Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Calcutta "primitive" who quit his highbrow protrait business to paint flat, bright figures like the ones which decorate Bengali pots and dolls. Jamini (rhymes with Tammany) makes his own paints from rock dust, mud, chalk and tamarind seeds, keeps a back-roomful of helpers grinding out copies of his wasp-waisted festival dancers, friendly tigers and almond-eyed Christs...
Heinrich Himmler, who in life looked like a cross between a wasp and a pig, looked different in death. His death mask (see cut), taken near Lüneburg, Germany, after his suicide (by swallowing potassium cyanide), might have been mistaken for that of a daft and drunken Silenus...
Buzz-Bomb. In Kingston, Jamaica, when E. M. Mamby yawned, a wasp zoomed down his throat, stung a tonsil...
...only six inches high, and at first glance her flounced skirt, wasp waist, bare breasts and triple crown looked comically ahead of the fashion. She had roamed the Mediterranean with Cretan pirates. She was reportedly worshiped from Asia Minor to Spain as the eternally virgin mother of all things, the new moon, full moon and old moon, whose baby boy (the sun) went down to death each year. All life was supposed to flow from her inexhaustible breasts...
...quell the 2,000 Japs at Attu when he had only a division of 15,000 men and the support of a fleet." It never told who, if anybody, was to blame for the Kasserine Gap and Ardennes defeats, the torpedoing of the Saratoga and the loss of the Wasp...