Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine days the sunburned soldiers dragged through the precipitous valleys and pine-covered mountain slopes, and then, as the area narrowed down, the fugitive Grivas (if indeed it was he) began to take refuge behind brush fires. Suddenly, with a change of wind, the whole area of pine forest took flame, engulfed a platoon of British soldiers...
Brass Whistle. The pace of the tour was killing. Panted Furnitureman Herbert Osgood of Youngstown, Ohio: "The hours aren't long enough." Puffed Wall Streeter Franklin McClintock happily: "We don't even have time to brush our teeth!" Host Osawa lost his voice trying to shepherd his guests; all but mute, he finally bought a little brass whistle to signal moveon times. The week's entertainment cost Yoshio Osawa a cool $10,000. Last week, as the diehard Tigers prepared to return to the U.S. by a globe-girdling route, Charlie Caldwell announced that...
...forcing him back from the plate, that keeps him from taking a toehold and getting set to powder the ball. If the Phillies' Coach Whitlow Wyatt, who learned his baseball manners as one of Leo Durocher's Dodgers, had his way, Philly pitchers would put the brush-back pitch to constant use. "I think you ought to play it mean," says Whit, "like Durocher did. They ought to hate you on the field." Pitcher Roberts does not fill Coach Wyatt's prescription. "He won't knock down a batter," complains the coach. "Says...
...Henry Raeburn." To his studio in a steady procession came such famed countrymen as Diarist James Boswell, Economist Adam Smith, Philosopher David Hume and Novelist Sir Walter Scott. With complete self-assurance Raeburn painted them all. In nearly 1,000 portraits he set down, with strong brush strokes and delicate modeling, the gallant, romantic air of the handsome, purposeful Scots...
Bench & Bar. In Milan, Italy, disguised behind stolen sunglasses, a natty grey flannel suit and a bogus beard made from shaving-brush bristles, Convict Francesco Boschi joined a party of visiting attorneys, calmly walked past saluting guards in the first successful break from San Vittore Prison in eleven years...