Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...mistakes" before the Moscow Central Committee late in 1958, the local zealots in Stavropol apparently kept calling him an enemy of the state. According to a story passed by the Moscow censors, Bulganin appealed to Khrushchev, who suggested that Bulganin retire on a pension. At 64, a pale shadow of the jovial, rotund figure who represented his country at the 1955 Geneva summit meetings, Bulganin now lives on a $300-a-month pension on the outskirts of Moscow, of which in his time he was mayor, an ailing and disgraced man who had once been wartime boss of Soviet industry...
Power had a mental blueprint all ready for General Telephone's expansion. To escape the long shadow of Mother Bell he set up a central advertising and public relations department to sharpen the company's independent identity, prefixed the title "General Telephone" to each of General's 30 domestic and five foreign subsidiaries. As the company became better known-it serves such important cities as Long Beach, Calif., Erie, Pa., Fort Wayne, Ind. and Lexington, Ky.-he used its growing reputation to raise capital needed for growth, has raised more than $1 billion...
With that, Mr. Fitz supervised the washing down of Progressing, peered at his ankles and gave instruction for the workouts the following dawn. The stables were fading into dusky shadow when Mr. Fitz finally left the track...
...play makes a needle stab at philosophy and theology. "If man is transparent," one hophead wonders, "like how do you account for his shadow?" Another junky sagely says that there isn't any Big Connection ("I am your man if you come to me. You are my man if I go to you"). And when the connection finally arrives, he is a Christlike Negro all in white, with empathy even for squares...
...more heavily than stay-at-home Britons, the dominion's lung-cancer death rate is still lower than the old country's. Concluded Dr. Eastcott: "Something happens to the Britisher in his native environment that increases his susceptibility to lung cancer . . . I regard this as the long shadow of those dark Satanic mills...