Word: specter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CAROL TROWBRIDGE, who has since married and changed her name, the Craigie experience must still hang over her like a silent specter. There may not be any more court proceedings or painful testimony. But the psychological impact of bearing this memory and not being able to speak about her sexual assault to anyone must be devastating...
PEACEFUL POLITICAL change, even if it is neither immediate nor comprehensive, is unarguably preferable to violence. The specter of revolution and race war in South Africa is horrifying, for it will inevitably be bloody and threaten to wreek one of the most productive economics in the world. Obviously, the group that would suffer most in such a confrontation is the white establishment--whites stand to lose their wealth, their country, and very possibly their lives. And yet, it is the white government that is giving Black South Africans no option but to engage in violent resistance...
That melodramatic phrase "baseball's last chance" refers to House and Senate pressures and the specter of hearings and legislation. Then "baseball will have lost control of its own problems," warned Ueberroth, a concern to everyone who holds the laws of the leagues dearer than the laws of the land. Purely by congressional whim does baseball remain set off from all the other professional sports as being somehow special. While the National Football League suffers, and generally loses, one antitrust suit after another, major league baseball enjoys an antitrust exemption...
...growing number of political moderates are deeply worried by LaHaye-style threats and by the specter of schoolbook censorship, legislation of private morality, and the packing of courts with doctrinaire "pro-family" judges. Some of the most thoughtful objections come from the Evangelical movement. The "packaging of the Gospel with politics" is unfortunate for the faith, says Chattanooga's Ben Haden, a conservative Presbyterian pastor and TV preacher. He compares the Fundamentalists who are venturing into politics to the church liberals who stressed social action over the Gospel in the 1960s. Charles Colson, the Nixon aide who served seven months...
Both sides in the debate over contra funding use the specter of an invasion to bolster their case. Democrats and other critics warn that any further aid will be one more step down a dark tunnel of U.S. involvement. The Administration warns that withholding such assistance hastens the day when less attractive options will become necessary. The $30 million or so is hardly the issue; the Pentagon spends that amount in less than an hour. What is at stake is a symbol of U.S. commitment to oppose and perhaps topple the Sandinista regime, with starkly differing views on where such...