Word: hauntingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel was to haunt Harold Ickes like the cloaked villain in a melodrama, sometimes under the Ickesian aliases of "McComic" or "Bilious Bertie, the bingy bully...
Back cracked Senator Tom Stewart, Democrat of Tennessee: "I predict that the words uttered by the little Governor, self-admitted Presidential timber, will live to haunt him. ... It is indeed unfortunate the young man should net have a national viewpoint instead of the narrow and provincial...
There are Pete Johnson and Al Ammons, two of the original boogie boys. If you're tired of hearing the tone-deaf boogie players who haunt the Common Rooms, you might enjoy hearing the stuff played the way it should be played...
...verb "to mugg" apparently stems from the dank soil of 19th Century prisons, where "mugger" was synonymous with footpad-"one of the wretched horde who haunt the street at midnight to rob drunken men." Its meaning, as given by the American Thesaurus of Slang: robbery with violence. In New York City muggers usually attack from behind if possible, throwing one arm around the victim's neck, while the assistant muggers frisk the victim...
...Congress said that about 150 children managed to escape, roamed Warsaw's streets begging for food. An eyewitness described them:' "They look less human than little monsters; dirty, ragged, with eyes that will haunt me forever. They trust no one and expect only the worst from human beings. They slide along the walls of houses, looking about them in mortal fear...