Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outspoken critic of the kind of exploitative industrialization that Westerners blame for dotting their country with mining and timber ghost towns, Simpson is at the same time a tireless exponent of responsible economic development. In his administration Wyoming, already friendly toward new investment, made the welcome well-nigh irresistible. Against a tendency of other Rocky Mountain states to "make industry pay" by levying special taxes, e.g., a severance tax on minerals taken out of the ground and shipped away, Wyoming hewed to an exceptionally favorable tax policy supported by Democrats as well as Republicans. Not only is there no severance...
...bush, a more primitive mercy than the King's justice awaited him. The "blackfellows" regarded white men as the returned ghosts of their own tribesmen. As a ghost, Graham was welcomed into a tribe, claimed as a husband by a lubra (squaw) and became a hunter of goanna lizard, a grubber for grubs. Author Gibbings' narrative suggests that to a lively Irishman this simple life was simply and literally a bore. Eventually, Graham gave himself up to "the authorities." But after he was back in irons, rumors came through to the New South Wales penal settlements that there...
...Hong Kong's Dr. Pow Meng Yap found that, among schizophrenic Chinese, "customary beliefs have a strong molding influence on the clinical picture. Among our patients were four who showed clearly the syndrome of ghost possession. This is understandable in light of the tradition of ancestor worship." Dr. Yap's overall summation: secondary symptoms vary in accordance with culture, but "the primary symptoms of schizophrenia-especially the tendency to withdraw-are identical around the world, and it is thus truly a universal disease...
...trotted out at will and bedecked as a sort of ecclesiastical Liberace for crassly commercial purposes. In so doing, not one jot is added to the stature of the Church or its mission in the world, a chore, incidentally, reserved not to Hollywood but to the Holy Ghost. Let us devoutly hope that the cassock and habit may enjoy eternal rest from moviedom's commercialism, and pray that they may never decide to shoot St. Augustine's Confessions with George Raft in the lead...
Public opinion in Tennessee was so much against Scopes, Cole added, that the witnesses in his defense could find no place to stay except in an abandoned "ghost" house...