Word: brushings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oneil J. Richard in his letter to TIME [Aug. 15] has made me contrite as a prawn, shaky as a jellyfish and humble as'a clam. I hereby renounce girls, shrimp, eels, oysters, crabs, periwinkles and all pleasurable subjects for the artist's brush both of land and sea-all of which Mr. Hogarth and I loved so well...
Between themselves. Payne and Forbis brush off such haphazards with few words, for they have been following each other in and out of adventures and jobs since they became grade-school pals in Missoula, Mont. 28 years ago. Sharing an early interest in journalism, they worked together on the Missoula County High School and Montana State University newspapers. Out of college in 1939, they both came down with a critical case of wanderlust and left Missoula in Forbis' Model A Ford to tour the U.S. and Mexico. Neither ever returned to Missoula for long...
...witnesses what facts came out, as it clearly has done in its July 25 article "Skeletons in the City Room." TIME correctly reported that I testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that all correspondents in Korea "in" on the Sabre jet story and their first brush with the enemy agreed to hold it by specific direction of the Fifth Air Force. Reason: intelligence believed the encounter so fleeting that the enemy still did not realize the Sabre jets' presence . . . On the most crucial point at stake, TIME garbles my testimony by reporting: "Talbert argued that security was violated...
...mobilizes under its natural leader, Washington's leading witch-hunter, Senator Jason Ransom. When an over-Taurumed African violet is left by accident in Ransom's car. and turns into a "huge writhing mass," the Senator, envisaging a "Red assassin," empties his revolver into the back-seat brush. Soon he is alerting his colleagues, "I can hardly believe the unbelievable extent of this conspiracy," and grabbing scare headlines, e.g., "RANSOM SAYS REDS PLAN ATTACK ON U.S. CURRENCY...
...works by expurgating the dirty words. Mr. Bowdler dreams that his wife, as a result of never having been allowed to see any dirty words, tries to imagine them instead, and starts giving the most obscene interpretations to the most innocent remarks. Author Russell's novel moral: Never brush the dirt under the carpet; the little woman is sure to stumble...