Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very clearly: "I have just come in from Piccadilly Circus tube station. There is a heavy raid in progress. But in the station itself, things appear to be quiet with the exception of a small man in a dirty overcoat who is very busy. He has a stick of chalk in his hand and is dutifully inscribing on the wall 'Home Rule for Wales.' That, in its way, conveys the spirit of London in the middle of this bombing raid at 1 o'clock on a September morning." It is perhaps needless to say that our reaction...
...very common all over China. Young Pioneers (Socialist "boy scouts") took to the streets with megaphones and leaflets, explaining the health problems created by spitting, and lecturing passers-by who were caught in the act. At the height of the campaign, the Pioneers went around with pieces of chalk, drawing circles around the spit and labelling them with the date and the culprit's name...
Dodson's plane is unarmed. How, then, did he manage to chalk a Communist truck up to his credit? One day recently, while photographing the results of a bomb strike near Vinh, Dodson was flat-hatting along Highway 1, only 100 ft. off the deck, at 500 m.p.h...
Though she does not claim the ability make chalk drawings come to life or to build a stairway to the stars, she admits that "children sometimes identify me with Mary Poppins. Of course," she adds, "I have a china hen on my hall table that lays candies instead of eggs...
...Helena Rubinstein could clearly recall her first impression upon landing in New York in 1914. "It was a cold day," she would say in speech still heavily accented from her Polish girlhood. "All the American women had purple noses and grey lips, and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the U.S. could be my life's work...