Word: mortems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more people do not realize where the real blame lies instead of looking for scapegoats and excuses, if more do not condemn this and every war, then this whole mass post-mortem will have been in vain...
Under the sponsorship of Sam Huntington, the Center supported a series of post-mortem seminars on the U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic. The seminar provided a platform for some harsh condemnations of the U.S. action. This was an inevitable result, since that was the way sensible and knowledgeable men judged the U.S. action...
...will ordain the outcome of the race, often going home at night a broken peasant, cursing the fates. In effect, he becomes existential man, laughing at his own rueful destiny. When Mulligan dies, he makes Toperoff promise to bet all his meager savings in one last post-mortem race. It is his horseplayer's fitting, feckless (not to mention luckless) bid for immortality...
...family for the inconvenience of his miracle ("We're Before and After people now," laments his wife). His life after death, not surprisingly, becomes a downhill slide: the authorities strip him of his children, his neighbors stone him and his wife commits suicide. Finally, he completes his mortem interruptam...
Another wave of applause carried Bond to the podium. Pulling a folded manuscript from his pocket, he casually looked out over the audience and remarked, in what sounded like a whisper, "Well, that's the obituary...now for the post mortem." The audience could relax now--Bond had acknowledged their presence...