Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malenkov, Stalin's unholy ghost. The most important, most dangerous man in the world today...
...Examples could be taken from any era to show how ghost-written sources have built an impenetrable thicket around the truth. Two generations of scholars have quarreled about the meaning of Washington's Farewell Address, simply because no one knows whether Washington himself or Alexander Hamilton was its author." The same can be said of Woodrow Wilson's "neutrality in thought" proclamation of Aug. 18, 1914. Recent investigations have "turned up the original draft of this proclamation in the handwriting of Robert Lansing, with changes and notations by Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan . . . Therefore, if any character...
...authored their own autobiographies (or at least left that impression), a historian felt pretty sure that he could take a man at his word. Nowadays, complains Historian Ernest R. May in the American Scholar, things are tougher. The modern biographer can no longer be sure just what part ghost and what part flesh his subject...
...from universities all over the world. There was Oxford's red, Hamburg's blue, Padua's ermine, the Sorbonne's yellow, white tie and tails from Harvard and Princeton. In the face of such a gathering, Salamanca should have been pleased-except for the irrepressible ghost of Miguel de Unamuno...
...closing, which threw some 250 miners out of work, was the latest casualty in the industry. In the lead and zinc areas of Utah, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma, mining communities are turning into ghost towns. Such companies as American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Co. were laying off refinery employees by the hundreds. Mining employment, which averaged 21,000 in 1947, is down to 14,000 and still dropping; production of lead is off almost 20% from last year, and the output of zinc (usually found with lead) has dropped still further...