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 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 after leaving the monastery, Rasputin visited a holy man named Makariy whose hut was nearby.

Shortly before leaving office, in March 1809, Jefferson signed the repeal of the disastrous Embargo.

Shortly thereafter, the firm went into bankruptcy because of an arbitration connected to Ahuja's leaving, and Burgee's career was dealt a serious blow.

Shortly before leaving office, in March 1809, Jefferson signed the repeal of the failed Embargo.

Shortly after leaving office, due to the December Mistake, inflation rose to 51. 48 %.

Shortly after leaving office in 1994, Salinas staged a brief hunger strike to protest the arrest of his older brother Raúl Salinas de Gortari ( see below ) as well as the accusations of responsibility for the country's economic travails that his successor as President, Ernesto Zedillo, aimed at him.

Shortly after leaving Warrington the young king had resolved to abandon the direct march on London and to make for the Severn valley, where his father had found the most constant and the most numerous adherents in the first war, and which had been the centre of gravity of the English Royalist movement of 1648.

Shortly before leaving Cedar Grove, Route 23 crosses County Route 604 ( Lindsley Road ), which also heads to the west as County Route 527.

Shortly before leaving the Academy at the age of 16, Hung suffered an injury that left him bedridden for an extended period, during which time his weight ballooned.

Shortly before her death, Maria's father had died, leaving her £ 20, 000.

Shortly after leaving the barrel, the pellet falls below the speed of sound and the shock wave overtakes the pellet, causing it to tumble.

Shortly after leaving Black Flag in 1979, he formed the Circle Jerks with guitarist Greg Hetson ; the band released seven albums between 1980 and 1995 and are currently on hiatus.

Shortly afterward, ironically, the HUAC closed its investigation of John Garfield, leaving him in the clear.

Shortly after this storyline began, the decision was made to retroactively remove Superboy completely from Legion history, leaving the question of where the Legion's inspiration came from without the influence of Superboy.

Shortly after leaving, he started a band called Wild Horses with Brian Robertson, Jimmy Bain and Kenney Jones.

Shortly after leaving the BBC, Jimmy Young wrote a newspaper column attacking his former employer for instances of " brutality ", and making clear that it had not been his idea to leave.

Shortly before reaching Sol the little fleet was attacked by an unknown ship ; Captain Burton, commanding the Earthling ship, intercepted the alien ship before it could damage the defenseless Precursor starship, but was killed in the short fight, leaving the genius young man in command.

Shortly thereafter, her father, Charles Augustus Wake, returned to New Zealand, leaving her mother Ella Wake ( née Rosieur ; 1874 – 1968 ) to raise the children.

Shortly after leaving Crazy Town, Rust Epique formed a band which would eventually go by the name pre ) Thing.

Shortly after leaving his Bush Cabinet post, Thompson joined and served for two years on the board of directors of Applied Digital Solutions, makers of the controversial VeriChip: a glass-encapsulated RFID chip that can be injected into human flesh for various database-driven identification purposes.

Shortly before leaving office in January 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the creation of the National Photographic Interpretation Center, headed by Arthur C. Lundahl, combining Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), Army, Navy, and Air Force assets to solve national intelligence problems.

Shortly before leaving for Italy he " dined with Gov ' r Hutchinson, and I think there was 12 of us altogether, and all Bostonians, and we had Choice Salt Fish for Dinner.