Word: shadower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standing in the shadow of the Washington Monument one day last week, Harry Truman, forgetting for the moment his inter-party struggles, spoke familiarly and engagingly of his childhood, of the Republic, and of his predecessors in the White House. Just 100 years ago, the cornerstone of the monument had been laid. In Harry Truman's hand was a gavel, used in the 1848 ceremonies attended by President Polk and used before that by George Washington when he laid the cornerstone of the Capitol...
...From General Lucius Clay down, the Americans in Berlin are calm. A few American families fly their sets of silver and their Steinway pianos to Frankfurt in the U.S. zone, but there is not the shadow of a panic nor any flight of dependents, but an impressive community awareness of what it is all about. We have only 4,000 soldiers in Berlin, but their morale is topnotch, and many are spoiling for a fight. They are tired of feeling pushed around...
Frightful Shadow. In spite of his lifelong preoccupation with moral struggle and theological terms, Gide has said that he is an atheist and expects to die as one. He has also said: "I am neither a Protestant nor a Catholic; I am simply a Christian." Like other devout atheists, he is deeply concerned with God, and an earnest reader of the Bible. His Journals and, indeed, almost all his books have religious overtones. Sometimes a Biblical text haunts him for hours at a time: " 'Except a man be born again.' All this morning I repeated these words...
...years Hollywood stalled off judgment day by consent decrees (which later lapsed) and legal shadow boxing in the lower courts. But last week, when the final decisions in four cases came in the Supreme Court, antitrust won almost all its points. The court...
Less than 100 hours after it heard their arguments, CAB gave its answer: no. New hearings, said the Board, would "cast a dark shadow across the certificate already lawfully issued and in full force and effect." Moreover, it was reasonable that a line flying a new route should get a bigger subsidy; both Pan Am and Panagra had so benefited when they started...