Word: brush
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smith welcomed the crowd of 100 million watching on television to the debate, workmen were still installing phones and checking the electrical connections in the halls. Since the city found out five days ago it would host the debate, civic leaders have been praying that Cleveland--where Charles Brush in 1879 invented the first street light--would live up to its reputation as the electricity capital of North America...
...three straight years Kansas City waged war with the New York Yankees, trading bone-jarring slides, brush-back pitches and dramatic home runs. The Royals-Yankees match quickly became one of baseball's fiercest showdowns, but it was always the New Yorkers who went to the World Series. The Phillies were even more conspicuous failures in the stretch. In 1964 they set an unenviable standard for September swoons, blowing a big lead by winning only four games in the season's final 2½ weeks. The last time the Phillies won a pennant, in 1950, they were wiped...
...message seems aimed more at Evans, and it is not good. His district, which includes part of Indianapolis, is expected to vote heavily for Ronald Reagan, which could give Crane a powerful boost. To prevent that from happening, Evans is ringing doorbells as doggedly as a Fuller Brush salesman. Says he: "Knocking on doors, touching hands with people and listening to them is the only way I can win." The Indianapolis Star has described his congressional voting record as "almost indistinguishable from a moderately conservative Republican." He voted for the Republican-proposed 30% tax cut, deregulation of natural...
Harvard's main strength throughout the season so far has been its aggressiveness. But in this game, referees Will Duchesneau and Tom Kolodziej wouldn't let the team play soccer, calling every bump and brush a trip or a charge...
...than the unadventurous vanguardism of most "advanced" American painting in the '20s and '30s, that is partly because it was grounded in 19th century France: especially in Manet, whose work Hopper studied and copied. The sober painterliness of Hopper's style, its reliance on the single brush mark to enunciate form, came ultimately from Manet; so did his passion for meticulous truth of tone; and so, especially, did the "emptiness" of his compositions, with their emphatic blocks of shadow, their wide, flat planes of wall, sky or road, and their unfussy, reverberant light...