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Word: ghosted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early Christian community everything was held in common; but Ananias and Sapphira, who had sold a piece of land, held back some of the money. When Peter took them to task they "fell down and gave up the ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Trumbull's mortal remains lie only 30 feet from where I now sit. His ghost will haunt us both unless credit is given where it is due. Tell the world the visual record of The Battle of Princeton by General Washington's aide-de-camp is at Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...years old, bred in August), 25 head of hogs, assorted farm implements, an iron butchering kettle and two electric fence chargers. The Palace Theater's advertisement in the Hills (Minn.) Crescent ballyhooed a new picture-Johnny Mack Brown (half forgotten by city audiences) in a Western titled Ghost Guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Election Week | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...postcard mailed in Washington to "New Ghost Town, Pa." last week, did not make the postmen think twice. It was promptly delivered in Pittsburgh. In the fourth week of George L. Mueller's power strike (TIME, Oct. 7), the nation's tenth city was not exactly ghostly. It was just ghastly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ghost Town | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...Russian zone, Moscow released 120,000, but most of these were sickly, unskilled, or unfit for work. They made poor propaganda. "I wish he had never come back," said one wife; "month after month I have been waiting and now he sits there, staring at nothing, like a ghost." Last week the first of Russia's Japanese captives began to trickle home. The Russians had promised MacArthur that from ten to fifteen thousand would be repatriated monthly. At that rate it would be over five years before 800,000 soldiers and more than 200,000 civilians finally reach home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Home Is the Hunter | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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