Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sligh concluded - and the meeting ended - Meany and Sligh ran into each other in the emptying hotel ballroom, and began to argue angrily. Sligh said that the merged union might "pull strings behind the scenes and direct the destinies of the nation" through a "ghost government." Indignantly Meany shot back: "No chance of that. I thought it was [Treasury Secretary George] Humphrey, [Commerce Secretary Sinclair] Weeks and [Defense Secretary Charles] Wilson who were doing that. If the N.A.M. philosophy is to disfranchise unions, then there is no answer but to start a labor party." The closed shop, the union boss...
...week-stretch nearly 20 centuries of Christian history. Through holy wars and heresies, corruptions and reforms, the triumphs of saints and the victories of skeptics, the little company of faithful has spread across the world. Christians have given themselves strange names and have worshiped the Father, Son and Holy Ghost with commissions and omissions that would have shocked Rome's primitive Christians. The big brick church on Richmond's statue-stippled Monument Avenue, where Thomas Davis was baptized last week, would not look to Publius like a church at all. But the ceremony was the same...
...winter there was skating on the lake, and in summer the whole family moved to the exclusive Huron Mountain Club, set in a tract of virgin wood and trouty freshet. "She was such a normal little girl," her mother remembers. However, there were suggestions of sensibility. When anybody told ghost stories she was an easy haunt, and to this day she is afraid to put her feet on the floor when she is alone in a room at night -a disembodied hand, the subject of a radio thriller she heard when she was twelve, might come crawling across the carpet...
...blames them for much of the current trouble, and thinks that the Eisenhower Administration's flexible (75% to 90%) support program "should have a longer trial." Louisiana Democrat Allen J. Ellender, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, says that a return to 90% supports "would not stand a ghost of a chance to pass the Senate." Ezra Benson has a label for the old 90% plan: "a bankrupt program...
...burns in his mild face and gentle gestures as he moves through scenes of battle raptly, like a man reliving them with wonder and something of reverence. And just for a nervous instant, now and then, the moviegoer glimpses, in the figure of this childlike man, the soul-chilling ghost of all the menlike children of those violent years, who hovered among battles like avenging cherubs, and knew all about death before they knew very much about life...