war baby in English

noun
1
a child born in wartime, especially one fathered by a serviceman.
Howard Barker's Claw is a rarely performed, darkly comic tale of greed and corruption in post-war Britain, following Noel Biledew's journey from illegitimate war baby to his successes as a pimp for the cream of society.

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1. He was born during the post-war baby boom.

2. 2 He was born during the post-war baby boom.

3. 16 The war baby boom in the USA was from 1945 ---- 1964 .

4. 21 Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom.

5. 26 This is the fastest growth rate since the post-war baby boom - and is far more rapid than the Government forecast just three years ago.

6. 29 Attitudes were different then, but a point had been proven, nevertheless, even as mothers assumed their former roles as housewives, heralding a post-war baby boom.

7. Accelerating affluence in western Europe gave the post-war "baby-boomers" and their successors limited, but unprecedented, quantities of disposable income and manufacturers recognised them as significant consumers of global cultural products, through records, tapes and video imagery.3 There is some evidence that attitudes in this respect may be changing.