Word: hauntedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Each year, the letters multiplied. They came by the dozen, then the score, then by the hundreds. All over Italy, it seemed, people knew of "Frank's Barber Shop, 629 Westchester Ave., The Bronx, New York, U.S.A." Francesco toiled to answer them. To get old clothes he plagued his...
Robinson's collecting tastes did not stand still. "Long before long pants, I haunted New York's museums and art galleries. How I longed in those days to take home some of the paintings that gave me so much pleasure." He finally got his wish, "when Hollywood conveyed...
The Albatross. The case against Dean Acheson was based primarily on his Asiatic policy. Assistant Secretary Dean Rusk uses a phrase-"the error of the fatal flaw." Says Rusk: "There are probably some major problems of international relations that are beyond human capacity to think through. There are hundreds of...
The political prophets, haunted by the memory of 1948, tiptoed into the homestretch of the 1950 election with bated breaths. Party bosses made only the modest kind of claims. Apparently they were afraid that too much optimism might cause party workers to relax. The great looming doubt was the sleeper...
Early in the Korean war U.S. planners had been haunted by the possibility that Communist China might go to the aid of North Korea. But after U.N. armies broke out of the Pusan perimeter and turned the North Korean retreat into a rout, the planners breathed more easily. China'...