Word: specter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raising the specter of the pledge, Bush is not so much demanding that Dukakis prove his loyalty to the flag as he is requiring that Dukakis hide his immigrant roots...
...essential provision of presumed innocence, the diver Bruce Kimball posted bail on a double vehicular-manslaughter charge and instantly sprang back into the pike position. But he lost his Olympic trial and soon must turn to the other kind. What page of the paper suited this sad specter whose face was flattened by a drunk driver seven years ago? Since then he has garnered six traffic citations of his own, and one Olympic silver medal...
Reagan envisions the Strategic Defense Initiative as an impregnable, invulnerable shield that will end forever the specter of nuclear war but that will also do away with nuclear deterrence. Bush is more realistic: he thinks the feasibility of SDI has yet to be proved. He favors research but not early deployment. In his Chicago speech, Bush carefully stopped short of prejudging whether a full-scale SDI would make sense. While vowing not to leave America "defenseless" against ballistic missiles, he stressed less grandiose possibilities than a full-scale SDI, such as using its benefits to counter the threat of shorter...
With the Seoul Olympics only two months away, the nightmarish specter of a North Korean terrorist attack at the Games haunts South Korean officials. Thus South Korean President Roh Tae Woo proposed a dramatic improvement in North- South relations. He called for moves ranging from a resumption of mail service between the two Koreas to the reunion of families divided by the border...
...fromholding office a third consecutive term, theattraction of running in an election was not loston Thornburgh as 1986 approached. First he toyedwith the idea of running against incumbent ArlenSpecter (R-Pa.) for a U.S. Senate seat. Hisstatewide popularity would have made that electiona close one, but friendship with Specter and adesire to "get out of politics for a while" madeThornburgh change his mind, he said last summer...