Word: lush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) In Guatemala, a lush, green little country only 1,000 miles from the U.S.. anti-Communist and pro-Communist forces were locked in battle this week. What kind of war was it? Guatemala's Communist-line government called it "aggression" and "invasion," and shrilled accusations against its neighbors, including the U.S. The lightly armed insurgents who moved in over the eastern border from Honduras called themselves the Army of Liberation, took for their motto "God and Honor," and urged all true Guatemalans to join them against the government and its Red friends. The first actual shooting came...
Such paintings, with their fusion of lush color and pixilated charm, have beguiled thousands who do not pretend to understand them (if they are understandable), have put Chagall reproductions over many a middlebrow mantelpiece, and won their 64-year-old creator a place alongside such accepted modern French masters as Picasso, Matisse and Braque. "I am for order," he explains, "but if one wants order, the painting must have the air of disorder...
...city of Cuernavaca, balmy and scented with jasmine and heliotrope, has just the atmosphere for languorous relaxation. As the 45,000 Mexican inhabitants pad about the streets, busily putting things off until mañana, many of the 5,000 U.S. residents take their ease in elegant villas with lush gardens, shady patios, gemlike swimming pools and high pastel walls...
...wild-eyed, half-humorous version of Lover, Come Back to Me. To start quieter numbers, such as Pres. Conference, the bandleader preferred to count out the beat or snap his fingers, and the band followed through with a brooding performance that played off a glassy-toned trumpet against the lush grumblings of a baritone sax, while the rhythm section boomed and sizzled in the background, and here & there the brasses split the air with steely stabs...
After months of treading that narrow, slushy path from Sever to The Bick, Cambridge life spreads like the lush Ivy on Widener's walls. Many paths head out through the Yard gates, some towards the banks of the Charles, others towards the beach and tennis courts, others just winding aimlessly through hot May sunshine...