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...flesh is a little slack." She was "a girl of our own day," wrote a lone enthusiastic critic, "neither lascivious nor simpering, who occupies herself usefully by mending her clothes." Three years after painting Study of a Nude, Gauguin came home one day with the news that he had left the stock exchange; henceforth, he told Mette, he intended to be a full-time painter. Moreover, he assured his alarmed and angry wife, he was going to make a heap of money...
Amherst, which beat the varsity, 64 to 57, over the holidays, boasts a 9-1 record. The Jeffs' lone less was to Middlebury, whom the varsity beat prior to the Christmas vacation...
After the army deposed Vargas, in 1945, Café Filho re-entered politics, won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, took up his old role of caustic, lone-wolf critic. He drew more fan mail than any other Deputy. Said Getulio Vargas, planning his own political comeback, "Café Filho is the most effective man in Congress. I wish he were on my side...
Feet to the Fire. The best support Democrats had for their argument was the testimony of Atomic Energy Commissioner Thomas Murray, the AEC's lone remaining Truman appointee. He told the Joint Committee that some features of the contract did not serve the best interests of the U.S. AEChairman Lewis Strauss decided to negotiate for contract changes which Murray wanted, knowing he needed Murray's approval to take some of the steam out of the Democratic attack...
...handcarts across the U.S., clearing settlements, huddling in sod forts during the Nez Perce and Bannock uprisings. The big country, immense space and small population have nurtured this pioneer feeling. Deep in the Washington woods, along upper Montana benchlands and in the wilderness of Idaho's canyons, are lone dwellings of families who still fight bears and cougars and board their children in school towns 50 miles away during winter. And across the Inland Empire, in a multitude of saloons called "Mint bars" and "Stockmen's bars," silver-dollar-jangling miners and cowpokes speak up loudly...