Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparent Anthony Eden. Day after his Southampton arrival he turned up in the House of Commons, evoked a round of cheers that interrupted a speech by Food Minister Sir Ben Smith. He smiled and waved apologetically to Smith, who waved back. Next day he held a parley with his "shadow cabinet" of top party colleagues...
Drop everything, drop Dada, drop your wife, your mistress. Drop your hopes and your fears. Sow your children in a corner of the woods. Drop your prey for the shadow...
Under Bikini's palm and pandanus trees, bright in the South Sea sun and dark in the shadow of the Bomb, primitive man and progressive man held palaver. The U.S. Navy's softspoken, sensitive Commodore Ben Wyatt might well have wondered why progress had to sacrifice this lovely coral atoll, instead of an empty wasteland, a dismal slum or a plaguesome Buchenwald. Bikini's tall, tawny Paramount Chief Juda, manor lord of 160 Christian islanders, took comfort in the will of Heaven...
Last week, Civilian Frank Toscani, now sales manager for a Bronx moving and warehousing firm, decided (after two years) to try to collect from his dominating shadow. He filed suit for $225,000 against Hersey (now a correspondent in China for the New Yorker and LIFE) and the others who had exploited the Adano story, charged defamation of character, and declared that "the defendants . . . were unjustly enriched...
...visit enthusiastic over beisbol* (baseball). Ten years before, his uncle, Dictator-President Tiburcio Carias Andino, had abolished sport teams and clubs in Honduras as possible blinds for political conspiracy. Nephew Calixto got beisbol legalized on the grounds that soldiers should learn to pitch hand grenades. In the shadow of baseball's new legality, futbol (soccer) also mushroomed...