a comic book artist, contributing half the artwork for a one-shot comic book ( the other half of the art being done by story partner Jack Hannah ) titled Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold.

Shortly before the satellite-linked interview was scheduled to commence, the death of the Spanish dictator General Franco was announced.

Shortly before World War II, he edited two of the earliest periodicals devoted entirely to science fiction, Stirring Science Stories and Cosmic Stories.

Shortly before his death in 2002, he received the ACM PODC Influential Paper Award in distributed computing for his work on self-stabilization of program computation.

Shortly before his death, Mount Palomar's giant reflector Hale Telescope was completed, and Hubble was the first astronomer to use it.

Shortly before leaving he had issued a famous instruction to F. Gaspar Barazeuz who was leaving to go to Ormuz ( a kingdom on an island in the Persian Gulf, now part of Iran ), that he should mix with sinners:

Shortly before Christmas, he left for Kyoto but failed to meet with the Emperor.

Shortly before leaving Florence, as they knew that they would soon have to retreat, the Germans murdered many freedom fighters and political opponents publicly, in streets and squares including the Piazza Santo Spirito.

Shortly before the trial Eiffel had announced his intention to resign from the Board of Directors of the Compagnie des Establissments Eiffel, and did so at a General Meeting held on 14 February, saying " I have absolutely decided to abstain from any participation in any manufacturing business from now on, and so that no one can be misled and to make it most evident that I intend to remain absolutely uninvolved with the management of the establishments which bear my name, I wish to that my name should disappear from the name of the company.

Shortly before the invasion, when fast delivery and secrecy was essential, fast yachts and small vessels were used for special courier services.

Shortly before accepting the offer from Nagoya Grampus Eight, Tottenham had rejected an offer from ambitious Second Division club Blackburn Rovers, who had recently been taken over by steel baron Jack Walker.

Shortly later, or about 1433 AD, Duke Sigismund Kęstutaitis gave the town along with other towns to Jonas Gostautas, and it became the most important power seat of that Lithuanian magnate Gostautai family clan.

Shortly after waking up on the morning of flight day six three and a half minutes early, Young and Duke discussed with mission control in Houston the day's timeline of events.

Shortly before his birth, his mother had to move from Milan to Pavia to escape the Plague ; her three other children died from the disease.

Shortly before the end of World War I, representatives of the three peoples proclaimed a Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes under King Peter I.

Shortly before 1256 Enguerrand IV of Coucy arrested and without trial hanged three young squires of Laon whom he accused of poaching in his forest.

Shortly before the All Star break the Brewers climbed to one game above. 500, but then lost their next three to the Chicago Cubs and would never return to. 500.

Shortly afterwards he painted three frescoes with scenes from the life of Saint Francis above the left door of the Santa Trinita church.

Shortly afterwards, Schneider became aware that he had overestimated the cooling effect of aerosols, and underestimated the warming effect of CO < sub > 2 </ sub > by a factor of about three.

Shortly after the war, Rockwell was contacted by writer Elliott Caplin, brother of cartoonist Al Capp, with the suggestion that the three of them should make a daily comic strip together, with Caplin and his brother writing and Rockwell drawing.

Shortly after, three Bermudian vessels were seized at Grand Caicos, with $ 35, 000 worth of goods salvaged from a French ship.

Shortly after eight o ' clock on the morning of 29 January 1860, F A R Russell and three other people saw an alleged transit of an intra-Mercurial planet from London.

Shortly after Napton Junction, the Grand Union reaches three locks at Calcutt, which begin the descent to the Warwickshire River Avon.

Shortly thereafter, Carte sent three touring companies around the United States East Coast and Midwest, playing Pinafore alongside Pirates.

Shortly before his death in 1992, Asimov approved an outline for three novels ( Caliban, Inferno, Utopia ) by Roger MacBride Allen, set between Robots and Empire and the Empire series, telling the story of the terraforming of the Spacer world Inferno, and about the robot revolution started by creating a " No Law " Robot, and then New Law Robots.

Shortly after this performance, the court produced Francesca Caccini's opera La liberazione di Ruggiero dall ' isola d ’ Alcina, which she had written for Prince Władysław three years earlier when he was in Italy.

Shortly after this injury, the Reds ' team physician, Timothy Kremchek, devised an experimental surgery dubbed " The Junior Operation " that would use three titanium screws to reattach Griffey's hamstring.

Shortly after, William Ogly and John Dickerson came with their families and made a settlement on the Federal Road, about three miles ( 5 km ) south of where Fort Dale was later erected.

Shortly thereafter, the first three volumes were published and named independently and also collected in an eponymous boxed set.

Shortly after the boys arrive, three of the sisters kill themselves: Bonnie hangs herself, Therese overdoses on sleeping pills, and Lux dies of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Shortly after, the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, founded in 1784, relocated from Brooklyn, New York, to New Brunswick, and shared facilities with Queen's College ( and the Queen's College Grammar School, as all three institutions were then overseen by the Reformed Church in America ).

Shortly after the fatal plane crash, Tommy Dee wrote and recorded a song entitled Three Stars in tribute to the three singers.

Shortly thereafter a store-house was built by Smith Hawkins for dry goods to be distributed, which were sold out within three months.

Shortly after his admission to the Georgia bar, he married his childhood sweetheart, Julia A. Dubose, with whom he had three children.

Shortly after the 2005 general election, 412 of the 646 MPs signed EDM 178 calling for a Climate Change Bill ; only three other early day motions had ever been signed by more than 400 MPs.

Shortly thereafter three members of the band left to form Bow Wow Wow, under McLaren's management.