Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House. Lyndon Johnson began looking closely at the problems of space 2% months ago after listening to brush-browed Physicist Edward Teller (TIME, Dec. 9) testify before the Johnson Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee...
...Promoter Nordness hung on the turnstiles, at week's end seemed to have a fairchance of breaking even. Attendance (at 95?a head) for the first two days of the ten-day show: 6,942. Total picture sales: $15,175. At least the show had demonstrated the widespread, brush-in-hand U.S. interest in painting. With reasonable success in 1958, it might become a revealing annual event...
Antonietta's seizures stopped when the Madonna's weeping began. Other cures swiftly followed. All that seemed needed was to brush the lame and the halt with a bit of cloth wetted by the tears of the Madonna; a 49-year-old man got back the use of his crippled left arm, a three-year-old girl moved her polio-paralyzed arm, an 18-year-old girl who had been dumb suddenly spoke...
...This brush with the law was mighty close. The jury (seven men, five women) voted 11 to 1 for conviction. Juror Earle T. MacHardy, a suburban sugar buyer who had said on selection that his firm's dealings with the Teamsters Union would not affect the impartiality of his verdict, held out adamantly for acquittal. His reason: the U.S. Government had failed to make its circumstantial evidence stick. Though Jimmy was free to go (on $2,500 bond), he was by no means out of the courtroom woods. Ahead lie: 1) outcome of a suit by 13 rank...
...Osbert and Sacheverell were daring moderns, and their father, Sir George Sitwell-not included in this book -was setting one of the most glorious examples of eccentricity in English history (he was an aristocrat with an almost Renaissance-like variety of interests, including the invention of a musical tooth-brush). English Eccentrics, now revised and expanded, is still as fresh, invigorating and delightful as on the day it was written...