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Word: pails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Page April 30). who. said Soutine, "was able to express in the body of a woman the atmosphere of Paris. I want to show Paris in the carcass of an ox." This Soutine proceeded to do, hanging up a whole carcass in his studio, refreshing it periodically with a pail of blood from the butcher's shop until the stench of decay brought the police. But the resulting paintings today rank among Soutine's masterpieces. Soutine knew few moments of repose in his frenzied life; as a souvenir of one of them, spent near the cathedral town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...missionaries flew over Auca country in a Piper Family Cruiser, shouting down greetings in Auca over a loudspeaker and dropping gifts of machetes, bright beads and clothing in a canvas bucket with a line so long that the light plane could wait, circling, while the Indians emptied the pail. One afternoon, catching on, the Aucas responded by sending up some presents of their own: feathers, birds and food. Thus encouraged, the Americans a fortnight ago landed hopefully on a length of the sandy beach of the River Curaray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Mission to the Aucas | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

Under Kramer's apron they found a rubber hot-water bottle filled with preheated cream. A long, thin tube led from the bottle through the hay at Marie's feet and into the milking pail. By pressing the bottle with his forearms as he leaned forward to strip Marie, the milker could send squirts of cream into his milking pail. With this evidence in hand, the gendarmes bustled Kramer off to jail on the charge of fraud, and the dairymen of Normandy, with the solemnity demanded of the occasion, took steps to drop the name and claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sour Cream | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

Diet. In London, Judge Henry Grazebrook gave a divorce to Robert E. Want, 54, after Want explained that his wife had packed his lunchbox with mud sandwiches, filled his tea thermos with broken glass, dumped a pail of garbage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 21, 1955 | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...Life. In Orlando, Fla., when sheriff's deputies found E. R. Kriss beating lustily on the lid of a garbage pail and howling like a dog, Kriss explained that he wanted to get even with his neighbor's hound, which had kept him awake by barking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

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