Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fondly recalls the Willard's cotillions. But over the years the tradition, like the plumbing, began to corrode. Newer and better hotels opened. The automobile made it unnecessary to be a five-minute walk from the offices of power. The riots that flared last spring in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination and the disruptions caused by the Poor People's Campaign virtually emptied the Willard of tourists. Last week the management, having lost $1,250,000 since 1965 and unable to meet its bills, abruptly shut down what Sandburg called "the conversation capital...
...Sacramento, two youths dropped Molotov cocktail fire bombs outside Governor Ronald Reagan's home when a bodyguard opened fire. Police said the incident was the probable aftermath to a racial disturbance near by. - In Long Island's suburban Nassau County, police acted on a telephone tip and removed a fragmentation hand grenade set to explode at the turn of a heater switch in a car belonging to County Executive Eugene Nickerson...
...inflationary aftermath of World War I, the value of the mark shrank in 1923 to an unprecedented 4.2 trillion to $1, pauperizing the middle class and leaving Germany with a horror of inflation that survives in today's constitutional prohibition against government budget deficits...
Hero's Style. Only once in the past have the First District's Negroes-43% of the population-challenged the chairman. Rivers trounced their 1950 candidate, a Negro attorney, in that year's Democratic primary. This year, in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, another Negro attorney, George Payton Jr., 39, decided to try. Scraping together the $2,000 registration fee with loans from relatives, Payton attacked Rivers as a "warmonger and superhawk," stumped for a $2 minimum wage, expanded social security, and liberal federal housing programs...
Serious & Difficult. In the aftermath of the aluminum settlement, that industry's leaders, Alcoa, Reynolds and Kaiser, promptly raised prices by 4% on primary ingots as well as a number of fabricated products. A hefty settlement in the current negotiations, similarly, is almost sure to result in steel price increases, which will make it even more difficult for U.S. steelmakers to compete against foreign companies. The union contends that the best way to combat the problem is by imposing quotas on steel imports, but that solution, obviously favored by the companies as well, runs afoul of the Administration...