Word: hauntedness
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In Yugoslavia's strife, the E.C. has been haunted by a feeling of deja vu. More than a century ago, Otto von Bismarck gazed on another Balkan crisis -- the collapse of the empire of Ottoman Turkey -- and shrank from getting militarily involved. In the Iron Chancellor's view, Germany had...
Those words must have long haunted the former Defense Secretary, but never more so than when he resigned under pressure last week as chairman of First American Bankshares, Washington's largest bank holding company. A decade ago regulators, relying on Clifford, permitted a group of Middle Eastern investors to acquire...
So did the author. When I.J. Singer died in 1944, I.B. assumed the literary , role. But the elder brother had been a rationalist and a radical. The younger one was apolitical and haunted by "a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the universe." The...
The same problem with the trip's first day again haunted the couple on Monday while traveling to visit a friend at the Merchant Marine Academy on Long Island. For the second time in four days, they found themselves "lost in the worst part of Queens--for two hours," Hughes...
At the outset of The Kitchen God's Wife (Putnam; 415 pages; $22.95), one's apprehensions begin to gather like avenging furies: the opening pages introduce us to a young Chinese-American woman, her all-American husband and her inalienably Chinese mother, living around San Francisco -- precisely the contemporary scene...