Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desk-thumping, the shrill appeals, the threats and warnings" of Mayor LaGuardia were not appropriate to the "grim business" of civilian defense. It should all be put under the jurisdiction of the War Department, said Mr. Lippmann. "The facts of the situation, and the morale of the people require lucid and authoritative commands." Mrs. Roosevelt should stop confusing everyone by being a minor official in her husband's Government. Mr. LaGuardia "should resign as soon as his successor can be found and installed in the office." Indications were that Mr. Roosevelt thought so too, was getting ready to pluck...
...begun by outlining once more the threat of Naziism to the fundamental rights of U.S. citizens. He then passed to the meat of his speech-a lucid passage...
That fact could not be mistaken. Day before the freezing order the President had explained why in the simplest vernacular. Talking off the cuff to a group of civilian-defense volunteers he made them a little homily so saltily effective and lucid that the critical Baltimore Sun allowed: "There was a bit of Lincoln in it." Said the President...
Nobody had been killed but everyone had been hurt. Shaken but lucid, 76-year-old Dr. George Crile, famed Cleveland surgeon, was pinned in his seat, but gave advice to his fellow townsman, Dr. Daniel P. Quiring, in first-aid work. Except for Captain Gerald O'Brien, the first pilot, who was out of his head, everybody was quietly hopeful of help, for before dark a circling plane had sighted the DC-3, whipped back to Vero Beach, ten miles away, for help. Captain O'Brien was still flying the plane through that morning's murderous thunderstorm...
...Roosevelt's ounce was followed by a pound from Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson, in prose almost illegally lucid. Mr. Jackson argued that the imposing of uniform procedure on all agencies would act "as if we should average the sizes of all men's feet and then buy shoes of only that one size for the Army." Under the bill, any citizen substantially affected and displeased by a ruling "has everything to gain and nothing to lose" by suing in the D. C. Court of Appeals. If he loses, he may wait until the rule is again involved...