Word: brushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bristling. In Memphis, Brush Salesman Stanley Brown was fined $153 for trying to force a housewife into her bathtub so that he could demonstrate a back-scrubbing brush...
...foreign-born unit, and the 17-year-old Lydia became an invaluable spy. Each day she played the role of an ingenuous, admiring schoolgirl watching Nazi troop movements; at night, from the Lipskis' Pigalle apartment, "Cipine" radioed her findings to London. Handy with pen and brush, Lydia, by 1941, was F-1's chief cartographer. When the infamous female double agent "La Chatte" betrayed the Fi, Lydia began a grim tour of Nazi prisons, ending in Ravensbrueck concentration camp, where, nearly dead from torture and disease, ravished by her guards, she was at last freed...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies, who advocated "sharply increased public expenditures" for both defense and foreign aid. Russia's superior growth rate and her power-bent use of it, Rostow said, threaten the U.S. on half a dozen fronts, ranging from brush-fire wars to all-out attack, political penetration of underdeveloped areas and "diplomatic blackmail." Worst of all, said Rostow, Russia is creating among neutrals the "psychological image of an ardent competitor closing fast on a front runner who prefers to go down in style rather than make the effort to maintain...
Bristling. In Memphis, Brush Salesman Stanley Brown was fined $153 for trying to force a housewife into her bathtub so that he could demonstrate a back-scrubbing brush...
Nursing a bruised ego and a gift for sketching, the 21-year-old Whistler embarked for Paris and the studio of French Painter Gustave Courbet. From Courbet he acquired his early brush strokes, his first model-mistress, Eloise, and a point of view: "Beauty is truth." This creed spurred the art-for-art's-sake movement with which an entire generation of painters and writers thwacked at the Victorian taste for the didactic, the sentimental and the morally elevating. From London (where he moved in 1859), Whistler deployed his canvases like troops in this avant-garde campaign. The fury...