Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the arrival of peace Scranton's 140,000 citizens, unwilling to accept a ghost city in a deserted valley, decided to bet a chunk of solid cash on a new future. Spurred on by civic leader Ralph E. Weeks, president of world-famous International Correspondence Schools, they formed a corporation (The Scranton Plan Inc.), wrote a campaign song (Buy Scranton Bonds), and, on street corners, in barber shops and bars, at luncheons and rallies, began collecting $100 pledges...
Nobody worried much. If people sickened, Grandmother doctored them, and they either died or got well. Nobody bathed and nobody cared. People grunted "Yes," "No," "Food," "Ghost," "Blood," sometimes sighed "Ohhhahhh" or just plain "Ohhhh...
Nobody took him seriously-the ghost of Welch's rented goat trailed through the years. But the memory did him no harm. Washington, a state which likes some fun with its politics, re-elected him with showy majorities...
Return to Hell. But the gaitered ghost cannot argue all day. "I have to be back next Friday to read a paper. We have a little Theological Society down there. Oh yes! There is plenty of intellectual life. Not of a very high quality, perhaps. One notices a certain lack of grip-a certain confusion of mind...
Captain Lyon, responsible for safety of personnel, hopes that no one will look directly at the explosion. Everybody privileged to watch, will have goggles with glass so opaque that it turns the midday sun into a pallid ghost. But the atom bomb's light can strike through it at 20 miles away, causing temporary blindness. The Captain's advice: face the other way, shut your eyes, cover your face with your arms. Then, an instant later, you may see something...