Word: chalkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That conviction, and some skill gained from copying, led to a job in Chicago sketching fashion figures for mail-order catalogues. A footloose fellow, he soon moved to Manhattan's Greenwich Village, sketched red chalk portraits at $200 each. Portraiture involved "too damned many dinner parties," so Tobey switched to painting lamps and screens for a while. In 1923 he trekked West to Seattle, has lived in the Northwest off & on ever since. Painting sales plus stints of art teaching earn him enough money to live simply and make occasional trips...
Next year's crop of Radcliffe freshmen will be able to chalk up six more one o'clock permissions than before for first term social activity...
...Chalk & Cornfields. This humane little story is fortified with homely scenes: Uncle Adrian tippling a bit or sinking his hands lovingly into dough, Philip teasing the baker's lovesick apprentice. Novelist Newby has a fine ear for simple speech ("The tongue is the waterspout of the heart," declaims Uncle Adrian, "and if you let it get clogged your heart'll bust"). He writes with poetic affection for the countryside: "It was chalk country. Except where the trees stood in neat clumps upon the hills and where a belt of cornfields crept up among the contours, the turf...
...Chalk. According to Wilkinson's plan, each "target city" (seven cities in New York State have been listed as bomb-worthy) would have at least ten radiological reconnaissance teams, dressed in protective clothing, with dust-excluding respirators. In each five-man team, four would have radiation detectors (i.e., Geiger counters or equivalents), the fifth a walky-talky radio for reporting to the control center. Their equipment would be stored at points in a circle around the city, well outside the prime target area...
...team would pick up its equipment and move as fast as possible toward the center of the damage area. As soon as their instruments detected radioactivity, they would report its intensity and position to the control center. When a team encountered radiation above 30 roentgens per hour, it would chalk a red "D" (for danger) on a house wall. (A green "S" would mean safe.) Then the team would turn and move around the damage center in a clockwise pattern tracing the limits of the 30-roentgen area and marking it with...