Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story. It presented a girl in a town like Indianapolis, a daydreaming flirt, in a struggle with family failure, local snobbery and a doomed love affair. Nothing more; but anyone could see that it was "well written," meaning that the writer had a pleased ear for U.S. speech; an effortless way of evoking familiar things "[the milkman's horse] casually shifted weight with a clink of steel shoes on the worn brick pavement of the street, and then heartily shook himself in his harness, perhaps to dislodge a fly far ahead of its season"; and the ability to spin...
...methods and accomplishment of every division of knowledge that deals with finite quantitative problems, from economic statistics to astronomy. Representatives of a dozen departments in the University are casting a longing eye toward this wonder worker in hope that they will soon be able to get quick, effortless answers to problems which heretofore have taken prohibitive amounts of time and energy...
...once in the Varsity contest was the issue in doubt. Following an effortless win in the medley relay, Jerry Gorman and Ted Norris finished one-two in the 220, and after that all save one of the events saw Crimson swimmers hit the finish line first...
Died. Cornelius Johnson, 29, Negro high-jumper, 1936-41 co-holder (with Negro Dave Albritton) of the world's record; after a two-week bender in San Francisco. His effortless victory in the 1936 Berlin Olympics drew from a Nazi sportswriter the nettled tribute: "In blood and instinct, Johnson is still living in a state of innocence in Paradise...
...even more powerful-the take-off of the planes against an extravagant dawn which one might only smile at on a calendar. That in turn meets more than its match in the pictures which follow-the first of those many gunbarrel shots of combat in color which, in their effortless achievement at once of superhuman force and grandeur and of jewel-like delicacy, might well make this film the envy of good poets and painters for the rest of time. Later on, over Truk and Kwajalein and the Marianas, these shots-plus some hair-raising ones of crash-landings...