Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great new malevolent turn. Said Pundit Walter Lippmann: "Hitler has brought France back into the war." Cried a De Gaullist spokesman in London: "Think of that flabby hand, that evil lip, that shifty glance, that sneer of the executioner - and tell yourself that for 30 years France has not shed a tear without Laval gaining...
...Axis sub crippled a rickety, old armed U.S. freighter, loosed a parachute flare to illuminate the scene. A contrary wind caught the chute, pushed it back over the sub, shed sufficient light for a carrot-topped Navy gunner on the ship to pound three shells into its conning tower. Survivors insisted that the raider went down with all hands...
These two books, the first to come out of Russia since the war engulfed the Soviets, shed a strange leftish light on the mysterious spiritual sources that steel Stalin's subjects to fortitude. There emerges a weird composite of child mentality, propaganda hallucination, semireligious selflessness and apparently bottomless intrepidity-a mixture as interesting but alien to U.S. understanding as Tibet...
...dust, colliding like hail stones with the stars. While the sun rotates with a velocity at its equator of only* Messier 51 in Canes Venatici (The Hounds) twelve miles per second, the stars of Aquila whirl at 9,360 miles per second. At such speeds, stars become unstable and shed rings of hot gas. Thus, as some stars are born of dust, others are destroyed...
...station (a twin of Ridley Park's except for some differences in building materials) is a bright, clean-looking, boxlike structure faced with natural-finish redwood and brick, materials expected to keep their looks without maintenance for many years. On its track side, where an 8-ft. overhanging shed roof offers shelter, a huge plate-glass window gives waiting travelers a complete view of all incoming and outgoing trains...