Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bracing for Brush Fires. The review will range across U.S. defensive power-from high-flying bombers to Navy troopships. But it will focus on U.S. capability of fighting a conventional war, the weapons and manpower that can be strengthened significantly in a few months' time. Under consideration: calling six Army Reserve divisions and six National Guard divisions to active duty...
...seriously suggest that calling up a dozen Reserve divisions will make Khrushchev hesitate to make a grab for Berlin. But the Army wants to prepare as fast as it can for any brush fires the Russians may set around the rim of the Western world while U.S. attention is riveted on Germany. Rushing its readiness, the Defense Department last week announced that it will build up the Army full strength (870,000) by drafting 8,000 men in August, the largest draft call since last December...
...pupils spend day after day copying veined marble and Roman bronzes, the more intricate the better. Their paintings were fastidious, and their surfaces glowed like enamel. Crivelli never lost his sternly disciplined technique or his ability to make a canvas sparkle as if he had been working, not with brush and paint, but with gold and jewels...
...battalions, two new helicopter squadrons, and more A4D attack bombers and all-weather F4H fighter bombers for close air support. In testimony before a House subcommittee, Marine Commandant General David Shoup complained: "We have more fight than we can ferry." To ferry in marines and G.I.s when the brush fires begin to burn, the bill calls for 119 new null and C-135 Air Force transports...
...life. Compared with the more spectacular romantics, he seemed rough and unfinished. Nor did he understand the work of the new impressionists ("Who on earth forces you to show such horrors?" he asked a gallery owner who was exhibiting work by Monet). He was a superlative draftsman whose brush drew spare and strong, and whose preoccupation was people. His people-often molded like sculpture and bathed in a somber but acid light-picnicked, gossiped, argued in court, rode on buses. But no matter how ordinary their acts, Daumier gave drama and dignity to their lives. He was ruthless...