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Sentence Examples The long post-war boom of the 1950s and 1960s also coincided with an era of cheap oil. Burnley could be watched by the lowest league crowd in their post-war history at Wimbledon on Sunday. The problem was that the first cracks in the comfortable post-war consensus were beginning to appear. It is obvious from the events following the end of the invasion that no thought was given to the post-war situation. That will be the battle to save, change or scrap the institutions that have defined our post-war world. This will appeal to a more confident Britian, a Britain not mired in the sclerosis of post-war decline. Prices have fallen because of the trend towards more modern, post-war designs. That is what marks this administration as one of the truly radical ministries of post-war Britain. All post-war Prime Ministers up to Margaret Thatcher reiterated the same view. The roots of this decline are in the early 1940s, and more in the post-war period. The post-war French and German leaders, wearied after the second world war, made a leap of faith. Roger once visited the sanitorium to use the telephone which was still a rare device in post-war Scotland. Constructed as an emergency response to the post-war housing shortage, they could be erected in a day. The Goon Show was a breath of surreal fresh air in dreary post-war Britain. In some ways it seems like an entry-level textbook for a university course on post-war Europe. The first post-war motor race took place in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris within weeks of the Liberation. In Germany the trial was an essential cathartic process crucial to post-war regeneration. Only the odd relic of Stalinist architecture betrayed the country's post-war history. The book also looks at how the area has evolved over the years, including changes during the post-war era. As well as pro-monarchists and pro-communists, there are a host of other sons and idolisers of long-dead politicians from the post-war era. Show More Sentences The long post-war boom seemed to hold out the prospect of former colonies industrialising and catching up with their former masters. Drawing inspiration from his words, young Scottish climbers of the post-war generation strove to do some exploring of their own. Over the years he built a pagoda to polite English society as it faded in the glare of post-war vulgarity. And he plunged ahead without understanding or preparing for the consequences of the post-war. I'm only surprised he didn't raise his usual point about weak post-war Pommy sides. This information is now helping plan how to respond to the post-war needs. He says the post-war pottery is Balkan in style because the Trojans were keen to align themselves with the people there. No matter, for Americans had recalibrated their sensibilities towards a new post-war standard of prosperity. A former British soldier and his German bride, who overcame prejudice in post-war Germany, were today celebrating 50 years of marriage. Acclaimed as one of the finest British post-war plays, Churchill's 1982 work is a reflection on Thatcherite Britain. Here, on just four walls, is as good a cross-section of post-war figurative art as you are ever likely to see in any gallery bar the Tate. Juventus are at the centre of a match-fixing crisis that could yet prove to be the biggest post-war scandal in European football. Compared to other post-war recessions, the downturn of 2001 is one of the shallowest on record. It moves in the opposite direction to most post-war poetry and prose, which sought practicality, matter-of-factness, accessibility. In the US, which never embraced the tenets of post-war social democracy anyway, the idea of a third way is even murkier than in Britain. It is important to underline that the heroine represents both pre-war and post-war values. With post-war prosperity, the baby boom, and increased college attendance, the masses started coming, whether the museums sought them out or not. Such painters as Yamaguchi, Saito and Onosato embraced the ideas of post-war abstraction. In the period of the post-war boom, it mediated the conflict between the classes. The post-war years produced a mood of existential disgust, expressed through an idiom of self-consciously ugly realism. Show More Sentences Her name was still magic for many of the public but a new generation was growing up in the post-war period for whom she was yesterday's news. There should also be an appraisal of Britain's role in the post-war, reconstruction process. The first wave of post-war rebels, beatniks were arty, defiant and left-field. The Zen-derived notion of spontaneous improvisation became the essence of bebop, the post-war jazz movement. During the early post-war period, however, there was a marked turn towards a more analytical style. The Beatles were great because John Lennon and Paul McCartney together formed the most fruitful songwriting partnership in post-war music. In the instability of post-war Europe displaced Serbians made their way to Bradford and West Yorkshire. The car industry was a core employer of manufacturing labour, particularly the post-war influx of non-English-speaking migrant workers. These objective changes in the world economy have undermined the post-war framework of labour protection and social measures. While this term is not exclusive to that era, there can be no dispute that theme became most apparent in these post-war, post-Monopoly years. People forgot the gloom of post-war hardships and were joyful, proud and triumphant. Increasingly irrelevant to Japan's need to reinvigorate its economy, the post-war political structures simply disintegrated. Meanwhile, at home Australians began coming to grips with their new place in the post-war world. Once state-of-the-art post-war buildings were crumbling away, with leaky roofs and rotting window frames. Part of the reason is that as the economy recovered in the post-war decades, it reshaped both social classes and the status of occupations. Someone should have told him that the two-handed pistol grip, as applied to every TV cop flick, is a post-war technique. Australia's love for beer has sunk to the lowest level since the days of the post-war six o'clock swill. In a sure sign of the times, there are increased warnings that the post-war multilateral trade system is breaking down. The return to peace saw a swift resumption of car production, which was then hit by the immediate post-war slump. A booming post-war economy ushered in a long period of growth for many large corporations and for the auditing profession. Show More Sentences In his post-war role, he placed great emphasis on the importance of strategic vision and historical insight in national security policy-making. These people are, in the main, the navvies who helped to build up post-war England. It was a part of a general post-war radicalization of the international working class. She appealed to the older post-war generation, to the property-owning middle classes, to businessmen and anti-communists. The Second World War produced the weapons which characterized all post-war conflicts, and diffused this technology world-wide. But at critical junctures in the post-war period, for various strategic and or economic reasons, national leaders opted for greater integration. He relentlessly brown-nosed Norman Lamont and called him the greatest post-war chancellor. A worthy winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction, Levy's novel is set largely in the grim greyness of post-war London. It is clearly a product of the post-war era in which inflation was public enemy number one throughout the Western world. Some of the early ledgers show the changing post-war society by denoting whether someone is a house-owner, lodger or servant. There are holes in the material and it is roughly stitched together, its shabbiness evoking the deprivations of post-war Europe. Residents on a post-war estate of prefab bungalows have been finding out about gaining independence from the council. Moreover, colourful and spectacular films provided a welcome means of escape from the austerities of the post-war era. Most private members' bills are talked out before reaching a vote, and on average only eight such bills have been passed in post-war Parliaments. The epochal event of the post-war world, the winning of the Cold War, is little understood and seldom discussed. During the housing boom that followed the post-war baby boom, credit unions grew fast because they began offering home mortgages. The two met in 1946 and Glenconner was briefly the princess's beau, squiring her around the balls and parties of fashionable post-war society. These embryonic communities created an important nucleus for post-war migration, which was fuelled by economic factors. Callaghan's political career thus embraced the entire experience of post-war Labourism. In Australia, fertility nose-dived at the end of the post-war baby boom in the 1960s and the wide acceptance of the Pill. Show More Sentences The governments that took office in post-war western Europe faced a series of challenges. The sparse, terse prose he employed was like a stiletto knife stabbing at the underbelly of post-war Britain. In the historiography of post-war Britain, the management of sterling as an international currency is often seen as an example of this dilemma. This defeatist attitude then leads him to concentrate on emphasizing post-war humanitarian efforts. A casualty of the post-war mania for partitioning flats, the space had been carved up into claustrophobic rooms. Enlargement is more than just an historic opportunity to heal the post-war division of Europe. The hoped-for post-war demand to replace ship losses did not fully materialise due to recession, and many jobs were casual. For Marxists, US hegemony was a specific phase of capitalist expansion in the post-war era. An important political component of the post-war order was the United Nations. Within a regime of cuts in the post-war Welfare State, the withdrawal of state subsidies and support, and low public expenditure. The anti-immigrant backlash of the last decade also has deep roots in the crisis of the post-war social contract. The issue of the chervonets marked the beginning of the monetary reform that ended spiralling post-war inflation. What set him apart was the way he understood that advertising and packaging are the driving force of post-war popular culture. As a teenager, Jack Elphick used to cycle past giant factories studded with chimneys that exhaled foul smoke into a post-war Birmingham sky. The only exception to this is post-war Europe, which only received better treatment due to the paleness of its inhabitants. Aside from the Norwich Union building, almost every high post-war building that has gone up in York has been a disaster, he points out. The post-war change in approach can be symbolised in the snapshot, subject of another section of the exhibition. The classicism associated with Indian spin is clearly a post-war phenomenon. Unlike the immediate post-war twinnings, which had cultural exchange as their aim, this new generation of twinnings was looking to pastures new. Fascism thus laid the foundation for the post-war creation of a sectional and clientelistic system of welfare. Show More Sentences The first 16 Bradford post-war clippies were given their passing out lecture by their tutor. Many of the great bills of the post-war era emerged from those sessions. William Gibson, the American playwright who has died aged 94, was acclaimed for two of the best-known theatrical hits of the post-war English-speaking stage. In 1952 a post-war government anxious to exploit its mineral wealth granted sweeping planning permission to quarrying firms in places like the Peak District. This readability allows readers less familiar with the arguments to rapidly acquaint themselves with the usual analysis of capitalism's post-war golden era. He has also followed their fortunes in the post-war period, showing how they rehabilitated their careers and reconstructed their network of activities. As newlyweds in the 1940s, the couple had rented a small allotment and grown potatoes, cabbages and salad crops, to help enrich their restricted diet amid post-war rationing. The horror of rootlessness in post-war Europe was understandable, but it needs revaluation in a multicultural age of out-of-body electronic experiences. The wooden panelling from the ship and even the lino floor covering was removed in those austere post-war days and taken back to Pewsey to be re-used. He makes the case for the artist as the most influential post-war musical artist, certainly more so than Elvis, who was influential for reasons tangential to the actual music. His films, sprightly action flicks with clear lines between good and evil and a noble hero, touched a chord in a post-war America. If there had been this kind of wild and unrestrained marketization in post-war Germany or Japan, the legacy of fascism would never have been flushed out. He used these markers as a platform to introduce new type of art market to post-war Japan. The South African asbestos trade responded to the post-war boom by initiating and extending underground workings, and by centralizing and mechanizing the refining process. Broadcaster and author Melvyn Bragg will begin writing the third instalment of his semi-autobiographical series about a young boy growing up in post-war Britain. Those post-war idealists were setting themselves up as communicators in opposition to persuasion, which was seen as a manipulative way of treating other people. As governor of South Carolina in the post-war years, Thurmond was the preeminent defender of Jim Crow. In other words, the works all draw inspiration from nature and biomorphic shapes, representing a widespread artistic convention of the World War II and post-war period. Symphony No 5 dates from 1923-4, is the most extended in its quintet of movements, and is a thoroughly convincing rejection of post-war modishness. The other cultural influence was the post-war history of black America. Show More Sentences The second half of the 1920s was a time of remarkable economic achievement, as America reaped the twin dividends of post-war recovery and technological development. It is a feast of boleros delivered with flair by Ferrer, who intuitively conjures up the elegance and languid energy of that post-war singing style. For the first time in the history of the Italian republic and for the first time in a democratic country of post-war Europe, some neo-fascists acquired ministerial portfolios. State control of the Triennale and cinema laid the groundwork for the triumph of industrial design and neo-realism, respectively, in the post-war period. His inheritance, which ran to millions of Deutschmarks, was worth only pennies after the raging post-war inflation. In the late 1980s, land mines in the thousands had become a post-war hazard for sowers as they returned to the fields in which they had not been able to work during wartime. Influenced by artists Robert Motherwell and Joan Mitchell, McClymont uses the strong, gestural brushstrokes of the post-war Abstract Expressionists. Designed by an eccentric Italian fridge magnate and built by BMW, of all companies, the Isetta bubble car deserves its own quirky chapter in the history of post-war motoring. It was the first time in post-war Japan that such arrests had been made. The same goes for the first two decades of the post-war period. While this period is well documented, there have been few opportunities in the West to see a Japanese perspective on these post-war years. A PIONEERING house type built in Huddersfield is featured in an exhibition celebrating Britain's best post-war listed buildings. A 90-unit post-war co-op building in Greenwich Village, 45 West 10th Street has a 24-hour doorman, laundry facilities and a live-in super. And in between acts, earnest spokesmodels touted the latest in consumer products that would enable you to conform to the rigors of post-war affluence. Within the coalition itself, his personal supremacy led to difficulties, particularly when he obstructed the consideration of major post-war issues. The victors may seem particularly potent as the disparities in power are intensified, but this does not render them omnipotent in framing the post-war order. No less than six post-war Prime Ministers were also Oxonians. The man who was to enjoy one of the longest and most distinguished political careers in the post-war period was born into a remarkably humble background, 93 years ago today. The contemporaneity of different styles and movements, even within the work of a single artist, is one of the characteristics of post-war developments in the arts. Examining the County's post-war county court cases, the scholar documents that whites, especially those in debt, also faced prosecution in county courts. Show More Sentences The post-war period was stressful for the king who fretted constantly. The old pillars of the pragmatist traditions were still active in 1945, but the new positions being developed captured the attention of post-war students of philosophy. However, the market was flooded with surplus aircraft and new planes from other designers and the post-war general aviation boom never materialized. As a player, Wright had been one of the post-war era's golden boys. For rotenone is no post-war insect killer cooked up in a corporate lab, but a natural product, extracted from the derris plant, and a mainstay of organic farms and gardens. As Canada moved out of the shadow of Britain in the post-war era, it was only to move into the shadow of the United States, economically, militarily and diplomatically. Britain's dockers last downed tools in 1989 to protest at the abolition of the National Dock Labour scheme, which had given them jobs for life since the post-war period. This rebellious woman from Germany's post-war generation had even had herself sterilized rather than carry on her Goering bloodline. And roads lined with buildings of a grandeur that's sadly lacking in Birmingham after the vandalistic re-development of the post-war decades. Launched in 1979, Viz has parodied the straitlaced British comics of the post-war period such as The Beano and The Dandy. In terms of culture, this may bring an end to the post-war Tosk domination within the state of Albania. While the Peter Pan collar and dungaree look is from a post-war era it's also very mid 1980s Sloane Ranger. Bretton Woods established a benign global discipline that prevailed through three turbulent post-war and Cold War decades. In the post-war period Armstrong Whitworth became involved in the Vulcan bomber production of missiles, especially the Sea Slug. In post-war Kosovo, unexploded cluster bomblets caused more civilian deaths than landmines. It's an enjoyably corny mystery with an atmospheric, outsider's view of post-war London as seen through a CinemaScope lens. Football will never recapture the sepia-tinged, post-war innocence of cloth-capped crowds paying homage to Brylcreemed heroes in dubbined boots. He sought to resolve the post-war academic parallax, to stem verboseness in the sea, to combat nincompated pedagogues. His big break came in the play Zoot Suit, about the post-war California riots. Complex in that the post-war social conditions provided the precursors for Nazism. Show More Sentences The comic's style parodies the straightlaced British comics of the post-war period, but with crude toilet humour, black comedy, and sexual or violent storylines. The Deep Blue Sea BEAR PIT THEATRE, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON TERENCE Rattigan's post-war romantic drama The Deep Blue Sea was first staged in 1952 with Peggy Ashcroft in the lead. For instance, the first stored program computer, the famed ENIAC of the post-war 1940s, weighed more than 30 tons with its power and cooling equipment and filled a huge room. During the post-war reforestation projects, Japan was implanted with an influx of Japanese cedar trees, as they were easy to plant and would grow quickly. Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth. Woven into this story is the political awakening of the former Federal Republic of Germany, which is just beginning to shake off the fustiness of the immediate post-war years. Germanists and comparativists might well be intrigued by Vegel's gradually elaborated argument about the degree to which post-war Germany and Yugoslavia were connected. It has forsaken the politics of the redistributive Left and given the appearance of having deserted the centralizing policies of post-war Labourism. Examples from Classical Literature Possibly there was something in Glenfield's suggestion about post-war slump. The President has proposed an immense program of communications and highway development as a post-war project. True it is that every man has his price, and the more so in these hard, post-war days of riot and ruin. Our post-war objective has been in keeping with this great idea. The details of this post-war unrest will be discussed in later chapters. Since the end of the post-war boom, ALP governments have sought to rein in and reverse reforms. His book ranges over the theory of Social Darwinism, South Sea blackbirding, the Japanese 'Yellow Peril' and post-war immigration. Unlike other English Modernists, his post-war design was of far higher quality than his pre-war. Brian Brolly was an Irish broth of a boy, full of zest, charm and humour, qualities which helped him become one of the most important figures in post-war showbusiness. The linear and progressivist ideas of human history dominant in the nineteenth century made little or no sense in the context of the newly dehumanised post-war world. Find more words! 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