Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing was clear to everybody: the 1941 tax bill that Congress will shortly consider is probably only a shadow of worse to come. Meanwhile, the committee prepared to push it through anyhow...
...Piccadilly "calm, broad, empty, filled with its early morning shadow" in a watery flashing loudness of swept glass; shrapnel "rattling like hail through the broken trees of the square...
Most people still think of Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII, as a woman who stood in shadow, queenly but helpless, brave but passive, while Henry and his gaudy parade passed her by. Actually this proud, learned and winsome daughter of Spain's Ferdinand and Isabe11a was neither helpless nor passive...
...road, under a bill introduced in the House by Delegate Anthony Joseph Dimond of Alaska, would be about $25,000,000-roughly the price of a new 10,000-ton cruiser. Until last week the whole plan sounded pretty far-fetched to the House. But with Hitler's shadow coming east against the sun, it began to look as if others besides Warren Magnuson might begin to think about Alaska...
...first two rounds, The Kid did just what the experts had said he would: he jabbed and danced away like an elusive shadow. He was so nervous he even tripped and fell. In the third round, after Louis had nailed him but failed to knock him down, Conn began to grin scornfully at the champ...