Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had predicted and promised, Republicans gave Harry Truman's massive special session program a quick brush-off. To the surprise of no one, they refused to consider price control or rationing as inflation remedies, gleefully repeated the President's observation of ten months ago that "these are marks of a police state." Their answer to a request for an excess profits tax was a brusque no. Despite Candidate Tom Dewey's personal intervention, they refused to liberalize the provisions of the Displaced Persons bill. The one unarguable gain of the week was approval...
...Clemente Orozco had labored five months on his new mural-and never laid a brush on it. The owlish Mexican master spent his evenings hunched in a kitchen chair in his studio, under a single powerful lamp, drawing pictures. Mornings he would go out to the brand-new government normal school to work, by remote control, on the painting itself...
...help support this household, he must work with lightning speed, painting with swift, sure brush strokes on pieces of thin bamboo paper. The slightest error in wetting or pressing upon the brush would mean an ugly smear and having to start all over again. But Ch'ih Pai-shih never has to start over again, and he can turn out four or five of his delicate paintings a day. These he sells only on order, and only by the square foot (his price...
...left armpit, then pumping his left arm against it] which were somewhat dubious but very rhythmic ... At home I set myself with zeal to imitate this music-so often and so successfully that I was forbidden to indulge in such an indecent accompaniment." That was Stravinsky's first brush with rhythm...
...ctor Poleo argues better with his brush, going off to his studio in the early morning, there to paint for ten hours at a stretch, until he has covered canvas with grief and ruin and death...