Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation. "The altimeter," he said later, "was the only instrument I had in the bas. ket. I looked in my pockets to see what else there might be. There was a pocketknife for opening beer bottles, a handkerchief and 1,650 Belgian francs. Nothing else." Bravely the bold aeronaut straightened the pink tie that hung across his cream-colored shirt. Belgium and the motorboat were fast disappearing in the gloaming to windward. As Holland's Walcheren Island coasted by, van der Straeten noticed a steamer below. He valved gas out of the bag above his head, came down...
...with sketches, add a few finishing touches when the paintings were done, and sign them with a flourish. He soon found that young Van Dyck's work needed no finishing touches. Experts have since despaired of telling some of their portraits apart. The student's are as bold and right as the master's own, with the same purity and flavor, and only a little less body-for with all his talents, Van Dyck lacked Rubens' typically Flemish delight in pink-and-white flesh...
...French were cautious about Germany, they were bold about the matter of unity. Said France's Georges Bidault: "A united Europe can only come about by giving up some sovereignty..." France's Pierre-Henri Teitgen, underground hero and a leader of M.R.P., naively proposed that the slogan, "My country, right or wrong," be outlawed...
...carried the brown & white colors of Texas' famous King Ranch. Horsemen had looked him over in the paddock with care and admiration. He was a full brother of Assault, who won the Triple Crown for King Ranch and Trainer Max Hirsch in 1946, and a son of Bold Venture, who won the Derby and Preakness in 1936. On his dam's side, he was descended from the great Equipoise...
...most of the outport fishing hamlets or to Labrador, the sea is the main highway. Sturdy little coastal boats and black-hulled schooners sail in & out of deep fiords and past bold escarpments...