Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million manuscripts, books, prints and other material, and faced with an annual increase of a million items, the library has had to stack its hoard in the offices and passages of its two existing buildings and consign the overflow to such makeshift extensions as a former aircraft paint hangar in Middle River, Md., 50 miles from the capital...
...Highland Lassies (all daughters of Canadian servicemen) and for Manhattan, 57 Fiji islanders, representing more than one-third of the crown colony's present army. Mostly muscular six-footers as tall as their names (like Lance Corporal I. R. Maravunaqaraidakuwaqa), they stripped down to palm skirts and battle paint to demonstrate island war dances called mekes...
...Bennett Street transit yards hide their dirty insides from the outer world. A seven-foot wall, smeared with the faded paint of overzealous Dartmouth fans, watches over Boylston Street. A high steel fence stands sentinel on Memorial Drive as the ugly eyes of old subways stare out at passing cars...
...intervening week, it asked Rudolph to keep his paint brushes soaking in turpentine...
...they cannot even make love in private. "I ain't got no stove in the basement and I ain't got no stove in the kitchen," says a Harlem woman who lives in a building jammed with whores, rats and babies. "I ain't got no paint and I ain't got no windows and I ain't got no providements. I keep the place clean just so the doctor can come in, and some day the undertaker. What's a poor person? A poor person is when...