Word: explicitly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...save space with our verbs too. Why say "walked vigorously" if we can say "strode,""marched,""tramped" or "stomped" and be quicker as well as more explicit...
...Landsberg, with the help of Rudolf Hess, he wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle}. Seldom has a plotter set forth his purposes in plainer language or more explicit detail. The book was badly organized, but in it were the plans for Hitler's aggression against Germany and the rest of the world. The intellectuals contented themselves with laughing at Hitler's ideas and correcting his literary style...
...Less explicit was the statement issued by Robert K. Root, dean of the Princeton faculty, early in November. Expressing his college's eagerness at that time to revert to its prewar calendar, he said only that such a move would be taken as soon as the end of the Navy V-12 unit made conformity to a Navy schedule no longer necessary. Thus Yale is the only member of the big three to have released a concrete reconversion program...
Taken tangle by tangle, Knots is instructive and often amusing. From Archer to Yachtsman, it describes the knots of nearly 100 occupations, including the baker's pretzel twist and the parachutist's sling. It gives explicit instructions on how to spit and truss a fowl, lace a football, mend a garden hose, string pearls, fly a kite, string a fiddle, tie a necktie. It offers such engaging oddments as the Norfolk-to-Washington Boat Heaving Line Knot, Department-Store Loop, Cuckold's Neck Knot, Bathrobe Cord Knot...
...admirable anti-Darlan, anti-Vichy sentiments of "Passage to Marseille" are somewhat obscured by its overstyled presentation. Still, its statements even now are undoubtedly more explicit than most Holywood war pictures...