Word: specter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote of confidence after doling out so many jobs-splitting portfolios two ways-that his Cabinet became a 45-man team, biggest in French history. But he still had to water down his demand for higher taxes before the Deputies would give him a chance. In the end the specter that haunts his government, and would probably bring him down, is Algeria...
...turned this specter loose in the Communist world? The answer seemed to be that Mao was primarily concerned with solving the strains and stresses created by Red China's grave economic difficulties-and perhaps was trying to prevent a Hungarian-style outbreak in his own land...
...controversy raged on, oilmen rushed around soothing fears of drilling fuss and muss, tried to round up more homeowners' leases to meet the 51% required for dezoning. They made small progress in Beverly Hills, which refuses to allow the specter of industry in its well-manicured oasis of luxury and wealth. There oilmen found only 220 citizens willing to lease. The remaining 31,000 have enough money already, or belong to the right oil-golf clubs near...
...Forbes has other ammunition to fire at Meyner. During the primary he sighted over the head of perennial G.O.P. candidate Wayne Dumont Jr., blasted Meyner for the state's rising budget ($342 million in 1958). To Jerseyites, who pay no sales or personal-income taxes, Forbes's specter of reckless New Deal spending may be a big-mileage issue...
Premier Ali, at the head of a nondescript coalition government, stays tenuously in power only because of Sukarno's sufferance. The most powerful Moslem party in Ali's coalition called for his resignation, but the specter of open army revolt in Sumatra finally held a cabinet together: it might be disastrous to the young nation to let an army mutiny bring down a government...