Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this that inspired the Miseries and Misfortunes of War. At a time when war was considered heroic, Callot showed it as it was. His series begins with a majestic parade and then a savage combat scene wreathed in smoke. But the horror is in the aftermath. Churches go up in flames, men are set on fire in their castles, tiny firing squads claim victim after victim, a man is broken on a wheel, 21 corpses hang from a single tree. Callot's etchings are too small to roar with rage, but all the brutality is there, etched in acid...
...afflict The Netherlands in five centuries. Hardest hit were 1,300 square miles of Rhine and Meuse delta lands in The Netherlands' southwest, where tidal surges roared up estuaries and rivers, shattered 67 dikes, drowned 1,800 people and engulfed 375,000 acres of farmlands. In the aftermath, the public alarm was profound, and engineers swiftly blueprinted a $650 million plan to safeguard the delta forevermore by damming up four of the region's principal sea arms (see map). Fortnight ago the Delta Plan marked its first milestone: the damming of the 2,000-ft.-wide Veersche...
...aftermath, Cubans bitterly blamed the U.S. and were less inclined to acknowledge the harm done by their own internecine quarreling. But they had paid dearly, too. Miró's own son was Castro's prisoner. Varona's son, two brothers and one nephew were missing. So was Council Member Antonio Maceo's son. The Revolutionary Council held a funereal press conference in the tinseled gaudiness of the Moderne Room of Manhattan's Belmont Plaza. Still playing by the rules, Miró gamely denied that...
When East Germany was split off from the West in the aftermath of World War II, it had 18 million people. In the 15 years since then, 3,400,000 East Germans have fled to the West, leaving behind them an acute labor shortage...
Though the reasons for both resignations were plausible enough, the timing inevitably aroused speculation that they are part of the conspiracy's aftermath. G.E.'s top men have been sharply criticized by some stockholders, and at G.E.'s annual meeting April 26, stockholders will vote on a proposal to set up a committee to determine whether G.E.'s executive suite "reasonably" should have known of the conspiracy...