Word: ghostly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...professor, ominous little bag in hand, scurries for hiding through dark, deserted streets in which floodlights roam eerily over huge posters bearing his picture. Piccadilly Circus becomes the desolate crossroads of a ghost city; Waterloo Station is an empty tomb except for confiscated pets and such prohibited excess baggage as trunks, tennis rackets and a sandwich man's sign ("The Wages of Sin Is Death"). On doomsday morning, from the city's rim, four army divisions move in for a house-to-house search...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC-TV). Margaret O'Brien in The Canterville Ghost...
General MacArthur's headquarters estimated that the Reds were using twelve divisions and five independent brigades in North Korea. Some of these were probably remnants of North Korean forces ' defeated farther south, and others might be "ghost units," i.e., North Koreans held in reserve since the beginning of the war and never before met by U.N. forces. But many of the enemy troops were Chinese Communists. Nobody knew just how many Chinese had crossed the frontier, but in northwest Korea Eighth Army Headquarters had identified Chinese army units equivalent in strength to two Chinese divisions...
...know," said Eliot in a confidential digression, "in one of my poems I use the words 'the spectre of a Rose.' Now, I intended that to refer to the Wars of the Roses. Then I wanted it to hint of Sir Thomas Browne's famous 'ghost of a Rose'. . . But I was also quite pleased to hear that some people thought it referred to Nijinsky [and the ballet associated with him]." Nobody had any trouble following such poet's wordplay, so Eliot continued with more confidences-this time about the young...
Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC-TV). Josephine Hull in Dear Guest and Ghost...