Word: slant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...catalogue cover hopefully urged gallerygoers to see clowns, tumblers, bareback riders, and other intrepid performers. Some of their jigsaw abstractions looked as if they had played with kaleidoscopes instead of seeing a circus. Léger's Acrobats with White Horse and slant-eyed, four-ringed Chinese Juggler (see cut) were the hit of the show, as they were meant...
...France and Father Provincial (on leave) of French Carmelites, sat stiffly under nine royal umbrellas of silver and white silk. Beside him lolled young (23), plump-cheeked Norodom Sianouk, king of sleepy Cambodia. As colored searchlights played over the Pnom-Penh palace grounds, monarch and monk watched ornately dressed, slant-eyed dancing girls glide through the supple, serpentine movements of the Cambodian ballet...
...Short Retort. Management's delegates could hardly believe their ears. Said N.A.M. President Ira Mosher: "I would give a year's budget if John had made that speech publicly." Said Monsanto Chemical's William M. Rand: "I've had the wrong slant on John Lewis...
Asia's Heart. The 90,000 round-faced, slant-eyed Tuvinians live in the geographical heart of Asia. They are mostly of Turkic and Mongol stock. With their 1,200,000 cattle, horses, sheep, goats, yaks and reindeer, they occupy an area about as large as Missouri. Moscow regards their evolution from nomadic tribalism to Soviet comradeship as a model of its kind...
...therefore drafted by Washington to rescue an American scientist (Marc Cramer) from a Jap prison camp. The captive scientist appears to be the only man who knows the whole formula for completing the atom bomb. The Major forthwith undergoes some heavy-handed plastic surgery to give him buck teeth, slant eyes and a puffy face which make him look less like a Jap than like a man with a chronic hangover. In the tick of a time fuse he is being smuggled into Japan by the Korean underground as Sergeant Tomo Takashima, a returning war hero. He gets...