Word: specter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kohl's victory banished the specter of political uncertainty that culminated in the no-confidence parliamentary vote last October that ousted Schmidt and ended 13 years of Social Democratic rule. Schmidt's downfall was triggered when the Free Democrats, led by his Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, bolted the government coalition and joined Kohl's Christian Democrats. The Free Democrats' motive: disagreement with the Social Democrats over how to reverse the nation's declining economic fortunes. Branded as "traitors," by the SPD, the Free Democrats began a downward slide in public esteem...
...primary. Speaking before the Women's National Republican Club of Cook County last week, Epton said he did not want ballots cast for him just because he is white. "I want neither money, help nor conversation from those people," he declared. "Tell them to get lost." Despite the specter of substantial white crossovers to Epton, Washington remains the clear favorite. Wrote Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko after the upset: "Eeek, the next mayor of Chicago is going to be a black man. Let's all quiver and shake. Oh, come on. Let's all act like...
...bitter feud that has split one of the South's best-known institutions of higher learning swirls around President Hanly Funderburk, 51, who took office in April 1980. Funderburk's policies have sapped morale, antagonized many members of the faculty and administrative staff, raised the specter of political control and brought into question the mission of the 127-year-old institution in the Alabama town that bears its name. Three vice presidents have resigned in protest, and the faculty has twice passed no-confidence votes against the president, the last by a 3-to-l margin. In November...
...said they were willing to receive the child, thus granting Malahoff his money back, along with an end to a story nobody wanted to hear in the first place, one that, when it was finally played out, involved an array of several unattractive personalities, a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, the specter of baby selling, the suspicion of fraud and deception, and a tasteless denouement on a television talk show, where the M.C. spoke of "renting a womb...
...their furniture as police stood idly by. Today, some 30 years later there are still rackets and plenty of brawling honky-tonks along South Cicero Avenue. And the town is still astoundingly white. Indeed, residents seem nostalgic about Capone's gang and as panicked as ever about the specter of a black invasion. Al didn't bother us much in Cicero," says a retired foundry worker who was a boy when Capone came to town, "and we didn't bother him. But we can't count on the colored not to bother us like...