Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deep Freeze. In the Cambria County seat of Ebensburg, the Republicans fought the ghost of Colonel Coffey with 1949-style campaign oratory: "It's the first election since the deep freeze and the last chance before socialism takes over in the United States." A party worker addressed 100 Republicans. "All the heroes are not dead and all the heroes are not in the Democratic party," he said. "John Phillips Saylor is a hero...
...Cheyenne, Wyo., the "Ghost Patrol," which in bedraggled skull & crossbones regalia had been terrorizing the community, was unmasked as nine pint-sized hoodlums (aged nine to 14). In court they told Judge Walter Phelan that their juvenile reign of terror had been inspired by ABC's radio program the Green Hornet. The judge recommended spankings for each culprit and ordered a 5:30 curfew, with radios off while the Green Hornet...
Prayer for the Future. Despite its mounting troubles, the Congress Party still has three great sources of strength: the personal magnetism of Nehru, the organizational genius of Patel, and the still eloquent ghost of Mohandas K. Gandhi...
...Four Ghosts. The Comet was designed and built in secrecy; De Havilland has not yet released many of its details. It is about as big as a DC-6, with its four Rolls-Royce Ghost jet engines looking sleek and slim on its moderately swept-back wings. Its claimed cruising speed is 500 m.p.h. at 35-40,000 feet. At this speed and altitude, each Ghost develops thrust equivalent to 10,500 h.p. The Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp reciprocating engines that power the DC-6 develop only about 2,100 h.p. at full throttle...
Chief disadvantage of jet engines is their enormous thirst for fuel. At cruising speed and altitude each Ghost drinks 120 imperial gallons (144 U.S. gallons) of kerosene per hour. To get her safely across the Atlantic and allow a three-hour safety margin, the Comet will have to carry something like 6,000 gallons of fuel (the DC-6's load: 4,248 gallons). Fully loaded, the Comet will probably carry only 20 passengers on a long flight (the DC-6 can carry...