Word: specter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...specter haunting Russia this week was not primarily the failure of the U.S. and Britain to open a second front. It was the first front- Russia's own front-that roused the specter of fear, and turned Russia's gaze to the valley...
...Standard of Living, it is important to note, is the 1942 standard in reverse. Then there was too little money for too many goods; now the specter of inflation stalks the land because there is (or will be, when the present enormous inventories melt away) too much money to buy too few goods. Ironically, the manner in which that money will be distributed magnifies the problem. For the plain fact is that (outside of military casualties) there are only two major kinds of "suffering" in prospect for consumers: 1) The newly well-paid will not be able to use their...
...easy and regular pulsation of democratic organisms has been violently disturbed ever since the last war. . . . One of the slogans of the French Republic-'always to the Left but never further'-became suddenly less humorous. The democratic pendulum . . . became erratic. . . . Whenever it went to the Left, the specter of Communism reared its bloody head. Whenever it swung to the Right, the alarm of Fascism sounded...
...United Kingdom joined hands this week in a Declaration of Principles which may well be the foundation stone of future economic relations between the two countries. The agreement moves to exorcise the specter of post-war debts; to break down tariff barriers on a scale undreamed of; to cement a post-war economic union. In Washington Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles and Britain's Ambassador Lord Halifax signed the agreement...
When Japan attacked the U.S. this week, suddenly and without warning, the Tribune story looked very dead indeed. Dead, too, was the specter of war which Colonel McCormick had waved before the Midwest for the last two years, laid by a menace far more grim and real...