Word: overshadowed
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Germany would then be on the Channel and nearer to England. The Belgian Maginot Line might be outflanked. If, however, Herr Hitler is thinking of the disadvantages of a Netherlands coup, they would overshadow the advantages. There would be 230 more miles of western frontier to defend. The Belgians have heavily fortified their frontier with The Netherlands, and invasion through The Netherlands to the ultimate goal of France and Paris is a circuitous route to take...
Only once in The Old Century does war overshadow Sassoon's mellow recollections of his Kent childhood, his nurses, tutors, governesses, Thornycroft relatives, boys' schools. Reminded while revisiting his old village of his brother Hamo, killed at Gallipoli, he muses bitterly over the present "halfhearted renouncement of war," the "heavily armed pursuit of peace." But he quickly decides that "I must give up feeling bad-tempered about it, or I should be ruining my afternoon." For the rest, the War's corpses are peacefully buried. So is his onetime vow to write to "scandalize the jolly...
...significance of the Texas returns was that in a State primary local issues and local personalities can always overshadow national issues and even the personality of Franklin Roosevelt...
...C.I.O. is destined to overshadow the A.F.L., contends Lerner, a graduate of Yale...
...locked in the mop closet, or the downstairs maid tried to touch the family for three dollars to pay her bookmaker. Papa Pemberton (Etienne Girardot) might have received the Nobel Prize for breaking down the atom if Junior had not objected that the award would overshadow his fame as a child prodigy...