Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Dutch stood there the other night in his Eastern Establishment dark suit, giving a speech that could have been written by a Democrat and invoking the ghost of F.D.R. in the name of the Republican Party, some of us had to pinch ourselves...
Thus, even as the deposed Shah clung stubbornly to life in Cairo's Maadi Military Hospital following abdominal surgery, the mullahs waged war on his ghost in Iran. Thousands of photographs of the ousted monarch were burned in mass bonfires, the Pahlavi crest was hastily scissored from government stationery, and workmen hammered stone bas-reliefs of the imperial crown from the façades of public buildings. Hundreds of civil servants and teachers who were accused of having ties with the former regime were purged from government offices and universities...
...Overlook represents our monstrous, ghostly past, a life-giving-and-taking force similar to the black slab in 2001. "You've always been the caretaker," the ghost of Delbert Grady informs Jack, and indeed, man has always been here. When Jack tells Danny that he never, ever, wants to leave the hotel, he is striving for a painful immortality that cannot be reached outside the hotel...
...hard to write objectively of Mr. Nixon. He is a ghost come back to haunt us, a reminder of a period of American history whose buried horrors are still in the process of being exhumed. To those who opposed him and the policies and mindset he represented, Nixon personified the banality of evil. He inspired a visceral contempt among students, who counted on him to supply a symbol of arrogance and decadence. The distaste was mutual. "When dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy," Nixon said, equating protest with murder, on the day four students were killed by National Guardsmen...
...coup was virtually bloodless; nevertheless, it turned the capital, Kampala, into a ghost town of deserted streets and shuttered houses, as citizens, still smarting from Amin's lethal rule, played it safe and stayed indoors. It was small comfort that the takeover was apparently masterminded by a former leader of the anti-Amin resistance: Paulo Muwanga, 56, Binaisa's Labor Minister and chairman of the six-member military commission of the Uganda National Liberation Front, which was formed in 1979 to topple Amin...