Word: specter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opposes the key conservation measure?a high tariff on industrial users of gas and oil. When the issue came up in the Senate last week, Long was in vintage form, giving that he might receive. A few days before the vote, Long's chief aide ?raising the specter of financial ruin for Louisiana industry?forecast the proposal's future with a Southern lilt: "The industrial user's tax is d-a-i-d, dead." Yet when the measure came to a vote, the wily Long did not thwart the drive to make it 1-i-v-e, live...
...fact, one might almost expect Houdini's specter to pop up somewhere on Halloween, among the trick or treaters. For certainly, Houdini was not a man who could easily be forgotten. No jail cell could hold him, no locks or chains could confine him. Houdini released himself thousands of times from every known physical restraint, often purposely putting his life in danger to dramatize the escapes. He was certainly no slouch: why escapes from a strait jacket standing upright when you can do it hanging by your ankles from a flagpole, 100 feet above a New York street, with thousands...
...less understandable. This is just a story to try and find out what happened and why." But it may be more than that. Though the article has so far received little attention in the foreign press, there is the possibility that some nondemocratic governments, having long used the specter of CIA ties as grounds for expelling troublesome correspondents, will now cite, however incorrectly, Bernstein's story as justification for their acts...
Some Germans urged harsher criminal laws and increased police activity, but that aroused the specter of a fascist state, which the terrorists insist they already are fighting. Observed the Frankfurter Rundschau last week in an uncharacteristically black mood: "Everybody knows that Bonn is not Weimar. But occasionally we doubt whether the second attempt to establish a civilized state on German soil will succeed...
Vast Reserves. Yet in a world menaced by the specter of energy shortages, Saudi Arabia possesses one source of power that far outweighs all its drawbacks: a pool of oil so vast that it may almost equal the combined reserves of the Western Hemisphere and the Soviet Union. According to one current study, whether the world starts running short of oil to power its machinery as early as 1981 or considerably later in the century depends primarily on how rapidly the Saudis choose to pump out their crude. And high prices for the petroleum have given the Saudis an enormous...