Word: aftermath
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Speaking before an audience of 150 at the Business School. Yankelovich said that Nixon's 28 per cent lead over McGovern can be explained by the relatively calm aftermath of last May's mining of Haiphong Harbor. Since no nuclear confrontation occurred as a result of the mining. Yankelovich said Nixon had effectively diffused the danger of the war by isolating it--by divorcing it from the relations with China and Russia...
Israel last week declared a new war on the Arabs. It will be fought on a "farflung, dangerous and vital front line," Premier Golda Meir grimly told the Knesset, "with all the assiduity and skill of which our people are capable." Thus last week, in the aftermath of the Munich murders, the Israeli government vowed to carry the war of terrorism back to the Arabs-guerrillas and host countries alike-and to strike at times and places of Israel's own choosing...
Most patients, fortunately, succeed in flying, recovering physically within a few months after their operations. Some even develop amnesia where the operation's emotional aftermath is concerned. Most, believes Kimball, could recover faster if they could be spared psychological upsets. His studies have shown that advance screening can identify those patients most likely to react badly to open-heart surgery. A complete description of what the patient can expect when he emerges from anesthesia, something few doctors now bother to give, could ease emotional anguish and make his recovery more rapid...
...underlying fear that supports the first rule of administrative conduct--don't lose an Asian country to communism--Ellsberg ascribes to the aftermath of McCarthyism. Certainly neither the China White Paper of 1949 nor the Pentagon Papers have exactly secured the public confidence in the foreign policy establishment of the country. But Ellsberg does little to document that McCarthyite fears are what has motivated the American response to Vietnam...
...week's end his transition back to the relative privacy of a Senator's life was almost complete. His appointments schedule promised eventually to subside to a more sedate routine, and Eagleton's atmosphere had cleared like the aftermath of a severe and flukish summer storm...