Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ghost. Never has Detroit seen an auto executive like Romney. In an industry noted for hard drinking and tough talk, Romney does not drink (not even tea or coffee), or smoke or swear. He is the president (i.e., bishop) of the Detroit stake of twelve Mormon churches, was the leader in building a new $750,000 Mormon tabernacle in suburban Bloomfield Hills. He gives 10% of his $100,000 salary, and sometimes more, to the church. He reserves his Sundays exclusively for church activities, often travels to other Mormon churches to set up conferences or deliver sermons...
...agelong struggle against the sea there has been more than one death-filled night to remember, and Walter Lord's bestselling Titanic saga (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956) was bound to become the leader of a literary ghost-ship column. Authors Caulfield and Moscow are newsmen, and neither is as slick a writer as former Adman Lord. But they have raised their ships from the depths of forgetfulness and cast light into dark spaces...
...than in finding the key to these hearts as virgin as her body. She becomes convinced that the words the youngsters respond to are not those in the pap-filled children's books but the ones drawn from fear and sex-from the vital reservoirs of life. Kiss, ghost, butcher, police, fight, jail-shown such words, the most stubborn of the nonlearners read and write...
...perched in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain. An ex-reporter for U.P. and a magazine writer, Sack employs a racily frenetic style, e.g., using "chugalug" as a verb meaning to drink and "crackajack" as an adjective meaning excellent, and is often as determinedly elfin as Tchico, the dog ghost of Sark. In rating the 13 microcosmic spots he visited, Sack gives highest honors to San Marino, the mountaintop republic in Italy, and second place to polo-playing Punial, a small state near Kashmir. Readers may find the book too whimsy-whamsy to be described as crackajack, but it should...
...Ghost Train, Belgrade's whole diplomatic corps is invited to travel by special train to Zagreb for Liberation Day. The uneasy diplomats are herded into "three long coaches made of painted and carved timber." The locomotive ("abandoned before the war by an American film company [and] tied together by wire") is stoked "white-hot" by "hairy men in cloth caps who looked like Dostoevsky's publishers." At the stop of Slopsy Blob ("named after the famous Independence fighter"), the roof of the ambassadors' coach carries away most of the top of the station and lays the diplomatic...