Word: stucco
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...white stucco modeled head (see cut) from the Mayas, a gentle, highly cultured people. Imaginative historians credit the Mayas and their ancestors with developing maize from wild grasses, sacrificing their prettiest maidens to the rain god, and rescuing a few light-skinned survivors when the lost continent of Atlantis sank into...
...troops were blasting and bayoneting ELAS riflemen out of a gasworks. In their homes, Athenians were burning furniture to keep warm. A few Greek civilians recognized and cheered the portly figure in the R.A.F. commodore's uniform as he stepped out of an armored car. Before a pink stucco building Churchill paused, waved and smiled. The fighting continued...
Inconsolable. Maillol was descended from a family of fishermen and smugglers of Banyuls. The sculptor spent much of his life in the pink stucco house where he was born. As a youth he studied painting in Paris, but he was unsuccessful with the brush. Not until he was 40 did he have any working knowledge of sculpture. Then one day he picked up a fallen tree trunk, from it carved a woman's figure. For the next 42 years he devoted himself almost entirely to carving and modeling female forms. "I am inconsolable," he once said, "not to have...
George Norris was 83 when he lay down for the last time in the front bedroom of the big, stucco house on Main Avenue. One morning last week he was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage. For a day he was conscious of the August sun on the hackberry trees and lilac bushes which he had planted. Then more fever came, and coma, and his old heart stopped...
Franklin Roosevelt went immediately to the palatial, showplace home of the late Christian R. Holmes, on famed Waikiki Beach. The highway to the house was blocked to traffic, surrounded with barbed wire and guarded by platoons of marines. At the cream stucco mansion, until recently a rest house for Navy aviators, the President had a spacious, 50-foot bedroom ; the bathroom of Presidential aide Sam Rosenman had a sunken tile tub big enough to swim in. The Commander in Chief set up military headquarters on a sundeck overlooking Waikiki's long, rolling surf...