Word: inked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Earth), developed by Professor Fred Singer of the University of Maryland (see diagram). According to Singer, the Mouse will yield a large amount of valuable information. Even on the clearest day, the atmosphere is as opaque to many kinds of radiation as if it were an ocean of ink. But the satellite, soaring above the atmosphere, can measure all kinds of radiation, including the sun's ultraviolet and the primary cosmic rays. Its electrical eyes, looking downward, can scan the earth, following masses of cloud as they form and drift. Other instruments can measure the electrified particles that stream...
...week, emptied fire extinguishers over the auditorium's seats, smashed a snare drum through a bass drum, broke two large ceramic vases, slashed a movie screen to ribbons, desecrated a new American flag, broke both skylights in the gym, and in general indulged in a wholesale orgy of ink splashing, paint splattering, light-bulb smashing. Estimated damage: $1,000. What worried Buffalo authorities most: P.S. 69 is the twelfth school to be attacked since last February...
...greatest living artist, Pablo Picasso, 73, was up to his ink-black eyes in glory. Last week a huge retrospective show of his paintings at the Louvre drew more than 5,000 visitors in a single day; his prints and drawings went on view at Paris' National Library, and both exhibitions got adoring reviews. "Picasso," said the weekly Arts, "has played an incalculably important role in the history of painting." Added Figaro: "No artist ever dared go as far as Picasso...
...World One Knows. In the same tradition, Sculptor Aristide Maillol's woodcuts for a 1924 edition of Virgil's Eclogues reduce the human figure to a flattish, quietly harmonious arrangement of ink lines, yet retain the emotive power of illustration. The observer automatically identifies himself with Maillol's figures; looking at the illustrations, he moves in a world he knows. Villon's new illustrations to the same cycle of poems (see below) employ color and perspective to create an even more recognizable, i.e., convincing, world...
...that time she already had plans for a school of her own. To raise money, she baked sweet potato pies and sold them from door to door. She peddled fried fish, sang in local hotels. She borrowed a shack, collected boxes for furniture, squeezed elderberries for ink. used charcoal slivers for pencils. When the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute opened, its student body was five girls...