Word: redrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dubious grounds, including the fact that a 9th century Burmese kingdom once paid tribute to China's T'ang emperors, Chinese rulers from the Empress Dowager to Chiang Kai-shek claimed large chunks of northern Burma. The Chinese Reds, after their conquest of mainland China in 1949, redrew the map to show the disputed areas as part of China, and then waited for history to confirm their...
...Busch bought the Cassily Adams painting for $35,000, and turned it over to a lithographer to reproduce. The lithographer redrew most of it, adding dozens of new figures and buckets of gore (i.e., three dying soldiers being scalped) to what was once a fairly restrained, stilted scene. †A long-used diminutive that Busch barely tolerates. Most people who refer to him as "Gussie" call him "Gus" to his face. *Bottled beer, says Gussie Busch, should not be poured by dribbling it down the side of a tilted glass. The bottle should be tipped almost straight...
...days off, he walked around New York studying such wonders as Fifth Avenue, Wall Street and the Woolworth Building. While still working for McKim, Mead & White, he got himself enrolled in the atelier of a top architect, Harvey Wiley Corbett, where in the evenings he drew, drew and redrew, while Corbett passed from desk to desk, criticizing and encouraging...