Word: notted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Panic spread fast as news of the state of siege exploded over Bogota. Tanks rumbled into the plazas. Rifle-toting troopers turned Congressmen away from the Capitol. Rumors spread through Carrera Septima crowds that Liberal leaders had been assassinated. Panicky shopkeepers slammed down their iron shutters. People stampeded. One woman...
At one point a rumor spread that the learned judges were thinking of ordering a bathing-suit parade for their own eyes alone. Following the maxim expressed by one woman, "Never trust old gentlemen who are not too old," several mothers of contestants turned to Juan Gualberto Cardinal Guevara for...
When the spirit moves him, Montreal Sculptor Robert Roussil, 24, does not fuss around with preliminary sketches; he snatches up hammer & chisel and attacks the raw material as it stands. Last summer he saw an oddly shaped tree, a tall pine with a forked trunk, and the spirit moved. By...
Montreal has long kept a cautious eye on art in the raw. This time was no exception. When a photographer arrived at the jail to take a picture of Roussil's statue, the police dutifully draped a towel around the father's ample loins (see cut). But their...
Roussil, a war veteran who supports his wife and one-year-old child by working as a part-time steeplejack and carpenter, .was not too much disturbed. Said he: "I guess I'll just leave it there for now. It seems to have a nice home." By week'...