Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are pots of gold, too, to grace his rainbow period. Museums, which were at first slow to acquire his paintings, now find them skyrocketing out of sight and pocket. Today his oils regularly fetch from $50,000 to $55,000, and his record auction price of $82,500 last April has already been nearly doubled in private sales. His original signed and numbered lithographs bring up to $1,200; his watercolors are priced as high...
...Move In." Limited disarmament was only a stopgap. McKeithen wanted civil rights demonstrations-which had been specifically sanctioned by federal court order-ended for 30 days so that a durable settlement could be sought. From the state capital at Baton Rouge, he sent his personal plane to Bogalusa to fetch A. Z. Young and Robert Hicks, Voters League president and vice president. "If we don't find the answers in 30 days, you can start demonstrating again," McKeithen told them. He vowed to rid Bogalusa of two of the noisiest white agitators: "I'll have them...
...Fromm, Jose Limon, W. H. Auden and Theodore Roethke. Academic rankings are banished-teachers are "Mr.," "Miss" or "Mrs." and department chairmanships are rotated. Girls are especially close to their counselors, whom they meet weekly for "encounters" on every subject from existentialist philosophy to their love life. Graduates often fetch up in the arts; among them are Painter Helen Frankenthaler, Dancer Ethel Winter and Carol Channing of the Broadway musical Hello, Dolly...
...source of steady jobs, paid-up bills, money in the bank, new boats. Each year the local fishing industry scoops up some 6,000,000 of the 2-ft.-long, silver-blue sockeye, which account for 20% of the area's $50 million salmon catch and fetch higher prices than the lower-grade chum and pink salmon. Last week U.S. fishermen bitterly fought a major threat to their prosperity, caused by the aggressiveness of Japanese fishermen and the unusual traveling habits of the sockeye...
...case of jazz and Faulkner, Europeans pride themselves on having discovered an American art form long before Americans got around to recognizing it. At comics clubs, which have sprung up in France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland, zealous members pore over antique editions of American comics (old strips now fetch about $50 each), discuss by the hour the imperialism of The Phantom or the anarchism of Li'I Abner...