Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bombers overhead would sound like the way that our legs would fell weak and trembling as we ran for cover: the pride and gratitude we would share for our sharp-eyed anti aircraft gunners. If in sum, we cannot hear the cries of the maimed children in the aftermath of an American carpet bombing--then it is doubtful that we will protest such bombings with much conviction emotion of anger. And this lack of emotion is what makes us Germans...
...broken, but it is bent and in danger of snapping. A Congress intended by the framers of the Constitution to be the nation's supreme policy setter, lawmaker and reflector of the collective will has been forfeiting its powers for years. Now a President in the aftermath of a landslide seems intent upon further subordinating it and establishing the White House ever more firmly as the center of federal power...
...private papers. He sees the former Secretary-General as a man supremely equipped with the inner resources, courage, stamina and imperturbable tact to make the U.N. work. The book uses considerable inside knowledge as it follows Hammarskjöld through every major crisis of his day: McCarthyism, the aftermath ot Korea, Suez, Hungary, Lebanon, Algeria, the Congo...
Edward S. Mason was viewed in a similar light when he was appointed acting dean in 1969 following an illness to then-dean Franklin Ford. Mason served for six months while the University pulled itself back together in the aftermath of the 1969 strike...
WITH EACH NEW outrage of the American war policy in Vietnam, the coalition of opposition to those policies has grown broader. Now, in the aftermath of President Nixon's Christmastime carpet bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong, the coalition against his tactics in Vietnam has grown to include the leaders and members of the Democratic caucuses of the House and Senate as well as significant elements of the executive bureaucracy itself. And, if published reports are correct, the Defense and State Department bureaucracies, as well as members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have also opposed the President's latest bombing...