Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet diplomat recently chortled in Washington. "And they are not over them yet-no, not for some time." Meanwhile, the U.S. is banking heavily on the breakup of the Communist "monolith." State Department officials, who a few years ago were gloomily talking of a "lifelong struggle" in the aftermath of Russia's space victories and the Castro revolution, now talk perhaps too optimistically in terms of "winning it all in this decade." Says one: "We need to hold the line with firmness and sweat out this decade. The Communists have a rotten empire, and it is crumbling...
...Spanish Jews who were forced into exile across the Mediterranean by Visigothic persecution in the 6th century or the Inquisition of the 15th. A third strain consists of European Jews who settled in North African cities after World War II. All three have found that exile is the inevitable aftermath of independence...
After Darwin, Doubt. In the aftermath of Darwin, scientists grew increasingly confident that their questioning disciplines could eventually supply all answers, and were increasingly contemptuous of Genesis and all other parts of the Bible that conflict with science's discoveries. After World War II, when science capped humanity's plight with the hydrogen bomb, some scientists joined the nation's postwar religious revival. But eventually, though the churches had by then conceded much to science, many of the converts found them still too laden with ceremony and dogmatism for the scientific taste...
...Beside a highway outside the capital, a plaque was undraped on the spot where Trujillo died: ''Glory to the heroic liberating act of the 30th of May." Only one of the four "liberators"' was present for the ceremony: the other three triggermen all died in the aftermath at the hands of Trujillo's troops. The survivor, Council Member Antonio Imbert, 41, hid for six months in a friend's shuttered room, is still a presumed target for Trujillo revenge. Tommy gun-toting guards protect his home round-the-clock; he wears a .45 Colt...
Europe's steady economic surge in the past decade, in the face of three U.S. recessions, proves that the Continent's basic economic climate is no longer dominated by transatlantic winds. But last week, in the aftermath of Wall Street's Blue Monday, it became abundantly clear that, so far as stock prices are concerned, New York can still make the weather around the world...