Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many of our village down to the river. I heard many shots, and four men near me fell into the river. Then a Portuguese soldier stuck me many times in the back with the knife on his rifle. He kicked me into the river. I grabbed a branch and it carried me downstream. I crawled out and lay all the next day in the bush. Some friends found me and carried me here, where they are making me well...
Titian's Secret. Rico Lebrun came to the U.S. at 24, when the Naples stained-glass factory for which he was working got a contract from a branch of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. in Springfield, Ill. Giving up glassmaking a year later, he went on to a stint as a commercial artist (he did ads for Peck & Peck and spot drawings for The New Yorker), a couple of Guggenheim fellowships, posts at various U.S. colleges and universities. His serious paintings and drawings were from the start shrill cries of pain. There are two kinds of artist, says Lebrun...
...prove that "our youth is neither beat nor lost." Instead, as represented by some featherweight personalities out of Warner's TV training camp, American youth is merely sullen, sadistic and sex-obsessed. "This is my bedroom, in case you get lost," says Connie (Hawaiian Eye) Stevens, a limber branch of the Jukes family tree, just half a minute after she meets Donahue. "We can have a lot of fun together...
...Vandenberg's aims no longer seem to apply. In a curious way the government has helped perpetuate the idea (Kennedy called it "utopia" in his speech) that not only politics but dissent as well stop at the waterline, by recruiting many of its most active critics into the Executive branch. The concentration of a body of experts, combined with too much talk of national purpose, has bred the singular philosophy that the Administration's planners are capable of producing a single, right foreign policy...
...eggshell tree. Dyed Easter egg shells are Scotch-taped to a branch that is painted with Scuff-Kote shoe polish. The Kerrs make one every Easter...