Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This aftermath of war had its yeasty effect upon the minds of the Filipino people; unrest and political dissension multiplied in the hot & humid atmosphere of peace. The homeless, poverty-stricken masses had watched cynically as members of the Philippines Congress (many of whom had kept their jobs under the Japanese) voted themselves full salaries for the last three years. The wartime bitter ness over collaboration still licked and smoked through all ranks of Filipino society...
...every day brings further news of returning luxuries in America and further evidence . . . that the war is almost forgotten and its aftermath ignored. Europe is moving toward its worst winter for three centuries; Governor Lehman, the head of UNRRA, explains with how little sacrifice to themselves the American people could save Europe from starving, but nothing seems to be done...
...Washington, Navy Secretary James Vincent Forrestal, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King and other Navymen wondered about the effect on the U.S. public of this stirring performance and great publicity show. An epoch was ended. As any sailor knows, every fair wind sooner or later blows foul. In the aftermath of every major war which the U.S. has waged in the past 80 years, public sympathy has veered; in the fog of na tional policy, overtaken by its own rust, the Navy has all but foundered...
...depressing aftermath of war, other stones like this were coming out of Germany, Belgium, France and The Netherlands. They ranged from instances of mere tactlessness to stories of downright outlawry. Occasionally Europeans have retaliated. In Louvain, recently, a U.S. soldier was stabbed to death...
...aftermath of war, the U.S. will shortly need 35,000 more doctors than it has ever had before. Agreeing in general with this War Manpower Commission estimate, the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges have broken down the figures to a Veterans' Administration need for 15,000, the Army's for 10,000, the Navy's for 5,000-plus unestimated thousands more for civilians and relief agencies. Last week WMC launched a campaign to persuade 12,000 discharged veterans to enroll in medical or dental courses...