Word: shadowed
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...might be able to give them an authoritative prognosis. Conference fringe meetings featuring representatives from the Republican and Democratic parties drew capacity crowds. Tory MPs who had traveled to the conventions in Denver and Minneapolis gave starry-eyed accounts of the proceedings. Francis Maude, a member of the shadow cabinet, described himself as having been "one of Obama's 85,000 close friends in Denver" - but refused to reveal his personal preference for U.S. President...
...Newsweek, Oz did more than breathe life into a publication that lived in TIME's shadow. He revolutionized American - in fact, global - journalism. If Britton Hadden and Henry Luce, who founded TIME, were the fathers of the newsmagazine, Oz was the person who showed that the format could be a place for great, campaigning journalism, giving it a new relevance as America's post-1945 golden age gave way to the social and political tumult of the 1960s. In 1963, with a special issue titled "The Negro in America" - one of the handful of truly revolutionary pieces of American journalism...
...quarter: Facing 3rd-and-13 at the four, Gino Gordon busts a big run on the draw out to the 19 and a first down, and Harvard is out of the shadow of its own goalposts...
Previous governments failed to prosecute suspected war criminals; others, amid a tangled mess of loyalties in the aftermath of the war, pardoned dozens of Pakistani officers. To this day, the war casts a deeply polarizing shadow, with many still suspected of having collaborated with West Pakistan's suppression of the East. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, Ali Ahsan Mojaheed, general secretary of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a powerful political party that sided with Pakistan in 1971, thinks it's better to close the book on a tragic chapter in history rather than risk opening old wounds...
...ancient Rome, plenty of public kissing went on in the shadow of the Coliseum, where lips smacked on hands, cheeks, rings and even feet, as simple greetings or formal signs of submission. The place is still a notable showcase of public affection, but one specific act of passion played out near the ancient monument has added fire to a very modern debate...