Word: aftermath
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Taylor gradually reduced the size of his embassy staff. From a total of 20, it was dropped to 11 and finally to 4. Taylor chose last Monday, in the uncertain aftermath of Iran's presidential election, to make his move. The six Americans nervously but successfully showed their false papers to Iranian airport officials and boarded regularly scheduled flights to Frankfurt. Then they went into two days of rest and debriefing at a U.S. Air Force hospital near Wiesbaden in West Germany, before flying to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. There they were reunited with their relatives. Then...
...attitude. Change. That is what we must understand, says Author William Manchester, who has written about convulsions in civilization. Wars are fought for the status quo, which never survives. No nation or man has entered a large war with the thinnest idea of the horror of it, or the aftermath, Manchester insists. But maybe this time we have a better notion of what might happen. The thought of nuclear war is so ghastly that in a perverse way it has given more meaning to the preliminary maneuverings. Change in both the U.S. and the Soviet Union could come without battle...
...decade was erected upon the smoldering wreckage of the '60s. Now and then, someone's shovel blade would strike an unexploded bomb; mostly the air in the '70s was thick with a sense of aftermath, of public passions spent and consciences bewildered. The American gaze turned inward. It distracted itself with diversions trivial or squalid: primal screaming, disaster movies, jogging, disco, Perrier water, pornography. The U.S. lost a President and a war, and not only endured those unique humiliations with grace, but showed enough resilience to bring a Roman-candle burst of spirit to its Bicentennial celebrations...
NONFICTION Dispatches by Michael Herr: highly evocative reporting about the Viet Nam War and its aftermath...