Word: shadower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latin American," says Dr. Quintanilla. He cites five of them. It is: 1) unilateral; 2) inefficient; 3) perverted; 4) unpopular; 5) outmoded. "The Monroe Doctrine, with its imperialistic connotations, is loaded with the kind of explosive that endangers the Pan-American structure. . . . The moment Monroe's distorted shadow enters a Pan-American Conference, the Good Neighbors disband. The silence made around the Monroe Doctrine at the historical meeting at Rio [in January 1942] is more eloquent than any indictment ever uttered against...
...shadow-barred jungle the motionless men said: "You must come in to kill us." Since September U.S. and Australian troops had been moving in to do it. Not until light tanks, 13-ton General Stuarts, were brought into action Dec. 8 did the tide begin to run decisively for the United Nations (TIME, Dec. 28). Even then it was a slow, bunker-by-bunker ad vance. Thrice General MacArthur announced that victory was near. Buna village and Gona, farther north, fell by mid-December, but not Buna Mission, a mile from the village, or other regions along the coast...
...full of fire, galloping steeds and sword play-most of the playing by copper-torsoed Jon Hall, who plays Haroun-Al-Raschid to Miss Montez' Sherazade. But that is not all. The picture is, besides, an unusually effective Technicolor job. Best shots: the play of sunlight and shadow across the rich bronze desert sands...
...content with the aforementioned two chestnuts, "Mal" Holmes has thrown in a Sinfonia by Rosetti, and Bach's suite for orchestra in C Major. Rosetti, like Sweelinck and Buxtchude, had the bad luck of living and writing under the shadow of a greater contemporary, in his case, Mozart. His biography, where it is known at all, is full of the kind of unbelievable poverty and misery that dogged Mozart, and almost all of the 18th century German composers. In his day, every petty German prince had his court musicians and his "Kapellmeister" who trained the singers, trained and conducted...
Last week, no longer protected by the shadow of the once-great Code Napoléon, Blum and Daladier were en route to Germany. Paul Reynaud, Georges Mandel and General Gustave Gamelin had already joined General Maxime Weygand in Berlin, where a German "people's court"* awaited them...