Word: sage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...didn't go along with the report at all. The Organization of American States' coffee commission whipped out a report charging, among other things, that Senator Gillette was encouraging Communism by trying to get the price of coffee down. The ambassadors themselves huddled for days at sage, broom-browed Mauricio Nabuco's Brazilian embassy, batted out a lengthy rebuttal of the Gillette report ("it proposes . . . [potential] economic warfare against our nations"), defended the year's 70% rise in coffee prices as the natural consequence of "the law of supply & demand...
...many Western states the native game birds (prairie chickens, sage hens, scaled quail, etc.) are rapidly disappearing. They do not adjust to the white man's civilization. But in the Near East, which has a similar climate and vegetation, there are plenty of fine, flourishing birds that have got along with civilized man for many millennia. One of them is the meaty bustard (crane family), which sometimes weighs as much as 30 Ibs. Among others are the decorative, long-tailed francolin (a kind of partridge) and a varied assortment of edible grouse. Some of the birds, Dr. Bump hopes...
Though Edgar Kemler's title would imply that his new book is a biography of H. L. Mencken, it is more accurately described in a notation on the dust jacket: "An Informal History of the Man and His Era." A genuine biography of the 'Sage of Baltimore' would be a good idea (and a part of one can be found in Mencken's autobiographical books: "Happy Days," "Newspaper Days," and "Heathen Days") but what Mr. Kemler was written is only a chronicle of the era in which his protagonist made his biggest splash in the backwaters of American culture...
...last week, Intermountain could report real progress. "First off," says Dr. Boyce, "we licked the homesickness problem." Instead of using monochromes of traditional grey or tan, he painted their schoolrooms with "the desert colors the children know-turquoise blue, sandstone red and sage green." He organized sports and hobby groups in knitting, beading, pottery, carving and square dancing...
...Barn. Christened Katherine Sage about a half-century ago, Kay left Albany for Italy when she was only three. In the '20s she married and divorced an Italian prince, later learned with Poet Andre Breton and Painter Yves Tanguy to ride the surrealist tide. In 1939 she returned to the U.S., closely followed by Tanguy, to whom she was married a year later. Today the two artists live in a pale yellow farmhouse near Woodbury, Conn, and paint in the barn...