Word: haunted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just as Mr. Engstrand plagues his daughter, Mrs. Alving seems incapable of ridding herself of the ghosts that haunt her. Like entropy, their lives, despite conscientious planning, degenerate into turmoil...
UNFORTUNATELY, symbolic pumppriming has shot its wad. Not only have our brief transcendental moments of pride vanished, but even the problems we thought we solved, or avoided, continue to haunt...
Declining to be led into this labyrinth of suspicion, I nonetheless asked the Canadian buff what had become of the Name's life after he fled Dallas. It seems he couldn't really escape -- Nov. 22 continued to haunt him. The FBI followed him to Michigan and questioned him repeatedly; he had to go back to Dallas for Ruby's trial; he never found the wife he'd lost. And then in the early '80s, just when his life seemed to have settled down, renewed interest in the J.F.K. case made his name an object of speculation again: it appeared...
Harvard came up empty on three power play opportunities in the final period, offensive lapses that would come back to haunt the Crimson...
...President Jimmy Carter gave a speech renouncing America's "inordinate fear of communism." This line came to haunt Carter and established his reputation for global naivete. It is often contrasted with President Ronald Reagan's "evil empire" speech of 1983, although the two phrases are not logically contradictory. Carter didn't say inordinate moral revulsion from communism or inordinate military opposition to the Soviets. He said "fear," meaning an inordinate belief in the power of communism as a political and economic system...