Word: slash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that I was to be Archimedes [see cut] in what a studio aide called une peinture qui sera vraiment extraordinaire. Dufy frocked me in a white toga-like affair which had been borrowed from an amateur theatrical group, had me strike the pose he wanted, and then began to slash away with bold strokes ... all the while keeping up a fast line of chatter with various onlookers. I nearly fainted after having stood virtually motionless for 50 minutes-during which the artist completed one painting and then, to my horror, tore it up and began another-but when...
...congressional hearing: "What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for General Motors is good for the country." Kyes was the swaggering newcomer who flicked his fingers at generals' stars. When Wilson and Kyes made an across-the-board slash in Air Force funds, the feeling spread that in an atomic-bomb age, the saving of a dollar was getting a higher priority than defense. But behind the scenes, the new managers of military might were laying the base to get more defense for less money...
...after day the six men and a girl wander through what is palpably the largest number of potted palms ever assembled on one set. Thorns slash at Ann's nightie, a puma snaps at it, a colony of ants almost eats it off her back one night, even a crocodile comes up for a nibble. However, just as Actress Sheridan seems about to violate the Production Code, up steps Actor Ford to offer her his shirt and a spare pair of pants...
...entrance protesting even further friendship and begging for more salt. An Indian sentry refused them entrance, but his commander. Major R. A. Singh, was so convinced of the tribesmen's loyalty that he urged them to come on in. Nine tribesmen marched into the tent. With one quick slash of his dao, the tenth turned and cut off the sentry's head...
Most Spanish graveyards are places of desolation and decay presided over by gravediggers so thieving and callous that relations often slash the clothes of the dead to keep their bodies from being stripped. At best, the family of Paula Pilar Magan could expect nothing but the hasty dumping of a box into a hole...