Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...year that Japan deposed the Korean Emperor and openly annexed his kingdom, Syngman Rhee returned to Korea as a Y.M.C.A. worker, doing a bit of political agitation on the side. The Japanese, who distrusted all Christians, were doubly distrustful of Syngman Rhee. They assigned as his permanent shadow a police agent named Yoon Piung-hi, one of the most notorious of the "hunting dogs," i.e., Koreans in the Japanese secret service. A specialist in a kind of primitive psychological warfare, Yoon Piung-hi assiduously spread rumors about Rhee. On one occasion Rhee spent the night away from home, sleeping...
Four hours later and two miles away, Lawyer Marvin Bas was caught and shot down by two gunmen in the shadow of the Chicago El. Chicago's Keystone cops skittered busily around town trying to run down a lead to the killers. But wherever they looked for big shots in The Outfit who might be able to answer a few polite questions, the cops found nobody home-the boys were all on abrupt vacations. Running away to hide was something that rarely happened in Big Al Capone's day. But Al, as everyone knew, was not worried...
...title from Braddock, and turned Max Schmeling and Max Baer to butter, were gone. For a dozen years Louis had been the best in the business, but the years had run out on him. At 218 Ibs., 17 over his prime weight, he was a paunchy shadow of the Brown Bomber. Charles spotted Louis 33^ Ibs., but he out-jabbed and outsmarted him almost...
Like the Earl of Gloucester, the Cambridge City Council might have blamed the discord which besets the country on the late eclipse in the moon. For as the moon darkened in the earth's shadow Monday night, it took on a slightly reddish...
Local science enthusiasts and their dates are expected to gather in the shadow of Observatory Hill and other dark places to witness the event...