Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem sometimes," McGuire says. Biafra's sole airstrip is a hard-top road slightly widened by cutting away at the jungle on both sides. It is lit by two rows of lights, none of them very strong. The outboard engines of the four-engine Constellations hang out over the brush, which, if it fouls the engines, means an abrupt end to the flight...
...foot room, the daily ration consists of two cups of cassava, a starchy, sawdust-like root. When Wilde visited there, a child had just died-it was a year and a half old and weighed no more than eight pounds. Its mother was too weak to brush the flies off the body. "This is a children's war," said the Rev. Jack Finucane, one of 100 Holy Ghost Fathers who are caring for the sick and the destitute. "At the moment there's little we can do but pray to God to save some of these little fellows...
...Secret. For many Frenchmen and foreigners alike, the dismissal confirmed the impression that De Gaulle's recent brush with near-disaster had not made him one whit less willful or arbitrary. There also was concern about the future course of De Gaulle's policies. The general has interpreted the big election victory as a mandate to push through his reforms. The main one is participation, which he envisions as a new way of life that will enable students to have more say in the running of the universities and workers to share in both the profits and managerial...
...disputes Guino's astonishing claim. In Paris in 1913, the 23-year-old Guino was asked to help Renoir work at his new interest - sculpting. Crippled by rheumatism and a stroke, the ailing 72-year-old painter was barely able to hold a brush, let alone handle sculp tor's clay. So, under Renoir's strict and detailed supervision, the young Guino executed the artist's conceptions. The collaboration continued for four fruitful years, apparently to the satisfaction of both men. Renoir attached his name to the works; Guino settled for a small...
...which had been known to natives for as long as anyone could remember, were "in fact finely sculpted works of art, but no one had taken the trouble to take a good look at them." Nor were casual visitors to blame. Most menhirs were buried deep in the maquis (brush), some of them face-down or savagely hacked into two or three pieces. Describing his most important find, a 160-ft. hillock with 17 sculptured menhirs at Filitosa, he says: "It was an amazonian jungle. We crawled up it like foxes. Suddenly, I found myself nose to nose with...