Word: haunted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seeds of Independent Pinkney's defeat were sown at the same time Stokes was rejoicing at Carney's victory. Immediately after the primary, Stokes elatedly proclaimed that the way was now cleared for a race between "two gentlemen." And in words that would come back to haunt him, he added, "I am discounting the man who raised our real estate taxes, Mr. Perk." For despite every effort to switch black votes back to Pinkney, including two letters and another recorded message from the Mayor, the inroads that Carney had made in the black community could not be counteracted. Stokes badly...
...fact that each of the four artists withers or dies after reaching renown-suggest what the author is up to. Goatish carnality is occasionally his medium, but he is writing about the mysterious web of past-present, the great arcs of possibility that bemuse a boy and, broken, haunt a man. His six characters are the mislaid and scattered pieces of one, the teacher who dreamed of painting, wrote a little, had a talent for music...
...second half, injuries started to haunt Harvard and the game was decided. The Crimson's vaunted defense was riddled with a shot after shot as Penn's attack took command...
That was 1968. Now, three years later, Nixon's unblushing rhetoric may well be returning to haunt him. Under his Administration, crime has continued to mount. In 1969 the total of reported crimes increased 12% over the previous year, while the four categories of violent crime-murder, rape, robbery, assault-jumped 11%. In 1970 total crime rose another 11%; violent crime increased 12%. Clark's successor, Attorney General John Mitchell, has released the FBI statistics for the first half of this year. The figures were no more encouraging: total crime up 7% compared to the same period last...
...city he has tried to govern for six years would haunt him. "If he can't run New York City," his opponents will repeat almost in chorus, "how does he expect to run the country?" It is almost impossible to say how much another mayor could have forestalled New York's deterioration, but the city, with its public-employee strikes, housing crises, power blackouts, accelerating crime and financial deficits, will be a heavy club in his enemies' hands...