Word: postmortem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insane. She began digging the evidence out of the archives, soon called in her husband John, 38, professor of experimental medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School, to help her with the technical aspects. He eventually became as interested as she was, wound up doing a detective-style postmortem. In History Today, the Butterfields spin their evidence into a tight...
C.L.U. leaders were quick to blame defeat on antilabor "smears" and the exposures of labor racketeering by the McClellan committee. But the Minneapolis Tribune had a more accurate postmortem: "The voters want independent officials . . . The overall effect of the election was a crushing defeat for C.L.U. bossism...
Only three days after the Conservative Party's upset victory in Canada last week (see THE HEMISPHERE) one of the country's biggest magazines, Maclean's (circ. 516,587). came out with an editorial postmortem on the election results. "The mysterious and complicated and precious and precarious institution called democracy," argued fortnightly Maclean's, "once more has proved to be roughly as enthralling to the average voter as a case of fallen arches." Not until the second to last paragraph did the magazine reveal its own Achilles' heel. The doleful editorial had been written before...
...Sympathy. In another case, that of 26-year-old Andreas Panayiotou, who died in his cell, the commission ordered a postmortem, found that he had been beaten to death. Explanation by the British police: Panayiotou had attempted to escape custody. Yet another case was that of Maria Anastasiou Lambrou who, after her Greek-speaking interrogator had punched her on the nose, warned him that she was pregnant. Thereupon the interrogator had told her that unless she told him the whereabouts of EOKA's top man, Colonel Grivas, she would suffer a miscarriage, which after two subsequent attacks...
...elaborate plan for the restoration of Jewish property seized by the Germans, and the Russians wanted to seize it for themselves. What had actually caused his death could only be inferred from the fact that the Soviets blamed all on that old scapegoat. Security Chief Abakumov, without benefit of postmortem...