Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students] lay closely packed together, covered, for warmth's sake, with their patched and ragged clothes, little could be distinguished but the sharp outlines of pale faces, over which the sombre light shed the same dull heavy colour...
Light was shed last week on an important aspect of the Greek situation which has been overlooked except by the British Government: how much was ELAS influenced by the Communist Party, the central group in EAM? ELD (Union of Popular Democracy) and SKE (Socialist Party of Greece), two of the biggest parties, both of which recently broke with EAM, had issued statements. The Central Committee of the SKE declared that: "It refused all responsibility for, and withdrew itself from, the EAM bloc as soon as it was informed of the armed breach which took place without consultation...
French women were also preparing to shed their political veils last week. In April's municipal elections they will vote, for the first time in French history. They had registered in great numbers (761,428 in Paris alone), but with varying enthusiasm...
...decided on by February 1, but what it will be is still a complete mystery." The first attempt at solution will be made soon by Dean Kennedy when he sends out study cards. These study cards will be returned to his office by February 2 and will shed new light on the situation as they will tell each student's plans for the spring term...
...muscles.* Along with most of the British press (notably excepting Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail), the Economist throughout the war has heeded official injunctions to go easy on America. Last week, just in time to be answered by President Roosevelt (see U.S. AT WAR), Economist Editor Geoffrey Crowther shed his inhibitions and stepped out, blowing hard...