Word: haunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AMERICAN distillers operate within so dense a thicket of state and federal laws that many a seasoned drinker might think that the ghost of Carry Nation continues to haunt the industry. But the real reason behind all the regulations is not a spirit of Prohibition, which is in retreat almost everywhere, but the fact that liquor is the second largest source of revenue for the Federal Government (after the income tax). It is almost as important for hard-pressed state governments. Officials are understandably eager to keep close control over such a rich source of cash. Whisky makers complain that...
...Fifteen years ago, when Martin Siegel and I were students at Cornell, we talked of his plans to become a rabbi. When I asked him, "What kind of job is that for a Jewish guy?" he replied with the same honest uncertainty that obviously continues to haunt him today. Such candor should not, however, obscure the dedication and effectiveness for which Siegel is well known...
...This case could in a way have the significance of Nuremberg. Certainly, if the government's case against Capt. Medina is based on his role as commander, then Nuremberg will be coming back to haunt us," Bailey added...
...would follow then that Friday night's demonstrators-both those who opposed the speakers and those who increased the turmoil by goading on the disrupters-should be appropriately disciplined. Except that other, equally disturbing spectres, haunt the execution of such a policy. The past two years have seen Harvard's failure to establish a disciplinary body that is respected by students, Faculty and Administration. The current state of disarray that characterizes the CRR makes it singularly unacceptable for the task of upholding ideals of freedom, when it itself has violated so many parallel freedoms of judicial process. If the disciplinary...
...written memories. Yet starting with Red Fox's recollection of learning as a child "to make a fishhook from the rib of a field mouse," the reader will rarely be aware of any white man's intruding hand. "I am not sentimental," says Red Fox, "but memories haunt me as I review scenes from the days before I was old enough to understand that all Indian things would pass away...