Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hated way of living. Neither the Rajputs, nor the Moguls, nor the British ever established in India a state whose police reached out to the ordering of people's daily lives. Now, with independence, with the possibility of modern states, each community saw behind the other the shadow of the policeman and the propagandist. The Indian communities rushed into violence not to seize power, but out of the fear of the power that was about to fall into the hands of others. And this is a primal fear, deeper than rivalries between such nations as have already known...
...effect, Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf was playing under the shadow of his own goalpost. He knew, when he signed to coach at the University of California, what had befallen his predecessors: eleven out of 18 had been fired (by the school's potent Associated Students Executive Committee) after only one season. And the Cal team Waldorf inherited was virtually the same team that lost seven games last year...
Roughneck Rocky Graziano is an accomplished shadow-boxer, who has hitherto been able to outpoint the shadows of his own past. This time he dropped his guard and caught one on the chin. Exiled from New York rings eight months ago for not reporting a $100,000 bribe offer, Rocky went off limits to Chicago and won the world's middleweight championship. In 58 fights, he had become the biggest drawing card in boxing, after Joe Louis. Last week, he faced exile from practically all U.S. boxing rings...
With a voting potential of 9000 ballots casting its shadow over the Cambridge electorate, veteran-swollen Harvard may well prove a decisive factor in the Cambridge City Council elections scheduled for November...
...this Salzburg meeting has gone far beyond its own purpose. It became a free forum for the exchange of ideas and opinions. There wasn't a shadow of propaganda in Salzburg. In this excellent atmosphere all the problems of an intellectual cooperation between the United States and Europe came to the fore with no regard for political prejudices...