Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striking example showed up baldly in the "major issue" of the campaign. Still riding the ghost of the "Hoover Depression," Democrats have made much of unemployment in the U.S. in 1954. It is an economic fact that the Eisenhower Administration has been more successful than the Roosevelt or Truman Administrations ever were in maintaining, without controls, a high level of employment and steadying the U.S. economy in time of peace. But it is a political fact that the Republican Party is not getting much if any credit for this achievement...
...Crimson Ghost, the gang leader had a special gimmick that enabled him to electrocute his followers by remote control (their heads disappeared in a blinding flash). Another villain was pushed out a window-his body spread-eagled for maximum shatter...
...local exceptions, the voting was peaceful and orderly, and moderates and anti-Communists did better with the voters than extremists of either the left or right wing. The big winners: ¶ Brazil's conservative President Joao Cafe Filho, though not on any ballot, significantly bested the politically potent ghost of the late President Getulio Vargas. After Vargas' suicide in August, ultra-nationalists and Communists rallied around congressional candidates running in Vargas' name; pro-U.S. moderates backed Cafe Filho. But not even Vargas' rabble-rousing former Labor Minister, Joao ("Jango") Goulart, succeeded in winning his race...
...devotion and so little understanding. High ideals were besmirched by cruelty and greed, enterprise and endurance by a blind and narrow self-righteousness; and the Holy War itself was nothing more than a long act of intolerance in the name of God, which is the sin against the Holy Ghost...
...summary can suggest Toynbee's range. But his study of renaissances, those recurring attempts of civilizations to recapture their lost youth, is a good example. Charlemagne tried to snatch back features of Hellenism, and Timur Lenk tried to raise the ghost of the Cairene 'Abbasid Caliphate, neither with success. In literature, 15th century Humanism tried to revive the writing of Latin verse only to see the "vulgar" and more virile Western literature sweep Europe. Toynbee includes the Crusades among the "renaissances" that failed, a deplorable attempt to reach "religious goals by military short cuts." In effect, Toynbee...