Word: haunts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dark Future. In Dallas, Police Officer J. W. Finley pinched a nine-year-old Negro boy who, in turn, gave him some thing to worry about. "When ah dies, ah's comin' back to haunt you." Roped In. Off a San Francisco beach, Mrs. Georgiana Churchill was floundering when she was discovered by a mounted beach patrolman, who galloped to within 100 feet, brought her to shore and safety with a lasso...
...Literally: Corsican scrub, traditional refuge for lawbreakers; now the term for Frenchmen hiding from Occupation demands. Most Maquis haunt the Haute-Savoie, near Switzerland...
...peacetime fear of layoffs, tarnishing the luster of high U.S. wage rates, has already begun to haunt thoughtful war workers looking ahead to war's end. But when C.I.O. United Steelworkers launched their attack on the Little Steel formula, their demand for a guaranteed annual wage was generally regarded as a mere bargaining point to be dropped when the going got rough. By last week, however, this anemic talking point had grown into a full-blooded issue. In a flurry of lusty Washington argument it had spread far beyond steel, threatened to involve most of U.S. industry...
...locale is an old Scottish castle, haunted by one of the central figures of the play, and the town pub, haunt of most of the other characters. The lead, a ghost, in order to enter heaven must convert the reprobate and attempts to do so although considerably distracted by his love for the town idiot, Silly, who likes her kisses cold and ghastly. She eventually changes her affections to the young laird, descendant of the ghost, leaving the ghost to go to heaven. The Stone of Scone is carted off to America by a Pittsburghian Scot in order that...
...experience has taught me that you have to haunt these boys in the Army...