Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet aftermath of peace, Codner married, finished his studies in colonial administration at Oxford, and put in for service in Malaya, the place where he was born (son of a British rubber planter). It was an assignment for an adventurer-a job as assistant district officer in charge of 20,000 Malayans and Chinese in Tanjong Malim. The area was a hot spot in the interminable war between Britain and the Malayan Communists. Codner, often the hunter, could also be what he liked to be-one of the hunted. The village he worked in was ringed with barbed wire...
...freshmen were fined and two acquitted at the Cambridge Third District Court yesterday in the aftermath of Monday night's freshman march on Radcliffe...
...recent passage of food consumption regulations and the consequent reaction they have provoked seem to warrant a calm effort towards a more peaceful aftermath of the situation. Hence, this letter...
Princeton coach Charley Caldwell said last night that he did not resign from his trusteeship position on the American Football Coaches Association because of the Dartmouth roughing incident. Yesterday's morning newspapers carried stories certifying that Caldwell quit as an aftermath of the controversy in which he charged the Green with playing dirty football...
Guido Corini had less reason than most to be happy about World War II and its aftermath. An Allied bullet left his spine permanently and painfully deformed. An air raid killed his wife and only child. The best peacetime job he could find at 42 was that of broom-wielder and errand boy in a Milanese gas appliance factory. Guido's fellow workers left him strictly alone after finding that their most innocent remarks evoked a tirade of resentful acrimony. His bosses found him sullen. They would have fired Guido long ago had not Plant Director Luigi Daniele insisted...