Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Depression years and their aftermath, we forgot that first, founding lesson of the American Republic: that without proper restraints, Government the servant becomes quickly Government the master. I call it an American lesson, but actually it's much older: Cicero believed that the budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced. . . Yet even as the '50s and '60s went by, and more Americans shared my concern, Government grew like Topsy. In the '70s, federal spending tripled, taxes doubled and the national debt reached al most a trillion dollars...
Ford suffered a stroke in the aftermath of the 1969 takeover of University Hall, and left the deanship at the end of that year. His turbulent tenure was followed by the tight-fisted rule of labor economist John T. Dunlop...
Last week's mass trial and its grisly aftermath were only the latest in a nationwide crackdown on crime that has resulted in 100,000 arrests and some 5,000 executions since
...lined up tutors to "warn." Should we continue to exercise our democratic rights to protest (which we unreservedly will), we will be tried by the administration's kangaroo court, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), which was set up to enforce Draconian legislation and purge "undesirables" in the aftermath of the '69 Harvard strike. Never mind that the CRR is "inactive" became students have boycotted elections to it as a matter of principle for more than 10 years...
Usually it is the images of the immediate aftermath that are imprinted on the mind, the fragments of a normality shattered just a moment ago. The smoke from the bomb has scarcely cleared. Bodies on stretchers are jounced frantically toward the ambulances, and an arm waves at the camera to clear the way. Plaster clouds and torn clothes everywhere, the neighborhood blown out of its shoes. All in the same viewfinder: rescuers scramble in the chaos, a mother screams as if in Guernica, the stunned survivors move off with a slow, blank stare. The dead lie abruptly motionless wherever...