Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Units of Major General Rapp Brush's 40th Division landed on the west coast of Negros, fourth largest of the islands. One column drove northeast to capture the capital, Bacolod, another moved to a junction with Filipino guerrillas...
General Douglas MacArthur's troops were getting on with the trying job of reclaiming the Philippines. This week 55-year-old Major General Rapp Brush's 40th Division landed on Panay, westernmost of the Visayas group. MacArthur claimed complete surprise at the beachhead, and the Yanks speedily drove to within ten miles of Iloile, Panay's big port and fifth largest Philippine city. But mountainous Panay, from which Jap aircraft menaced shipping, could be tough to clean out; the Japs may have 5,000 troops there...
...girl laughs at him or some body punches him, physically, intellectually or spiritually, on the nose. Three of the stories collected here (most of them first published in The New Yorker) deal with face slappings, knockouts, punches in the jaw. Thirteen deal with their social equivalents: snubs, cuts, insults, brush-offs and cold shoulders. The others tell of rudenesses, deceits, infidelities or-more often-pathetic pretenses cruelly unmasked...
...Three committee appointed at Yalta - U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov - failed to agree in , its first three meetings. But the talks continued: after Yalta, Moscow was in no mood to brush off the U.S. and Britain...
...born Francis Guy faced the fact that he would never get rich at his tailoring-and-dyeing business. To pad out his income, he tried an odd assortment of avocations-including verse writing, mixing toothache remedies and painting landscapes. None of these efforts made him rich, but his paint brush eventually attracted attention. Last week at Chicago's Art Institute, 125 years after his death, Francis Guy (1760-1820) was being referred to as a grandfather of U.S. landscape painting...