Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...platform. People who were close to Dan Rather say that they noticed him wince. And well he might have. Rather was picked for his job by CBS in some measure because he is a Texan and because he was particularly effective in his coverage in Dallas of the aftermath of the assassination. Now there he stood, in the ten-gallon shade of a pretty girl from Wisconsin...
Through the summer, until Khanh relinquished power to civilians in the aftermath of August's bloody riots, Taylor went through long and brittle sessions with the testy little general. Khanh never completely trusted the new ambassador; he recalled that on earlier trips to Saigon, Taylor had often been friendly and played tennis with Khanh's rival...
...rightists replied by censuring Papandreou for 1) permitting a mass meeting on a former minefield, and 2) failing to curb Red organization and activity. Right-wing and left-wing Deputies came to blows while Papandreou lit a cigarette and sat back, seemingly safe in the middle. But the aftermath of the explosion implied a different meaning: under Papandreou's center government, the Communists have enjoyed an ominous revival in Greece...
...Committee on Political Education staged a massive voter registration drive, distributed some 65 million pieces of propaganda, endorsed 354 congressional candidates, giving special attention to 89 marginal House seats, reported spending $894,000, although the actual figure for organized labor was probably closer to $20 million. In the aftermath, the investment looked good: the Administration is beholden to labor, and among the 91 new Congressmen to be sworn in on Jan. 4, more than 50 are considered more favorably inclined to organized labor than their predecessors...
...what of some of the other people drawn, whether or not by their own design, into the assassination of President Kennedy and its aftermath? In the intervening year, the lives of most of them have changed dramatically...