late disturbances

late disturbances
   a recent war
   Late means former:
    The year of 1688 brought to England the worst turmoil since the 'late disturbances', as Mr Pepys had once described a brutal civil war and a royal beheading. (Monsarrat, 1978)
   Also as late unpleasantness, describing the American Civil War and the First World War. Another version after the Second World War was late nastiness:
    ... it was a great mercy we couldn't fight tanks in the dark in the late nastiness. (Price, 1987 — by fight he meant fight with rather than fight against, night sights not having then been invented)

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