Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ghost on My Shoulder. Pilot Bridgeman tells his story with pride but not conceit. He tells of the things he had to learn till they became second nature, e.g., reverse breathing at high altitude, when a tank forces oxygen into his lungs and he has to breathe it out. He explains how many hours he spends studying and how many sweating. Every two weeks for three months he climbed down from the B-29 into his rocket ship. Each time the flight was called off. Finally he began to toss a utilitarian Dixie container, betraying his nervousness, over the side...
...bring blizzards whistling down from Canada, or even beckon hurricanes off the open sea. This possibility had a military angle: timely cloud-seeding from a safe distance might mess up the weather of an enemy country. Last week Meteorologist Dr. Jerome Spar of New York University laid this interesting ghost, or at least cut it down considerably, by reporting on the lack of success of the Navy's recently declassified "Project Scud." While maintaining a neutral position, Dr. Spar agreed that the thing should be tried. Backed by the Office of Naval Research, he organized a two-year experiment...
...everybody, including Father Bureth, had forgotten that the tropics were bad for him. Sent back to Brazzaville (pop. 84,000) by his superiors in the Congregation of the Holy Ghost to supervise construction of the church, he tirelessly wheedled free building materials, organized a native concert and mammoth fairs to raise more money. To the natives, he became known as "Bouloumboulou." or "Assassin," a humorous reference to his driving energy and the awe in which he is held. His anger can indeed be awe-inspiring. Once, when he discovered that a native was being slowly poisoned by an uncle...
...student, basing her doctor's thesis on the murals, wrote: "The splendid figure of Mary bears the brush marks of Gothic genius." When the forgery was revealed, the student indignantly pointed out that they were still remarkably like the Gothic murals in the Lübeck Holy Ghost Hospital. Explained Malskat: "I also painted those...
...tute" schools provided their clientele with ghost-written papers, specially abridged textbooks, and stolen lecture notes and exam questions. By the 1930s, it was estimated that between two-thirds and three-quarters of the undergraduate body patronized these houses of intellectual ill-fame...