Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King and Queen were there. Otherwise, the third wartime running of the Derby at Newmarket last week was just a shadow of England's beloved annual spree...
...spittin' image of his father, down to the unruly cowlick and the twangy voice, Will Jr. has not inherited his dad's gift for the newsy quip, the folksy gag. He has gone in for sterner stuff. Naturally hesitant to live in his father's shadow, for years he called himself Bill. He is not unmindful of the political value of his name and appearance. (For the campaign Bill has become Will Jr.) But as the earnest publisher of the Beverly Hills Citizen, Will Jr. has made a quiet name for himself...
...eight-year sentence. Paroled in 1936, he was confined to the city of Karachi, from which he escaped last year to prey upon witnesses who had testified against him. Shortly he was arrested again, for sabotaging telegraph lines, and jailed in Nagpur. But 1,000 miles away his shadow is still dark over Sind...
...wanted Australia, either under his foot or under the shadow of his forces operating from the islands to the east. And Australia's defenses were not half so strong as Douglas MacArthur would have liked. But of air strength MacArthur had enough to keep the Jap worried and off balance. He used it, while among the islands to the northeast the U.S. craft prowled, and watched their chance...
When Italy's sneak-punch into the war brought minuscule Malta under its huge, puffed-up shadow, there was not a single plane on the island. Only 60 miles from Sicily, Malta was promptly written off by the British as impossible, to defend. But while Italy still controlled Sicily, Malta's war was a seesaw affair of brief, bravura raids and dolce jar niente. Not till the Luftwaffe took over did the real pasting come, and Malta become history's most heavily bombed island...