Word: phantom
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HOSPITALIZED. George Wallace, 65, Democratic Governor of Alabama; for special surgery to relieve some of the "phantom pain" he has suffered ("It hurts in areas where I'm supposed to be dead," he says) since the 1972 assassination attempt that left him a paraplegic; in Englewood, Colo. Wallace reported that he felt less pain in his legs after the operation, which involved opening the spinal column and inserting 80 electrodes to deaden nerves...
...couple of weeks into the team’s phantom season—the part of the schedule played thousands of miles from Cambridge when O’Donnell Field is still blanketed in snow—Zak Farkes sits in street clothes and looks every bit the ball player he’s always been, plus a few extra pounds of muscle...
...WILL THE COUPLE MAKE THEIR GETAWAY? They will leave the civil ceremony in a 1962 Rolls-Royce Phantom V previously used by the late Queen Mother...
...what kind of star is Jackson? He has not had a No. 1 hit since You Are Not Alone, in 1995. He has allowed surgeons to ravage his face until he resembles Peter Pan less than the Phantom of the Opera. He is now famous primarily for being notorious. Jackson is not the only celebrity who has been hypnotized by the limelight, who pampered his quirks instead of developing his work, who remained addicted to the high life long after the big money ebbed. (Prosecutors, angling for access to his financial statements, assert that he is near bankruptcy...
Once you get to the Square, you can deliver the unforeseeable phantom punch: ice cream at Dixon’s Hardware. While a sundae at Herrell’s will set you back about $5, an ice cream at Dixon’s Hardware usually remains under the dollar mark. Baller status...