Word: jaunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best-known painter in the show was Rome's 38-year-old Renato Guttuso, who once painted abstractly and was spanked for it by the party (TIME, Jan. 24, 1949). A recent jaunt behind the Iron Curtain put his art on the left path. Guttuso's posterish picture of a woodcutter with a hatchet contemplating a sawed stump struck even Communist critics as being rather "too elementary." But it did win him a wood-burning stove...
Ballet Theatre's* first jaunt abroad in four years was beginning to look like a triumphal tour...
...President whirled through his two-day visit to Missouri at a collar-wilting pace. His first morning in St. Louis he was awake at 5:15, shaved and dressed at 5:30, and out striding along downtown sidewalks at 5:45. At one point during his jaunt he spotted a naval enlisted man named William Hall, standing on the sidewalk in a heated post-dawn argument with a taxi driver. The President tapped the bluejacket on the shoulder and asked: "Where did you get all those battle stars, sailor?" Hall whirled, goggled, hauled himself to attention and stammered an answer...
Last year, Harvard dropped all three of its first-round matches. Sharper games and a good record (after the disastrous Southern trip) have made the Crimson a team to be watched this year. Yale has also had a successful record; it played only practice matches on its Southern jaunt...
...mile jaunt to Wesleyan paid the varsity and freshman tennis teams with a pair of shutouts Wednesday against squads that were playing outdoors for the first time. The freshmen beat Amherst Tuesday...