Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barking Dog. The references to espionage in the current investigation are not Jenkins' first brush with that subject. 'In 1950 he was appointed by a federal judge to defend Alfred Dean Slack, who was accused of delivering secret information from the Holston Ordnance Works at Kingsport, Tenn. to a Communist agent. On advice of counsel, Slack pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 15 years. Then he appealed, contending that Jenkins had not advised him properly. The Circuit Court, ruling that Jenkins had done his job well, gave him an unusual accolade. Said the opinion: " [Jenkins] has earned and enjoys...
...recreation and the entertainment of friends. The satin bower bird even paves his forecourt with shining bits of mica. But his crowning achievement is painting murals in the bower: "He collects charcoal from native hearths and, holding a strip of frayed bark in his beak for a brush, mixes the charcoal with saliva, which is forced through the sides of his bill to be spread with the piece of bark. He thus applies gesso or paint to the side walls of his bower...
...Chicago, "Elmer the Elephant," the ear-flapping cloth hero of a local NBC-TV show, calmly went on advising kiddies to brush their tusks every day while a pair of A.F.L. unions battled over his insides. One union claims that the undercover man manipulating Elmer's trunk with his arm is an artist; the other insists he is merely a stagehand handling a prop. The National Labor Relations Board is now trying to decide whether NBC has violated a labor practice law by giving the job to a performer instead of a stagehand...
Looking further down on the list, one realizes that when the Band played "Brush Your Teeth With Colgate" last fall, it was not only ridiculing the opposition but also advertising a company in which the University owned shares worth $1,377,000. And these in the stands who were simultaneously swigging from bottles of Hiram Walker were patronizing a firm in which Harvard's holdings equalled...
There are three of these cleaning trucks that dutifully swep the one hundred and thirty-five miles of Cambridge street. They are triangular, orange colored machines costing about eight thousand dollars each, with a single rear wheel for steering. Two large steel brushes whirling on the sides root the dirt out of the gutter while a large rear brush flips in into a conveyor belt that carries the mess into a big hopper. The trucks look pretty ungainly and make plenty of noise, but actually they are quite graceful. The secret is in the rear wheel steering that allows them...