Word: ghostly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outsiders (TIME, Sept. 17, 1945), its appearance has become less dramatic. There are no longer any lead-shielded, white-painted Sherman tanks lumbering about the crater. The great sheet of crackly "trinitite" (glassy melted soil) that looked like a scummy green lake has largely disintegrated; only a faint green ghost of it remains among the returning vegetation. Occasionally, fragments glitter in the sun. The crater is still a shallow, rimless saucer pressed down into the earth by the force of the explosion. In it may be seen a few twisted bits of metal and the reinforced concrete foundations...
...seance continued. Once it looked as though Mussolini's own ghost had returned when one Luigi Filosa, a Fascist henchman, got up to speak; Filosa was short and bald, stood squarely with his hands on his hips and stuck out his lower lip in characteristic Mussolinian truculence. From dark corners of the auditorium drifted snatches of Fascist hymns. A philosophy professor, who shouted: "Democracy is a fraud!" was arrested by the watchful secret service men. The hysterical speakers babbled on. Yelled a woman teacher: "They come, these Americans, these ignorant bushmen, to show us-the heirs of Michaelangelo...
...explained in the current Bulletin of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, such fears were more than justified. Robbers did make off with his mummy, and for good measure, or for fear of the Master's ghost, they smashed his reserve head as well. Dug up by archaeologists in 1936, the pieces were plastered together again, finally sold to the Metropolitan. On exhibition at the museum last week, the proudly tilted head was one of the earliest examples of portrait sculpture known. The nostrils (to Egyptians the seat of life) had been carved with special care, presumably so that...
...found that he will be expected to work harder for his hospital than he had bargained for. He had not realized that the festival (which Hutchins calls "the greatest cultural event ever held in the U.S.") would be held at 7,930-ft.-high Aspen-a onetime ghost town recently bought by Box Tycoon Walter P. Paepcke and turned into a resort. Later he learned that he was scheduled to make his address twice, once in French and once in German, on different days. And last week it was announced that Dr. Schweitzer would be awarded an honorary degree from...
...ghost of Martin Dies is still alive and kicking the bejesus out of everybody who happens to be politically left of the Manchester Yacht Club. This regrettable fact has been proven twice already this week--both instances concerning higher education...