Word: pencilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until two years after he first set pencil to paper did Ingres, then 72, interrupt the honeymoon of his second marriage to complete the painting. Every line of the light blue silk dress, each tuck in the dark blue chair covering, every fold of the yellow stole is lovingly recorded. The play of light in the ruffles and ribbons, the gleam of the rope of huge pearls at the wrist, and the light reflections on the pendant brooch are skillfully worked through. But Ingres' most consummate draftsmanship went into modeling the head, with its smoothly coiffured hair, its serene...
English Teacher Ruth Ulferts of the senior high school in Anoka, Minn. (pop. 7,396) regarded the assignment as strictly routine. Write a theme on a book, she told her class; any book will do. Gangling Sophomore Richard Ingledue, 15, son of a truck driver, picked up his pencil, frowned a bit and began...
...Genial Manager." It was Lyndon Johnson's swift pencil that complicated the Gavin mess, since Gavin's fundamental reason for quitting-his failure to arouse sympathy for the Army's cause-was stuffed in at the end of the press statement. To make the mess messier, Army Secretary Wilber Brucker next day called a press conference to explain how it all started. Before Christmas, when Gavin sent word around that he planned to retire, Brucker called him into his office. "I urged General Gavin to be patient," explained Brucker in the tones of a genial office manager...
...campaign for European development of atomic power. Louis Armand arguing for Euratom, says Paris' L'Express, "is Saint Bernard preaching at Vezelay on Easter Sunday and leading his listeners off on the Crusade." Though he starts, he says, with "three empty notebooks and a pencil," Armand promises 15 million kw. of atomic-produced electric power for "Little Europe" by 1967. (U.S. atomic-power goal...
...Every Greek expects to be cheated," and Author Lee was mildly embarrassed as his Greek friends checked the scales in grocery shops and counted and recounted their eggs. At home, the mistress of the house lays traps for her servants: "Pencil shavings in a corner, or under a table. Aha! The servant has not cleaned! The failure to clean, despite the Greek passion for surface cleanliness, is not the issue; it is the desire to know whether the servant has cleaned...