Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since last May several U.S. doctors have reported babies with congenital eye and heart defects which they ascribed to German measles in the mother. In trying to explain why this tragic aftermath of a trifling disease was never noticed before, some doctors guess that an unusually virulent strain of German measles virus may have appeared in Australia and been carried to other countries by heavy war time traffic. But Dr. Stimson thinks that doctors have just begun to notice what has been happening all along. Possible reasons why the worst damage is done in the early months: 1) the placental...
Later, TIME Correspondent William Gray went in, poked about, saw this aftermath of battle: "A Filipino woman, carried past on a stretcher, muttered: 'I am so pleased.' Two Chinese boys came carrying a litter with four small boys on it. One, maybe two years old, with stick-like brown arms and legs and glazed eyes that stared, was dead, or dying...
...means all the popular resentment. General de Gaulle had already made it plain that France intended to be not one of the trusteed but one of the trustees. Now he pointedly announced that France would handle its own empire. Finally, he declined to leave Paris for an aftermath session with President Roosevelt, who had hoped to pause in North Africa on his way home and soothe the General. If Roosevelt wanted to see him, said De Gaulle, the President would have to come to Paris...
Westerners carried five beans in the wheel - five cartridges in their guns. Some - mighty unpopular - "were so tough they'd growed horns and was haired over." Their gun battles were called corpse and cartridge occasions', the aftermath "looked like beef day at an Injun agency." A bad man was a curly wolf, a bandido, cat-eyed, or just a plain killer. Sometimes a curly wolf could stay on the dodge, among the willows, or lookin' over his shoulder for quite a spell. But once caught, his fate was sealed. With a rope around his neck...
...Climax & Aftermath. Suddenly two yellow flares arch out of the smoke. They signal possession. For five minutes there is no movement. The smoke slowly drifts away. Then, one by one, infantrymen begin to appear on the Jap parapets, walking about nonchalantly against the skyline, stretching their arms, folding up wire...