Word: knead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain Mallet that they forget they are related, and settle down happily as housekeeper and butler. The process of persuasion-a proposition of mind over no-matter-is gentle and artistic. With the sensitivity of great sculptors, the identity changers mold a pride here, add an envy there, knead habits into place. In naming a butler, for instance: "We begin with the premise that every butler believes he was born to command a fleet . . . But Nelson was too common a name . . . Beatty. . . too rowdy for a butler. The same for Mountbatten. But in Jellicoe you found everything-a bellicose, echoing...
...contemporary painting. The "New York School" of abstract expressionist art, sparked by such painters as Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, has long been characterized by big, wild, inchoate canvases meant to represent only moods. Now that seems to be changing; leaders and followers alike are beginning to knead chunks of the physical world into their abstractions...
...bought his first newspaper, Rio's O Jornal. Generally regarded as Brazil's top reporter, he competed with his own staffers for scoops. He tangled with almost everybody. "I'm like a loaf of yeast bread," he liked to say. "The more they knead me the higher I rise." He always carried a revolver and sometimes even drew it, though his aim was so bad that in one scrape he fired at an antagonist and shot his chief editorial writer...
...Austrian woman who had married a G.I. She spoke lyrically of the cosmopolitan variety of the U.S. menu ("Goulash, Wiener Schnitzel, stuffed peppers, Linzer tart . . ."), and made an announcement that might start a major revolution in Vienna: "I frequently make Apfelstrudel, but I don't have to knead the dough myself-I buy it all ready. Or better still, I buy the whole Apfelstrudel...