Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Idaho's Republican Senator Herman Welker, who seems to be McCarthy's floor manager, began a speech that lasted through most of the next day. Trying to prove his thesis that other Senators have acted just as badly as McCarthy, Welker gave a fascinating account of the aftermath to a 1951 radio recording session in which Senators debated Far Eastern problems. Said Welker: "The Senator from Indiana [Republican Homer Capehart] threw out of the broadcasting studio into my arms the Senator from Minnesota [Democrat Hubert Humphrey], a friend of mine. The Senator from New York [Democrat Herbert Lehman...
...Zealand's current election campaign is the rumor (since denied) that the U.S. is planning to use Antarctica, 1,800 miles south of New Zealand, as an H-bomb testing ground. New Zealanders feel that 1,800 miles is not enough to shield them from the radioactive aftermath of hydrogen explosions...
...result at the University had been something like the aftermath of the Amherst game in 1903 when for the first time in varsity history a visiting team won on Soldiers Field. The undergraduate attitude to that loss was adequately summed up in a Boston Globe editorial: "... Harvard has no excuses. The eleven was clearly outplayed in the second half and beaten fairly. To be sure, Amherst's score was in the nature of a fluke, but that fluke was enough...
...animated cartoon. But it did not panic. After a flurry of transcontinental phone calls, President Eisenhower issued a steadying statement: "I have never found him [Wilson] in the slightest degree indifferent to human misfortune . . . In spite of record peacetime employment, there are areas suffering from economic dislocations as the aftermath of war and inflation. Every one of these is engaging the earnest and persistent efforts of the Administration...
...bottle, and telling friends of his concern over what he regarded as the return to power in West Germany of former Nazis. He disappeared immediately after attending the morbid anniversary observance of the July 20, 1944 attempt on Hitler's life (his own brother was executed in the bloody aftermath of that unsuccessful plot...