Word: shadowed
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...important the newspaper would later be to their daughter--or she to it. When Eugene Meyer retired, he passed control of the paper to Kay's husband Philip Graham, who ran it until his suicide in 1963. Only then did Kay Graham, at age 46, come out of the shadow of the men in her life and gradually transform herself into a near legendary figure: the "iron lady" who built the Post into one of the nation's great papers, stood up to the Nixon Administration during Watergate and hobnobbed with the rich and powerful while running...
MARTY POSTLETHWAIT, 36; LENEXA, KANSAS; co-creator of Shadow Buddies...
...week or two, a mere worsening of the flu that has gripped 64,000 Muscovites during this frigid winter. But as TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge notes, the latest medical emergency only underlines a sobering reality, that the Boris Yeltsin of today is a pale shadow of the dynamic leader of 1992. While Yeltsin continues to represent stability in Russia to his supporters at home and admirers abroad, the vigorous President Yeltsin they support is no longer evident. After Yeltsin's re-election in July, everyone hoped for the return of the man who was bold, decisive...
Today we live in the shadow of AIDS--the terrifyingly modern epidemic that travels by jet and zeros in on the body's own disease-fighting immune system. More than 15 years after the first rumors of "gay plague" spread through the bathhouses of New York City and San Francisco, nearly 30 million people--gays and straights alike--have been infected by HIV, the virus that causes what has been, until now, an almost invariably fatal disease...
...would help make synonymous with the study of human origins. Louis Leakey was a famous scientist, 10 years her senior, married with two children, a Cambridge University researcher. They fell in love, created a scandal, got married and moved to Africa. She worked for decades--painstakingly, methodically--in his shadow, but by the time Mary Leakey died last week, at 83, in Nairobi, Kenya, her scientific reputation had surpassed that of her more famous husband. "Louis was always the better publicist," says her son Richard, a world-class fossil hunter in his own right. "But Mary was the centerpiece...