Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Manhattan-born Frank Toscani, a grade-three clerk in New York City's Department of Sanitation before he went off to war, began to find embarrassed frustration as well as wonder in his shadow. Both stage & screen showed Joppolo carrying on-though not quite carried away by-a love affair. Joppolo also countermanded a stupid order by a general, and got transferred for it. Worst of all, Frank Toscani felt that the shadow was not sharing his huge earnings with anybody but Writer Hersey, Playwright Osborn, Producer Leland Hayward and the Playwrights Producing Co., Inc., and Twentieth Century...
...Mukden, factories lay like raddled skeletons, picked clean of their machinery. Fires raged amid the tenements. The cloud of civil war cast a shadow on the scene; as Chinese Government troops took control of the city, Chinese Communists were poised menacingly on the outskirts...
Cocky little Bobby Riggs-who won the pro tennis championship last December after ten years in the long shadow of Don Budge, first as an amateur, then as a pro-thought it even more...
...lamp did some startling tricks. The shadows it cast across a 40-ft. room had sharp, un-fuzzed edges. When the smallest model using only two watts of current was held behind a color film the size of a postage stamp, it projected a clear, sharp "shadow picture" as big as a telephone book. When used in an ordinary photographic enlarger, it made monstrous enlargements of startling clarity...
...News is the lengthening shadow of a man named George B. Dealey, who came to the U.S. by windjammer from England, caught on with the Galveston News as an office boy. At 26, his bosses sent him to Dallas to found a duplicate of their paper...