Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life in the Shadow. Under the pall of smoke that turned light clothes grey and made eyes smart, Paris life went on last week. The omnibusses and subways continued to run though less frequently, the radio stations broadcast only martial music interspersed with news bulletins and official communiques (as in Warsaw), people journeyed out to the suburbs to see the damage caused by Nazi bombers and to look at the wreckage of planes shot down. The cafes and the Bank of France remained open, and people stood in queues at local banks to withdraw their savings...
...traditions. Ever since "The Widow" Nolen (Harvard '84) started the first of them, they have flourished at Harvard as nowhere else, have crammed into thousands of Harvard men the wherewithal to disgorge for their final exams. But last week, as students plunged into their annual valley of the shadow, most of them had to get through by their own efforts. Harvard had all but put the cramming schools out of business...
...newspaper maps, day by day, the grey shadow bulged down swiftly, erupted in a black spearhead that raced past the ancient, memorable place names -Amiens, Arras, Abbeville-turned and hooked northward up the coast. Claws thrust out, curving, into the pocketed white space. On these daily map-pictures the U. S. watched the Allies thrashing as desperately as a fat bird in a falcon's talons...
Last week something as tenuous and perhaps as fleeting as the shadow of a bomber's wing spread over Capitol Hill in Washington. It was an uneasy feeling that all is not well with the U. S. Army and Navy. Congress has made no serious bones about letting the Army and Navy have upwards of $3,500,000,000 in this and the next fiscal year. But the new question was: How good a job are the President, the generals and the admirals doing with the money? By week's end the U. S. press, many...
Hence the Student Union was far from shadow-boxing when it issued a call for new attention to the problems of American neutrality. It is a commonplace that those problems are all-important, matters of life and death--of liberty--for this generation, but it is a commonplace which will always bear restatement...