Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pacific on your television set. This MARCH OF TIME documentary is the most comprehensive project of its kind in terms of resources used as well as length and scope of the final film. Its subject, the Pacific war from its opening guns in 1931 to its explosive aftermath in late 1951, is man's most concerted struggle over huge areas of land and water...
...Martinu wrote a slapstick one-act opera in 1937 called Comedy on the Bridge. It was a satire on war, and everybody had a good time when they heard the Prague radio premiere that year. Says Expatriate Martinu, sad-eyed, 60, and full of memories of Munich and its aftermath: "Six months later, I could not have written...
...development of moral and spiritual values is basic to all other educational objectives, especially because the war and its aftermath have left a great task of moral reconstruction . . . knowledge about religion is essential for a full understanding of our culture, literature, art, history, and current affairs...
...first heady aftermath of MacArthur's speech, many a Republican chorused praise ("magnificent," "tremendous") without apparently realizing all that MacArthur had said. Indiana's irascible isolationist Senator William Jenner seemed to think that MacArthur had opposed military aid to Europe: "Ex-President Hoover and the Republicans in Congress bought us 85 precious days in their fight on troops to Europe. MacArthur has bought us another, perhaps a final chance, to destroy the Administration's proCommunist, pro-Socialist foreign policy." Ohio's Senator Robert Taft, who had understood what he heard, announced that "I have long approved...
...seems perfectly plain," said the Post, "that in the immediate aftermath of the upheaval, MacArthur had more personal fans than the President. It is equally clear, however, that the course of action recommended by the general-and opposed by Mr. Truman-was rejected with even greater vehemence...