Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles to the west at the Algerian port of Mers-el-Kebir. Soviet subs play hide-and-seek with NATO patrols underneath the heel of Italy. Overhead, from bases in Egypt, Soviet "Badger" class planes, their red stars painted over with Egyptian markings, wing daily across the Mediterranean to shadow Allied fleets...
...world's few gainfully employed freelance socialists. He adopted this rubric 40 years ago, after a series of political and moral crises persuaded him that Russian-dominated Communism was a perversion of Marxist and humanitarian ideals. He had been a founder of the Italian Communist Party, a shadow person in the anti-Fascist underground, a delegate to Moscow convocations of the faithful and an exile from Mussolini's Italy. In 1930, he settled in Switzerland, and stayed for 14 years, writing novels. His best was Bread and Wine (1937), the story of an idealist's struggle against...
...been one of the most remarkable in the Senate. He switched parties in mid-career and upset his own state Democrats by endorsing the 1966 Senate Republican candidate, having broken with Lyndon Johnson over Viet Nam. Oregonians have wearied of his maverick ways. In debate, Morse seemed a pale shadow of himself, while Packwood appeared to be the aggressive Morse of old. Packwood organized superbly on a block-by-block basis, promised to pay more attention than Morse did to Oregon affairs...
...Bribe Needed. The Herald's ri val, the Miami News (circ. 94,000), came to a different conclusion. The News' editorial staff has long sought a way out of the shadow of its larger competitor...
After that, I drove over the railroad tracks to see what was left of the ball park. It was still there, all right, in the shadow of The World's Largest Peanut Sheller, but now it lay like an abandoned farm. The light poles had been moved around for football lighting, and the sandy gray soil had been harrowed and was awaiting fresh sod for the high school football season. Letters saying "Graceville Oilers Booster Club" had almost faded away on the concrete-block centerfield fence. The portable bleachers in left field had begun to rot beyond salvation. Gone were...