Word: post-war
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...which makes for question-provoking louvres where the trunk lid should be), or turn signals that point out from the door posts instead of blinking from the rear fenders, lending a quaint, Old World flavor. The real virtue of the little car, of course, lies just in its being little. The great amount of crowding necessary, and the uncomfortableness that arises, make up for the loss of the windblown Lambretta feeling and impart a certain air of post-war frugality which is especially good for the contrast it makes to the over-stuffed and over large Buick and its driver...
...would join the desperate people in Sartre's stories and the creatures of Camus in their state of elevated wretchedness--a vilifying yet inexpensive estrangement that sets them off from their humdrum fellows. They have in their minds' eye the limbo of clandestine disbelief they think is occupied by post-war, or just post-nineteenth century, European intellectual degenerates. Needless to say, they fall short, and usually end up feeling what they imagine French poets feel or at least what philosophy students at the Sorbonne feel when they look at American tourists with a disdainful glare...
...pronouncement of eighteen top West German physicists against participation in their country's nuclear armament, some old bugbears have returned to haunt the very NATO powers who created them. Germany's post-war indoctrination against militarism, this time coupled with radioactive fall-out fears, have prompted the most effective political protests by scientists in a long time...
Khruschev has begun his present maneuver with the same suddenness found in many other Russian policy decisions. Last February's budget provided no indication of the move. The last large financial readjustment was the post-war currency reform in 1947. Most of the present outstanding bonds have been selling since then, but there are still some old, devalued debts to be repaid...
Eisenhower told a news conference British leaders in effect had no alternative but to slash defense spending in view of Britain's post-war economic problems...