Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McDermand makes it sound worth going after. He writes of lonely, bone-chilling nights, of the joys of casting, and of trout for breakfast. Up above California's timber line there is just enough brush to shade the water and yet not enough to tangle a backcast. Some of the rock-bound lakes have names like Evolution, some have no names, some have no fish. But mostly they are chockfull of golden trout dying of old age for lack of fishermen...
Jean Lurçat returned from World War I with a mangled hand. At first he could not hold a brush, so his mother got him interested in gros point embroidery. In that way he acquired an interest in cloth art which lasted even after his hand improved and he was able to go back to painting...
...Brush. Terrain over which the Truman Administration hunted them was thick with underbrush. Clausen's Case Co. has had plenty of labor strife. The nub of the present trouble is a letter written by union leaders in 1937 which recognized: 1) the right of any employe to join a union of his choosing, 2) the right of non-union workers to deal individually with the company. Triumphantly Clausen declared that the letter guaranteed that Case could remain an open shop. Union leaders declared the letter obsolete, and negotiations promptly broke down...
Early this week Geist's Allis-Chalmers resumed negotiations with the C.I.O. But Leon Clausen only growled and glowered from the brush. The U.S., which has seized a mail-order house, oil fields, meat packers, coal mines and railroads got ready to seize Clausen's Case...
Whatever else can be said about her, no one paints a pelvis or a skull more cleanly or searchingly than O'Keeffe. Her brush, like a surgical knife, pares the bony involutions to paper thinness, sculpturing them in icy white against the ice-blue sky of New Mexico-where she spends half of each year...