Word: stump
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Counterattack. Orville wisecracked when the recall leaders delivered their petitions to city hall-in an armored car. But early this month Orvie got his 225 Ibs. up on the stump and began to counterattack in earnest. He lit into the Ford family as though the Fords had been poisoning the drinking water; he swiped simultaneously at both the late Henry Ford and Negroes...
About six years ago, Dr. Singer was making experiments on the nervous systems of newts. His chief interest was the nerves themselves, but in the course of the experiments he found out that if he damaged the nerves in the stump of an amputee newt, the newt failed to grow a new limb. Dr. Singer concluded that a hitherto neglected function of the nerves, the promotion and control of growth, was responsible. He decided to experiment further...
June. In San Antonio, Charles M. Dickson withdrew as a candidate for the state legislature, explained that his health would not permit him to go through a "stump-speaking, barbecue-eating, beer-drinking and baby-kissing campaign...
Jackson Pollock's abstractions (TIME, Dec. i, 1947 et seq.) stump experts as well as laymen. Laymen wonder what to look for in the labyrinths which Pollock achieves by dripping paint onto canvases laid flat on the floor; experts wonder what on earth to say about the artist. One advance-guard U.S. critic has gone so far as to call him the "most powerful painter in America." Another, more cautious, reported that Pollock "has carried the irrational quality of picture-making to one extremity" (meaning, presumably, his foot). The Museum of Modern Art's earnest Alfred Barf...
...year-old Renato Guttuso, who once painted abstractly and was spanked for it by the party (TIME, Jan. 24, 1949). A recent jaunt behind the Iron Curtain put his art on the left path. Guttuso's posterish picture of a woodcutter with a hatchet contemplating a sawed stump struck even Communist critics as being rather "too elementary." But it did win him a wood-burning stove...