Word: specter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That specter has reinforced the Reagan Administration's determination to resist what it calls "a gift of power to the left." Pledged Secretary of State Alexander Haig last week: "We are not going to be active participants in the distribution of power that would abuse the interests of he people...
...SALT H that got under way in 1973. The major division over the nature of the agreement to be sought was between the psychiatric and the theological approaches to foreign policy. The "psychiatrists" saw in SALT a major step toward relaxing of tension and a world from which the specter of nuclear war was being lifted. To the "theologians," anything the Kremlin was willing to sign could not be in our interests. They sought to defeat SALT because they objected not to its terms but to its principle...
...would think, as long as they were making a movie that announces its business with so stark a title, they would have bothered to conjure up a genuinely spooky spook. Not a bit of it. Every once in a while there is a brief frisson when the specter is revealed to be wearing several pounds of yucky decayed-corpse makeup instead of Actress Alice Krige's pretty face. But since these moments arise out of a script that appears to have been mailed in from another planet and directed by the spirit of the living dead, they are with...
Whatever idea Jaruzelski is helping defend in Poland today, it is certainly not the one that Karl Marx had in mind 134 years ago, when he and Friedrich Engels wrote, at the beginning of their Communist Manifesto, "A specter is haunting Europe-the specter of Communism." By that, they meant the spirit of the underclasses, seeking vengeance against their exploiters. Nor is Jaruzelski defending the vision summed up in the closing exhortation of the Manifesto: "Working men of all countries, unite!" In Poland, the workers have been trying to unite for a better life, but their efforts are haunted...
Communism is serious competition for other social and economic systems in large measure because it is backed up by the threat of Soviet force. The leaders and citizens of other lands would not feel quite so haunted by the specter of Communism if they were not concerned about Soviet troops over the border, or missiles over the horizon, or secret stockpiles of Kalashnikov automatic rifles and cadres of KGB agents