Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British tourist. At least 350 confirmed or suspected cases of typhoid had been traced to recent Zermatt visitors in Switzerland and eight foreign countries. Little Zermatt was suddenly in the headlines all over the world. Virtually all the 10,000 tourists had staged a hurried exodus, leaving Zermatt a ghost town occupied by 120 green-uniformed Swiss army medical corpsmen. By sealed train and helicopter, the army men evacuated local victims, and health inspectors poking through Zermatt's water system discovered the probable cause of it all-a hole in a water pipe into which sewage was seeping...
...drape our language like a ghost...
...tells, for example, of Harry. 7. who seemed to go off in all directions, understanding but never completing an assignment. One Halloween a teacher offered him a sheet. "You can come as a ghost, Harry." the teacher said. "No. 1 think I'd rather go as the circulatory system." said Harry. Without help, he covered the sheet with a good diagram of the veins and arteries for his costume. The moral: Harry-and lots of chaotic-appearing kids-are good learners but rather impatient of proving their scholarship by doing routine assignments...
...paid him $20 a week to caddy and another $15 a week as a copy boy at the Washington Post, which McLean happened to own. By the age of 20, Povich was the Post's sports editor. The Post was poor then and could not afford the ghost celebrities-Babe Ruth, John McGraw, Adela Rogers St. Johns-that its competition featured. So Povich composed an ad: "Colonel Charles Lindbergh, Vice President Charles Dawes, Aimee Semple McPherson and Charles Chaplin will not cover the World Series for the Post! This baseball classic will be covered by our baseball writers...
...income. The classic case is the mining community whose veins of ore play out. Although Arizona is booming, and the population of Phoenix has quadrupled during the past ten years, at the edge of the once bustling Arizona copper town of Jerome* stands a sign proclaiming it a ghost town...