Word: trysts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lighten the atmosphere. Minneapolis' Walker Art Center sent six paintings that demonstrated how diversely students in a progressive art school will advance. They ranged from Reginald Anderson's Figures, a spiky, thin-air abstraction, to Roland Thompson's carefully realistic Culvert. William Chaiken's patchwork Tryst at the Fountain (see cut) was painted at Manhattan's Art Students League, showed the weary sophistication that comes with spending a lot of time in big-city galleries...
...crammed with FBI secret papers on March 4, when she was arrested in New York, because she was going to study them for a civil service examination; some of the papers were her own notes for a novel she was going to write; she had made the tryst that winter night with Valentin Gubichev, Russian engineer employee of U.N., because she was in love with him and not for any purposes of espionage. Kelley questioned her about a previous meeting she had had with Gubichev on Jan. 14. "You must have been deeply in love with him, weren...
...mile drive from Boonville, Mo. to Jefferson City. After he got to town, tall, grey-haired Attorney John Windsor decided to put off his tryst with history as long as possible. For a while he lounged in the lobby of the Governor Hotel. Then he went over to the Missouri and dropped in on the Rotary luncheon. Finally, with the air of a man who has been drafted for a patriotic pageant, he went off to the state capitol to help elect the President of the United States...
...long time after he left the hospital, few suspected the tryst he kept in his comfortable, $50,000 English-style home in The Bronx. He read voluminously, kept an eye on politics, wrote his weekly opinionated column in the newspaper PM. But last month he warned friends that he would not live much longer. Last week he fell into a coma, slept deeply for four days, rousing only once to drink a little orange juice and to speak a few words with his wife, Marie, and his two adopted children, Jean, 18 and Eric...
...Tryst with Destiny. Thus dedicated, India's rulers turned to the secular business of the evening. At 11 o'clock they gathered in the Constituent Assembly Hall, ablaze with the colors of India's new tricolor flag-orange, white and green. Nehru made an inspired speech: "Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge. . . .At the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom...