Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flatlands are rich with the emerald green of winter-wheat shoots; other thousands of miles are pasture, dotted with grazing cattle. But the western half of the state is ruggedly mountainous, the steep slopes necked with aspen and capped with snow. Colorado is a land of mining ghost towns and booming oil, gas, missile and atom-research centers. Men in cow boy boots and ten-gallon hats still swing off the cattle trains; but now other men, in Brooks Brothers suits, stride purposefully down the ramps of jet airliners at Denver's Stapleton Airfield. Colorado is also the stage...
...amateurish Herald rose to a circulation of 140,000 simply because news-famished Minneapolitans would buy anything. But when the city's two dailies resumed publication last July, Herald circulation fell with a sickening thump. Last week McCaffrey's Herald, anemic and skinny, gave up the ghost...
Kennedy's reluctance to debate can be attributed to several major factors. He may be afraid to argue with Lodge and Hughes in a format which precludes delivery of ghost-written orations or which might catch him in a cross-fire between the Republican and Independent candidates. Or, as as aide declared recently, Kennedy may consider the Hughes candidacy "irrelevant...
Veni Creator Spiritus. The council will open with a splendor to match its high goal. From his throne in the Hall of Benedictions of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, Pope John XXIII will intone the first notes of the 9th century hymn Veni Creator Spiritus (Come, Holy Ghost). Then the cardinals, patriarchs, metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, abbots and superiors of religious orders, representing more than 90% of the church's hierarchic leaders-some auxiliary bishops and many Iron Curtain prelates will not attend-will begin their solemn procession across Bernini's piazza toward the great Basilica...
...remarked that he would have called it a heath. As for Scottish scenery: "The noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to London." But he could poke fun at himself as well; asked if he would not start if he saw a ghost, he answered, "I hope not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost." But if the tour aroused Johnson's antic side, it aroused his antiquarian side even more. On the islands - Raasay and Skye and Mull - there were still feudal forms of life, clans and chieftains, Macdonalds...