Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federated Yugoslavia. But he was King of a new Yugoslavia he had never known. Its shadow government, which had never known him, flitted from town to town to avoid the Germans. But while it ran, it also ran a big part of Yugoslavia. And the Allies were doing business with it. It was dominated by a Communist, but it was no Communist government...
Workers at Marinship shipyard (Sausalito, Calif.) wanted to name one of their tankers after Mt. Tamalpais (pronounced tam-el-pie'-iss), in whose shadow they work. The Navy said no. Reason: Navy regulations say that oilers shall be named after rivers, not mountains. The workers then took a leaf out of the Navy notebook. They persuaded the Marin County Board of Supervisors to christen an unnamed creek Tamalpais. Last week the Navy stiffly notified the yard that it was all right to name their oiler S.S. Tamalpais -after the stream...
...with the decline in civilian enthusiasm, veterans began to band together. For the first time in U.S. history "the soldier vote began to cast a long shadow athwart American politics." The Grand Army of the Republic became a major political force. Pension claims began to pour in-at first for war wounds and illness, later for postwar failure in health, finally for war service regardless of need. Claim agents combed the country. One statesman remarked that the G.A.R., having saved the country, now wanted...
...what with adroit use of the flashback technique--an extremely rare thing these days--the movie scrambles to its feet just as the referee counts ten. It's a close shave, and the five o'clock shadow's still there...
Sneered ungrateful Leader Jinnah: "A parody of negation. . . . Pure shadow and husk of our Pakistan scheme...