Word: aftermaths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aftermath of the torching of Norway Field, neighborhood parents rushed out and tried in vain to repair and cover the damage, lest the field be removed completely by the city. They were protecting their children from seeing their playground destroyed. It must have been a heart-wrenching scene, a scramble to pick up burnt pieces and to beg for something to remain in the community, even if it was charred and torn. Maybe then the vandals would allow it to stay...
...incoming vice president witnessed the Cambodian protests of the fall of 1969, the initiation of Matina S. Horner as the president of "non-merged" Radcliffe, the aftermath of the April 1969 student takeover of University Hall, and the strife-torn transition between President Nathan M. Pusey '28 and Derek...
Those geopoliticians who have been hungering for an aftermath to the cold war -- a tragicomic sequel -- have been richly rewarded over this summer, as two of the last stalwarts of communism, North Korea and Cuba, have rattled their rhetorical sabers, flourished their poker hands and roared their threats into the wind. Though both of them have something of the air of those Japanese soldiers lost in the Southeast Asian jungle and unaware that the war they have been fighting was concluded long ago, both also have the desperate -- and therefore dangerous -- recklessness of isolated dictatorships whose coffers are close...
Barry's resurgence also reflects Washington's racial and economic fissures. Even in the aftermath of his arrest, Barry retained many sympathizers, especially among African Americans who believed federal prosecutors had set him up. By 1992 he had moved to Washington's poorest section, cast himself as a voice for the downtrodden and won a seat on the city council. To many of his core constituents, returning him to the mayor's office would amount to vengeance. Mary Cox, a lawyer and Barry ally, says that in much of Washington's African-American community, "you learn early on that...
...murder's immediate aftermath, most of the major pro-life organizations scrambled, convincingly, to dissociate themselves from Hill. Echoing more mainline groups, Operation Rescue director Flip Benham trumpeted, "We condemn it as murder, a sin. If I'd been with Paul Hill this morning, I would've stepped between him ((and Britton))." Expressing the fears of more temperate antiabortionists, Benham added, "This will have devastating effects on the number of picketers. There's a good number of folks who don't want to be associated with this...