Word: aftershock
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...Papal Aftershock...
Perhaps Adams' most striking record of nature in full terribilità is his nose. It was broken in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, when he was four. An aftershock tumbled him, face first, into a brick wall. "The family doctor said, 'Fix it when he matures,' " Adams chuckles. "But of course I never did mature. So I still have the nose...
...Western electorates would be that kind to their leaders. Though the local dissatisfactions range from fears about inflation to the aftershock of a sobering war in Israel, there is a general fading of optimism in the industrial nations. If there is a common denominator in the West's political problems it is that voters-and leaders -are beginning to be aware that a long period of nearly uninterrupted economic growth has virtually come to an end. Says Columbia University Historian Fritz Stern: "For 25 years a steadily expanding economy protected Europe from major upheavals. Young radicals might thunder against...
Events of the Agnew magnitude produce momentary political paralysis and anguish. Then comes the time of reflection and clarification; and then the aftershock, when people see they have been right or wrong and decide how they feel...
This is the time of the aftershock...