11.   For most of the postwar period, presidential primaries have been battled out in the back lanes of New Hampshire and caucus rooms of Iowa.

12.   Frank Stella, one of the foremost abstract painters of the postwar period, is back.

13.   George Bush has presided over the lowest growth Presidency of the postwar period. . . .

14.   He blamed audience hostility to new works on the academic composers of the postwar period.

15.   In fact, although most Americans were as happy as pigs in slop, the country was about to enter the most dismal decade of the postwar period.

16.   In the postwar period, one reason for the lack of strong leaders may simply have been that politics has not mattered so much.

17.   In the postwar period, German courts were responsible for trying German war-crimes suspects.

18.   Indeed, never in the postwar period has inflation been decelerating this far into a business expansion.

19.   It shut its Zama plant outside Tokyo this spring, becoming the first automaker to shut a plant in the postwar period.