Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Tim McCoy, 86, real-life cowboy who became one of Hollywood's best-known western heroes (War Paint, Winners of the Wilderness, Ghost Town Law); in Nogales, Ariz. A rancher and amateur historian who knew the neighboring Indians well, McCoy was named Wyoming's Indian commissioner in 1920, after serving as a cavalry instructor and a colonel in the artillery in World War I. He helped hire 500 Indians for the film The Covered Wagon in 1922, then went to Hollywood and became the good-guy star of 200 or so films and numerous touring "Wild West...
Five years after the earthquake that killed 10,000 people and sent office buildings tumbling into one another like falling dominoes, the downtown area of Nicaragua's capital city of Managua is still a semi-ghost town of empty lots and damaged structures. But the streets are passable again and often clogged with traffic. Thus Newspaper Publisher-Editor Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal, 53, was driving at a leisurely pace last week as he headed from home on one side of the city toward his office on the other at La Prensa, the country's largest newspaper (circ...
Murray's granddaughter, K.M. Elisabeth Murray, has written a biography that possesses many of the virtues of James Murray himself-grace, humor, intelligence, curiosity and scholarship. Aside from personal difficulties, writes Miss Murray, James faced thousands of odd problems. He found a special class of "ghost words," misspelled or ill-defined items that had been admitted to some previous dictionary, thus undergoing an illegitimate birth. He worried over a word like condum (sic), later judged "too utterly obscene" for inclusion...
Home chefs and co-chefs and sauciers' apprentices of all ages have learned to prize and prepare subtle meals that challenge not only the credulity of the Jamestown ghost but also the credibility of that mythic Mom for whose apple pie, it was alleged, World War II was waged. For a nation that has traditionally doted on T-bone steaks, beer and ice cream, this is a social, economic and aesthetic development worth pondering. And it is no passing fancy...
...points in last night's game, because there were many. John Hynes looked nonetheless impressive amidst his rustiness as a Harvard varsity goaltender for the first time. Hynes made 25 saves on the night, and for the latter half of the contest turned aside many with a style seemingly ghost-written by Petrovek...