Word: overshadowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diabolically Clever." For 23 years Laski seemed to overshadow everyone else at L.S.E., became in the public mind almost a synonym for the school. "My life," he once cried, "is my students!" and some of his students never forgot what he said (in the 1945 election, 67 of them were elected Labor M.P.s). A brilliant man who could read 200 pages in an hour ("diabolically clever and omniscient," said Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes), he was also a spectacular lecturer. Sometimes gesturing excitedly and sometimes staring motionless at his palm, he spoke "with a force and conviction," recalls one student, "that...
...Truman has written many pungent private letters. Mr. Truman has also publicly put his foot in his mouth before, but this time the feat seemed to overshadow all others. His description of the Marines as the Navy's police was grossly inaccurate. By congressional act the Marines' primary mission is the seizing and securing of naval bases; by long tradition their mission is to fight anywhere, any time and at a moment's notice. It was obvious to everyone else in the U.S. that, at the moment, marines were fighting and dying in Korea. Harry Truman...
...Utilization of Formosa by a military power hostile to the U.S. may either counterbalance or overshadow the strategic importance of the central and southern flank of the U.S. frontline positions. Formosa in the hands of such a hostile power could be com pared to an unsinkable aircraft carrier and submarine tender, ideally located to accomplish offensive strategy, and at the same time checkmate defensive or counteroffensive operations by friendly forces based on Okinawa and the Philippines...
...Overshadow. In the '20s the avant-garde poets wanted to revolutionize the language and in the '30s to revolutionize the world. In the anxious and expensive '40s, they have largely felt obliged to try for tenure in the English departments of U.S. colleges. Of the 15 poets in this book, more than half are teachers or have recently been teaching-a fact their verse betrays with retributive accuracy. Most of their poems read like the result, not of getting involved willy-nilly in the life of man, but of a careful, cultivated and eminently correct genuflection before...
Although the Lowell House sophomore did not turn in as high a score as he did in the World Title Meet in London two weeks ago, his performance was good enough to completely overshadow the rest of the field in the finals...