Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wait for Imagination. Portinari was born 43 years ago amid the desperate poverty he paints. His parents were Italian immigrants who became coffee-workers in the little village of Brodowsky, in the state of São Paulo. One of twelve children, Candido began painting as a boy; itinerant painters who were redecorating the village church let him do the stars on the ceiling. Portinari broke his leg in a village football game, giving him a permanent limp. From then on, unable to play as his fellows did, he worked...
...study, slept in a bathtub, learned a correct academic style that won him several medals. After that came a two-year scholarship in Paris. He angered his sponsors by returning to Brazil with only a single small painting. Portinari explained: "I can paint nothing at first sight. I must wait and let imagination work...
Look out, Jack, dontcha be no jerk go get yours 'fore you go to work Smallpox'll get you if you hesitate So don't wait, Gate-Vaccinate
...puts on the stuff, then he takes a pin Applies some pressure till the jive sinks in The people are nice, and they treat you great So don't wait, Gate-Vaccinate...
Throughout the long debate Soviet delegate Andrei A. Gromyko listened in silence. He has opposed the creation of any sort of commission and apparently was content to wait until his own plan was taken up after discussion was completed on the U. S. resolution...