Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...witnesses can swiftly sketch the indictment...
...neglected to add just how he would get rid of Chiang's 500,000 troops -unless Red China's armies do the job for him. "He could hardly have said more," wrote the Daily Telegraph, "without actually inviting the Communists to attack [Formosa]." Snapped the London Daily Sketch: "Attlee has dropped a brick that might do as much damage as the hydrogen bomb...
With druggist's jacket With Lisa-like grin With frame sans picture With next of kin With sketch replete with verbal vision Why didn't you print...
...consisting of simple tunes with skeletal, guitarlike accompaniments, rang the bell. Composer Kay scoured source books for western tunes, came up with twelve of them, from Old Taylor, Rye Whisky and Lolly-Too-Dum to Red River Valley (which he used as a unifying theme). Balanchine took the piano sketch to his rehearsal hall and roughed in dance movements with his company. When Balanchine & Co. got back from a successful West Coast tour last month, the score was ready. Last week in Manhattan, the New York City Ballet presented its premiere under the title Western Symphony...
...branch of U.S. writing is tracing-paper realism. Like sidewalk portrait artists, its practitioners offer a quick, literal sketch drawn from life, but only superficially true to it. Two samples...