Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sununu, like Bush, grew up in the shadow of a highly successful father in a comfortable home in a leafy bedroom community, attended private boarding school and displayed nary a flicker of rebellion. The crucial difference is that Bush was heir to both material and social comfort, while Sununu was always an outsider...
Whenever I left the building, my KGB tails would shadow me. I came to know many by sight. When I walked in the woods, I more than once flushed an observer hiding behind a tree, who would then dash away. We were prevented from making long-distance calls; whenever we went to a post office to do so, the phones were "out of order" -- KGB shadows had been there ahead of us. Once I managed to make a call by carrying out a trash can, dropping it off and continuing to a post office. From that day on, a policeman...
...fame rocketed. She sank into his shadow, a housewife with two sons to raise, while he pursued general relativity -- the notion that gravity could be explained as "curved" space-time. They separated in 1914 and eventually divorced. As part of his alimony, he promised his future Nobel Prize money and delivered three years later. Einstein remarried and moved to America. Mileva and the kids were on their own. One son died in a mental institution, unvisited by his father; the other became an engineering professor. Mileva died in 1948, never having published a scientific paper under her own name...
Walesa, though, has grown unhappy playing second fiddle to Mazowiecki. While the Prime Minister was in Warsaw making policy and winning headlines, Walesa has been running what often seemed a shadow government from a second-floor office near the Gdansk shipyards that were his springboard into history. In recent weeks he began criticizing the government for the slow pace of reform. Says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences: "He is having to share a stage that was once his alone, and he doesn't like...
Murphy, who trails Democratic frontrunner Francis X. Bellotti by a wide margin in most polls, said that many of her rivals want to "turn our party into a shadow of the Republican party," saying they had "ducked for cover" on liberal issues...