Word: ghouling
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...been accomplished, for Time has been aided by people who should know better. The black press has often out-Timed Time in lapidating the book and in denouncing its author as a traitor to the cause and as a CIA dupe/agent. Williams has been portrayed as a money-motivated ghoul robbing the defenseless grave of King. Certain members of the black intelligentsia have even threatened to dig their cherished amulet, legal action, out of mothballs and employ it as a crucifix against this new vampire...
Sutherland's first roles were in ghoul films (Die! Die! My Darling!, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors). "I needed the money and the experience." From the scare flicks it was a struggle to MGM's The Dirty Dozen in 1968. As one of the bottom six of the Dozen, a slack-jawed soldier with a head as impenetrable as a Government-issue helmet, Sutherland so impressed Director Robert Aldrich that he ordered up the tour-de-farce scene where Sutherland impersonates a general and inspects the troops on an American Army base...
What kind of ideological ghoul disinters the dead and uses them for purposes they did not believe in while they lived...
Halsey Edge was a small scrawny man of fifty-something, with a pinched yellow face and no hair at all. He called himself "a ghoul by profession and inclination"--his only joke, if that is what it was--by which he meant he was an archaeologist, and he was very proud of his collection of battle-axes. He was not so bad once you had resigned yourself to the fact that you were in for occasional cataloguings of his armourystone axes, copper axes, bronze axes, double-bladed axes, faceted axes, polygonal axes, scalloped axes, hammer axes, adze axes, Mesopotamian axes...
...Hadden edited, with a carefully annotated translation of Homer's Iliad by his side; in the back cover he had listed hundreds of its energetic verbs and compound adjectives-forerunners of TIME'S "beetle-browed," "buzzard-bald," etc. He also encouraged backward-running sentences ("A ghastly ghoul prowled around a cemetery not far from Paris. Into family chapels went he, robbery of the dead intent upon"). When Hadden, only 31, died of a streptococcus infection in 1929, the magazine published a Milestones item about him which ended in a typical TIME sentence: "To Briton Hadden success came steadily...