Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signatures meant even more: San Francisco was the most clean-cut demonstration yet of what bold U.S. initiative can accomplish. This fact centered particularly on two men. John Foster Dulles had spent a year working his way through the barriers-the fears and natural prejudices of the free nations, the threats and legalisms thrown up by the Russians to block a Japanese Peace Treaty. He had succeeded with the kind of patient persistence and resourcefulness that U.S. statecraft had all but forgotten. As president of the conference, Secretary of State Dean Acheson personified U.S. determination to get on with...
Kiyoshi Saito's Cat was designed, engraved and printed by the artist, with an eye to self-expression rather than sales value. No great shakes technically, Saito uses the grain of the wood for texture, as did Norway's Edvard Munch. The picture's bold black outlining and rich background color are strictly school-of-Paris. Only its suave, half-humorous air is Oriental...
...scientist, of all persons, should be able to stop where knowledge stops, namely with Nature, and be bold enough to confess and to live with the great gulf of the unknown which lies beyond...
When Hedda Hopper's bombshell burst, the lawyers who had drawn the agreement for Hearst promptly confirmed it-and so did Marion Davies. The news brought a quick and bold counterattack from the Hearst estate's special administrators, Son Randolph Apperson Hearst and Lawyer Henry MacKay Jr.: "This so-called agreement . . . was never executed and for this and many other reasons has no more effect than if it never existed." Snapped Filmland Lawyer Gregson Bautzer, who had helped set up the agreement last year for Hearst: "The document will speak for itself when filed...
Legend has it that, in 1477, Memling fought under the banners of Charles the Bold against the Swiss at Nancy, and was wounded. Charles himself, the last of the great Burgundian dukes, died in the battle, and Burgundy's power was broken forever. A breath of the dukedom's glory survives...