Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before your force. I cannot. I see things as they are. My fire won't let me sleep nor eat nor laugh till I see justice done." When Alimonti returned to Arsoli he believed that he had won his point. To the peasants crowding round him in the shadow of the castle, which overhangs the whole of Arsoli, he quietly announced that he thought something would be done...
...result, which cast its shadow over Budapest last week, was probably far superior to the pink marble monuments the Reds have been building in Berlin, and certainly surpassed the obelisks, as characterless as paperweights, with which they have dotted Eastern Europe in the past two years. Instead of a tank, or a bust of Stalin, it featured a high-breasted, neoclassic lady holding a king-size palm leaf 42 feet above her bare bronze toes...
...gloom seems unshakable," said one high official. "Loss of confidence in the government is almost absolute. Everyone feels that he is in the shadow of imminent disaster. In the prevailing pessimism, people bicker and blame, but find no way out. They run to the government for personal favors, but never with wholehearted support. This is our danger. If we can't recover morale, if we can't regain popular confidence, then the government is lost indeed...
...would have believed, a month ago, that 2½ million people could be fed by air. If the U.S. and Britain, now at a low peacetime level, could turn that trick with a scratch force, what could they do if mobilized for war? The answer perceptibly shortened the shadow of the Red Army...
Glories of Night. The professor loves the night. "The human mind at such a moment may reflect," he says, "that all the glories of night are a consequence of a trifle of shadow that lies back of the earth, the sun banging through its great system, only here and there blocked by a tiny opaque ball that casts its tiny shadow. Because of that shadow-all the night music, the night poetry, the dark thoughts, the neon signs, the silent seductions, the bats, the thieveries, the large frights, the small frights, the mere worries, the walking of floors careful that...