Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another matter. He is as full of guts, and as hard to take, as a haggis. He sows as much terror among his subalterns as he ever did among the enemy, and runs his mess on lines calculated to make dinner with the Macbeths and Banquo's ghost seem like afternoon tea. And because he had been a ranker who had risen from the gutters of Glasgow, he is a figure of awe and almost superstitious regard to the kilted men who swill their usquebaugh and sweat to master pibrochs (variations on bagpipe tunes). As he warms his "celebrated...
...real understanding of the communities they serve. When it comes to politics, there is less argument within the profession-a majority feel like the New Jersey editor who last week decided that the time had come to end a popular Jersey City practice whereby newsmen also serve politicians as ghost writers or pressagents. See PRESS, Should George Do It? and Speechless in Jersey...
...this-the low blood pressure and the $20 prosperity-is Normalcy, will it last? Looking straight at the big question mark, the middle-aged momentarily see the ghost of the '30s like an old roll-your-own cigarette machine back in the closet. But for the active executive, as for the active consumer, the question usually brings only a healthy caution or a moment's discomfort. "I don't find anybody really scared," says one steelman, "but there is plenty of studied concern...
...been part-time teachers and part-time surgeons making a living in private practice. At the university Dr. Graham made no more than perhaps a tenth of the income he could have commanded from fees. He became an outspoken and effective foe of such evils as fee splitting and ghost surgery. To his scientific achievements he soon added a dependable X-ray technique for diagnosing gall-bladder disease. But his most dramatic accomplishment did not come until...
...brother, an artist, died last year, and his ghost has now taught me to paint...