Word: doves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pablo Picasso, 67, leading post-impressionist and a founder of cubism, was seriously dabbling again in realism. For Paris' Communist-sponsored "World Congress of Partisans of Peace," scheduled for later this month, he had painted a dove of peace that looked just like a dove. The bird, trilled Communist L'Humanite, was "vital and soft. Its plumage shines and drives back the shadows...
Then came the climactic announcement of secession from the civilized world and the release of the "Ceremonial Dove"--apparently a plain Yard pigeon--which was countered by release of several dozen balloons and a great deal of water from Adams House...
Shortly before 5, an hour & a half late, a stumpy little figure in dove grey hat and black overcoat came through the frosted glass doors from the street. Flanked by his lawyer and RCA's David Sarnoff, J. Caesar Petrillo, boss of the union musicians, had arrived...
...President is as determined as anyone to keep the budget balanced. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, dressed in dove's clothing and holding out an olive branch to the National Association of Manufacturers (see BUSINESS), nevertheless hinted that corporation taxes, if not taxes on big personal incomes, would have...
Seven individual poultry dealers in the metropolitan area have explained that white doves are getting harder and harder to find. One merchant, sorely pressed by the two experimenters, admitted that "the white dove market isn't what it used...