Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Please don't," said the gentle old humanitarian as the boy moved to brush an insect off his sleeve. "That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs." Thus, at his jungle hospital near Lambarene, in Gabon, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 88, showed that the years have not dimmed his credo of reverence for life. His visitors were St. Louis Ad Executive Lisle M. Ramsey and Ramsey's ten-year-old son Max. Representing a citizens' committee affiliated with Religious Heritage of America, Inc., Ramsey had trekked to Lambar...
...Miss, the sprawling painting he called America the Beautiful expressed all the raw violence and redneck inhumanity of last September's integration crisis at the university. Kerciu had watched the riots from his office window, and for two weeks afterward found himself unable to lay brush to canvas. But he wanted to express the drama of this turning point of state history. Normally a quiet, representational landscapist, Kerciu adopted the style of Manhattan Artists Jasper Johns and Larry Rivers, who are fascinated by flags and labels. Kerciu painted a big Confederate flag and plastered it with the slogans...
...rough going, at a "tropic latitude and a mountain altitude," with nights freezing and days burning. It wasn't only the peril of dodging Egyptian fire; once, miles from the front, a bullet whizzed by, and then as he flattened himself, an other. Out from the brush, rifle in hand, came a woman. "I thought he was an Egyptian," she said. Among the galabiya-wearing Yemeni, only Egyptians are known to wear pants, and "your trousered correspondent" became an obvious target. De Carvalho emerged after 23 days in Yemen with a vivid story (TIME, March 8), establishing that...
Then he fenced the whole from stem to stern with willow withes to be a defence against the wave, and strewed much brush thereon...
...Calypso, far-wandering Odysseus prepared to sail for home across the wine-dark sea. But when he had finished his boat, why did he cover the bilge with a layer of brushwood? Generations of scholars have sweated over the passage without producing a satisfactory answer. One theory holds that brush is only a mistranslation of ballast; some classicists argue that Odysseus was merely making a bed. A few despairing translators have ignored the brush entirely. Not until recently, when archaeologists learned to skindive. was the puzzling passage explained...