Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sweeps along, the Missouri gathers the waters of one tributary after another: the Sun, Teton, Judith, Marias, Musselshell, Milk, Yellowstone (fed, in turn, by the Bighorn, Greybull, Shoshone, Tongue and Powder), the Little Missouri, Knife, Heart, Cannonball, Grand, Moreau, Belle Fourche, Cheyenne, Bad, White, Big Sioux, James, Niobrara, Elkhorn, Platte, Little Sioux, Nishnabotna, Kansas (made up of the Republican, Solomon, Saline, Smoky Hill and Blue), the Grand, Chariton, Osage and Gasconade...
...lumberman, D. E. Chipps, got off scot-free when he called it "self-defense." Constantly at odds with the Southern Baptists, he organized some 3,000 churches into his own Fundamentalist fellowship, urged his followers to "use the broad axe of John the Baptist, not a little pearl-handled knife, on worldly card playing, dancing, and hell raising...
...week began the typical solemn ritual. While the stag was breathing his last, the hunters stood by in respectful silence. When the stag died, the hunters bared their heads and bowed low toward the carcass. Then the hunt master cut an oak twig and passed it, balanced on his knife blade, to the man who had made the kill. The hunter lightly brushed the twig across the animal's wound. Finally, he got a leaf and placed it between the stag's lips to symbolize the fiep-deluded deer's last meal. Leaving the animal...
This was a neat trick. How did he do it? Did he use a spoon or a knife, or something in between...
...fresh and varied as those of any young hopeful struggling to find a "style." There were clear Normandy seascapes, bright Fauvist landscapes, familiar cubist figures, tight abstractions, and soft, flowing still lifes. On some the color lay thin and gentle; on others it was heavily applied with a palette knife and sometimes thickened with furnace ashes. Two of the paintings spanned Braque's career. The idea for his carefully constructed Bicycle came to him at 17, but only later did he feel able to paint it. His Reclining Woman was begun in 1930 and took 20 years to finish...