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Word: repaint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into his big second-floor studio, and became a changed man. "There was a tragic preoccupation on his face," says Novelist Hélène Parmelin. Every day after lunch he would go up to his studio "like someone going up to the scaffold." Picasso was attempting to repaint in his own manner and to do an analysis on canvas of the picture he considers one of the world's greatest-Velásquez' Las Meninas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The New in the Old | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

Other events last week in the nation's struggle between racial rights and wrongs: ¶In Pittsburgh's Beechview section, where Negro Charles Miller's new home was smeared and smashed by race baiters, white neighbors finished a repair and repaint job with materials bought by the Board of Trade, Lions Club, American Legion and other civic groups. ¶ Georgia's Governor-elect Ernest Vandiver warned that he would close Atlanta schools if they were integrated by pending court cases, was met by Atlanta Mayor William Berry Hartsfield's demand that the city have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reading & 'Riting & Rubble | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...children play outside," the mother said, "because I have to keep an eye on them. You see, we haven't a yard, and it's a crowded street. We had to repaint the place ourselves; the rent is $85 a month. One of the kids has to sleep on the sofa...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Married Grad Students Lack Housing | 12/6/1957 | See Source »

Junior Painters. A complete kit for children to repaint their own toys or wooden furniture has been put on sale by Ampruf Paint Co. of New Jersey. Kit contains three small cans of nontoxic, quick-drying paint, brush and cleaner, painter's cap and gloves, sandpaper and mixing paddle. Cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

Exterior Decorator. In Detroit, the fire department dispatched a man to repaint a fire hydrant after Mrs. Lucille Wilson, complaining that its yellow top was "all faded" and clashed with her fence posts, had slapped on a gleaming coat of white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 20, 1957 | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

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