Word: specter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GOPresidential possibilities last week effectively laid the specter of Republican isolationism. They removed the broad objectives of U.S. foreign policy from 1944 campaign debate. And they gave assurance to U.S. allies and enemies alike that, whichever party wins in November, the U.S. will not abandon its international responsibilities...
...stubbornly refused to cater to the Nazis, and have kept the prewar judicial system pretty well intact (TIME, Jan. 25, 1943). Nazi exploitation and expropriation have presumably played havoc with Belgium's interior economy, left the true ownership of many properties in doubt. But even this factor-a specter of disintegration which overhangs all Europe-did not seem to worry Premier Pierlot. Comfortably, he recalled that Belgium still has her rich African Congo, now aboom with wartime demands for its rubber and minerals...
...stern denial directly to the Soviet Government. The British press fired harsh words at Russia for the first time since Hitler turned east: lie, insult, slander. Nazi propaganda set to work to prove a fatal rift in the fabric of agreement supposedly woven at Teheran, raise again the specter of a Red Europe. Ordinary Russians, taught to believe their press implicitly, now wondered whether Britain was about to betray them. In the U.S. many a plain citizen had his faith in Russia as an ally and as a responsible partner in peace severely shaken...
...little specter set about haunting Britain last week.* One year after its birth, the Common Wealth Party issued a manifesto: "An age is ending. A whole way of life is breaking down and is reaching its end. If the evidence before your own eyes does not convince you that this is true, no words of ours are likely to persuade you. The future struggles to be born...
...Said the Communist Manifesto of 1848: "A specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Communism...