Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That the country has been groping became fully evident a year ago, in the aftermath of the December 1964 Federal elections. It was then, in the expectation of civil war, that the President, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, first began to count which members of the armed forces might be loyal to him; and it was then that the Prime Minister, "moderate" old Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, set an armed guard around the President's mansion and made plans to kidnap him and ship him out of the country...
From the Geneva headquarters of the International Commission of Jurists last week came a bitter indictment of justice, Burundi-style. The jurists charge that in the aftermath of last October's unsuccessful uprising by the underdog Bahutu tribe against the Watutsi monarchy, no less than 86 Bahutus, including all of the elected officers of both houses of Parliament, were executed without even the semblance of a fair trial...
...faced the tasks of presenting the respected and emulated Clutters in their farmland environment; graphing the individual backgrounds of the two parolees who systematically murdered then, for the actual sum of about fifty dollars; blending the many moods of the aftermath, and its ramifications; and recording the meaning of it all in the final confrontation between the murderers and the gallows. Not only did he have to create a simultaneity of tone and narrative in which the many active threads, biographical themes, and local vignettes would be balanced but evocative; he also had to discipline himself to a new kind...
...unconsciously, playing Kahn's game. (The government repeatedly uses the word "escalation.") We have carefully defined our thresholds, such as not bombing North Vietnamese population centers, and we have shown considerable virtuosity in raising the level of violence by subtle degrees. Our goal--what Kahn calls a "desired aftermath," --has been to coerce the North Vietnamese into negotiations under terms acceptable to the United States. But according to the New York Times reports of last week, our careful steps up the escalation ladder seem to have had negative effects...
After seven months, the wounded seaman could walk for several hours, flex his toes, feel pain and temperature changes, climb stairs, stoop down, and even kick a soccer ball. The stiffness of his fused ankle seems the only irreparable aftermath of his accident...