Word: ghostly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mass evacuation, prompted partly by fear, partly by orders of Arab leaders, left the Arab quarter of Haifa a ghost city. More than pride and defiance was behind . the Arab orders. By withdrawing Arab workers, their leaders hoped to paralyze Haifa. Jewish leaders said wishfully: "They'll be back in a few days. Already some are returning...
...stand trial for treason. When he was indicted in Boston, he ranted that the proceedings against him were part of a worldwide conspiracy against God and man, that he needed no other counsel than "the holy trinity of God: the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." Judge Francis J. W. Ford ordered a plea of not guilty entered...
...Little Co. sees a bright future for tracers in industry. They can be used to measure the infinitesimal amount of lubricant applied to textile fibers, or to estimate the ghost-thin film of metal rubbed off a shaft when it revolves in its bearings. No quantity of material is too small to carry telltale sparks of radioactivity...
...Macbeth is still good melodrama. The next to shortest of Shakespeare's plays,* and certainly the scariest, it moves at top speed for three acts-from the first appearance of the Witches to the disappearance of Banquo's ghost. As Critic A. C. Bradley once pointed out, the fourth act of most very great Shakespeare (Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear) tends to slump. Last week's production slumps less than the play, and proceeds to a mighty laying-on of Macduff and a martial conclusion. Perhaps best of all, the new production catches an atmosphere of menace...
...essays Virginia Woolf approached writers of the past and present with the same questions in mind. She wrote about Jane Austen's conscience, Defoe's advanced attitude toward women and Sterne's troublesome ghost. She probed the minds of writers as different as Montaigne and Ring Lardner-and brought them all to quickened life; she made them seem contemporaries...