Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having come through a gate with big letters saying "Enter" to do something, which was blurred by a big shadow, the visitors stopped. And they all listened to the band, only they couldn't see any band. And then one, two, three, four, five thousand men marched by. They were dressed in soldier suits with anchors on their hats. They had books in one hand and swung the other hand very rhythmically. They were marching around a flagpole. This was very interesting to the visitors...
...chair while the Mayor introduced her to city officials, then rose majestically, took a sheet of paper out of her handbag and, with hardly an accent, read her reply. As the first Dutch ruler ever to visit the New World, she was sorrowful that she had come "under the shadow...
...equilibrium in the narrow position they fought for. Something had to give. If Rommel gave, he might have to run all the way back to Libya to prepare another assault. But if Britain's General Auchinleck gave, it would be downhill for Rommel to Alexandria. The shadow still hung heavy over the Middle East...
...market day in Zagreb's sun-washed Yelachich Square townspeople used to haggle with bright-costumed peasants who had spread out their wares. From sidewalk cafés men would banter with the pretty peasant girls. One day last week the shadow of hated Major Helm, Gestapo chief for the puppet state of Croatia, swaggered in the sun across the Square. Somewhere a rifle's muzzle nosed from a window. A shot clapped. Gestapo Chief Helm flopped down on his shadow, dead. Enraged and terrified, his bodyguard swung their pistols on the crowd, hurled hand grenades among...
...last night. But neither can University Hall solve it by holding "the individual students responsible for participation in any public disturbance." As a matter of fact, it is rank idealism to assume that the antagonism can be wiped out altogether. As long as beautiful Georgian architecture casts its stately shadow on the slums of De Wolfe Street; as long as tweed coats and white-wall tires give life and breath to the spirit of "Gold Coast"; as long as University property is untaxed, the problem will exist. But it need not manifest itself in the form of group attack...