Word: stowaway
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When he arrived in New York City in 1926, he was 22, a stowaway on a freighter from Rotterdam, the Dutch port where he had been raised by an imposing, belligerent mother. In the U.S. he worked for years in commercial art before deciding, in the midst of the Depression, to emulate his friend Arshile Gorky and devote himself full time to painting, a choice that guaranteed him a hand-to-mouth existence. Fame arrived around 1950, the year he painted his magnificent, pulsing abstraction Excavation, a field of elbowing contours and a bravura rethinking of Cubist space...
...QANTAS SPOKESMAN, announcing that a stowaway rat, which had caused the grounding of a Boeing 737 three times, had been killed and removed from the plane...
...Infamous Stowaway...
Alleviating the stress on dorm crew workers was one of the things Teixeira, the Adams House superintendent, said he hoped to accomplish with his e-mail threatening fines for stowaway china...
Alleviating the stress on dorm crew workers was one of the things Teixeira, the Adams House superintendent, said he hoped to accomplish with his e-mail threatening fines for stowaway china...