Word: sugarloaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This winter an estimated 3,000,000 skiers will be out on slopes from Maine's Sugarloaf Mountain to Oregon's Mount Hood. There is skiing in Taos, N. Mex. and on North Carolina's Mount Mitchell, and ski clubs have appeared in Amarillo, Texas and Louisville...
...touch the silk for fear it would become soiled. His painting pointed to a new direction. Originating a pointillist style of ink-splash dots (still known as "Mi-dots"), he produced in paintings like Auspicious Pines in the Spring Mountains China's first impressionist landscape. Its curious sugarloaf mountains are drawn in loosely applied brush strokes and washes, trees are carefully controlled blobs of ink. The human scale is merely suggested with the bare-bones outline of a lone pavilion...
James Graves won the C Division of the annual Sugarloaf Giant Slalom Sunday at Kingston, Me., on an icy course swept by a strong wind...
...privates who dubbed the Army of the Potomac "Grant's army" after the day in March 1864 when the man with the bristly red beard and black sugarloaf hat came to visit the army's nominal commander, Meade. Grant was something of a mystery to this army. His breakfast was a cucumber sliced in vinegar and a cup of coffee; if he ate meat, it had to be cooked black, and he never started the daily round without two dozen cigars stowed in his pockets...