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Word: ghosted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Harvard's ghost appeared briefly on the scene to predict that the Crimson would trounce the Tigers 60-14 in revenge for last year's 16-14 defeat. He also guaranteed that each cheerleader would do 35 push-ups to entertain the crowd at today's contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 500 Applaud Yovicsin at Football Rally | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...immediate contemporaries, the Italian sculptor, Giacometti, uses his electric virtuosity to enliven a canvas, one of his few. The subject appears ghost-like through the frantic scribblings of incised oil paint...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Salute to the Guggenheim | 11/5/1959 | See Source »

Standing beside an F-105 jet fighter-bomber and ready for takeoff, it could have been the ghost of the old Flying Tiger himself, General Claire L Chennault, who died last year. There was good reason for the startling resemblance. The craggy-faced general's craggy-faced son, Air Force Major Claire P. Chennault, 38, is 17-year veteran of the service, has two brothers, Colonel John and Master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...ghost of Frank Merriwell hovered over Soldiers Field late Saturday afternoon...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Cornell Overtakes Eleven, 20-16, As Last-Minute Pass Succeeds | 10/13/1959 | See Source »

...these were brilliant people, and occasionally they flash free of the author's clutch, as when "Monk" Lewis, master of the supernatural, jolts Shelley by ruling him out of a ghost-story session because Shelley is an atheist; or when Shelley's friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, hopes to seduce Mary while Shelley is away from home; or when Shelley gets a swimming lesson and plunges straight to the bottom, tempted by death and an answer to the Great Mystery. Despite such antics, Mary's father, husband and friends were schooled-and schooled her-to put intellect above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mrs. Shelley Plain | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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