Word: hauntedness
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Harry Truman had been haunted for weeks by the prospect that he might one day soon be President. Only the day before, chatting with Senators and newsmen, he had said that he wished he could have remained just a Senator. "But they wanted me to be V.P.," he added ruefully...
Like the ghost of a bad debt, the rumor that Soviet Russia might some day pay off the defaulted dollar bonds of the Tsars has haunted Wall Street for years. To speculators it is a highly profitable wraith.
Noose & Sword. Few people in the past have thought of the law-obsessed Germans as haunted by a terrorist secret society, older and more dreaded than the Sicilian Maffia. The origins of the Feme go back to the year 1200. Ostensibly an arm of the Holy Roman Empire, the Feme...
A restatement of some of the ideas of Author Wylie's recent Generation of Vipers (TIME, Jan. 18, 1943), the framework is a ghost story. Ann Gracey, war widow agreed to rent her haunted house to John Galen, a biochemist, who had just learned that he was epileptic and...
Meeting in the Center. Along the Black Sea flank of the funnel raced General Fedor Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army. A huge breach opened in the Nazi lines. A column sickled westward into the funnel's center, joined troops of Malinovsky's army. Kishinev, pogrom-haunted seat...