Word: space
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mystic symbol, the C.I.O. set out to bring Michigan's Democratic Party into the lodge, too. This involved rescuing it from the A.F.L. (who controlled the Michigan delegation to the Democratic National Convention) and from jealous old-line party members who showed an unrealistic persistence in demanding space on the political scene...
Along Lisbon's sunny streets last week nearly all available space was filled with election posters. One bore the likeness of Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and of President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, a 79-year-old general and pompous figurehead. The legend on the poster was: "Dois homens uma só obra"-two men with one work. Opponents of the regime had crossed out the a in uma, which changed the meaning: two men, one goes to the bathroom...
...village near Lisbon, a truck dropped handbills which boasted that the government had brought electricity, a school, a cemetery to the district. In his dirt-floored stone house, an old man read the handbill-by the light of a kerosene lamp. Said he: "We've never lacked space to bury our dead...
...heat, darkening outward to citron and orange. By dawn Van Gogh had lost interest in finishing his work. Next day he traded his Study by Candlelight, still wet, for five Japanese prints. The dealer, perhaps worried about getting his money's worth, had Vincent fill in the unpainted space with a quick sketch of one of the Japanese prints. The painting was sold to a cleric named Salles, then apparently passed through two more owners until, in 1917, it was sold to a café on the Rue des Petits Carreaux. What happened after that, how the painting eventually...
...London's choosy, space-proud National Gallery has had 18 old masters from the Gulbenkian collection since...