Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sometimes the U.S. and its European partners get so busy with their own noisy spats, shufflings and disappointments that they fail to hear the scuffling on the other side of the Iron Curtain. But last week, in the aftermath of Czechoslovakia's Slansky trial, the scuffling could be plainly heard, and louder than usual...
...break the cultural bonds between America and Germany. For forty years, the squat, white building whose tower catches the shadow from Memorial Hall has been the center of Germanism at the University. As such, it has been the target of the distrust and suspicion accompanying two wars and their aftermath's. But war feelings have never hindered the steady accretion of art objects that has made the Museum a world famous storehouse of reproductions and home of the finest collection of German paintings outside Germany itself...
...Aftermath. Grandier was seized, probed to the bone with a long needle for "devil's pain-free spots," put to the "question extraordinary" (a procedure in which the victim's legs were systematically splintered), adjudged guilty and burned at the stake...
...believe that anyone who lived during the events leading up to World War II, through that frightfulness, and the aftermath of the struggle, can earnestly desire the freedom of these creatures...
...confessed her negligence at great length to reporters and the police - practically forcing authorities to take away her driver's license for 3½ months, and prompting some nameless wag to erect a sign at the highway's edge: MRS. ROOSEVELT SLEPT HERE. But the aftermath was a happy one. Everyone recovered. Mrs. Roosevelt's protruding front teeth were broken in the accident; the porcelain caps which replace them subtly changed her whole face and gave her a sweet, warm and gentle smile...