Word: hauntedness
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And the gray air haunted with hawks:
The nightmare of bureaucratic reorganization has long haunted the White House. Year after year has seen new bureaus formed and inserted with little deliberate consideration in to handy departments. The result is chaotic irresponsibility reduplication, useless expense and inefficiency. Reformers and students have long demanded changes, but courageous in deed...
The mansions of filmdom are still haunted. Of "ghosties and ghoulies and a lang-leggity beasties that go bump "in the night" there is no surcease.
Five years ago Nina Tarasova sang nothing but Russian peasant songs, songs she heard as a child on her grandmother's estate in the Crimea. Since then she has widened her scope, ferreted out more of the Old Russian songs fast dying under the new regime, explored the folk...
It was Poe, of course, who was responsible for all this, who walked in "the ghoul-haunted woodlands of Weir" and though of "what man never dared to think before." Now the Vagabond himself is something of an authority on gaunt and ghastly ghouls and fifty-six other varieties of...