Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shahn was raised in a Brooklyn slum, where the local toughs forced him to portray favorite athletes on the pavement with chalk. Little Ben learned to draw very well indeed. He also developed a temper. It was the perfect schooling for a "proletarian-school" painter. Shahn grew up to startle the art world with a series of watercolors, almost as beautiful as they were bitter, based on the Sacco-Vanzetti case. He became perhaps the best, and most depressing, painter of the Great Depression. Shahn's "havenots" were lean as greyhounds and sad-eyed as spaniels; his "haves" always...
...century-old political parties, the Colorados (Reds) and the Blancos (Whites)* fought it out again at peaceful elections last week, and the neat, sun-warmed little democracy of Uruguay looked as though it had been bombed by a fleet of flying saucers loaded with bingo cards. Every tree, pavement, building, car and lamppost wore a number. Uruguayans do not mind fracturing freely within their traditional parties, and 277 splinter factions were competing for office. Out of deference to the sanity of the Uruguayan voters, they all used numbers instead of names, and politicking became largely a matter of fixing...
...been building a road for the convenience of tourists, and recently, the workmen demolished an ancient wall, shoveled away a layer of sand and exposed a 150-yd. row of massive limestone blocks, each 15 ft. long and tightly sealed with pink gypsum. It looked like some sort of pavement, but Kamal el Malakh, Egyptian archaeologist in charge of the pyramids, suspected that the stones might be the roof of a long underground chamber. The tomb of Pharaoh Cheops had never been found. It might just possibly, he thought, lie under the row of stones...
...right," he said. Seconds later, the wheels chirped on the runway. The B-47 didn't bounce, just scraped, then the plane settled into a smooth landing. The air speed registered 100 knots, and the pilot could feel his wheels sliding on the slippery, wet pavement. "Drag chute out. Drag chute out," he called. Before he finished the order, the copilot had the brake-parachute billowing behind the plane to slow the speed...
Next morning 4,000 university students marched in grim silence to the Puerta del Sol in front of the police head quarters building. There, squatting on the pavement to foil any police charge to disperse them, they shouted, "Down with the armed police," "Murderers." Officials anxiously telephoned for instructions...