Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kansas. Banker George Docking, Kansas' first Democratic governor in 20 years, took over in the aftermath of some fatal Republican feuding (TIME, Aug. 20), promised that "all of us will . . . give the citizens of Kansas the good government for which they voted...
...shattering the Commonwealth, blocking the canal he sought to seize. A man of greater flair might have carried off as great a blunder and outlived it. Rather it was that, faced with the consequences of his miscalculations, Eden was not up to rectifying the damage. In the Suez aftermath, nobody hated Eden; he was seen as pathetic. As a leader, Eden could have survived hate. He could not survive pity...
...Specifics. In the bitter aftermath of Budapest, world Communism desperately needs a new and recognizable success-and it is in the Middle East that such a success seems to beckon. Therefore, said Ike, spelling out the way U.S. collective-security planning had helped in Western Europe, Greece, Turkey and the Far East, "it is now essential that the U.S. should manifest through joint action of the President and the Congress our determination to assist those nations of the Mideast area which may desire that assistance." That was why he had come before them to request stand-by congressional authority...
Rarely since John Adams set up the U.S.'s first ministry in London had a U.S. ambassador-designate faced more difficult diplomatic beginnings than John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 52. In the bitter aftermath of Suez, Jock Whitney, nominated last week to succeed Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich, faces the awesome task of restoring full U.S.-British concord and confidence in a country split by a new sense of its own rights and wrongs, in which the U.S. is the most convenient scapegoat...
...capital-investment boom such as we are having now has been the culminating phase of the economic cycle. If we keep on accelerating present pressures and loosen our restraints, we will get into maladjustments of production and consumption and excesses of debt-into a spiraling orgy-with the inevitable aftermath of collapse. Yes, the time is here to spend less and save more...