Word: specter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people never discover who is deviling them. The dreamers among them lean to the belief that it is Death himself. Death, for the author, is a grinning morality-play specter with his arm familiarly draped around Everyman, and this theory is the most tenable one that she leaves. Some readers may object that such mysticism is too woolly, but few of them will complain that Author Spark's funerary satire lacks bite. Any reader over 25-the age at which, as Scott Fitzgerald might have said, a man realizes that he must die-will have an uneasy time forgetting...
Dorsey pleaded that all he had told Bandy was that he might eventually make $250. But with most of KFMA's listeners cheering him on, Marathoner Bandy won a raise to $110. Sighed Dorsey, cringing at the specter of hearing another eight hours of Only the Shadow Knows: "What the hell! I've got an FCC license to worry about...
...behind it, most cities and towns are speeding up production lines or hunting up new industry. Harlan County's one industry-mining-is dying; because of geography the county is unlikely to find others. Hundreds of unemployed coal miners are in privation's clutch, haunted by the specter of expired unemployment compensation and dwindling food supplies. Kentucky's Governor A. B. ("Happy") Chandler has declared Harlan an emergency area. President Eisenhower was informed of the distress last week by Kentucky's two Senators, John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton. Private agencies make the rounds regularly with...
...nation's first President to be barred by the Constitution (23rd Amendment) from running again. Having earnestly tried to stand above party, he made one of his rare ventures into partisan politics last fall-and the Republicans lost 13 seats in the Senate, 47 in the House. The specter of that defeat peered over his shoulder last week as he spoke to Congressmen who had already weighed the political factors and decided to go their own ways, without particular reference to the desires of Dwight Eisenhower. Items...
...biggest inflationary specter rises out of the Government's huge ($12 billion) deficit. Yet even there the worry is lessening. Just as last year's deficit was bigger than anyone expected because tax returns dropped in the business slump, so the current deficit may be smaller by $1 billion or $2 billion as business improves and tax payments increase. Says a U.S. Treasury spokesman: "An unbalanced budget does not just of itself create inflation. The extent to which you put it in the banks is the extent of its inflation. This $12 billion will be financed partly...