Word: post-war
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...debated the future of the world at the Harvard Council for Post-War Problems, followed the war in the Pacific, rejoiced at the D-Day landings, mourned President Roosevelt's death and celebrated V-E Day in Harvard Yard. When the atom bomb dropped, we did not agonize over its use, because it had brought us peace...
Students graduating at the time regarded the presence on campus of the nation's premier military leaders as logical given the post-war atmosphere on campus and Harvard's reputation...
More importantly, Airbus is not unique. Just ask any of the harassed managers at Credit Lyonnais or Air France. Pundits, eager to promote government intervention, would do well to remember that one of the most important economic lessons from the post-War era is that, except in textbooks, government failure is more wide-ranging and much more damaging in economic terms than market failure...
...class is something different for Jardine, whose primary focus is post-World War II French literature. "It's new material," she said. "I have taken certain theoretical approaches on the post-war era, and focused them on the United States rather than on France...
...transition to woodcuts marks an important period in both Feininger's work and German post-war works in general The process of chiseling and cutting figures in wood lent itself to Feininger's Cubist-inspired "transformation and crystallization" methods. Fragmenting and recomposing his choppy images was perfectly suited to the carving knife...