Word: pined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harding and the spot where, until his sudden death in office in 1923, he hoped to retire, was to be sold this week by three nephews of Harding. The log cabin in which Harding was born is gone, but the farmer buying the place has promised to preserve the pine trees bracketing the spot where it stood...
...Sprig of Pine. Although voting is compulsory, Uruguay is much too democratic to enforce the law. "The people would vote against anyone who forced them to vote," an official explained. Because of the numbers game, issues were obscure, but most Uruguayans went to the polls mumbling 14, 15 or 97. Once out of the booths, they fell avidly to playing dice and roulette right in the open-for Uruguayan law also provides that on election day the police must ignore all such minor crimes as public gambling. In the final count, the Colorados (who have been in power...
...Council, with Batlle Berres slated to be the first council president. His opponents charged that he is against the "multi-person executive," which replaced the office of President in 1952, and will try to get himself voted sole President again. Campaigning with his favorite lapel decoration, a sprig of pine, Batlle Berres promised simply to encourage industrialization and higher farm production. His record shows that he approves of Uruguay's mild socialism, disapproves of his powerful Argentine neighbor Juan Peron, in general likes...
...German philosophy, with the actors uneasily unsure whether they are really U.S. dirt farmers, by cracky, or Leibnitzian particles in a transcendental ether. The color is excellent, though it is not clear why color is needed; the exterior shots are mostly of snowscapes marked with black exclamations of pine, and the interiors are in starkest black and white (Good v. Evil). To suggest, perhaps, the eternal travail of these opposites, the picture has been made as eternal as possible (102 minutes). When at last the moviegoer dares hope it will end, one of the characters looks him square...
Fleeing to London to study art, she came back with an incomprehensible bad habit-smoking cigarettes. Trailing ; thin plume of smoke, Emily escaped again, this time to Paris. In Paris she felt "like a pine tree in a pot," but learned to paint in what she called "the despised, adorable, joyous, modern...