Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Turn. As the summit approached, Nikita Khrushchev must have found it harder and harder to brush off the complaint that his "soft" policy toward the West was not producing results. In fact, he undoubtedly agreed, being the agile fellow...
...some of the mystery of a cathedral; yet her people make their entrances and exits, and the trains rush in and out again, and life moves on. Her problem is what it has always been: how to catch the fleeting moment without freezing its flight. Isabel Bishop's brush creates a vibrant shimmer and veils her everyday dramas in a magic mist that evokes a sense of timelessness...
...numbers that Chief of Police Thomas Cahill said hadn't been matched in 30 years. De Gaulle stood upright in a pale-blue convertible, chopping the air in two-handed greeting and murmuring "Merci, merci" as he bobbed his head from side to side. His aides had to brush off the confetti as he pulled up at the city hall for the Marseillaise and a word from Mayor George Christopher. Returning from a chilly tour of San Francisco Bay aboard a Coast Guard gunboat, he was greeted by nine-year-old Brownie Scout Dara Woods, her bare knees knocking...
...contrast to the cool, desiccated manner of European twelve-tone composers of the Schoenberg-Webern school, Riegger turned out propulsive, ruggedly rhythmic compositions full of jangling dissonances and roughhewn contrasts. The effect was sometimes as startling as an impressionist-styled canvas executed with a house painter's brush...
...couple of well-heeled outlanders have recently edged into the territory the Times considers its own. In February, the Cowles organization moved west with the purchase by the Minneapolis Star and Tribune of the suburban San Fernando Valley Times (circ. 50,190). In March, Brush-Moore Newspapers Inc., a solidly profitable chain with nine other dailies in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland, bought the fast-growing San Gabriel Valley Tribune (circ...