Word: specter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Apologia for the Left. For laying the specter of Socialism, Attlee shrewdly chose the one spectacular event of his visit: his speech to Congress. He seized the chance to give the U.S. a somewhat oversimple, understandable account of the Labor Party and its purposes...
...want to ... see how best we can lift from the ordinary man and woman this specter of fear that haunts him today. I want to consider . . . how best our common ideals of peace, freedom, tolerance and economic prosperity for all people can be realized...
...Atomic Specter...
...specter is haunting this country-the specter of nuclear energy. As a scientist who worked on the atomic bomb, I am appalled that the public is so apathetic and so uninformed about the dangerous social consequences of our development. There is no secret of the atomic bomb. In my opinion, in two to five years other countries can also manufacture bombs, and bombs tens, hundreds, or even thousands of times more effective than those which produced such devastation at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This country with its concentrated industrial centers is entirely vulnerable to such weapons; nor can we count...
...specter is haunting Russia-the specter of socialism. Britain's Labor Government had been in power little more than a month when last week that wayward wraith, the western bloc, in the guise of an entente of western Europe's socialist governments, began to clank familiarly through the international corridors. Its promoter was Professor Harold J. Laski (TIME...