Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These theoretic limitations of the Bill aside, there is still much to object to in Kennedy's attempt to conjure with the ghost of Bright. The Free Trade philosophy is not an American growth, for the simple reason that America is not a trading country. Last year, America's trade amounted to only three per cent of her GNP; England's exceeded fifteen per cent of hers. (This helps explain why the unprincipled British will trade with Rel China; America can afford her high-minded refusal to do so.) Even if an expansion of exports were the only effect...
Chaos & Coups. The aim of General Cemal Gursel's coup had been to eliminate financial chaos and corruption, invigorate the stagnant economy, restore political liberty. While the ghost of the hanged Menderes still haunted the nation, the army returned the country to civilian rule last October and sponsored parliamentary elections that made Gursel President, but failed to provide a stable majority to enact essential reforms. The result is a freakish two-party coalition government that joins the army-favored Republican People's Party of Premier Ismet Inonu with its archenemies, the political heirs of Menderes gathered...
...Says Ghost Speechwriter Newson of the many striking similarities between Ike's letter and his principals' speech: "I am a great admirer of Eisenhower. I was inspired by his article, and I might even have used some of his phrases-unintentionally...
...father in this very house, and a family cannot purge itself of a crime its blood passes on. Each generation reenacts a family sin until the last measure of evil is payed out. Having killed his father, the peddlar now kills his son, perhaps to set his mother's ghost to rest. David Gullette is the peddlar, the ruined and driven old murderer: his is a sly and yet dignified performance. And Harry Smith, his son, is capable...
...words of appointment: "By the authority of Almighty God, of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and of ourself, we appoint"-and here, one by one, the Pope named the men-"to be cardinals, in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen." Thus the Sacred College of Cardinals was raised to the highest membership in history-90, including three cardinals in pectore (in the breast), whose names the Pope has never revealed...