Word: bearers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unknown young painter in Paris, Fernand Léger made his living retouching photographs, but he grew heartily sick of the fuzzy grey pictures he had to pretty up. A stretcher-bearer in World War I, he found a sort of solace in looking at cannons, planes and tanks. The milder beauties of nature were not for him, he decided. What he wanted his paintings to rival was the harsh power and blank precision of modern machinery...
Poet Charles Baudelaire had eventually come to Delacroix' defense with the simple assertion that, whether or not such a horse ever existed, the painter was perfectly justified in inventing it. Even with such a shield-bearer, Delacroix lost the battle. When he died in 1863, almost everyone still agreed that his rose horse was awful...
...Czech's powerful service worked like a charm. After that it began to sputter; Drobny's weakness has always been inconsistency, a failing which prompts Prague's Communist-controlled press to call him a bourgeois when he loses, praise him as the standard-bearer of "our people's democratic republic" when he wins. Schroeder swept easily through the second and third sets, misfired in the fourth. But he never seemed in serious danger, and ran out the final game of the fifth set at love to win his first Wimbledon title...
About 800 students turned out then in one of the biggest student demonstrations of the year to name him as their Republican standard bearer...
...referred to as "Murderer Van Flit." Towering, husky Van Fleet, who led a regiment across the Normandy beaches in 1944 and rose to be a division commander in four months, was not alarmed by the threat on his life, but the Athenian authorities were. How had the note-bearer escaped the vigilance of two detectives constantly on guard in the general's corridor...