Word: haunts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over-organized departments" of huckster-dom: "This in-between world of research, rationalization and sales talk no doubt gives the client faith and courage-but it generally kills the designer's value. . . . Fear, sex, maternity, snobbism, such are the themes of 90% of advertising that daily haunt our eyes. Hitting below the belt, appealing to our fears, and undermining our ideals-a vortex of banalities, a rubbish dump of overstatement...
Trumbull's mortal remains lie only 30 feet from where I now sit. His ghost will haunt us both unless credit is given where it is due. Tell the world the visual record of The Battle of Princeton by General Washington's aide-de-camp is at Yale...
...Oder and let eastern Germany rot; or 3) accept the Byrnes invitation to join in a united German economy, perhaps by February. By then the Russians may present their Allies with 20 million hungry eastern Germans almost stripped of productive machinery-a nightmarish economic liability which could haunt Europe for many years to come...
Sometimes you didn't even have to pay extra. In towns where toilet paper was short it was only necessary to haunt hotel washrooms to get a pocketful of the stuff. Housewives in New York's suburban Westchester County maintained espionage networks, reporting to each other the arrival of chain-store trucks, and got first grab. Although it was always correct to tip, when in doubt, it was often possible to become a preferred customer simply by beaming at the high prices. And if you knew the right man in the right line anything was possible...
...most maps, the name is British Honduras (capital: Belize). Latin American cartographers call it Belice, territorio en disputa. In its hazy history it has been the haunt first of pirates preying on the Spanish Main, later of rumrunners, sometimes of German submarines. On the swampy, 17 4-mile shore live 63,000 Negroes and Indians, a handful of whites. Back of the capital, greasy rivers reach under forests of cedar, mahogany and chicle-bearing sapodilla to Peten, wildest part of Guatemala...