Word: ghosting
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...disease; the Murphys' adolescent son died there shortly after working on an etching of his visitor, Ernest Hemingway. But many others returned to life on the outside, often as uneasily as Percy's protagonist in The Moviegoer, "no more able to be in the world than Banquo's ghost." Like the disease it fought, Saranac was eventually undone by antibiotics. But for some 70 years, it was a rare arena that managed to encompass the arts of healing and high drama. So does the book that bears its name...
...destinies of the two states sometimes worked in counterpoint, almost seemed to leapfrog each other. In the 1970s, for example, Massachusetts appeared to be threadbare and obsolete, a ghost town of the Industrial Revolution, its people shivering through the winters of the oil shortage. Texas boomed with energy--the kind it pumped out of the Permian Basin and the kind that came from its adrenal glands. Now it is Texas that is chastened and Massachusetts that seems, for the moment, to belong to the future. Two reports...
...agent, Robert Friedrick, is accused of falsely stating that the FBI had authorized Presser to commit the crimes he is now charged with: embezzling union money as salaries for people holding no-show "ghost" jobs in Cleveland's Teamster Local 507. While the indictment of an FBI man was an embarrassment to the agency, the action against Presser had no immediate effect on him or his union...
...part led the Justice Department to suspend an attempt to indict Presser last summer and stirred speculation about interference from the White House. (Presser has been one of Ronald Reagan's few labor supporters.) Cases were dropped against two men who had earlier been convicted of participating in the ghost-employee scheme. Friedrick, who is accused of covering up a meeting with Presser and his associates to stymie the original investigation, could face up to 25 years, imprisonment...
...house, there were foul poles (garden posts) and an on-deck circle with extra bats (if you swung two or more at a time, you were pretty cool). There was a home-made dugout occupied only by the "ghost runners" and even a resin bag (stuffed and clipped white rag) on the mound...