Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disasters in the long road from Poland's 16th-Century grandeur to its present ruin, the most grievous was World War II and its aftermath. Cities and towns have been looted and burned. The entire country has been shoved by the Soviet bulldozer some 200 miles westward across Europe. Even now the country still lies on the Red Army lines to Germany; every Polish provincial capital has a Russian garrison which lives off the land. But under the burden, life is rebuilding...
...Aftermath of War." In the spending Harry Truman proposes, the expenses of occupation, demobilization, Army & Navy and liquidation of war plants accounts for 42? of the Government dollar ($15,000,000,000 in all). "Aftermath-of-war" expenses account for another 30? ($10,793,000,000 in all). Chief item in this category: care of veterans (hospitalization, pensions, unemployment and education benefits), $4,208,000,000. The rest of the Government dollar will go for what have come to be considered the routine domestic expenses of Government (some...
...cases reported had declined from a high of 148,688 to 47,273 in three weeks. Of the total reported in the declining epidemic, most had been of a mild type, promising no great aftermath of fatalities...
...high, earnest voice rang with new confidence. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was sure that his Government, having survived the war itself, would overcome "the ravages, dislocations and internal disturbances" of the war's aftermath...
...harrowing studies of the kind of people who came to him as patients. Kaiser Wilhelm II called her stuff "the art of the gutter," in 1898 canceled a gold medal award which was to have been given her. She bitterly opposed World War I, and skillfully recorded its ugly aftermath in Germany. The Nazis stopped her from exhibiting, but she kept right on working, turned to sculpture when her eyes dimmed. She only changed her weapons; what she was fighting for did not change...