Word: specter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stench of decay arose from the bloated carcasses of water buffalo, cattle and dogs that clogged the city's streets. Finally, the army removed them with cranes. But as long as animal and human corpses decomposed in the open air, the threat of contamination increased, and with it the specter of cholera. Meanwhile, rats scurried around the dead bodies, awakening fears of bubonic plague. For days, vultures and wild-eyed pariah dogs roamed through the piles of rotting flesh, feasting...
Nevertheless, the specter of a violent chemical explosion is very real. Late in November, for example, Mexico suffered its worst industrial calamity when a series of gas tanks exploded in San Juan Ixhuatepec, a suburb of Mexico City, killing 452 people...
...control pill, which helped spark a revolution in sexual mores, population control and the status of women; of a heart attack; in Peterborough, N.H. A researcher in human reproduction who spent the first two-thirds of his career trying to help women overcome infertility, he became alarmed at the specter of world overpopulation and began working on a hormonal birth control method in the 1950s with Biologists Gregory Pincus and Min-chueh Chang. Because the pill they developed used two body substances, estrogen and progesterone, Rock, a daily Mass-going Roman Catholic, believed the church might accept...
Last, but not least, there is the question of enforcement. Outlawing abortion will not significantly change societal attitudes--women who would have legal abortions today would still want illegal ones tomorrow. The pro-life movement will have to deal with that, and with the specter of abortion black markets and back-alley butchers. In practice, it just might be that the costs of abortion laws would far outweigh the benefits...
...specter of Armageddon, according to Coles, does not haunt the ghettos or working-class neighborhoods as it does the Brown campus. Says he: "The children in the ghetto are worried about the next meal, about where they will find work." Concludes Coles: "The nuclear-freeze movement has become all too tied up with upper-middle-class privilege...