Word: shadowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the shadow...
...daze the House passed the bill, 206-to-139. With Mr. Ramspeck to the White House last week must have marched the ghosts of all the Presidents who have been harassed to desperation by appointments; President James A. Garfield, slain by a disappointed office seeker; perhaps even the shadow of Louis XIV, who said: "Every time I fill a vacant office I make 100 malcontents and one ingrate...
Last week the shadow lengthened, the Axis grew. Men scurried across Europe signing their names, embellishing the New Order with their countries' allegiance, invoking repeatedly the word "peace" and making it seem to mean less than ever...
Greece and Turkey could not forever resist the Axial shadow. Unless Britain at home and in the Mediterranean could do something about it in a big military way, the charge of Axis pens into the Southeast would be hard to stop. Last week Adolf Hitler had signed himself to within 250 miles of the Dardanelles...
...Greece. Some said many Australian and New Zealand troops were going, too, though Britain denied this, saying her only ground troops in Greece were military police and air-base guards. But besides military help, Greece was going to need food, fuel, money. Over her loomed not only the shadow of Germany on the northeast but cold and hunger at home...