Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...term has begun and J. Harper Mockmouse is among the missing. He was a small student, nervous by nature, one of those addicted to the sanctity of his own room. But he will ever have a chance to enjoy the fresh shade of pearl gray that now decorates its walls. His failure to survive the term is a lasting tribute to the University's quest for that which is next to godliness...
...think that in the course of another few thousand years, when the human race has become civilized . . .there will be only one skin shade-a golden blend of all the human strains on earth...
While shuddering for my children, I am, at 65, glad that I shall not live in the shade of that newly sprouting oak on your cover...
...essential cause of France's troubles is the extreme individualism of the French people. Each shade of political opinion insists on being represented. Of all peoples, we are the least cut out for democracy. Which explains the fact that since 1789 we have spent our time envying British institutions...
...last few thousand feet of the way. It sees some awesome things-avalanches down the vast chute of the cwm, in which ice blocks the size of a ten-story building dance along like pebbles; gaping crevasses whose sinister gullets lead down into a blue-green shade; the ominous huddle of the Everest massif, where three of the world's greatest peaks (Everest. Lhotse and Nuptse) lean threatfully together like three witches...