Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destroyers) and was growing fast. And though its vessels had long been engaged in the humdrum work of convoy and patrol, and distinguished themselves in the hell of Dunkirk, last week for the first time the Royal Canadian Navy gave the world a good, smacking sea brush of its own to show it had no barnacles on its bottoms...
...spent much time as a student and from whom he continually borrowed methods of technique and presentation and adapted them to suit his own purposes. Toulouse-Lautrec, in his own right, was a genuine artist, one who delved deeply into the earthy, sometimes sordid aspects of life. His brush was strong, his eye was piercing, and in all of his work a sharp feeling of cynicism, often bordering on harshness, can be detected. I was surprised, though perhaps I should not have been, to find that he had produced such a brief master-piece of whimsicality as the "Femme-Couchee...
...teacher should never seek to help a child by taking the brush in hand...
This week, back at their home stations, National Guardsmen waited for the President's call for a year's active service, had the prospect of longer and bigger maneuvers to brush up basic combat lessons, develop the kind of teamwork the Germans have. Regulars hoped Congress would soon pass a conscription bill. For-besides men and equipment-what the Army needs is practice, practice, more practice. No Army man forgets that it took the Germans seven years...
...past life passes before him at such times, some strange scenes appeared to Trotsky in his coma: the first trip of nine-year-old Lev Davidovich Bronstein from the farm in Kherson Province to school in Odessa; his first brush with Marxism in the seventh grade in Nikolayev; his conversion to the cause after the woman Vetrova burned herself to death in a prison cell; his first arrest in 1898; prison in Moscow, where he married Alexandra Lvovna; Siberia in 1900; escape to England in 1902, without Alexandra but with a passport forged in the name of Trotsky, which stuck...