Word: aftereffects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apprehension over the news. It caused instant repercussions within the Labor Party and the trade unions, most of which had been so painfully won to pro-American, anti-Soviet collaboration. Even though the actual deed is now canceled, its effects will be felt for a long time. One aftereffect here will be a revival of the deep-seated assumption that Americans are unpredictable and therefore difficult fellows to live with...
...Aftereffect. In Oakland, Calif., motorist James Wallace swerved to avoid one auto, sideswiped another, crashed through a heavy guard rail, careened down a 200-ft. embankment, landed in a tree, still unhurt climbed out and surveyed the damage, was conked on the head and knocked out by a falling boulder...
...epidemic in London: "Everybody is coming down with it, you know. It's really only a very light kind of flu, keeps you in bed only four or five days. The only really bad part is that you get up with a very low blood pressure. . . . The aftereffect is really alarming, old boy. Understand you're getting a similar epidemic here. Better watch the blood pressure, you know...