Word: haunted
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...vote of 7-2, however, the courts decided that if Trudeau were to proceed, he would not be violating the letter of the law. As the earnest students who haunt Langdell and Roscoe Pound would say, the bottom legal line is all that counts...
Most writers sail the oceans of their imaginations. Joseph Conrad navigated real oceans and lived a life full of adventure, conflict and drama. Perhaps that is the reason why his characters continue to haunt contemporary fiction and film, and scholars keep expanding the Conrad industry. Frederick Karl's monumental but plodding 1979 biography now holds the record for sheer size at 1,008 pages. A new book by the novelist's son John, Joseph Conrad: Times Remembered (Cambridge University Press), offers filial recollections and depicts the writer as a martinet, trying mightily to overcome his natural reserve, able...
Terrible ironies haunt the history. Fourth of July celebrations were bravely held behind barbed wire, in the shadow of sentry towers. Parents wasting away in tar-paper camp shacks proudly displayed starred banners indicating that their sons were American soldiers. Nisei (second generation Japanese Americans) members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which fought gloriously in Europe, were sometimes required to have Caucasian escorts when they visited their interned families. (About 33,000 Japanese Americans served in the U.S. military during the war, some of them drafted right out of the camps.) After the war, many of the detainees found...
Forss calls his existence "living off the land in modern life," and he is clearly not in it for the money. Precarious as the sidewalk trade may be, he still feels free to take a week off with his cameras and haunt the urban landscape, waiting and looking for a particular shot-the confluence, say, of the liner and the towers -that seems worth saving. Selling his own work gives him quality control and a flexible schedule, but Forss barely notices the potential customers who cluster around his display. He keeps looking at the light and wondering whether...
Donovan vehemently denied any improprieties and testified: "We were never extorted." By an 80-to-17 vote, the Senate confirmed his appointment. But nagging questions about the company he kept have continued to haunt Donovan. In May a federal grand jury in Brooklyn charged that Schiavone Construction was extorted by Harry Gross, a New York Teamsters Union official. According to the indictment, Gross forced Schiavone to place his chauffeur on the company payroll as a "ghost" who never showed up for work. Donovan claimed at his hearings that the arrangement was part of a collective bargaining agreement with the Teamsters...