Word: specter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down at the end of the room the library clock began to strike little needles of sound. Vag counted them absentmindedly . . . seven, eight, nine, ten. Ten o'clock. The idea sank in slowly. Suddenly Vag sat bolt upright. How could he have been day-dreaming? The specter of examination welled up in his imagination in all its horror. The smug fat text and the cruel purple type on the assignment sheet seemed to be deriding him with silent mockery. Vag tore the ticket stubs to shreds, clenched his teeth, and read...
...Military aid for the uneasy Philippines, facing the rising specter of Chinese Communism to the north and west, and threatened by the possible Communist occupation of Formosa. ¶Economic aid and civil defense arms for the new United States of Indonesia (see FOREIGN NEWS). ¶U.S. aid to the French forces in Indo-China, which State considers the most effective anti-Communist armies now fighting in east Asia, and simultaneous pressure on Paris to help Emperor Bao Dai cut his puppet strings and set up an independent, popular government in Indo-China...
...manufactured goods about 5% and the total cost of living 1.1%. In short, prices which had gyrated upward in giddy, uneven swings were coming down in an orderly manner. The bogy of recession that had haunted everyone for four years was not completely laid, but it was a vanishing specter...