Word: shone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third week in office, President Truman no longer worked under the concentrated light which had shone on him for a fortnight. Some of the nation's floodlights had shifted to San Francisco. Besides, the novelty of having a new President had begun to wane. The shakedown cruise was over, and Harry Truman, no longer able to rely on the doctrine of "carrying on," now had to do a little steering on his own account...
...Moscow's blackout was lifted on April 30. For the first time in four years, lights shone again in the huge stars atop the Kremlin's towers...
...General got his prayer; it was printed on thousands of small cards with Patton's Christmas greeting on the reverse side. On the fifth day of rain and Rundstedt it was distributed to the troops. On the sixth day the sun shone, and the Third proceeded to its warlike harvest...
...have lost much, and been sorely tried. But you have also received much. The sun of liberty first shone over this part of the country. It is we, up here, who are privileged to start the new Norway. It is we, up here, who must call the tune. If it rings weakly, at least it must ring true and pure. Then it will blend, one day, with the great symphony which shall well out over the land...
...this reason the spotlight has shone hard and hot on Democratic Candidate Harry S. Truman, the junior Senator from Missouri. Anti-New Deal newspapers have examined the Truman record and background with the zeal of ballistics experts, the energy of crime reporters...