Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shadow Dream Team was working its magic in a rickety, almost empty country stadium. There were Roman numerals on the scoreboard. Black-and-yellow butterflies fluttered around the net. The few sportswriters in attendance were sitting cross-legged on the ground, to avoid the blistering sun. The bus driver hadn't even known how to find the place...
Discontent casts a shadow over the fair and the Games...
Like an infectious virus, the Klan has learned to mutate and survive, and that's just what Robb is doing. "It's the shadow side of the American character, and it's not going to go away," explains Wyn Wade, author of The Fiery Cross, an excellent study of the Klan. "The power is their history. We can never forget their potential to do it again...
...family sent her off to Paris for a year of finishing school. It was there, as an impressionable 17-year-old, that she came to an important realization about her native Ireland. Its historic insularity did not serve to protect its culture, but instead helped keep it in the shadow of the English. "A country like France had such a sense of itself that it could never be diluted," she recalls. "You don't homogenize a culture, you enrich it by diversity of contacts." Only by becoming fully a part of Europe, by broadening its contacts rather than restricting them...
Much of the Yard lies in the shadow of Widener Library, the colossal building with what seems like miles of open stacks. An unmatched browsing center, Widener stacks are also a legendary spot for hot-and-heavy Harvard romances...