Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rust & Neglect. On the civilian reserve side, the National Guard program, limping, as usual, from its congenital political ailments, is also hamstrung by lack of funds. The Army Reserve program, with even less money to spend, is only a shadow of the record-line organization planned by the Army. Many of its officers, particularly airmen, are rusting from lack of training...
...shadow of personal worry which had hung over the President for twelve days had lifted with old Martha Truman's dogged recuperation. But last week, as Harry Truman flew back from Kansas City, Kans. to Washington, the shadow of public responsibility deepened...
...such stuff was dyed deeper than pink. But the Tory progressives had strong men in their camp. Able Richard Austen Butler, as chairman of the pamphlet-writing group, not only pulled together the suggestions of Eccles and others, but sold The Industrial Charter to Winston Churchill and the Tory "shadow cabinet." It was Butler who expounded the pamphlet's thesis at press conferences. Observers said Butler was the man who deserved most credit for the organizational side of the Tory revival...
...nearly half a century, Pablo Picasso's giant shadow 'had lengthened over Paris. So far, none of the brood of younger painters who had mushroomed at his feet had grown quite clear of that shadow. But last week Andre Marchand, who has long been considered one of Picasso's most promising followers, showed signs. The cause of those signs was the talk of Paris...
...foamed ... on every street. . . . Spring had tossed her pale green garments on every branch. . . . Long beams of sun fell across [Frank Clair's] thin white hands [which] lay on his coat, still, flaccid. . . . His eyes moved too slowly in their pits of dark shadow...