Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sudanese are left to themselves (and presumably advised discreetly by the British). Even better would be an agreement whereby the Egyptians, Sudanese and British could be friends again in the vulnerable, volatile Middle East. Said the Manchester Guardian: "We should be ready to take the rough with the smooth if we can secure a tolerable way out of what seemed a little time ago to be an impasse." Said the Economist: "For the first time for very many years an Egyptian statesman has publicly given Great Britain the benefit of the doubt...
...border he found coils of barbed wire looped along the ground. He followed the wire, detouring a guard tower, followed a set of footprints into the wire, found a pair of wire-snippers dropped by a guard. Mieczyslaw cut the wire and tiptoed across a ten-meter band of smooth sand toward the next barrier, a low stake fence draped with barbed wire. He snipped his way through that, hurried across another stretch of smooth sand toward the third barrier, a higher fence. Suddenly he stopped. He had stepped on a wire concealed in the sand. Somewhere nearby a bell...
Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a water smooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreej our five pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death At Bennington as in other schools, Cummings' typographical arrangements are being studied for what they are - devices to give readers a maximum of communication and excitement...
...fruits. Miss Frances goes in heavily for demonstration: "Little children love to touch things. But no one takes the trouble to teach them language for what they discover. We try to give them some feeling for shapes. They like to be able to say something is rough or smooth, oblong or narrow...
Holes & Lumps. Ritchie's show begins with some of the early giants: Auguste Rodin's skin-smooth St. John the Baptist. with its supple lines and easy Renaissance grace; Arietide Maillol's pensive Mediterranean, heavier and thicker; Constantin Brancusi's early abstractions. All the abstractions of the '20s and '30s, says Ritchie, flowed out of the work and theory of those three men. Rodin used to say that sculpture was merely "the hole and the lump"; his admirers carried the idea to a ruthlessly literal conclusion...