Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Before him not the ghost of shores...
...stripped of his title in 1967 over a draft-evasion charge, Muhammad prophesied that he would return to spook the sport: "There I'll be, wearing a sheet and whispering, 'Ali-e-e-e-e, Ali-e-e-e-e.' I'll be the ghost that haunts boxing, and people will say Ali is the real champ and anyone else is a fake." Last week, at a telecast of the Frazier-Ellis fight in the Philadelphia Arena, Ali wasn't whispering. He shadowboxed in the aisle and wailed: "I want Frazier! I'm starting...
...kids looked up to musicians like Elvis Presley, Fats Domino and Bill Haley. Not Clyde. His idol was Conductor Arturo Toscanini. In 1957, when Toscanini died at the age of 89, Clyde had a dream in which he came upon the old man's weeping, grief-stricken ghost in a desert...
Still, he is hired to defend a physician (played by Robert Colbert) who has been accused of murdering his very-nekkid wife, but who claims that the real killer was a bedroom intruder with a "ghost-like" shape. Predictably, Petrocelli is denied requests for a change of venue and sequestration of the jury, is harassed by the state troopers and pelted by the citizens, and has his client labeled a "wife-slayer" by the television commentator prior to the outcome. Besides that, everyone keeps mispronouncing his name...
...Ghost horses, I am like you: when the gray line of a sail