Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...written off on the court docket as "defendant deceased." Stephen's friend "Bill," Viscount Astor, a somewhat belated witness of high estate, allowed piously: "His readiness to help anyone in pain is the memory many will treasure." In one way or another, the ghost of Stephen Ward seemed likely to haunt many Top Britons as assiduously as the dashing doctor ever courted them in his life...
...view of modern archaeologists, Chilca burial customs were ideal, since they helped to preserve the remains. When a man died, he was laid on reed mats in his house and covered with other mats. Then heavy stones were placed over his chest and abdomen, presumably to keep his ghost from rising to haunt the living. Women's ghosts were considered more dangerous; sometimes five stakes were driven through female bodies...
...City, Colo., was the roaring capital of "The Little Kingdom of Gilpin." Its lusty miners built a splendid stone opera house and imported their music along with beans, bacon, and mining tools. But in time the gold went out of the Golden West and Central City became a near ghost town. Then 32 years ago, the old opera house was restored...
Under the capable baton of James Paul the 24-piece orchestra was all that one could ask for. Maestro Paul (Cape Cod's answer to Arthur Fiedler) is a highly gifted if somewhat flamboyant conductor. His tautly controlled dynamics in the ghost scene were particularly impressive...
Stalin's Ghost. On hand for talks with Khrushchev in East Berlin were the satellite chiefs of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria. Absent, at least from among early arrivals: Rumanian Red Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who is not only feuding with Moscow over economic planning but is warm toward Peking, allowed its manifesto to appear in the Rumanian press. What confronted the small-scale Red summit meeting was the picture of the Sino-Soviet rift tearing into the Communist fabric all over the world...