Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economic prospects darkened in 1974, cries for leadership were heard on all sides, yet the leaders themselves were in a state of turbulence. Seldom had so much political power changed hands in so many nations, except in the aftermath of a major...
...there is something fortifying to society's conscience to know the worst about its leaders as well as the best. Somehow the Tidal Basin affair and its aftermath let us know more about the most powerful Congressman in the land than we had ever known before. He was not just the accomplished master of the legislative process, as we had presumed. He was also old Wilbur Mills, with all the temptations and weaknesses of any other man, and perhaps more...
Maybe Richard Betts picked something up out of the aftermath because his immediate situation was a microcosm for what was happening in general. The early Allman Brothers were the last holdouts of the genuine breed of sixties rock, and they were the best in the business-well-balanced, super-competent and, with their steeped-in-Georgia soulfulness, basic. Playing "Whipping Post" under the bright lights, the sound was fierce--Bill Graham introduced them at Watkins Glen as "the band with balls." Well, that was fine, but there was nothing distinctive about them except that they were uncorrupted and the best...
...will be the first time that the party has agreed on how it should be run since 1968, when liberals and minority groups charged that they had been underrepresented at the bitter convention that nominated Senator Hubert Humphrey. In the aftermath, the Democratic National Committee created a commission, initially headed by Senator George McGovern, to rewrite the guidelines for choosing delegates for the 1972 convention. The commission's sweeping reforms are now generally accepted by the party and appear in the proposed charter. In some states, party officials used to select convention delegates; now all party members can take...
RECENT REPORTS from Cambodia indicate that living conditions under the faltering Lon Nol regime have become particularly grim and are likely to worsen if the U.S. maintains the current stalemate there. The problem for the U.S. is not a question of "mopping up" a messy aftermath of the war in Southeast Asia; it is a question of renouncing a policy of belligerent imperialism and cutting off aid to the head of the Phnom Penh government...