Word: checkerboard
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...never been vulgarized or defiled by uneducated people." The elegant diversion is backgammon-and although it has long been enjoyed by an elite few in the private clubs and fashionable resorts of Europe, in the U.S. it lay face down in obscurity on the backside of a checkerboard. Until recently, that...
...Yugoslavia's border security, they crossed illegally into the country from Austria on June 26 with an arsenal of submachine guns, rifles with telescopic sights, pistols with silencers and a portable radio station. They stole a truck from a mineral-water bottling plant, hoisted the red-and-white checkerboard flag of Croatia, and drove 375 miles south. The band presumably expected to find popular support among the Croats, who make up the majority of the population in western Bosnia, a Ustaše stronghold during World...
...black community. Many blacks in Port Arthur live in run-down one-story clapboard buildings on the outskirts of town while the downtown area toward the new Jefferson City shopping center sparkles with modern Gulf and Texaco stations at nearly every other corner, like alternate squares on some garish checkerboard...
...distinction is not the work of a university undergraduate. Heidi Pape, a Smith graduate and a student of Leonard Baskin's, contributed a large woodblock print and a small abstract graphic print. In the woodblock, a female figure inclined upon a table in the foreground gazes backwards towards a checkerboard avenue overhung with intertwined branches of menacing black trees. Entitled "Playroom," it suggests mystery and romance, foreboding and longing. Especially admirable for its command of intent, the print is reminiscent, in the swift and clawing strokes winding around the woman's body, of certain German expressionists in its boldness...
...crafts-including the carpenters, plumbers, bricklayers and painters-control employment on construction jobs. The control is exercised through union hiring halls, where lists of available jobs are called out, or else simply by word of mouth; blacks are seldom told the news. Discrimination is often abetted by contractors who "checkerboard" their few black workers, shifting them from job to job to give the appearance of complying with equal-employment regulations...