Word: traumas
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...find any new modus vivendi after Andreotti's expected resignation, the only option is early elections. The prospect, risky as it might be, did not bother many Christian Democrats as much as the step-by-inexorable-step Communist advance on power. But elections would doubtless be a trauma that neither Communist nor Christian Democrat would savor right away, and there are likely to be weeks of painful maneuvering and countermaneu-vering before they are willing to face that drastic ultimate step. In the meantime, the violent voices resounding through the streets of Italy can be counted...
Neil Simon has established a precedent in this area by saying that his new play is autobiographical, that it is, in effect, about the trauma he experienced at the death of his first wife and the rage over that loss, which he callously inflicted on his second wife even though she made him supremely happy...
...clear this die-hard Nixon loyalist believes the major blame for the national trauma of Watergate rests not with the former president, but with the media people and politicians. Price speaks of the creation of a "national hysteria over Watergate, fueled by the "obsessive press coverage" and "the climate on Capitol Hill a lot of demagogues helped to orchestrate...
Watergate...was an offense against our system of law. But a system of law is flawed if it throws out too many babies with the bathwater. This happened in Watergate. In order to pursue the scandal to its furthest reaches, the country was put through a trauma that came close to wrecking its economy and destroying the most hopeful initiatives toward peace of the past quarter century...
...rushing tide of colonialism and imperialism that overflooded the African soil brought immense devastation to the continent and the people. Men and women, young and old were swept away by the colonial flood. Some drowned and those Africans who survived the flood have still not recovered from the trauma. Sacred places were ruined and some annihilated for good. The strong men were castrated; clans divided. Tribes were broken and traditions butchered by the sword; and the children who survived the bayonets could hardly take to the ways of the old. How much did the African independence help to alleviate...