Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was as busy last week as a solitary fireman putting out a brush fire...
...months ago Menderes had a brush with death when a Turkish Viscount turboprop carrying him to London crashed with the loss of 15 lives (TIME. March 2). Many devout Turks attributed his escape to divine intervention, and since then the Premier's popularity has taken on a quasi-religious quality. Upon his return to Turkey, camels and sheep were sacrificially slaughtered in his presence; on at least one occasion admirers hailed him as "Evliya [Saint] Menderes...
Gallused, collarless and tieless, his straw boater firmly planted on his head, brush-mustached Chris Smith spent a lot of time sitting in the sun whittling decoys, puffing his big cigars down to a stub (held with a wooden peg), and just thinking. He got to wondering about the waterbugs he saw skating the waters around Algonac. "Some day," he told Jay, "somebody is going to build a boat like those bugs-one that will go on top of the water instead of through...
...Kooning's "own image" will still leave a lot of viewers floundering in the broad, thick brush strokes and paint splatters. There is no trace of his earlier furiously hacked and lacerated images of women. In his present works De Kooning, without relenting in either slash or splash, has clearly moved toward landscape. The raw tones that De Kooning himself called "circus colors" are now fresher and brighter; images swim closer and more sturdily to the surface...
Nehru's attitude toward the recent events in Tibet is flagrant contempt for democracy [TIME, April 20]. You simply do not possess a true love for democracy and brush aside the mass propulsion of Tibetan people into slavery by casually and apathetically remarking, "We do not wish to aggravate the situation." There is no need for Communism to force itself into Asia, for with the sympathetic indifference of men such as Nehru, Asia will be Communist without a shot being fired...