Word: lifeless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years of nurture to be reconciled With darkened eyes reflecting lifeless light...
...sugar freighter Olivegrove, 200 miles southwest of Bantry, Ireland. This captain ordered the freighter to heave to (by shots over her bow), and to disembark her men in lifeboats. He then lay to, checked the castaways' compass, offered them a tow toward the nearest land. After scuttling the lifeless Olivegrove with one well-aimed torpedo, he stood by her survivors for nine hours until help neared (U. S. liner Washington). To attract it, he put lights on the lifeboats and fired two red rockets before taking his tactful leave...
...village in the Bakony Forest, Hungary, a peasant named John Koevecs was found apparently lifeless. But his sons were leary of burying John Koevecs: twice before he had been thought dead, had revived indignantly at the funeral. They decided to wait three days to make sure. At the last minute John Koevecs again opened his eyes, sat up, stopped the show...
...enamel but a similar nitrocellulose paint. It has taken him six years, since he first started work with Siqueiros in Mexico City, to train his trigger finger to its present control. Painted on pressed wood, his two mural Portraits of New York were full of refined detail, though somewhat lifeless in color and very stark in symbolism. Each embodied a major ingenuity which Artist Berdecio calls "kinetic perspective" by which distortions are so anticipated and utilized as to make the mural a satisfactory, if somewhat different, picture to spectators from each side as well as in front...
Last week Executive Director John H. Baker of the National Audubon Societies surveyed by air a lifeless desert, populated only by spinning whirlwinds of sand and hot ashes, where a green wilderness used to teem with birds-ibis, herons, cranes, ducks, snowy egrets...