Word: haunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the king's heir breaks away from the gypsies and lives in hiding. He sings and waits tables for a living and has a strawberry-blonde girlfriend. For him this spells success. However, the gypsy heritage which he uses to woo women comes back to haunt him. His grandfather, the only person who ever showed him any kindness, is dying. Dave is summoned and the old man, after bestowing his kingship on his grandson, dies peacefully. Grief and blood follows between the betrayed son Groffo and the rewarded grandson Dave, who renounces the old man's legacy...
...former Bruin returned to haunt his old teammates at 7:47 of the second stanza, when "Steady" Eddie Westfall finished a give-and-go with occasional linemate Bobby Bourne by converting Bourne's cross-goalmouth pass. Though outshot 20-8 through two period (30-17 on the evening), the Islanders held a 2-1 edge...
...thanks to TIME we have a new "ism" to haunt our hopefully liberal conscience. You've given us "ageism...
Like a biblical prophet, Christopher Lasch appears at the gates of our culture with dire pronouncements: "Storm warnings, portents, hints of catastrophe haunt our times ... Defeat in Viet Nam, economic stagnation, and the impending exhaustion of natural resources have produced a mood of pessimism in higher circles, which spreads through the rest of society as people lose faith in their leaders ... As social life becomes more and more warlike and barbaric, personal relations, which ostensibly provide relief from these conditions, take on the character of combat ... a desperate concern for personal survival, sometimes disguised as hedonism, engulfs the middle class...
...like to think there is a reason for that, that it isn't my mind in its own fashion censoring out something unpleasant which will one day surface to haunt me. I like to think that it has adjusted successfully--since that day I've often dreamt not unpleasant dreams about blizzards and death--and has been affected in a positive way--with a shift in my values and view of life...