Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next January, Argentina's Juan Perón and President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla of Chile will meet in the shadow of the Christ of the Andes, which was erected in 1904 to mark the peaceful solution of their boundary dispute. There they will sign a newer and more practical symbol of amity: the $175,000,000 trade agreement between Argentina and Chile completed last week in Buenos Aires...
...decision to restore the painting was . . . greatly influenced when, during the war years, the great painting had to be unrolled in the daylight and, startlingly, in the merciless sunlight, the muddy-looking, pseudo-mystic brown-black crepe suddenly appeared to be shadow...
Reality & Shadow. Russia's proposal for troop inventories everywhere outside of national frontiers had embarrassed Britain considerably. Britain was afraid, not of disclosing strength, but of disclosing weakness in troubled areas. As a Whitehall spokesman sadly put it, "People will realize that we've been holding a lot of these places with little more than a smile and a bar of chocolate for the children. Local populations may be emboldened to twist the lion's tail." Therefore Britain suggested that the inventories include troops at home as well as abroad, and that they be verified...
...weapons. Are we ready? Of course we are not, no more than Mr. Molotov is ready. We will give that information as part of a combined agreement of collective security and general disarmament. We will do it then, when we know the whole thing is a reality, not a shadow...
...chill shadow of coal, food, housing and other shortages lengthened over England, Tory hopes for victory at the polls had risen proportionately. But last week, in two by-elections, the Tories got a jarring setback...