Word: daube
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gold Coast Colony. Soon his friend and secretary, Mensah, Chief of Apedwa, disappeared from view. After long investigation by the British authorities, eight natives were convicted of murdering Mensah, and sentenced to hang (TIME, Dec.11,1944). Mensah, the Crown contended, had been sacrificed to provide blood to daub a ceremonial stool which represented the late Sir Ofori; or to provide Sir Ofori with a companion in the spirit world; or both...
After five weeks in Provincetown harbor, during which exploring parties were sent out to find a suitable settlement, the Mayflower finally moved across the bay to Plymouth. For almost four months the Pilgrims stayed aboard while the men went ashore daily to build their daub and wattle houses...
...Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece."-Paul Gauguin...
...bombers roared over Toungoo. When the Chinese soldiers gazed into the sky, they saw only the red daub of the Japs' rising sun on the wings. Not since the battle for Toungoo began had the Chinese seen an Allied plane...
...ships were there-in men's minds, on drafting boards, in molten pig rolling out of blast furnaces, in mold lofts, in shops where steel was twisted and wrenched into shape, on ways, alongside docks getting fitted out and smeared with the last daub of grey war paint. Some were on the high seas. Into Alexandria, Egypt, last week steamed the Patrick Henry, after a maiden voyage that took her around South Africa, through the Red Sea and the Suez into the Mediterranean, with 10,000 tons of war supplies...