Word: dirt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...opening day, 3,000 people piled in for a look at the picture. Few disagreed with the experts' contention that it was worth what it cost. A product of Rembrandt's last, dirt-poor years, it glowed with a human warmth and depth that his earlier, slicker works lacked. The sitter's pensive, bloodshot eyes pierced the murk in which Rembrandt had muffled him; his melancholy, tight little smile reminded some visitors of the Mono, Lisa. Like her, the Young Man seemed to be silently inviting the spectator to enter the timeless, painted world in which...
...Wounded only in the hand, he had feigned death, lain in the trench for two days. Weiner said that before pulling out of Taejon the Communists tied the prisoners together, pushed them into the trenches and shot them as they crouched against the sides. The Communists then shoveled dirt on the bodies. As the Taejon area was searched, the bodies of 5,000 or 6,000 Koreans were found...
Methodist Parson Hiram Milo Frakes had ridden his pony into the patch of Kentucky wilderness cut off by Big Pine and Little Log Mountains to bring religion and book learning to the dirt-poor, illiterate mountaineers. When Scott Partin found that out, he gave the parson some land to start building his school and church on. Bill Henderson was another Kentuckian who helped. He chipped in a 65-acre farm because "he'd rather his children would have an education than to have the farm." Before he could see the settlement that Parson Frakes made of his land, Bill...
Recently Bill Drury got in touch with one Marvin Bas, a small-fry lawyer who was also collecting dirt for Gilbert's Republican opponent. One day last week, in a strangely agitated state, Drury visited his own lawyer. "I'm awfully hot," said Drury. "I need protection." Drury's lawyer telephoned a Kefauver committee investigator for bodyguards...
Goldschmidt and the rest of the field continued without interruption, down through the main streets of Watkins Glen, over a stone bridge in the state park, across railroad tracks, through hazardous short turns, over roads of macadam, concrete, brick and dirt. By the end of the second lap, heavy-footed Erwin Goldschmidt had the lead...