Word: hauntingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what the Humphrey flap is all about. He had nothing specific in mind but a low budget figure, even though he would shed no tears if such items as foreign economic aid and aid to education were cut. If he has stirred up popular misgivings about the budget that haunt every Congressman, he cannot believe that this is a disservice-and many would agree with him in principle. But the disservice haunts those fellow members of the Administration who believe that the budget is the minimum price for providing the services that an expanding U.S. needs domestically, and the leadership...
...pronouncement of eighteen top West German physicists against participation in their country's nuclear armament, some old bugbears have returned to haunt the very NATO powers who created them. Germany's post-war indoctrination against militarism, this time coupled with radioactive fall-out fears, have prompted the most effective political protests by scientists in a long time...
...pick a research project and a professor to give them guidance. They may write a novel or produce a volume of poems, pursue such topics as "William Wordsworth's Metrical Forms" or "Development of the Hero in Dostoevsky's Novels. " Though the Yale library is their chief haunt, they have carried on research everywhere from Washington to Israel to Tunisia...
...because of Napoleon's hatred of England, the idea was abandoned. Landscape gardeners lined the Avenue de l'Ópéra with palm trees and changed its name for the occasion to Boulevard Méditerranéen. The managers of Maxim's, a favored haunt of Elizabeth's own playful great-grandfather, Edward VII, completed plans for three days of all-English menus, to the unconcealed horror of gastronomes. Maxim's even arranged to have a young British bull flown across the channel for an old-fashioned Elizabethan barbecue...
...dead know when they haunt the living? Writes Sir Shane: "It is possible that they are aware, but the tremendous authority of St. Thomas Aquinas favors the view that the dead are not aware of their own apparitions. Other spirits may be acting the part. In this, St. Thomas has touched one of the stumbling blocks of modern Spiritualism. Manifestations may be genuine, but not the manifester...