The Executioner straightened and stepped from concealment into the room, the Beretta tracking on Masudi, who first noticed the grim specter.

The grim specter of the 1943 riots never quite fades from the minds of city leaders.

Still, he considered it a minor victory, because he had no idea where the grim specter of the Mob would rise again!

But trivial romances don't levitate so easily when the atmosphere is the grim specter of bread lines.

It is this grim specter, more than any other, that haunts the American experience in Iraq.

As his mind returned to the grim specter of Europe rushing toward catastrophe, he remembered a rhyme about a railway accident.

He chuckled, not from mirth but from the grim specter of trouble.

Their unrestrained, fiercely passionate coupling was a slap in Death's face, a not wholly rational but nevertheless satisfying denial of the grim specter's very existence.

There, staring at him, was the grim specter of the Q School.

They expressed anger and bafflement about the confluence of events that led to the grim specter of joblessness.