Word: painting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small wonder that any Russian artist with integrity finds life difficult if he values his health. He has two choices: paint according to the Soviet realist standards of the Minister of Culture or paint in the privacy of his own closet...
First the mother tried turpentine in an effort to unseat the unhappy girl, but she became convinced the paint was 100% as advertised...
...took over the premiership and dismissed the Parliament, the capital city of Rangoon seems a different place. Gone are the huge heaps of filthy garbage that littered the streets, and gone the packs of wild pye-dogs that fed on them. Buildings are getting their first coats of paint since 1941. Night trains are running from Rangoon to Mandalay for the first time in ten years, attesting to greater security in the countryside. Virtually every known Communist agent and subversive has been jailed. Hordes of corrupt, bribetaking political hacks have been replaced by army officers. The new emphasis on agriculture...
...giving instructions to the 16-year-old sitter, the lady of the house forgot one thing -that she had sprayed some of the bathroom equipment with a white plastic "miracle" paint, the kind that "won't rub off, peel, chip or blister. It stays...
...Fireproof Paint. A new smokeless, nonflammable paint said by its makers to be far more effective than other fire-retarding paints was brought out by Baltimore Paint & Chemical Corp. Called Saf, it stops flames from spreading, insulates interiors against heat by forming a coat of cellular puffs up to an inch thick when touched by fire. Cost...