Word: hurriedness
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Realism Turns Unreal. He tirelessly sketched models of Greek and Roman statues, studied Rembrandt, Titian, Velasquez, and most of all, El Greco. When it came to his own painting, he refused to be hurried, would go through hundreds of "sittings"-three-to four-hour stretches before the easel-to achieve...
For the next two days, top Administration officials hurried in and out of the White House-but kept strict silence as to the subject of their conversations with President Kennedy. Washington newsmen began to sense that something big was in the works, something more than the energetic enthusiasm of a...
Arriving in Washington, Kennedy kept on the move. He watched Ike's farewell speech on TV, struggled into his formal clothes and hurried over to Sister Jean's house for a dinner dance. Then, after dropping in at a party tossed by West Coast Financier Bert Lytton, Kennedy...
Another paratroop colonel calmly admitted that the police had begged his assistance, but he did nothing. A third, Colonel Henri Dufour, testified he had also told General Challe that he would not fire on the insurrectionists. When French Premier Michel Debre hurried to Algiers, Dufour advised him not to count...
"Enthusiasm was lagging," said Sidorov, "when Igor Ivanov and Gleb Nikolayev signaled to be lifted up the shaft. Everybody looked down and saw their smiling faces. Nikolayev was holding a rope, the end of which we knew was attached to the cylinder." After eight more feet of digging, the cylinder...