What is "late unpleasantness"

Usage examples of "late unpleasantness".

Thomas Dole Creevey when others insisted that dryland farming could never succeed came to fruition during the late unpleasantness when the region north of Centennial became the “.

Remember, Tex, the late unpleasantness we watched from space here that they were having on that planet?

He wished not to remind the Warlord of the late unpleasantness, indeed, the slight visited upon that worthy man by the son who married the Acoma.

He wished not to remind theWarlord of the late unpleasantness, indeed, the slight visited uponthat worthy man by the son who married the Acoma.

Helens had become quite expert with it during the late unpleasantness, and afterward Kelvin had practiced with it and gotten quite good himself.

All of us here at the Celsus were afraid something had happened to you during the late unpleasantness.

And those of us who carry Russian lead in our bodies, mementos of the late unpleasantness, might be excused for finding uncomfortable the sight of thousands of Soviet soldiers massed for May Day celebration.

A Defense Department spokesman had publicly announced that the strategy of bombing North Vietnam's irrigation dikes during the late unpleasantness with that (former) country was one that had workable, albeit top-secret, counterparts for other potential battlefronts.

He was still not a little depressed by the late unpleasantness with Gashwiler, who had thought him a crazy fool, with his revolver, his fiercely muttered words, and his holding aloft of a valuable dummy as if to threaten it with destruction.