Word: shadower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall of Singapore will over-shadow everything else so far in the war except perhaps the British retreat at Dunkirk after the fall of France," said G. Nye Steiger, visiting lecturer of Far Eastern History and professor of History at Simmons College...
...Emerson was right in saying that an institution is but the lengthened shadow of one man. Dr. Mott has cast his shadow in all directions. In 1886, while still a Cornell undergraduate, he helped build the Student Volunteer Movement. In 1895 he sparked the World's Student Christian Federation proclaiming "the evangelization of the world in this generation." He inspired the Laymen's Missionary Movement which spurred U.S. Protestants to increase their gifts for missions. At Edinburgh in 1910 he chairmaned the great interdenominational world conference, out of which evolved in 1920 the I.M.C., which he has headed...
These deeds and the others unreported, shone like bright stars against the black shadow of ultimate defeat that still hung over MacArthur's gallant army. Had it not been for the debacle at Pearl Harbor he might by now have been relieved. Now it was a last-ditch fight...
...Cordell Hull. Last week the State Department sent General de Gaulle a formal note, asking him to withdraw his ships and men while the people of St. Pierre & Miquelon hold another plebiscite. Cordell Hull was confident that the vote would go the same way. But the ugly shadow of coercion would be lifted-and Vichy left with no grounds for accusing the U.S. of a breach of faith...
...William Graham Sumner Club (old Sumner and Keller pupils) decided that bluff Bert Keller's hero worship had gone too far. Celebrating his retirement with a dinner in New Haven (to which he refused to wear dinner clothes), they dragged him out of his master's shadow, pronounced him as great a man as Sumner himself...