Word: loosest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modigliani's Portrait of a Student displays the loosest sort of lyricism into which the Modigliani manner can degenerate. Picasso's two little cubist paintings have little more than the master's signature to recommend them. Their color has no vitality or subtlety and the jumped compositions, especially that of the cramped Bottle and Glass, exemplifies Picasso's carelessness at its most annoying. Carelessness, indeed, sloppiness blemishes a Miro pastel, titled, for no readily apparent reason, Woman Doing Her Hair Before a Mirror. A mysterious and evocative oil painting of his, Composition, done in 1925, has a flow and easiness...
...auditorium, Governor James Plemon Coleman quickly whipped the state convention into line, eased a Coleman majority into the 44-man unit-rule delegation. He thus headed off the rebels who wanted to make third-party noises before the convention and left himself free to bargain in Chicago for the loosest civil-rights plank...
...will be read devoutly by the thin cult of aging Americans for whom Henry Miller was the big name in a bohemian pantheon of goofy godlets. For others it has interest as the life record of a literary anarchist of boundless charm and talent but limited good sense, the loosest member of the Lost Generation, who, now 64. has lived these twelve years past as a sage emeritus in an arty enclave at Big Sur, Calif...
First, he asked the U.N. General Assembly to adopt a resolution urging 1) state control of "any form of propaganda of a new war ... in press, radio, cinema and in public statements," i.e., government censorship on the loosest of terms; 2) settlement of "outstanding international questions through negotiation between the powers"; 3) "withdrawal by the four powers of their occupation forces from the territory of Germany to their national frontiers" - suggesting that the Red army might pull back to Russia, not Poland, if the U.S. forces pulled back to the U.S., not France; 4) "dismantling of military bases on foreign...
Statistics on team scoring show that Dartmouth has the highest scoring offense and the loosest defense. In nine games the Indians have scored 172 points and allowed their opponents to tally...