Word: afterthought
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...China Democratic Party. Lei's crime, the authorities declared, had been to publish in his magazine articles "defaming the chief of state, creating a feeling of hostility between the government and the people, driving a wedge between the natives of Formosa and the mainlanders," etc. etc. As an afterthought, the government charged that two of Lei's magazine employees had been identified as "Communist spies...
First: the Invisible. Most first-year physics courses start as they have started for decades-with levers, gears, and Galileo's falling weights, gradually work their way up to electric currents. As a rule, students are told only as an afterthought about the new science of particles...
Reserve to Grow On. Ike's emphasis on growth in freedom was no casual afterthought. White House advisers are well aware that the Democrats are starting to take up the refrain that Eisenhower's refusal to expand public spending has retarded the growth rate, when, say the critics, it should be expanding to keep pace with the Soviet Union. Pundit Walter Lippmann took off from the President's message most vehemently, accused the President of putting "private comfort and private consumption ahead of national need . . . The challenge of the Soviet Union," he wrote, "has been demanding...