Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pathet Lao are advancing in the Vang Vieng area, 13 neutralist soldiers are missing after an action at Ban Boua, a 100-truck Red supply convoy from North Viet Nam arrived at the Pathet Lao headquarters at Khang Khay. At such news, Kong Le is apt to wince, rub an old battle scar on his forehead and say: "My head hurts." Then he usually takes some pills, and a bodyguard treats his shoulder with Vicks ointment...
...Graveyard of Presidents." Montana's higher-education handicaps exemplify those of its neighbor states: low population and resources, absence of any deep tradition of the university as a trafficker in ideas rather than simply producer of engineers or lawyers. But the particular rub is the failure to recognize that the essence of organizing human ventures, whether colleges or corporations, is to get a good man to run the show, set general guidelines, give him authority and time, and then let him stand or fall. Newburn is the university's seventh leader in 20 years, and professors everywhere call...
Raymond Parker's forms float like the volatile gasbags of a dirigible, separated by fractions of space, as if waiting to rub together in an explosive friction. Paul Brach sticks to an unseductive steely blue surface in which are scored circles and squares almost invisible to the eye. Miriam Schapiro, Brach's wife, shows a series of panels, similar in motif to Renaissance cassoni, or hope chests, in which she paints the fertility symbol of an egg. Over a three-year period, the egg forms grow more nebulous, less sensual, purer...
...when a gyro is used steadily for days or weeks at a time, it tends to drift from its proper direction, usually because of friction in its bearings and other supporting parts. Even though that friction can be reduced almost to the vanishing point, the least trace of a rub can make the gyro drift...
...rub the British Governor-General's nose in the federation's plight, burly Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky then rose to rail at Britain's "unparalleled treachery and deceit." Chin out, fists clenched, his voice trembling with anger, Welensky cried, "The interests of the white man and the ordinary moderate African in his thousands are being sacrificed in a long-drawn-out act of appeasement which puts Munich in the shade!" He charged that Britain intends the continent as a whole to "be handed over to racialism, whether the cost be a Congo or an Algiers...