Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ghost of Joseph Stalin rose out of his granite tomb in Red Square last week and stalked the crenelated walls of the Kremlin with an awesome message for Communists everywhere. Like Hamlet's father, the old dictator gave notice that he was doomed to walk the night and "to fast in fires till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away." The man who raised the ghost was Nikita Khrushchev, no Prince Hamlet, but now Stalin's clearest heir...
Stalin's ghost has many haunting years ahead...
M.I.T. and Boston University gave up the ghost without a fight. They declared that all operations, including classes, would be suspended today. Here, only a scattered few professors announced that hour exams and classes would be postponed this morning. English 160 and German A, B, and E have had their exams put off. It is probable that many professors living in the suburbs will also not arrive this morning...
...Ghost, sometimes she came and stood at the foot of the bed . . . The tree that fell on John Perry, it cut off his leg . . . The lightning that struck Rufo Bar-cliff, it killed...
...Eliot's "Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante," said to be "the wisest woman in Europe." She warns of the planchette: "The things it writes cause such a lot of bad feeling sometimes." The board says that "Karl is not pleased" and, ominously, "Force is the midwife."* Thus the bewhiskered ghost of Marx sets Jenkins' friends whirling about in new gyrations of folly and self-seeking. Among the cast...