Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first sentence sounds Lawrence's theme: "God, this is awful." Then he settles down to prove it with explicit descriptions of the hardships of barracks life and phonographic reproductions of the unqualified filth of his fellow-soldiers' speech. Most of the recruits had been taken off the dole, some were demoralized down-and-outers, a few were petty criminals who had escaped punishment by joining the Air Force. Even readers less puritanical than Lawrence may feel that he fell in with a particularly foul-mouthed crew. One pious soldier with whom he had attended church led the company...
...concluding volume retraced the stages of the Emperor's decline to the time of his departure for Elba. Together the two books constitute an amazing picture of the smashing of a world power, the first volume more readable as a connected narrative, the second more notable for its explicit records of events over which historians have speculated endlessly. A stoic, melancholy spirit, Caulaincourt was a strange combination himself, a blunt, hard-riding man of action who was also a fatalist and a philosopher, and who wrote with classic seventy...
...guarded fortresses: Kentucky's Fort Knox, where the U. S. Treasury is to move most of its gold bullion, and Britain's equally obscure Fort Belvedere, where Edward VIII goes for week ends with his U. S. friend, Mrs. Simpson. For scientifically-minded readers, LIFE depicted, with explicit captions, the cannibal romance of the famed Black Widow spider, who devours her mate when done with...
Professor Knight begins his demonstration with some explicit advice on how to get into a war, detailing the steps that led to the U. S. entry into the World War as an illustration. He ends his grisly volume with an account of the cost of the World War (his estimate is $400,000,000,000) and a warning to his hypothetical audience of powerful individuals on the cost of another such conflict to them. Between these two points he has compressed into 243 pages an inclusive study of war propaganda, a rapid but convincing survey of innovations in warfare finance...
Official spokesmen for the College were explicit in stating that no campaigning was contemplated in keeping the 300th Fund alive, merely hoping that the momentum of the September Celebration would carry...