Word: aftermaths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aftermath of Grace's engagement to the Prince (TIME, Jan. 16), the week's actual events were sparse. Grace went back to Hollywood to finish The Swan, a movie about a girl who marries a prince. The Prince went to Florida to take a rest. Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis, the man who owns the bank at Monte Carlo and who will be spared the fate of French taxes if the Prince sires an heir, announced, "I am mad with joy," and celebrated the engagement by giving 1,000,000 francs to the Monaco Red Cross...
...aftermath of war, when allies are no longer in arms against the common peril, there arises the unpleasant problem of which ally must pay the other for services rendered. After World War I. the canard spread that France had even collected rent for the use of trenches on its soil. Last week South Korea's President Syngman Rhee went just as far, if not much farther, in a bill for $684,600,000 that he sent to the U.N. Command, i.e., to the U.S.. which foots almost all the bills...
Williams cites a civil court case which came as an aftermath to the Teapot Dome prosecutions. Asked the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals: "Why is the plea of self-incrimination-one not resorted to by honest men-the refuge of [Albert B.] Fall's son-in-law, Everhart? . . . Men with honest motives and purposes do not remain silent when their honor is assailed ... Is a court compelled to close its eyes to these circumstances...
Nova explained that in the bewildering aftermath of the fight he had not read what the sportswriters had written about him. It was just as well, remarked Superior Court Judge Newcomb Condee, because "if Mr. Flaherty had written his column the day after the fight, Mr. Nova would have had to sue a thousand writers." Nova freely admitted that his "cosmic punch" and his well-publicized visits to Yoga Expert "Oom the Omnipotent" were the result of a pressagent's imagination, but he was certainly not a coward. To prove it, Nova's lawyers read into the record...
Triple Negative. During World War II and its aftermath, the Japanese, the French and Ho Chi Minh's Communists all fought one another for Indo-China (TIME, Nov. 22); all three wanted support from Nationalist Diem but he refused them all because none of them stood for "true independence...