Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist Party line in France last week swerved back to a point on which Maurice Thorez stood a year ago. In the spring of 1947, Thorez offered friendship to other "democrats" who wanted to rebuild France and Europe. Last autumn the Cominform in Belgrade knocked the props from under that milk-toasty policy. Many Frenchmen thought that Thorez, leader of the French Communists' "take-it-easy" faction, was washed up as the head of his party...
Sticks of Dynamite. To represent himself better, he took the brightest paints he could find and laid them on in exuberant stabs and slashes. His friend Derain called Matisse's colors "so many sticks of dynamite," and in the Paris Autumn Salon of 1905 the stuff exploded. Matisse's paintings had been put in the same room with those of other crazy young men: Rouault, Dufy, Derain and Vlaminck. Almost everyone who peeked into that room came away reeling with outrage. The new painters were just fauves, they decided-wild beasts-and Henri Matisse the wildest...
Having failed last autumn to win Konitsa for a capital of his "free Greek" shadow state, Vafiades was now expected to try for loannina, capital of Epirus. He was also expected to attack Salonika; 30 miles from that strategic port, a village was seized last week by 350. guerrillas. Two important tobacco towns in Thrace, Xanthe and Komotine, were shelled for the first time by guerrilla guns. In Thrace, and other parts of the fighting zone, Communist-laid road mines were making serious trouble. General Alexander Assimak-opoulos, able commander of the government's Seventh Division, was killed when...
...Kuiper thinks that his infra-red spectrometer (a wartime development) has answered some of these questions by identifying certain gases and solids on Mars. Last autumn, he found that the atmosphere of Mars contains a small amount of carbon dioxide, which is necessary to plants (the basic living organisms). Without any carbon dioxide, plants cannot live, but too much would indicate that there are no plants on Mars to consume...
...just the right words. One thought that Lionel Barrymore's etchings (Purdy's Basin and San Pedro) had a "professional touch." The gallery director felt obliged to say that Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien "has definite promise. . . . There's an oriental simplicity about her watercolor, Autumn Leaves, which many artists work for years to capture." One critic summed up: "I hate to hurt their feelings, but almost all of the work ... is fairly...