Word: hauntedness
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Botanists haunted bomb cavities for London rocket (Sisymbrium irio), which flourished after the great fire of 1666. Already 95 types of flowers and shrubs unknown for decades before the blitz have been found in holes where nitrates from burning bombs have enriched the soil.
Some time in these bitter years-some time in the past few months-the world changed. It is becoming a world anticipating and planning for peace. A generation haunted by depression and war has begun to plan for a future where both will be impossible. In every country the masses...
Taxation looks simple this year: almost all States have a whopping surplus, built up by the application of depression-born taxes on the wartime boom. Many considered cutting taxes; Illinois invested $40,000,000 in war bonds. But a ghost haunted them all: the shades of departed millions of dollars...
Who really wrote Shakespeare's plays? Was it Francis Bacon? Or a couple of other fellows? Or was it, by some stretch of the imagination, after all, Shakespeare himself? This never-quite-laid ghost has haunted the battlements of English literature for 100 years. In many corners of the...
Fortresses haunted the convoy until after dark, when an Australian-manned Navy Catalina picked up the convoy's phosphorescent wake. Three bombs from the Catalina blew up a big (14,000-ton) transport which probably carried 4,000 men.