Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Painter Gerassi is a heavy-muscled, egg-bald man of 55 who talks with staccato forcefulness in a thick accent-English was the last of many languages he picked up. Raised in Spain, he first resolved to be a philosopher, went to Germany to study. "I wanted to find out the sense of life," he recalls. "I found out you don't find out anything but speculations...
After all the disparaging remarks about "egg heads" that have emanated from Washington in recent years, the State Department's sudden compassion for the nation's historians is both surprising and suspicious. The publication of the Yalta documents, however, contributes little to the cause of history-writing. And it adds even less to the United states standing in the world and to the confidence that Americans can have in the conduct of their foreign affairs...
Fighting Marshal. Beneath all the bombast the marshals had a message for the Soviet people. In its most pointed form it was delivered by egg-bald Marshal Ivan Konev, a figure of growing significance in the shifting Soviet scene. Pravda last week gave special prominence to an article by him. Konev was a Bolshevik before he was a soldier, but he is a fighting marshal who has earned his decorations the hard way and has the respect of the Russian people...
...EGG SHORTAGE will increase consumer prices sharply by next winter after a six-month decline which dropped prices in December to the lowest point since 1941. Producers have sold off a large percentage of their flocks and in January hatched 21% fewer chicks than a year ago. By July, egg production will be down considerably below the normal seasonal slump and prices will jump...
...Italy's leading modern sculptors, Pericle Fazzini (TIME, May 7, 1951). But when the packing case arrived from Rome last year and the school officials got their first look, they gasped in pained surprise. Inside was a 6½ft. expressionistic bronze statue of a nude, egg-headed boy, braced against a gnarled stump to rescue a fawn from drowning...