Word: specter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...narrow streets and broad avenues, between lines of poplars and policemen, lined up in front of the Great Hall of Topchider Park. Out of the car stepped a husky man in a blue dress uniform. Marshal Josip Broz Tito, Communist dictator of Yugoslavia and a gaudily tricked-out specter to the rest of the Communist world, was going to make a speech...
...Lordship, a gaunt, stoop-shouldered six-footer, hovered over all calculations like a specter. Said a Liverpool stevedore, wiping ale from his mustaches: "The worst rider in the world . . . just like a sack of potatoes jouncing up & down." Not everybody agreed; his Lordship had ridden no less than 32 winners one season. But things were always happening when he rode in the National. In 1936, a rein buckle broke as he led the field to the last jump, and his mount ran right off the course. Riding Cromwell last year, he seemed to have the big race...
...Academy, Andover; Joseph P. Flemming, Jr., of Phillips Academy, Andover; Paul C. Martin, of Stuyvesant High School, New York, Gilbert R, Panzer, of Newtown High School, Elmhurst, New York; Earl C. Ravenal, of Hope High School, Providence; Neil J. Smelser, of Phoenix Union High School, Phoenix, Arizona; David K. Specter, of Brooklyn Technical High School; Isaac Thomas, Jr., of the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa.; and David B. Tyack, of Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter...
...shown a specter of Russian armed might last week. On the say-so of U.S. military men, the Russians have...
Popular Cause. Some of this information, spread before Congress last week, was new; some was old. But lumped together it made a haunting specter. There was no question of the puniness of present U.S. strength (outside of the Bomb) alongside the picture of Russian power...