Word: doves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basement room lined with an antique gun collection. One Christmas Accardo decorated a 40-ft. tree on his lawn, installed electrically driven skaters, which glided around the lawn on tracks to the strains of Christmas carols. Tony wanted to be a good neighbor. He deplores the tattooed dove on his right hand, which twitches when he moves his trigger finger and reminds him of the days when he was an Al Capone bodyguard...
...opening scenes there were a few surprising innovations. Pablo Picasso's peace pigeon (which French anti-Communists call the Dove that Goes Boom) still dominated the scenery, but the US French and British flags were placed in the center of the stage, modestly flanked by the Russian and Chinese Communist hammers & sickles. And Ilya Ehrenburg (the Russian Intellectual who Goes Boom) was playing the gentle Eva, in addition to his usual duties as stage manager...
Under the Dove. Ironically, Cyrus Ching, Washington's hulking, pipe-smoking dove of peace, on leave from his Federal Mediator job, had to preside over the blowup. In his new, uneasy seat of chairman of WSB, Ching had announced the wage freeze, hastening to add that it was only temporary; some formula for thawing it out would soon be devised. His tripartite board had set to work. They were still working last week when Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston ordered them to reach a decision by week...
Since the beginning of practice this fall Smith has been troubled by what doctors termed "a pulled muscle." He was unable to start in a pre-season scrimmage against the Business School. In the Crimson's opening game against M.I.T., the six foot six center dove for a loose ball and collided with an opponent. He had to be helped from the floor...
...wooded hillside near Atlanta. His studio, as big as the house, is always alive with birds, some to paint and others that have been hurt and need fixing. Among his guests last week were three Canada geese, a very angry golden eagle named Sergeant, an albino cardinal, a mourning dove, two red-winged blackbirds and a raucous blue jay with a broken wing. Menaboni makes pets of many birds; ducklings have swum in his bathtub, bobwhites have made themselves at home in his living room and a screech owl has perched on his easel...