Word: stops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surging popularity of U.S. painting in the art centers of Western Europe apparently does not stop short at the Iron Curtain. Proof of this is arriving at Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art in the form of scores of warm letters of appreciation from painters, sculptors, critics, curators and librarians-many of them speaking out to the West for the first time-from the muted lands of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Rumania. What triggered this spontaneous outpouring of sentiment was a single book: Three Hundred Years of American Painting by Alexander Eliot, an associate editor of TIME, which...
...Deciding that it was "high time to stop subsidizing student wheels," President Chester Maxey of Walla Walla's Whitman College (841 students, some 300 autos) issued an ultimatum: no more financial grants for students who keep cars on campus...
...proposition they were supporting in the no-decision debate, their goal was: a gradual approach to integration, with sufficient time for Southern moderates to "communicate with our people." Said Layfield, before the Mercer team packed up its arguments and headed for Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, its next stop: "We were born and raised in the South, and we have been able to see the fallacy in segregation...
While the brothers have always given half their time to magazine articles, explained Joe, Stewart "increasingly prefers it, and I increasingly loathe it." Added the elder Alsop, who returned to the U.S. last week after writing a penetrating series of columns on Britain's "let's-stop-the-H-bomb" mood: "It's a great wrench. We just had a family reunion, and there were floods of tears, diluted with champagne." To Herald Tribune Publisher Ogden R. ("Brownie") Reid, he wrote: "I feel a little bit as though we were a species of minor Greek chorus, which...
...with his entering the ministry. One engine in his P-38 quit and he had to try for a forced landing on a tiny strip between foothills and ocean. His plan: to hit the strip so hard that the nose wheel would break and thus stop the plane quickly. The nose wheel "refused to snap for some reason or other," but Jackson managed to stop the plane anyway. "I got out and then my heart almost stopped. Under my wings were two big bombs: I had forgotten all about them. If that nose wheel had snapped, the bombs would have...