Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Springfield panned Gold. Joel Goldson to be exact, a 5 ft. 10 in. guard, shooting from the top of the key and the baseline kept arching the ball into the basket so gracefully that one had to wonder if the ghost of Dr. Jimmy Naismith was pulling strings...
Maude Wood capped the first-half scoring with a classic fade-away jumper, and Emerson gave up the ghost...
...Sunday, the men gather to discuss the events and concerns of past and future weeks at the new school, with its thick plastic windows that flick open and closed and its concrete floor. Brought in from the state capital, it stands next to the ghost of the old adobe school. And it's here that the women, veiled and scrubbed and in their city shoes, stand in the dust outside the brick church next door with its store-bought statuary and its school benches, and wait for the padre to arrive. And it's here, also, that the two sides...
...swiftly apparent, though, that nothing comes easily to Jane Howard except accomplishment. It has taken her the better part of two decades, however, to disentangle herself from childhood and, in particular, from the ghost of a conventional, cheery, saintly, disapproving Midwestern mother. Nor has it been easy for her, despite much consciousness raising, to wear female adulthood with comfort. She is a chronic stocktaker, and it is fairly clear that what she saw when she began to put this interim report together gave her no great pleasure: a good reporter, a financial success, a useful friend, housebroken house guest, amusing...
...seems to fly into a series of picture postcards of Yosemite, of Death Valley, of the frozen North. Eventually, settling down in the snow, he expires, his tail feathers quaking as he gives up the ghost. The ghost, however, will not be given up so easily and flies off to some spiritual never-never land. There, it-or he-is instructed in higher wisdom by a bird called Chiang, whose lessons in life and philosophy and heightened consciousness take a hint from Dale Carnegie, a leaf from Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and a volume from Kahlil Gibran. Thus enlightened, Jonathan...