Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hills where the rich nestle in their gardened villas. Lining the stepped streets below, gurgling with underground drains, are the crowded tenements where live a million Neapolitan poor. It is a city that delights the eye as often as it offends the nose. "You may say, narrate, paint what you will, here is more than all of it put together," wrote Goethe. "I pardon all those who have lost their minds in Naples...
...camel and dugout canoe, through bleak lion country and rich tobacco fields, the electorate of Bechuanaland proceeded to the polls. Some were red-faced Afrikaner farmers in sports shirts and veldskoen; others were naked Kalahari bushmen, whose ways have not changed since they learned to paint on rocks 15,000 years ago. At the polling place-in some cases a tidy brick schoolhouse, in others a thatch-roofed hut beneath a twisted mopane tree-each voter received a handful of col ored, coin-size counters representing the candidates of five political parties. Cynics called it "the tiddlywinks poll," but when...
...relegated to the past. Last week at the Army's Camp Bullis, near San Antonio, medics demonstrated a portable, air-conditioned hospital-aseptic operating room and all. Under a miniature mushroom cloud that signified a theoretical A-bomb attack, while scores of "casualties" splashed with blood-red paint waited for treatment, the 20-bed unit was made ready within half an hour...
...comic, Laurel was the brain behind the gags and the on-screen butt of them all, the watery-eyed, squeaky-voiced noodlehead who caught Jean Harlow's dress in a car door in Double Whoopee and absorbed the custard pies in The Battle of the Century, spilled the paint, upset the ladders and destroyed the autos, all of which invariably earned him a klonk over the head and a snort from Ollie: "Another fine mess you got us into...
Abou 20 SDS members will also work to help residents paint their houses this spring, and prepare a neighborhood park. This will be SDS's second community project; another group of volunteers in already working in an area of Roxbury...