Word: crystal-clear
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...writers try to strike through to some final statement. There to pears to be an acute fear of being misunderstood. If the point of a story is meant to be ambiguous, then it is made murky. If the point is supposed to be clear, then it is made crystal-clear. This general criticism is not directed against a lack of narrative skill, but against a failure by many of the contributors to make efficient use of such skill...
Faure was not deceived. Shaking his fist at the Gaullists, he accused them of trying to overthrow him at all costs. "Your game is crystal-clear. You want to prevent me from applying my Moroccan policy endorsed last Sunday," he cried. Privately, the Gaullists admitted the truth of the charge. At last Faure wearily posed the Algerian program as a vote of confidence in himself, and set the vote for early this week. Quipped a left-wing Deputy: "There is a pleasant graveyard smell here...
...Kremlin's invitation to Adenauer. The Russians knew how powerful in German public opinion is the drive to reunite their country. Any German political leader less staunch than Der Alte might have been pressured into it. But Adenauer's loyalty to the Western alliance is so crystal-clear that the Russians did not explicitly ask him to budge. Nor could any successor to Adenauer, less loyal, inherently, to the concept of Western unity, afford to disregard the strength that West Germany derives from the West. It is perhaps this infusion that enabled West Germany last week to negotiate...
...pool reactor," a working research reactor set up on the lawn outside the palace. It is housed in a building that looks like a large, windowless Swiss chalet. Inside, from a black ceiling, beams of light slant down. On a red linoleum platform stands the reactor, a pool of crystal-clear water, faintly blue and 21 ft. deep, with control rods reaching into it. At the bottom, enveloped in blue luminescence, are the reacting uranium plates. Visitors can look down with perfect safety, and sense the atom's power...
...best place to mount it, the planners decided, was 56 feet below the surface of the bay of San Fruttuoso, between Camogli and Portofmo. There the waters were almost crystal-clear, so that the statue would be visible from above. Many a sea faring man had lost his life there - nearby the Genoese lost a bloody naval battle with the Venetians in 1431 and the British frigate Croesus went down...