Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year of the Sputniks is followed by the U.S. election year 1958, and the prospect of political wrangling over the responsibility for defense shortfalls has already cast its shadow over the session of Congress that begins next week. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Ready for the Brawl. One point of U.S. defense policy that deserves the most serious debate is the rising argument for some sort of U.S. general staff system in the Pentagon, an argument that has defenders of the present system warning of the dangers of a Bismarck-like Prussian general staff, the reform-minded warning of the dangers...
Armed with a pistol, a fervent young woman named Chin Lan Tse patrols the dikes that protect her village's cotton fields from the waters of the Grand Canal. But - hark! - what is that sinister shadow slinking away near by? As a dedicated Young Communist, Chin Lan Tse knows the answer: it is a skulking saboteur in the employ of the decadent Kuomintang clique. Chin Lan Tse pulls the trigger. "Bang!" and the bullet flies out. "Ah yah!" bellows the fascist running dog of capitalism as he vanishes in the night. Dauntless Chin Lan Tse pursues him, falls into...
...makeup artist arrived at Sandringham to advise Elizabeth on such problems as foundation creams, face powder and eye shadow. Homey touches abounded: a shelf behind Elizabeth's chair bristled with Christmas cards; a large photo of nine-year-old Prince Charles and seven-year-old Princess Anne stood at the Queen's elbow. Wearing a brocaded afternoon dress, the Queen was positioned at her oak desk, sitting sideways from it so that she faced directly into the camera and into the eyes of an estimated 50 million viewers in Great Britain and on the Continent...
...filmed re-enactment of the sidewalk arrest. Wyatt used the film, along with footage of the begowned Kahler doing a few dance steps. Then for an "insight into this age-old, worldwide psychological problem," the live camera turned to Kahler, seated in a jail uniform before the Crosshatch shadow of prison bars...
Under the Tower. On the day the debate did begin, shops were shuttered across the island in a general strike. Under the shadow of Othello's Tower in Famagusta, Gjreek Cypriots clashed with police in a two-hour battle. At Ephtakomi, someone defiantly flew a Greek flag; a British patrol attempting to tear it down was stoned by the villagers. The patrol counterattacked with fixed bayonets...