Word: ghostly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Communist President Klement Gottwald made a gesture of exorcism. The new President and his wife drove to the little cemetery where Jan Masaryk is buried beside his great father Thomas. President and Mrs. Gottwald laid red roses on Jan Masaryk's grave. But the ghost still walked...
...assemblage had expected to hear resounding words about democracy. Instead, they were haunted by a ghost out of the past. To the rostrum stepped Fritz von Unruh, one of Germany's greatest writers (Way of Sacrifice), a Junker officer who turned pacifist. Exiled by the Nazis, he had spent nearly eight years in the U.S. His grandfather had been the parliament's presiding officer. Von Unruh reminded his listeners that again & again since 1848 Germans have trampled freedom to death in their own country. When his audience squirmed, he peered from face to face. "What did you expect...
...tutorial may be the answer for a great many departments, and some of them have already experimented in this departure. Individual assistance for junior and senior honors candidates is essential in other places. What should not be allowed to happen is the insidiously silent junking of all but a ghost of the system that has occurred, for example, in the Economics Department. Only action by the administration or the faculty as a whole can save the best aspects of tutorial and rebuild them into an integrated system. It is such action that is called...
...Lake Success last week, U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission was ready to lay down the futile burden it had carried nowhere for almost two years, and give up the ghost. Said Britain, France and the U.S. in a joint post-mortem supported by a majority of the others: "No useful purpose can be served by carrying on negotiations . . . The commission therefore recommends that . . . negotiations in the Atomic Energy Commission be suspended...
...well over a decade, the Yard athletic program has limped along like a nervous ghost, always threatening to sink dejectedly into a nearby grave, and rarely showing signs of purpose or composure. Freshmen have groaned through their regular grind in the gym, and perhaps played a game or two of pickup softball, but there has been no integrated inter-dormitory sports organization. Now, however, negotiations between Yard officials and the Athletic Association seem to promise well-arranged Freshman intramurals in the future...