Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hold out. What the rebels want, Wahl said, is not so much an overthrow of the Republic, "although some wouldn't mind." Instead, they seek a change in the Gaullist policy towards self-determination. If DeGaulle holds out long enough, however, the rebels will undoubtedly "give up the ghost," Wahl commented...
...Tower in Chicago has been vacant for five years. The huge marble-topped desk behind which daily rose the gorge of the morning Tribune's high-cholered publisher, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, is gone, replaced by a more modestly proportioned desk of wood. Unofficed, the colonel's ghost still walks restlessly through the Tower, but the paper has changed since that April day in 1955 when Bertie McCormick died...