Word: theo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, when the government invoked and won a vote of confidence on its subsidy proposals, Catholics all over Belgium rallied into protest action. First there was a minor tumult of Catholic students in Brussels' streets, then a one-day "strike" of 900,000 Catholic pupils throughout the country. Theo Lefevre, president of the Social Christian (Catholic) Party, next called for a "peaceful and dignified" mass demonstration in the capital at week's end. Alarmed, Socialist Premier Achille van Acker formally banned the demonstration, ordered the railroads to cancel 100 special trains chartered to bring Catholics to the capital...
Along 30 miles of river, on either side of the mining and tourist town of Salida (pop. 5,000), Theo Bock, 43, and Erich Seidel, 26, members of the Munich Kayak Club, scrambled along the bank, noting treacherous crosscurrents, whirlpools, lurking rocks. Their Teutonic thoroughness was warranted...
...intervals the boatmen began shoving off from Big Bend, five miles north of Salida, into the chilly (52° F.) torrent. The first big test, Bear Creek Rapids, which a week earlier dashed a boatman to death, lived up to its bad reputation by capsizing the first starter. Soon Theo Bock lost his lead to France's Roger Paris, who kept his kayak ahead for 15 miles until he hit right-angling Tin Cup Rapids and got ducked...
...Elapsed-time records showed that the winner was Erich Seidel, who, after starting last, had skimmed upright down the wild Arkansas in a record 3 hr. 4 min. 32 sec. While cheers echoed off the Rockies, Winner Seidel stood by unresponsively, fighting a case of stomach cramps. His companion. Theo Rock, who wound up second, sang a swan song. "For a man of my age, this race is enough," vowed he. "There is nothing in Europe to compare with...
...painting was probably done in 1888, the year Van Gogh tried to start a community of artists in the yellow house at Aries. Gauguin was the only one who came. The two sold little, lived on brother Theo's charity, painted furiously and fought like tomcats. The experiment ended in the epic row during which Van Gogh sliced off one of his ears in a moment of manic depression. But not, said Amsterdam's experts, before the two wild geniuses had sat down together and painted the same...