Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After last week's meeting in the Med, Secretary of State James Baker proclaimed, "We are moving into the post-postwar era." The postwar period began with the division of Europe after World War II; the stage of history now beginning is "post-post" insofar as that division is ending. The phrase, with its catchy double prefix, is well on its way to becoming a cliche on the op-ed pages and airwaves of the West. It helps experts who are groping for sound bites more erudite than "Wow!" as they ruminate about the astonishing pace of change in Europe...
...whole matter is heavy with irony. First Germany brought World War II to Europe. Then its defeat led to 44 years of postwar tension. Now events in that same nation are complicating the effort to end the division of the Continent as a whole. Because of the German question, the world is stuck in the pre- post-postwar era, which is neither a felicitous phrase nor a welcome state of affairs...
...curious coincidence of the rebirth of greed with what President Bush is fond of calling "the longest-lived economic expansion in post-war history," (paid for, not incidentally, by the largest debt in human history) has covered this ethos in a cloak of morality. "Some people may be getting obscenely rich, but at least the country as a whole is benefiting...
Although their friends fiercely affirm that none of the priests were politicians, the nature of their academic studies and UCA's prominent efforts to bring about a negotiated settlement to the Salvadoran war made them highly political targets of the Salvadoran right wing...
...Because of the war, I think some of the more extreme right-wing supporters targeted people who were visible and outspoken about a peaceful solution to the war," says Pablo Mateu-Llort, a United Nations advisor working in El Salvador. "Definitely those priests were more outspoken supporters of dialogue...