Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pranno glaring a yard away, Kelly last week stared at the committee's mahogany table, refused to answer questions. This provoked North Carolina's courtly Sam Ervin Jr. to a rare outburst. "It is a tragic state," said he, "to see a man who comes in the shadow of the Capitol of his country who cringes in fear...
...satellite, a magnesium sphere with a surface of silicon monoxide to keep it at proper temperature in sun or shadow, was put into a spin of about 50 r.p.m. The spin made it act like a gyroscope, keeping its axis always pointing in the same direction in space. At its perigee, the axis is parallel to the earth's surface. But a quarter of a revolution later the axis points vertically at the earth (see diagram). At apogee, the axis is parallel again...
...foreign alliances," the gaunt, black-browed Iraqi general told a press conference, after his victory over army rivals who favored a merger with the United Arab Republic. "The Baghdad Pact is less than a shadow. The word 'ally' applies only to Arab sister countries in our eyes...
Needed: New Maps. Broad-shouldered and handsome, Sékou Touré is as dynamic a platform performer as any in all Black Africa. He is the idol of his 2,500,000 people, and the shadow he casts over Africa stretches far beyond the borders of his Oregon-sized country. As the head of the only French territory to vote against De Gaulle's constitution and thus to choose complete independence, he has been suddenly catapulted into the forefront of the African scene. Last week somnolent, picturesque Conakry was getting to know how it feels...
...mood of the play. When the bandit is revealed as a braggart, the samurai as a snuffling coward and his wife as a trollop, the Kanins' script, unlike the film, fumbles away the Swiftian savagery of Akutagawa for something close to farce. What Akutagawa intended as the subtle shadow play of appearance and reality becomes, in the wigmaker's summing up, little more than an optical illusion: "Truth is a firefly...