Word: specter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shadow that fell across O'Casey's Dublin during the 1920s has become the specter that terrorizes contemporary Ulster. Sections of Londonderry and Belfast are as desolated as London during the blitz, and the scarred faces of empty, bombed-out buildings are pockmarked from gunfire. Streets are blockaded by ganglia-like stretches of barbed wire and by "antiterrorist ramps"?thick bands of bitumen or concrete nine inches high that force traffic to slow to a crawl. On the red brick walls surrounding vacant lots, the children of Belfast?perhaps the most tragic victims of the war?have scrawled afresh...
...reality situation" must have expanded to include the specter of a dissatisfied and possibly defecting elite. After annoying delays, Zhores was released and given a loose assurance of scientific employment. He was obviously too hot to handle on the inside while his brother proved such an excellent publicist on the outside...
...months, border battles had broken out almost daily between troops of the two nations. The conflict that finally erupted last week along the 1,300-mile frontier was plainly big enough to raise the specter of a major conflagration on the subcontinent. The presence of Indian troops on Pakistan's soil escalated the dispute between the two nations to the point where full-scale war could erupt at any moment?a war that could also cause an uncomfortable confrontation of the major powers...
...recorded announcement. At the still center of this air-conditioned hell stands David, graver than a Greek chorus in his comments, with the memory-made-visible of the Vietnamese girl (Asa Gim) he had once loved. She glides through the rooms or sits in mute beauty, the specter of guilt...
Clearly, leaving college can turn into a purposeless drift through trivial jobs and futile distractions. The specter of a dropout's destroying himself on heroin haunts many a parent (though the prevalence of drugs on campus makes life in academe less reassuring than it used...