Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Juan Domingo Peron, Argentina's sobered Strong Man, was the Man Who Wasn't There. Uninvited because of its formerly pro-Axis, still anti-U.S. attitude, Argentina reappeared as often as Banquo's ghost. Everyone at Mexico City understood that Argentina, right or wrong, cannot be permanently ignored...
...Madam," said the foremost ghost, an imperious woman with a bullet hole in her head, "what are you doing on our roof...
...Madam," said a male ghost, rising on tiptoe to speak over his wife's shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok...
Then National Democratic Chairman Bob Hannegan, perhaps trying to regain favor with Eleanor Roosevelt and other potent New Dealers, took a hand. He telephoned dozens of Senators in Wallace's behalf, finally reported that Wallace "doesn't have a ghost of a chance...
...Like the ghost of a bad debt, the rumor that Soviet Russia might some day pay off the defaulted dollar bonds of the Tsars has haunted Wall Street for years. To speculators it is a highly profitable wraith...