Word: specter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions of well-heeled U.S. women bought whatever they could get, as they always do, the garment makers and sellers felt safe and sure that all fall lines could be safely moved before Christmas. Then a frightening specter arose. Without warning, WPB announced that it was set to repeal the L85 order. OPA, which feared for its price ceilings, at once wagged a warning finger. In Manhattan's teeming garment center, there was great consternation...
...Youseff, Sultan of Morocco, who had received the Croix de la Liberation (his son Prince Moulay Hassan was also decorated-see cut) and was shown a hydroelectric dam in the Auvergne Mountains. Behind these comings & goings was potential trouble in France's North African empire and the specter of France's Syrian debacle (epitomized in the Damascus parliament building wrecked-see cut -by French mortars in an attack which Syrians refer to as "Syria's Pearl Harbor"). North Africa was restive. Like Frenchmen, Moroccans, Algerians and Tunisians were still worried about the food shortage. Last year, arid...
...Japan the specter of doom was not yet so close at hand, but it was coming closer. U.S. warplanes bombed Japanese warships in their home harbors. The panicky Japanese reported that the voracious Yankee naval task force was preparing to gobble more island bases near the Japanese homeland...
...until this mutual distrust could be allayed, a specter was haunting Europe-the specter of World...
...would be a tragedy after this war if Americans returned from our armed forces and failed to find the freedom and opportunity for which they fought. . . . Never again must free Americans face the specter of long-continued, mass unemployment. We Republicans are agreed that full employment shall be a first objective of national policy...