Word: specters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confusing factor is that Carter is again being haunted by the specter of Humphrey. The Minnesota Senator showed up at a fund-raising dinner last week for, not surprisingly, Congressman Wayne L. Hays, who strongly backs him. A giant banner proclaimed: H.H. HUMPHREY OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. Hays, a conservative, announced that he will spend $25,000 in funds raised in a last-minute drive. He will campaign for Humphrey in six districts where the Congressman heads favorite-son slates of delegates. If elected, they would support Humphrey at the convention...
...poisoned atmosphere is even reviving the specter of union violence. Fearing attack, Miller recently gave up his Washington home to seclude himself in an apartment in Alexandria, Va. When traveling into opposition strongholds, he says he packs a Smith & Wesson .38 automatic under his left shoulder. Trbovich says he was clubbed over the head recently while entering the Burlington Hotel in Washington; in Hazleton last month, he stayed behind a bolted door in an isolated wing of a motel. The power struggle will probably not be resolved until the next U.M.W. presidential election in December 1977-unless it is settled...
...game. As the winning shot is described, the men break into their old school fight song--they are inextricably tied together by the single moment of glory in their lives. They must stick together. Only through a collective, self-deceptive retreat into the past can these men escape the specter of mediocrity. And they cling desperately to the Coach's exhortation--"Never forget that, never!"--hoping without really believing it that their success in a game of basketball has carried over into the game of life...
...wanted the general elections to be held after the 1976 American presidential elections to prevent the Italian situation from becoming a campaign issue here. Hence the decision of the DC to hold the elections in June appears to be designed to intimidate the Italian electorate with the specter of possible American intervention in the event of a PCI victory...
...time for Uncle Sam to exert some guiding influence and remove the specter of nuclear catastrophe from the already tragic situation in the Middle East...