Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regardless of how much experience a man claims to have had, Murphy said, the paint-crew foreman classifies him on the basis of an interview and by observ-ing his painting skills. To be classified as a journeyman, a painter must have mastered color-mixing, staining, graining, and other essential painting techniques...
...dealing with the paint-crew issue. University officials have often lacked the facts they needed to answer a student's detailed questions. At Tuesday's press conference, for example, the directors of the Personnel and Buildings-and-Grounds departments admitted that they could not answer some of the specific charges the students made...
They threw black paint and ink on the induction files and scattered records throughout each office. One of the offices raided was Local No, 31 in Copley Square, which had been damaged November...
Consider Barnett Frummer. He is a radical for love's sake who finds himself stuck to the hot asphalt pavement after going limp while protesting housing discrimination. He is the hapless yearner for un-chic Rosalie Mondle, who might one day paint "Get Out of Vietnam" across his chest. He is the groping incipient gourmet (trying to out-cook his friends) who dreams that he is accused of eating Fritos. He is the poor chap who cannot get invited to those with-it parties Rosalie attends, "where whites gathered to be castigated by some prominent Negro." Says Barnett...
...Sometimes by wiping the ink off the plate before printing, he let light from the surface of the paper glow through the network of lines. Intricate juxtaposition of black and white makes the billowing robe of a priest glitter as though it were done in black and gold oil paint...