Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops closing in on Munda had learned much since Bataan; these troops were fighting a new kind of warfare. Once they wore khaki and blue dungarees; now they were clad in mottled yellow-brown-green coveralls that blended with the deep color and shadow of the tropics. Once they had little else to fight with but machine guns, rifles and knives; now they had ample artillery and support from sea and air. Once they massed and deployed awkwardly in textbook tactics; now they crept silently through the jungle. At Viru Harbor, U.S. Marines, infiltrating from the rear, wiped...
...stood at a microphone and told his countrymen he was sorry that Arne Andersson had not come along with him. Andersson, a 27-year-old Gothenburg schoolteacher, had set the pace for Hägg in most of his seven world's record runs, had always finished a shadow length behind...
Last week, on the eve of his second U.S. appearance, Gunder Hägg was doubly sorry his shadow had stayed home. In the National Swedish Festival track meet at Gothenburg, just a year to the day after Hägg broke the world's mile record, Andersson beat it by two full seconds with a 4:02.6 mile...
While Hägg entrained for California, third stop on his nationwide tour, U.S. track officials began pulling wires to get a transatlantic passage for the shadow Hägg left behind...
...suggestions: they might "create a city of calm in a windy location" by means of windbreaks and shelterbelt planting, cool or warm a city by the use of "heat-generating or light-reflecting facades in city building," control the effects of the sun by intelligent planning of light and shadow...