Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Badoglio Government had proclaimed martial law (TIME, Aug. 2), but the Milanese paid no heed. Report and rumor painted their temper as exuberant, mutinous. Into the great Piazza del Duomo they surged, defying the machine guns mounted in the shadow of the famed Cathedral. They hoisted anti-war placards. They stormed the Cellari jail and freed a batch of political prisoners. The soldiers of the Crown refused to fire on them. Once a column of the people, remembering the exiled maestro who would not play Giovinezza, rushed down the arcaded streets to La Scala and before the famed Opera House...
Tony Galento, the boxer who walks like a beer barrel, was fined $60 in Orange, N.J., for pushing his right at a cop. The heavyweight saloonkeeper had refused to drop a nickel in a parking meter (and refused to stop shadow-boxing in court...
Back to 1600. The shadows of the Mexican misadventure and the menacing shadow of Prussia were meeting over France. Bazaine's home-coming took place in that gloom. He was almost unnoticed. Nevertheless, he had absorbed certain lessons that were to become a vital part of French military thought. From the story of Waterloo he had learned that a line of resolute men on the defensive could again & again break an enemy attack. From Mexico he had watched Lee's dashing Confederates lose a war despite their commander's brilliance in attack. He had also learned that...
...invasion of Sicily was not going too well. Himilco with his 25,000 men and twelve armored elephants still held Agrigentum, "the most beautiful city of mortals." But the Romans had taken Panormus (Palermo) and the legions had occupied Tauromenium (Taormina) in the shadow of Mt. Aetna, beneath whose massive weight Zeus had imprisoned the rebellious giants...
...Nassau society Sir Harry and his wife gave lavish dinner dances, sometimes for 300 guests. In 1941 a society page reported: "This year even the Oakes purse feels a proportionate pinch, and there is the shadow of war to dim too much display. However, the comings and goings at Westbourne, their Caves Point villa, keep it about as quiet as 42nd St. at high noon...