Word: shadowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...craggy Yugoslav villages, where for three years the sound of aircraft had been a sign as dread as the shadow of a hawk's wing across a henyard, villagers looked up at first in fear. Then they rushed out and cheered: the big formations of heavy bombers drumming overhead in stately alignment were U.S. planes outward bound from their bases in Italy...
From a bleak stone cottage in Epirus came news that shook the Greek exile Government apart. After 20 days of wary talk in the shadow of the snowy Pindus Range, Greeks in Greece clasped hands, agreed to drop their fratricide, devote themselves henceforth to killing Germans. Greeks in Cairo lost their nerve, began last week a game of tag which left them all demeaned...
...Serving notice on his allies that the westward-coursing Soviet Empire was to include Italy-and the warm waters of the Mediterranean-in its shadow...
...called atrocities are bound to happen in any war, but the argument of subject is beyond the scope of the reviewer. The picture itself leaves one with the feeling of having been drawn and quartered and left for the vultures. Its action leaps from shadow to shadow with Japs interspersed. Its photography was technically well done but was over-emotional. All in all, it has an artificial flavor which makes it seem for fetched and childish...
...made the inevitable cracks about his status in the Services of Supply. Officialdom, British and American, pondered the chances of a Congressional inquiry into Army morals as reflected by Sergeant Thompson's application of lend-lease. But the death of MacDonald, the sudden weakening of Norah cast a shadow over Bill's high spirits. He hurried to London, conferred long & earnestly with his superiors. Then, scratching his head over how to legitimize his family, he received the press. Said he: "We just want to be left alone...