Last week the name of Tommy Greenhough of Lancashire was recalled for the first time in a while, since he was the last English leg-spinner to take five wickets in a Test match – in 1959.
Mr. Pundak said it was useful to recall, for example, that while the United States and Israel recognized Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah faction as the legitimate leader of the Palestinians, not long ago Fatah and its leader, Yasir Arafat, were considered terrorists.
He recalls that he was for a while the only obstetrician — "a very delightful part of medicine," he says — in Brazoria County.
Rather than jumping off the phone, Mr. Lugar recalled that the two talked for a while longer.
"People said it would be a great relief when it was over," she recalled of the project that, for a while, had left a huge hole in the back wall of her house.
"Swansea were new to the Championship when I arrived and I thought we would consolidate in the division for a while," recalled Gower.
After Buckingham's dabblings in wars against Spain and France had ended in failure, he recalled Baltimore to court, and for a while may have considered employing him in the peace negotiations with Spain.
"We wandered around for a while," recalls Richard Belluzzo, who quit recently as Microsoft's president and oversaw MSN and the XBox games division.
"For a while," recalls Arlene, "he was doing good".
When asked to cite an early indication of a theatrical tendency, Ms. Harden thought for a while, then recalled hamming it up for the neighbors when she and her three sisters and brother staged front-porch plays.
"It was really good for a while," he recalled.
