Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shadow Ministry. For Erhard and West Germany, the Korean war was a commercial opportunity. Without the necessity for fast rearmament, West Germany's reviving heavy industries were in a position to move into many foreign markets hitherto the preserves of Britain, France and even the preoccupied Americans. Erhard urged German firms to send their salesmen hotfooting after their old South American markets. Orders poured back into Germany, but in the wild scramble for raw materials, domestic prices rose alarmingly...
Canny Konrad Adenauer quietly set up a shadow Economics Ministry in his chancellery to take over if Erhard's prophecies flopped. But the professor's exhortations to Germans to wait for lower prices paid off. The inflation threat faded, and the German economy took off on the boom that has yet to end. Shortly after that crisis, Erhard took a hefty bite on his cigar and told a visitor: "Remember all those announcements I made about controls? You know how many I had to put in force? None...
Sukiyaki's lies in the great stone shadow of Symphony Hall, about half a block from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Building, and accessible by subway token. It is bounded on the right by the Mai Fong Chinese restaurant, and on the left by the Redy Hot Lunch Budweiser Bar and Full Gospel Chapel. The sign says "One Flight Up," next door to Mildred's School of The Ballet...
...timed in such a way that the satellite passes over the U.S. either in broad daylight or at night. In daytime the 23-in. sphere, more than 500 miles away, is invisible against the glare of the sun. At night it is invisible because it is in the shadow of the earth. Only at dawn or dusk, when the satellite is in sunlight against a background of fairly dark sky, can it be seen...
...avoid "the invasions of the birds," Nivola keeps his bas-reliefs fairly flat, but the play of sunlight and shadow over their pocked, planed, humped and dovetailed surfaces gives an illusion of depth, elaborate richness and almost of motion. Their apparent coolness is partly compensated by an underlying Sardinian warmth. Sculptor Nivola's most abstract conceptions are based on careful sketches of his wife, his children and their dog; they hint, vaguely but happily, at life in the flesh...