The fate of the Stingers is a particularly messy aftermath of one of the cold war's great struggles.

Just as it shaped this election, television may have shaped the messy, enthralling aftermath even more.

The reorganization has left a messy aftermath of recrimination and tears on this rural campus of 2,400 students, 50 miles southwest of Indianapolis.

No having to deal with the long, messy aftermath that survival involves.

César Vázquez, a former president of the election commission, said the close race and its messy aftermath proved the need for an updated voting system here.

Beckett had used many of those methods over the years, and any of them was as effective as a bullet in the head, but without the messy aftermath.

Mom figured she had witnessed an unusually histrionic tantrum with an unusually messy aftermath.

Many insurgencies erupted in the messy aftermath of the world wars as factions took advantage of postwar power vacuums.

The increasingly messy aftermath of the war gives rise to two central questions: What are the principal benefits and debits of our triumph?