Word: shadowing
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...physically or mentally handicapped Costa Ricans. They are pariahs, like the poor Nicaraguan refugees who fill up the slums and ghettos outside the city limits. Only the “Nicas” have this one advantage: they are feared, and their poverty, their presence, is a constant, weighty shadow that creeps along the edges of cosmopolitan San Jose. They will not be forgotten as long as even taxi drivers, that typically fearless breed of city dweller, refuse to set foot in their ramshackle villages in broad daylight. Their festering humanity, heartrending...
...point. In August 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began his landmark "I Have a Dream" speech by paying homage to Lincoln: "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity...
...agents packed the bodies in ice, sealed them in black plastic bags marked Xl, X-2 and X3, and rushed them to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, 80 miles away. There a team of pathologists, using dental and fingerprint charts, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt what everybody had already suspected. These were the bodies of missing Civil Rights Work ers Michael Schwerner, 24, Andrew Goodman, 20, both white, and James Chancy, 21, a Negro...
...theology appeared in The Nature and Destiny of Man (two volumes, 1941 and 1943). Fox shows how profoundly Reinhold's evolution was influenced by the counsel of his younger brother H. Richard, a brilliant Yale theology professor who was painfully aware that he always stood in Reinhold's shadow...
Thus did the shadow war against the Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi and the terrorists it sponsors move to a diplomatic front. Meeting for the third time in just eight days, the twelve nations of the European Community voted to expel all Libyan diplomats beyond the "minimum necessary" and to curtail the movements of those who remained. They further agreed that a Libyan declared persona non grata in one country would be unwelcome...