Word: shadowing
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...gold and one silver in diving. There is so much depth in the American ranks that some swimming experts feel the summer's best meet is not the one in Moscow but the U.S. championships in Irvine, Calif., this week. Indeed, the Irvine event has become a shadow Olympics, an opportunity for the U.S. mermen to top the winning times in Moscow-and reclaim world attention from the hard-stroking Soviet swimmers, who had five golds entering Saturday's competition...
...their working lives, regularly performed trenchant variations on a thumb. Take John Edward ("Beans") Reardon, who came up to the National League in 1926 and called balls and strikes until he retired in 1949. So small that he "had to stand twice in the same spot to make a shadow," Beans compensated for his lack of size with the belligerence of a bantam. "To be a good umpire," he states, "you first of all must have guts because you're going to have trouble ... If the Pope was an umpire, he'd still have trouble with the Catholics...
...however, was unable to win over Trident critics who fear that buying the system will weaken Britain's conventional forces. The Labor Party's shadow Defense Secretary, William Rodgers, told the Commons that "we simply cannot afford" Trident. But some Labor M.P.s cannot afford to attack the decision too hard: shipyard and electronics industries in their constituencies will benefit from the 200,000 new jobs that the Trident agreement is expected to create...
Visiting Brazil, a country in which doing something as simple as giving bread to a worker on strike can be a political act, Pope John Paul II last week did his work in the shadow of two Christs: the passive Christ who said, "My kingdom is not of this world," and the active Christ who called upon all mankind to "love thy neighbor as thyself...
...hour later, with a replenished supply of beer, they sit on a bench, talking and drinking. The police return and tell them to move on, and to leave the beer behind, and so they walk across the Common to another shadow, find some more beer, and resume...