afterward

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As Belafonte later wrote, Poitier told him afterward, half joking, half shaken: “Don’t ever call me again for something like this.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

In less than a year afterward half of them had gone to honest work; the rest went the way of the transgressor, to the penetentiary and the reform school.

From From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine by Irvine, Alexander