Word: wraith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wraith of famine forged ahead over the earth, a puffing, overfed nation reddened at the boos swelling from worldwide grandstands. Was the U.S. really trying? Was anybody doing better...
...during the War found out soon enough that the place wasn't the same. They looked for a five column daily CRIMSON, and saw in its place the Service News; they looked for the Advocate and found nothing; every-where the once vigorous mass of undergraduate activity was a wraith, stuttering along, supported by a skeletal student body...
Only with the war did the average German begin to hear of this wraith. He replaced Hess as Deputy Führer; his signature was required on all laws. He slithered about, watching generals and party leaders at work, and a disapproving word from him could mean death. Next to Hitler and Himmler, he was the most powerful man in all Germany...
...specter is haunting Russia-the specter of socialism. Britain's Labor Government had been in power little more than a month when last week that wayward wraith, the western bloc, in the guise of an entente of western Europe's socialist governments, began to clank familiarly through the international corridors. Its promoter was Professor Harold J. Laski (TIME...
Like the ghost of a bad debt, the rumor that Soviet Russia might some day pay off the defaulted dollar bonds of the Tsars has haunted Wall Street for years. To speculators it is a highly profitable wraith...