Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Renoir's Venus Victorieuse: 40 million Frenchmen have read, with relief, that the monstrosity pictured in TIME, Oct. 12, is now safely in the good city of Portland, Ore. We, the people of France, do not object to gay, young "bronze creatures" romping around our lawns, as long as they are graceful and lithe of limb. But the heavy, rotund and adipose lady was a clear case for a severe reducing diet and Turkish baths...
BERNARD K. FRANK Portland, Ore...
Paint Every Two Years. For all its fiscal stability, Portugal is still a poor country where initiative withers in the gloom of resignation. The people who grow Portugal's olives, make its port, strip its cork, net and pack its sardines, mine its rich wolfram ore deposits, live in limpidly beautiful villages with white-painted cottages (a 1949 Salazar decree requires a new paint job every two years) amidst some of the world's grandest scenery. But Dictator Salazar has never balanced his people's household budgets. Poverty and disease are widespread. Illiteracy...
...story, according to Moore: in the 1880's two prospectors discovered a fabulously rich vein of gold-bearing ore in the hills 20 miles outside of Moscow, Idaho. One shot the other, then headed to town, leaving a wheelbarrow to mark the mine...
...years, Joaquin fought Indians, fathered three children and two slim, dim books of verse and spent most of his time boozing in "doggeries" (saloons) and pasting whisky ads in the family Bible. Fed up, Minnie left with the children, and on June 6, 1870, Joaquin sailed from Portland, Ore. for San Francisco and the life of letters. Blond locks aflow, Joaquin strode down the gangplank and announced: "Let us go and talk with the poets." But Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce and the other "Bards of San Francisco Bay," as he dubbed them, refused to take Joaquin as seriously...