Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This election year, Doug McKay is engaged in a basic political struggle with the shade of Harold Ickes and his heirs. The issue: federal management of resources v. the Eisenhower slogan of partnership between Government and business. In the West, this conflict is much sharper than in the rest of the U.S. The West grew up under the Federal Government's wing. McKay's opponents are betting that it wants to stay there. Eisenhower, McKay & Co. think they see signs that the West, even on such issues as who develops water power, is ready to emerge from Washington...
...Gorges. From Skardu (pop. 2,000), ancient capital of Baltistan. they moved north to a valley where the slow ascent began. Week after week, they toiled upwards in a climate where a bareheaded man with his feet in the shade can get sunstroke and frostbite simultaneously. They bounced across torrents on inflated goatskin rafts, threaded their way through gorges whose walls rose sheer to pinnacles two miles above them. In May they left behind the last green spikes of living vegetation, and entered into a land where no birds sing. In their faces was a biting wind, boring relentlessly down...
...Coogan's Bluff glowers across the Harlem River toward The Bronx. All day, traffic snarls past its littered slopes. Torn newspapers rustle in the limp breeze that swirls along the dirty asphalt of Eighth Avenue; street urchins scuffle in the dust and cadge quarters under the rusty shade of the elevated tracks...
...success in all these parts is a triumph of the whole, and the triumph belongs to Director Ophuls. The hybrid style he has developed, with its exotic fertilizations from a dozen earlier epochs, has at last produced a mature fruit-a sort of artistic pomegranate. The flavor is a shade oversubtle, but most people will be delighted to have tried...
...Cambodia is now the smallest (about the size of Missouri) of the three Associated States. The French established their protectorate in 1863, but decided to leave the easygoing Cambodians pretty much on their own, to trade contentedly in pepper and corn, grow rice and worship Buddha in the shade. When the Communist guerrillas arose in 1952, plump young King Norodom Sihanouk forswore his love songs, his saxophone, his personal troupe of 30 dancing girls and led his 12,000-man army and his war elephants against the Reds. In 1953, King Norodom took himself off to Thailand, vowing...