Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realistic civil defense policy should emphasize personal survival techniques and seek only limited objectives in shelter and evacuation during attack. It must include plans for post-attack care and dispersal and should prepare the public to face the grim aftermath of nuclear bombing...
Tuesday at midday, eight days after the Middle East war began, U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announced that Britain and France had agreed to a ceasefire. The gunfire might cease, but the unpleasant aftermath would be with the world for a long time...
...Chicago that Boston-born Louis Sullivan first saw as a fledgling draftsman of 17 was a vast expanse of gutted ruins, the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1871. Sidewalks were temporary wooden structures; pavements oozed mud. But for Sullivan it was love at first sight. He could foresee that up from the ruins would burgeon a new city...
...thought they had a better idea: a free and fair trial to show that their regime had merit. But last week, after eight days of free and fair evidence of life under Communism, the embarrassed Polish Communists began desperately seeking a way to curtail the trials. Poznan and its aftermath were proving to be the most significant of recent events in satelliteland...
...aftermath of the lopsided American League pennant race, Managers Al Lopez, 48, of the Cleveland Indians, and Bucky Harris, 59, of the Detroit Tigers, submitted their resignations. Said Lopez, who managed the Indians to one pennant and five second-place finishes in six years: "There's a feeling that we should have finished higher. The tension has been terrific." (This was the understatement of the week.) Harris brought his team in fifth both last year and this year. He figured he could never be the "fiery, aggressive manager" demanded by the syndicate that bought the club in midsummer...