Word: brushed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...later worked up a series of big landscapes from his sketches. Estes Park, Colorado, 1869, is a magnificently rhetorical painting, but the hyperbole was constrained by Bierstadt's lyric exactness of eye as it roved across the calm lake and the billowing mist and crags behind. Such, the brush insists, are the lineaments of an earthly paradise...
...Crimson will have another chance to brush up for the EIBL showdown when it plays at Springfield today. Over the past four years, Springfield has established itself as one of the best teams in New England, and with a record of 17-3, the Chiefs have already secured a play-off berth in the NCAA's Mid-Atlantic small colleges' division...
...night shrouded the Southern California coast. There was no sound but the rush of the surf as 80 Camp Pendleton Marines, their faces blackened, huddled in the brush in night ambush position. They kept their weapons at the ready in preparation for a night assault by "aggressors"-fellow Marines engaged in landing exercises...
...choice. They shot at us so we don't go, but we ran for two days until we hit the mines." For the first time in the current Communist offensive, sizable numbers of Americans, too, are in the path of the assault. A drive on Hué would brush perilously close to the U.S. airfield and communications center at Phu Bai, six miles south of the city. The base is guarded by two of the six U.S. combat battalions remaining in South Viet...
...United Methodist Church is a case of a great American success story that is going bad. Once a movement that leaped like brush fire along the 19th century frontier, the U.M.C. has suffered a net loss of 518,000 members in the past four years-the biggest of any church in U.S. history. Over a longer time span Sunday school attendance has slid by onefourth, the once-prized foreign missionary force by one-fifth. A recent survey by U.M.C. program planners found that grass-roots Methodists bitterly distrust church officials...