Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ghosts of the Depression have long since vanished from most segments of U.S. life?but in the internal revenue code, the soak-the-rich tone lingers on. In a departure from the old ideology of his party. President Kennedy has recognized that it is time to de-ghost the tax laws...
...once again the dreadsome time arrives, when large her shadows loom upon the boards, obliterating that refined discretion that nooses up the purse the year around (of charity, the ghost alone remains). Ring the curtain down, before the fatuous seduction makes her bow; down...
Some families are forced to buy Christ mas on time; the ghost of Christmas past comes to the party for Christmas present in the form of another monthly payment at the bank. An added budgetary irritant is that Christmas money is nearly always spent for something not really needed. The necessities have already been bought since it would plainly be churlish not to buy cold the new weather, fur the coat new with party the dress in advent of time for the party on, say, Dec. 21. Christmas costs also trigger the seasonal crook. An article titled "Christmas Reactions...
...that I was reading in the elevator, and observed, "That's the shadow of a brigand falling on Nehru's face. We will remove this shadow." He took the magazine and then chanced to see the inside picture of Nehru embracing Chou Enlai, and said in horror: "Ghost of our sinful past! Bury...
...grapple effectively with the existential problems of the 20th century. "For modern man the faith is too far away," he says. "The theological problem today is to find the art of drawing religion out of a man, not pumping it into him. The Redemption has happened. The Holy Ghost is in men. The art is to help men become what they really...