Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puppetry. The Jap has long fought his great Oriental neighbor with three arms - military, economic and political. Political pressure he has exerted through puppets. The shadow regime of Henry Pu Yi set Manchurian Chinese apart from their southern countrymen. Similarly the regime of suave Wang Ching-wei, Japan's No. 1 puppet since March 1940, was designed to wean Chinese from allegiance to Chiang Kaishek. For three years the Mikado's generals stupidly sought to give Traitor Wang "face" without a pretense of authority. Chinese derided the puppet premier as "the prisoner of Nanking...
...Shadow of 1944. Fact was that C.I.O. was whistling in the dark. A.F. of L. is now in a far more favorable position to pick off C.I.O. unions one by one. And more than ever the fate of the liberals within C.I.O. is bound up with the 1944 Presidential election...
...power can clear them. Now it remains to finish the job by land-sea-air power, which must drive enemy planes from the islands of the sea. For Admiral Cunningham's naval forces, the job will not be inexpensive, for there will be many operations under the shadow of Axis air power. But it is a job which will be done-partly because the British Navy in the Mediterranean is imbued with the idea in a stanza by A.B.C.'s favorite, Montrose. It stands printed in Admiral Cunningham's quarters whenever he goes...
...bloody" southern Illinois. But this time, when the deadline came on Friday night, it was different. In the bars of West Frankfort, among the men from Orient No. 2 (world's largest producer of soft coal) and Old Ben, there was an undercurrent of uneasiness; many had the shadow of a feeling of shame. The men were solidly behind Old John L., they would do what he said, all right. But their hearts were troubled; it took only a few beers to reveal a slightly guilty conscience...
Trial to All. From his first workout, Trainer Don Cameron and the staff at Stoner Creek, the Hertzes' Kentucky farm, had their hands full. Count Fleet was mischievous, willful. During a morning breeze he used to stop suddenly and paw the air. He walked sideways, jumped over his shadow, bucked his riders off. Stable boys nicknamed him Count Cuckoo...