Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tract of semidesert land near Los Angeles which could be turned into a landing field for bombers in an hour or two. Japanese farmers cultivate most of the foggy shoreline of Palos Verdes (next door to vital San Pedro harbor), where landing parties could sneak in undetected, under the shadow of towering cliffs, on to a number of good beaches. Other sound reasons were suggested by the case of Alien George Makamura, in whose seaside home at Santa Cruz FBI men found 69 great crates of signal rockets and colored flares...
Although Bunks Burditt, who has lately fallen in the shadow of Hugh Hyde's ascendancy, cannot hope to catch up to Munroe and Olsen in the individual scoring race, he has one more game in which to grab third place from Princeton's Lawry, who now holds a three margin over the Crimson Sophomore...
...Middle East, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who spent last week boxing his own shadow on the sand, seemed to be building up his strength for a real drive on Suez. New concentrations of German troops were in Sicily, Greece, Bulgaria; Hermann Goring was in Italy; something was in the wind...
...place along the way we passed a band of Scottish Highlanders marching toward internment, blowing lustily all the while on bagpipes. A monocled officer led them, sporting a cane in place of his saber. Not one face carried a shadow of sadness...
Heydrich managed to keep his name out of the papers until three or four years ago. He stood in the shadow behind the lurid light of Heinrich Himmler, head of all the German police. Himmler's top man for the uniformed police is General Kurt Daluege; for the Gestapo, Heydrich. But Heydrich is much more powerful than Daluege, and he might, if it came to a test, prove more powerful even than Himmler. He knows everything that Himmler knows and he has spies everywhere, even in the lairs of his closest associates. For the time being all three...