Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like camp followers out for booty or vultures for remains, men whose profession is fighting, or telling others how to fight, combed the aftermath of the Russo-Finnish struggle last week for military discoveries, lessons, curiosities...
...immediate aftermath of Easter Week was the execution of 5 leaders, the sentencing of 75 revolters to penal servitude, the imprisonment of 23, the internment of 1,841. Later, in London, the best known of the Easter Week conspirators, Sir Roger Casement, died on the gallows, despite the pleas of Pope Benedict XV and the U. S. Senate. British civil servant turned Irish patriot, Sir Roger had been arrested on the Irish coast only a few hours after landing from a German submarine. His trial was in the glorious tradition; before a British judge and jury he argued Ireland...
...Roosevelt returned from Warm Springs at Thanksgiving weighing 190, was sternly warned off second helpings for weeks. Down he went 5 Ibs. He liked this display of will power so well that he cut off another 2½ Ibs., just to show off. But the annual Christmas aftermath brought him up again...