Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to strict astronomical calculations, the eclipse began at 9 o'clock, but not until 10 o'clock was the earth's shadow, as it began to creep across the face of the moon, visible to the naked...
...moon reached its full eclipse, appearing as a dull copper ball, at 11:01 o'clock and remained unchanged until 12:35 when the earth's shadow began to recede. Since the dimout regulations removed most of the glare from the skies and only scattered clouds appeared, the course of the phenomenon was clearly visible in all its stages...
...France he was gradually lost to view: rumor said that he had gone into seclusion to write a book. Last winter he suddenly crossed the stage: he was President Roosevelt's special emissary on an eight weeks' tour of the Near East. Back he went into the shadow: rumor said he was thinking about running for Governor of Pennsylvania...
...time. Yet for ten years he was secretary general of the Congress party, three times its president and, next to the half-naked Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi, the most powerful figure in India's political life. As a sensitive liberal and a world statesman, Nehru has outgrown the shadow of his overage Messiah. But Gandhi, self-willed, self-made symbol of the Hindu peasant, has clamped Nehru's feet to India. It was Nehru the disciple, not Nehru the internationalist, who returned once more to jail...
Suddenly below us is the grey shadow of a Zero plane, sneaking up. Sergeant Ed Cooney, of Rushville, Ind., swings around in his gunner's position and "lowers the boom" on him. Two rapid bursts, then one of Ed's guns jams. But the other one keeps firing and the Zero falls away. Other Zeroes are in the air, climbing...