Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Center for Educational Reform places the total of such institutions in the U.S. at 450; three years ago there were scarcely a dozen. Most free universities are shadow schools that have arisen on existing campuses as a supplement to the conventional academic programs. Tuition is rarely more than $5 or $10 a semester; teachers contribute their services, and classes meet in borrowed houses, apartments or dormitory rooms. At best, the shadow schools are laboratories for testing academic reforms that regular institutions then adopt...
...ferro-concrete caissons, each weighing 6,000 tons. Through Winston the Allies funneled 2,500,000 troops, half a million vehicles and 4,000,000 tons of supplies in the eight months after Dday. Only 40 of the caissons jut above the water now, roosting places for seagulls and shadow sanctuaries for schools of fish. In July and August, vacationers swell the town's population of 340 to ten times that; the rest of the year Arromanches lives with memory. A few miles down the coast, at the Pointe du Hoc, a forbiddingly steep promontory scaled by American Rangers...
...miles of causeway, tunnel and bridge. Says Chicago's Aviation Commissioner William Downes Jr.: "The main objection comes from the save-our-lakefront fraternity who don't realize that an airport six miles out wouldn't be visible from the shore except as a large shadow from high buildings...
...baton-wielding riot police and angry students and workers. The speeches, calm, serene, struck a tranquil note, as if the candidates were dreaming of the summer holidays scarcely two months away. Charles de Gaulle, presumably brooding in Ireland over his rebuff in the referendum, no longer cast his long shadow...
Vera has reduced the complexities of modern life to a shadow that occasionally crosses her husband's path. Yet her real role, one senses, is not in these labors, but as the only confidante of that "lucid, lonely mind." In the summer, they walk as much as 15 miles a day together. In the evening, they play out their Scrabble tournaments, often with a Russian set (he can run up a 500 score). The chess problems he eventually publishes are set first for her to solve. They like to read to each other. They reread War and Peace...