Word: working
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American pilots working for the airlines stumbled into the mazes of the coup. CNAC's American Vice President E. M. Allison announced that eight American pilots had gone to work for the Communists, that 37 others would remain "loyal" to the airline, regardless of ownership. Pan American Airways Corp., which owns 20% of CNAC's stock (the Nationalist government owns the other 80%), declared itself neutral, asserted that it had no voice in CNAC's policy or politics...
...Maria is fond of lilies and orchids, which she grows, and wild about bullfighting. Having studied in the U.S. for a year at San Francisco's Sacred Heart School, she would like to travel more, hopes to take up social work as a career...
...This time was no exception. When a photographer arrived at the jail to take a picture of Roussil's statue, the police dutifully draped a towel around the father's ample loins (see cut). But their hearts were not entirely in their work. Said one policeman: "There is nothing wrong with this. It is nature. Even the Vatican has pure physiques of this type...
...Work & Play...
...minor triumph for his tight, bright little circle of admirers. By dint of carefully mingled rapture and doubt, they had persuaded him to save twelve canvases for the show. Whether his twelve survivors represented a triumph for Bacon was another question. The paintings did not look like the work of a perfectionist. Done in an elaborately sketchy technique, they were remarkable chiefly for horror. Among them were studies of lumpish, long-necked figures squatting on tabletops, a sinister) male nude disappearing through a curtain, and half a man firing half a machine...