Word: coal
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Cosmopolitan Clangor. Stella's first published drawings, called Americans in the Rough, appeared in 1905. They were so compelling that in 1908 a magazine sent him to Pittsburgh steel mills and West Virginia coal pits to capture the look of common laborers, immigrants like himself. He did it with the skill of Renaissance masters: character surges from every pore of sweat-stained faces, submerged in subtle eddies of pencil and charcoal. In 1909 Stella returned to Italy, where he was born, and soon met the bellicose futurists. He absorbed their lessons of the violent involvement of forms and devotion...
...least bit of attention to this "monster" who wrote such a sarcastic and completely untrue review of it [Oct. 11]. He is sure to receive just one small lump of coal in his stocking this year...
Cast'e for Coal. In all Britain last week, there was probably only one community where Macmillan's choice of a successor was hailed with unmixed joy. To the 2,000-odd people of Coldstream, a Berwickshire border village flanked by 5,000 acres of Home's ancestral lands, the news of the laird's new job stirred the greatest celebration since the 6th Lord became the 1st Earl in 1605. The clan once foregathered also at Douglas Castle, or "Castle Dangerous," as Sir Walter Scott called it, on their Lanarkshire estate, but in 1937, when...
...there was no clearly defined line for 600 miles along the north-south border between the two countries. It might not have mattered much, except that beneath the desert sands of the region was discovered one of the world's richest deposits of iron ore (65% pure iron), coal and other minerals. Morocco's King Hassan II claimed the area as part of his ancient kingdom, declared that the Algerian rebels had promised to turn it over in exchange for Morocco's crucial help during the guerrilla war against the French. No such thing, said Ben Bella...
...High School (B student, nine-letterman, president of the student council), the whole city was talking about his Saturday afternoon heroics. "Purcell had a reputation for being a school where the quarterback never got dirty," says one of his high-school coaches. "After all, you don't carry coal in a Rolls-Royce...