Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shows, among the living, bayonet wounds, and the agonized collapse of a woman who has been raped; and, in the faces of those physically untouched, wounds of the soul no less piteous to see. It shows the starved American prisoners and the American dead, and, in the immediate aftermath of combat, the uncontrollable tic in the face of one of the liberators...
Since 1634, when Oberammergau's elders pledged perpetual production of the play at ten-year intervals (if God would spare their village from the plague), the schedule has been broken only three times: in 1870 by the Franco-Prussian War, in 1920 by the aftermath of World War I, in 1940 by World War II. The last performance, in 1934, celebrated the Play's tercentenary...
...aftermath was bitter. The British had hardly halted the French shelling of Damascus and taken over the city (TIME, June 11) before Syria's President Shukri el-Kuwatly said: "This generation of Syrians will not tolerate seeing one Frenchman walk through the streets of Damascus." In neighboring coastal Lebanon, anti-French feeling mounted. When Lebanese demanded that "something be done here as was done in Syria," they meant that British troops should eject the French from the newly sandbagged public buildings and from street-corner barricades in Beirut, where the French last week emplaced machine guns...
...Gael. In Seattle, Judge John Neergaard suspended sentence on all Irish drunks appearing before him as an aftermath of St. Patrick's Day, for good measure included in his amnesty a Mexican named Francisco Gallagher...
Last week the Army, keeping all names secret, told the tragic story and its aftermath. A general court-martial of seven colonels had tried the officer on a charge of voluntary manslaughter. He had chosen not to testify for himself. His counsel had argued that he acted irrationally under great emotional strain, that medical testimony left a reasonable doubt whether the sergeant died from bullets or from burning...