Word: washed
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...steps toward a finished composition, and they don't bother with seducing the eye. They are pragmatic expressions of the desire to understand a pose, a set of figures, or a structure of tonal relationships, bluntly set down in strokes of the pen and unfussed dabs of ink wash. For the sensuous side of Poussin one must consult the paintings, in all their majesty of color: the ultramarine blues, vermilions, gold-yellows, unfurled against the softer tones of nature...
...Wash.) defeated...
...clocks and bells: "It was not just the classes and assembly that began on the dot. There was also a study period and the meals and the chores and voluntary sports and lights-out and when you had to get up if you were to manage a proper wash...
...road into town still reads Lamont, Growing to Feed the World. Like other San Joaquin Valley towns, and like much of California, Lamont (pop. 12,000) has for years welcomed immigrants -- illegal as well as legal, with few questions asked. Who else would pick grapes, pack carrots or wash dishes for $4.25 an hour or less? A few weeks ago, the town celebrated its annual "Weekend of Diversity" -- with an Okie migration commemoration on Saturday and a Hispanic fiesta on Sunday. But now Proposition 187 -- one of the most sweeping restrictions on aliens ever enacted in the U.S. -- has divided...
...There have been a lot of polls before elections; the only one that counts is the one that's taken on Election Day." -- Representative Thomas Foley (D- Wash...