Word: matchstick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Green and Warren E. Gauerke of Atlanta's Emory University. In an objective, 40-page pamphlet (If the Schools Are Closed . . .) they dismantle the private school plan completely. What the scheme amounts to, they prove, is something akin to amputating a broken leg and giving the patient a matchstick to hobble...
...hill country again in 1950, and after Faubus complained: "I'm broke. I need a payin' job." A McMath aide recalls the first time he saw Faubus: "He came down here in a $10 suit that ended somewhere north of his socks. He was chewing a matchstick, and I hardly ever saw him after that without a matchstick or a straw in his mouth...
...Orval Faubus was changing. No longer a matchstick chewer. no longer in pants that ended north of his socks, he became a well-dressed fellow, took to dark suits with a white handkerchief sticking out of the breast pocket. He still spouted cliches ("A stitch in time . . ."; "An ounce of prevention . . .") and he still called the militia the me-lish-ee. but he talked big about running for a third term (which no Arkansas governor has had since 1905) and even acted as if he would like to move into bigger political hills. Said one observer of Orval Faubus...
...novel geometric Play-dome. In contrast to its neighbor's statuary, Matrix inhabits a neat concrete and glass building where delicate wooden figures are propped, balanced, and hung throughout. Inside, five architects work in a somewhat less ordered atmosphere of strewn blue prints, building materials, and incomplete, matchstick-like models...
David Low, perhaps the most famed political cartoonist of modern times, worked over the faces of the great with a wooden matchstick dipped in India ink. For his own self-portrait he has chosen pastels...