Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adventures, however, perhaps the most revealing was a brush with the Pope in 1910. On a visit to Europe after his audience with the Pope, then Plus X. At the time the Pope was troubled with the presences in Rome of some American Methodists who were trying to convert Rome from Catholicsim to Methodists. The Pope asked Roosevelt not to recognize the Methodists; the Methodists asked him not to see the Pope. Roosevelt compromised by ignoring both, thus "asserting his independence from either Church," as he related to President William Howard Taft on his return...
...deep southeastern triangle of Texas is a land of aching distances and blazing sun, of endless, string-straight roads and dusty little towns. Oil derricks stand on its horizons, and beef cattle move unseen amid its dreary leagues of tangled mesquite brush. To the west, across the Rio Grande, lies Mexico, to the east the cloud-hung Gulf. Spanish is the country's common tongue; the greater part of its people are poor, underpaid Mexican-Americans. For more than a half-century, southeast Texas has been the Land of Parr...
...20th century brought worse disturbances. A gasoline station, dance studios and a movie company took over space once occupied by bearded brush and chisel wielders. The worst blow came after World War II when a huge, jaundice-yellow garage appeared at one end of the famed old street. The Marguttiani organized a committee for the defense of their neighborhood, and last fall the Italian Ministry of Public Instruction halted further ravages by decreeing that Via Margutta is a "zone of notable public interest," in which no new buildings may be built or existing décor altered without government consent...
...Chandlers' power, most California politicians, of whatever affiliation, were understandably mum last week. Big Bill Bonelli was not. "Well, what the hell," he shrugged, "somebody has to have enough guts to kick a few sacred cows around here, or a man won't be able to brush his own teeth without getting the Chandlers' permission...
...expert, were typed on the Halda-a machine Helander borrowed from Uppsala's theological faculty and carried with him to Strangnas when he went to take up residence there as bishop. Then, he explained, someone ruined the type-perhaps trying to clean them with a steel brush-and he took it to Stockholm for repair...