Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juan Peron, from exile in tolerant Panama, running a campaign of sabotage and harassment against the revolutionary government that threw him out? Last week, after at least seven brush-fire in surrections in 24 days, many Argentines were beginning to think...
...principal sources were a pious Dominican eulogy and the memories of an ancient monk, Fra Eustachio. with whom Vasari often gossiped at Florence's convent of San Marco. From such accounts, Vasari drew the picture of Fra Angelico as a painter who "never took up his brush without first making a prayer. He never made a crucifix when the tears did not course down his cheeks . . ." Some later historians have doubted this picture of Fra Angelico in a state of religious ecstasy. The evidence in his painting points far more to a man who was the soul of patience...
Sobered by his brush with...
...Details. Most remarkable was the string playing, which created the sense of tone focus and flexibility usually found in the best string quartets. Behind the strings a pair of French horns entered every now and then with the utmost discretion, like a painter thickening his line without slowing his brush. Mozart came out very warmly indeed. When the slow movement was done, Conductor von Karajan stood momentarily with his arms dangling before his bent figure, as if to say, "How could such music possibly come...
...reason for the deer's increase is man's war on wolves, coyotes and wildcats, the deer's most destructive natural enemies. Another is the deer's adjustment to civilization. They seem to browse and thrive better in the thickets and brush at the edges of cities and cleared farmland than in dense forest. Deer have been shot by New York and New Jersey hunters within sight of Manhattan's skyscrapers...