Word: hauntingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dinesen (Out of Africa, Seven Gothic Tales), as she seemed when she visited New York four years ago- already at death's door, already moth-frail like "a fever-wasted child; but her eyes as lively as the diamonds in her ears. She really did no more than haunt the dinner table." No writer could ask for a better epitaph than Wescott's use of a line from one of her own characters: "Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak...
...Cuba situation continues to haunt the Kennedy Administration. To Kennedy, personally, it is a bone in the throat. He would like nothing better than to get the whole thing over with, by whatever means. For all his stylish public pronouncements, in private Kennedy is wont to hark back to the Bay of Pigs opportunity and to muse regretfully: "I wonder...
...stuck strictly to sherbet punch during Michigan's Republican convention. But by convention's end, they could probably have used a real drink. Heckled by opposition within his own party, Romney had lost his temper and slashed out at Democrats in a fashion that was likely to haunt...
...gleaming Cadillac appeared on the cliff-hanging road from Amalfi, shouts of "Presidentessa Kennedy" rocked the medieval clifftop town of Ravello, once a haunt of Europe's rich and noble but now a quieter resort of 2,500 population. Before long, vacationing Jacqueline Kennedy and Daughter Caroline were settled in Villa Sangro, the 11th century house rented by Sister Lee Radziwill, and then it was off to the beach. Jackie whizzed out into the choppy bay behind an Italian navy speedboat, holding Caroline on the water skis ahead of her. It was great sport for 100 yards-until mother...
...Ritz. Between the wars, the Cavendish became the favorite haunt of London's gilded youth. Rosa smiled benignly on their amours, and could always provide a trusted young guardsman or undergraduate with a compliant partner. "All luxuries are overused," she said, "but sexual immorality is sometimes the least dangerous." She was also famed as hotel-dom's Robin Hood, from her habit of loading penurious guests' bills onto the richest resident, who for years was a meek, abstemious millionaire she called Froggy...