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Word: ghosting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nations stood in knots on the floor as British Foreign Secretary George Brown began to address the Council. His mission was the product of failure. He had come to ask the U.N. to impose mandatory economic sanctions on Rhodesia, and in the minds of many diplomats present was the ghost of the old League of Nations -which began to fall apart 30 years ago when it proved unable to enforce economic sanctions against Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhodesia: Admission of Failure | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Music and lyrics by the Fiddlers on the Roof, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, add new dimensions to Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost, featuring Sir Michael Redgrave, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Natalie Schafer. Tippy Walker and Peter (Herman of the Hermits) Noone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 4, 1966 | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

Gerold Frank, best known as a ghost biographer (Lillian Roth's I'll Cry Tomorrow, Diana Barrymore's Too Much, Too Soon), identifies the criminal as Albert Henry DeSalvo, 34, a jug-eared, powerfully built amateur boxer and onetime reformatory-school inmate. A resident of Maiden, Mass., where he lived with his German-born wife and two small children, DeSalvo was a semiskilled factory hand and an over-skilled sex deviate. In 1961, he confessed that he was the "Measuring Man," who for more than a year had talked his way into the apartments of gullible women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murderer Unmasked? | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...trusted aides up into high Party offices. T'ao Chu, one of Lin's political officers during the Civil War and a Party leader in southern China, became director of the Party's propaganda department. Ch'en Po-ta, who had served for years as Mao's Bill Moyers, ghost-writing speeches and handling the press, was put in charge of the entire purge, dubbed the "Great Cultural Revolution." Official control over the Red Guards was reserved for Lin, who probably gave orders to the young demonstrators through army channels. He received support from the Premier, Chou En-lai. Chou...

Author: By T. JAY Mathews, | Title: Mao's Last Purge | 10/22/1966 | See Source »

...These are the people who coursed its cobbled streets under the gaslights-denizens of a far less frenetic age. Von Doderer has no illusions: he knows they are all dead, along with their time, but the fact cannot sadden a memory whose gaiety is as imperishable as the ghost of Vienna itself. In his skillful hands, the ghost becomes very much alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Short Notices: Oct. 14, 1966 | 10/14/1966 | See Source »

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