That is what happened in the U.S., for example, after Word War II, and again during the Clinton years.

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Winston Churchill, Britain's leader during Word War II, looking back to his days as an imperial policy-maker, used to say he created Jordan with a stroke of the pen one Sunday afternoon.

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In 1942, the company dropped the word silk since there was an embargo on silk during World War II.

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