Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frogman & the Ghost...
Rhee, of course, was reelected, but by the lowest margin of his career-barely more than half the vote. The late P. H. Shinicky polled an extraordinary ghost vote of nearly 1,500,000. But the real surprise of the ballot box was the defeat of Rhee's hand-picked vice presidential candidate by Rhee's bitter foe, husky, affable, 56-year-old Chang Myun, who anglicizes his name as John M. Chang. A onetime friend of Rhee's and former Korean Ambassador to Washington, U.S.-educated (Manhattan College) Chang thus became eligible to succeed Rhee...
...foreign soil, the Crimson revived the ghost of early season promise, scoring three times in the first period, four in the second, one in the third, and five in the fourth. "A well deserved win," said Coach Bruce Munro...
...eight years in the Marine Corps. As a machine-gun section leader in Korean combat, McKeon had learned that survival depends on discipline. He had fresh in his mind the grim stricture of the D.I. school: "Let's be damn sure that no man's ghost will ever say, 'If your training program had only done its job.'" And McKeon saw disturbing signs in Platoon 71. "There are still men in this platoon," he fretted, "that could not have made the grade in Korea...
...even before the cockerel could be beheaded, Eyobélé's prophecy was carried out. A bolt of lightning crashed into Eyobélé's hut, and a moment later nine women lay dead around the bier. Last week Bokouélé was a ghost village, in which Father Benoit Gassongo, the Roman Catholic priest and teacher, stirred among the vacant seats of the mission school and said his Mass in the empty chapel...