Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ghost Writer. In Augusta, Ga., Merchant Sam Bruce made a quick phone call to a bank, learned that it was quite all right to cash a check written by Blue Monday of Dead Man's Alley, Langley...
...National Education Association, strident P.T.A. chapters throughout the nation, school boards, and educational theorists hiding in our universities, have elaborate programs for action. Unfortunately, the ghost of "progressive education" haunts any program of experiment. The failure of total student freedom in the classroom, the neglect of basic skills for intellectual meandering,--those character defects of modern education which have come to be associated with "progressive education" have engendered in the minds of parents and the press an idea that education must return to the little red school house, the three R's, and the straightlaced New England discipline. Weekly, Time...
...alive. They used blowtorches to heat their meals when they could not bear using camel dung as fuel. Bridges collapsed under them, their cars sank hub deep in mud or sand, brakes gave way and the cars slid down steep, rocky hillsides. The Tri-Contal gave up its tiny ghost, but the other four somehow made it to the Siberian border...
...began melting on the mountain flanks. Below the snowline, 110,000 sq. mi. of the nation's sixth biggest state came alive with spring activity. Along the Sierra Nevada, Basque sheepherders led freshly shorn flocks to summer pasture, kept wary vigil against marauding mountain lions. In the revived ghost town of Virginia City, cars disgorged Midwestern tourists to gaze at Piper's Opera House and Lucius Beebe's Territorial Enterprise. Around Reno, candidates for grass widowhood whiled away their residence on dude ranches. Along Las Vegas' gaudy Strip, vacationers pumped the slot machines and queued...
...together they rapidly drank up all the money she had made and inherited. According to the script, she wound up doing take-offs (including clothes) in a Manhattan dive, and one night she ran amuck and wound up in the alcoholic ward. That's where the "unholy ghost" (as Author Frank is known on Publisher's Row) caught up with her and invited her to take the bestseller cure...