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Word: spooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest [April 10]. I now find great pleasure in flashing your fine cover and excellent article in the faces of my previously unenthusiastic and preoccupied friends, saying "Ha, did the Beatles make the cover of TIME?" I have been a fan since her first album. That girl is a spook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 17, 1964 | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

...greatest [April 10]. I now find great pleasure in flashing your fine cover and excellent article in the faces of my previously unenthusiastic and preoccupied friends, saying "Ha, did the Beatles make the cover of TIME?" I have been a fan since her first album. That girl is a spook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 17, 1964 | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

...young woman is Julie Harris, and the thing that is trying to get into her bedroom is the specter of Hill House. In Shirley Jackson's bestselling ghost story, The Haunting of Hill House, the specter is a sneaky spook that evidently intends to get between the sheets. In this movie version, directed by Robert Wise, the specter is slightly censored-what's left is just the usual commercial spirit. Whenever it appears, the violins on the sound track start to didder, doors open and shut by themselves, people stare about in terror and squeak: "The house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Spectercle | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

...spook, member, brother, sister, soul brother, soul sister. Fellow Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Beyond Greys | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...real brother, if you get what I mean). Schmookler is got up to resemble Mr. Hyde, and he rubs his hands, rolls his eyes, and flashes his tooth to great effect. Despard's intended, Mad Margaret, also needs to be mentioned: as sung by Miss Tammy Miller, this wacky spook of Elizabethan witchery is properly blood-curdling...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Ruddigore | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

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