Word: pined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than a granite monument in Georgia [TIME, Aug. 17], which only a small percentage of the population will ever see. Wouldn't $25 million worth of medical research centers, rural libraries, history scholarships and the like prove a more fitting monument to American history than this eyesore at Pine Mountain...
...graven image, strode down the 53 steps leading from his villa to the street. The policemen's iron heels clicked in unison and the old man, with no smile, lowered himself into the cushions of the big Mercedes. The convoy moved off, purring through vineyards and pine woods until it came to the Autobahn and merged with the traffic flowing towards the Ruhr...
...Alexander Jackson was one of a band of seven nature painters who far surpassed New York's bland "Hudson River School." To picture the raw splendor of Canada's glaciers, frozen lakes and jack-pine forests, they developed a rough & ready brand of French Impressionism, with broader strokes and darker colors. In the 1920s Canadian critics inclined to scoff at the group; now that its efforts are history, it is becoming more and more revered...
...hotel managers (suggestive of urbane boa constrictors), the bespatted aristocrats, the bored billionaires, the Tyrolean songsters with hooked pipes, the tiny donkeys and the hairy mongrels-all these Bemelmans perennials once floated in a dream ballroom and filled the air with a fragrance of old brandy, Russian leather and pine needles. For what Bemelmans calls the cosmopolitan "sleeping-pill set," he created a magical ideal and a high standard of make-believe...
...pyramids are its functional skyscrapers, and its triumphal arches are the factory girders. Last week a committee of Americans (including Milton Eisenhower, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, General Lucius Clay, John L. Lewis) announced plans for a huge monument to the U.S. past, to be erected atop Pine Mountain, near Warm Springs...