Word: ghosting
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...here is the ghost of old Fleur Pillager, forced from her land by the building of a gambling casino, the bingo palace of the title: "She doesn't tap our panes of glass or leave her claw marks on eaves and doors. She only coughs, low, to make her presence known. You have heard the bear laugh -- that is the chuffing noise we hear and it is unmistakable. Yet no matter how we strain to decipher the sound it never quite makes sense, never relieves our certainty or our suspicion that there is more to be told." The author...
Chan shies away from Ouija boards, however. "Ithink they're dangerous," she said. "You let aspirit come into contact with you, and it couldget inside and mess you up." Chan, who is Chinese,added, "My culture is filled with ghost stories...
...exercise gym. The face-to-face confrontations between King and Prime Minister are epic battles of wills and words worthy of George Bernard Shaw. Yet Urquhart's monstrousness ! has taken on almost Shakespearean proportions; the murder that ended Part I continues to haunt him like Banquo's ghost...
...dean said the reverend preaching the sermon illustrated an analogy between the struggle for equality and baseball, naming first base faith, second hope, third charity, pitcher Christ, shortstop love, catcher the holy ghost, batter the devil, and the umpire God. The reverend then said that theumpire would call the devil out, and slavery out,and segregation...
Already NATO has ducked the most horrific ethnic fight on the Continent -- the one going on in the former Yugoslavia. But that bloody ghost is thrusting itself to the table in Brussels. The holiday season was a particularly violent one in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with all sides violating an agreed truce and killing 106 civilians. Completely fed up with the futility of his assignment, Belgian Lieut. General Francis Briquemont resigned as commander of U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia. French General Jean Cot, chief of ( the 30,000 blue helmets in the former Yugoslavia, spoke out about his troops' "humiliation" and compared...