Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...keep Lumumba in power, threatened to pull Ghanaian forces out of the U.N.'s Congo command. After all, the U.N. was in the Congo at the specific request of Lumumba. Inevitably, some African leaders who thoroughly disliked Lumumba saw any form of outside intervention as the hated shadow of "colonialism," or as a future threat to the uncontrolled use of their own sovereignty...
...some of his older brother's political battles for him too (once Earl nearly chewed off the finger of an opponent, another time lunged at a man and bit him in the throat). Yet, even at the peak of Huey's power, Earl was still in the shadow, forbidden by the Kingfish to climb the higher reaches. Their falling out was bitter; to Earl, Huey was "the yellowest coward that God ever let live...
...weeks after launching, Echo stayed entirely outside the shadow of the Earth, but on Aug. 24 it dipped into darkness for two minutes while passing over the U.S. West Coast. Each day its stay in the shadow will increase, until in late December the balloon satellite will be in darkness for 35 minutes of its 118-minute orbit. When it goes into the shadow, it shrinks a bit, but Dr. Jaffe does not know how much...
...liberating naturalism. His predecessors, in an effort to keep their religious themes on a properly spiritual level, tended to idealize their figures. Van Eyck had a passion for detail, and his people -whether saints or not-were complete individuals. Landscape and still life came into their own; light and shadow played a more subtle role; the way was open for the time when the everyday mortal would become a worthy subject...
...educated, and he was vulgar when drunk or sober." He sees him as a caricature of his period, but his dubious hero gives him a chance to revisit a time and a way of life that Marquand found more gracious and attractive than the "five o'clock shadow of mediocrity" that is creeping over Newburyport. It was only a little way down the road, in neighboring Newbury, that death found Marquand himself two months...