Word: specters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might build such bombs and use them to blackmail the world -a kind of ultimate crime. While the prospect causes a great deal of official worry, it also provides almost any competent thriller writer with a readymade plot that has everything: timeliness, tremendous stakes and, above all, the appalling specter of a mushroom cloud billowing over a peaceful land...
...major speech in Iowa, Carter indirectly raised the Watergate specter -something he had said he would not do-by linking Ford with Richard Nixon. He criticized the Republicans for imposing embargoes on grain sales to the Soviet Union and vowed to end such embargoes "once and for all." Later, however, Carter did say that he would impose an embargo in a national emergency, such as a crop failure...
...kind of electronic jock itch. Schlitz spent $4.5 million to air its effective series of ads. Joe Namath huddled with an assortment of international machos, trying to give the impression that Brut deserved a seat in the United Nations. McDonald's, Burger King and Pizza Hut raised the specter of a future when the Olympic symbol would be interlocking onion rings...
...week. The case involves the so-called San Quentin Six,* who are accused of taking part in a 1971 prison breakout attempt that left Black Militant Convict George Jackson dead, along with three guards and two inmate trusties. Their trial may well mark the final effort to exorcize the specter of Jackson from the Marin courthouse. In 1970 the same building was the scene of the kidnap-shootout that Jackson's brother Jonathan hoped would force George's release from San Quentin. Instead, Jonathan, Judge Harold Haley and two prisoners were killed. Now the question facing a seven...
...since the Roman emperors have ever been able to keep together such a vast territory for very long. The new states are separated, moreover, not only by miles but also by religion, customs, habits and temperaments. Because of such differences, some Loyalists to the Crown are already raising the specter of civil war-or wars -if the British presence is removed...