Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While building a reputation as a conservative Republican statesman on Capitol Hill, Colorado's able, lucid Gene Millikin had sadly neglected the first principle of the politicians' trade. Only a few Colorado voters knew their junior Senator personally; his political fences were sagging with disrepair. By last week the fact stood out like Gene Millikin's huge bald dome on a sunny day: one of the strongest Republicans in Senate councils was in for the battle of his political life...
Said the London Daily Telegraph: "One of the finest dramatic achievements of our times." Echoed the Times: "In lucid, unallusive verse ... he presents in the shape of a fashionable West End comedy a story highly ingenious in its construction, witty in its repartee and impregnated with Christian feeling...
...Bismarck Episode is a retired British naval officer's remarkably lucid account of the pursuit, cornering and sinking of the pride of Hitler's navy. An author of less background might have pulled out all the stops and wallowed happily but confusingly in the story's drama. Author Grenfell,* veteran of 30 years' service, including the Jutland and Dardanelles actions in World War I, sticks sternly to facts and understatement...
...knee.) He was clad merely in tuxedo and looked very prosperous, distinguished, and glowing. (The Sitwells had just returned from Florida, but only the brother showed a tan.) Sir Osbert read some of his poems--character sketches, they are--and proved himself to be an amusing and more lucid poet than his sister...
...defeats, with Communist terror, with the fumbling and venality of Greek politicians. Hard on the heels of the rape of Naousa came news that Karpenesion, a heavily defended provincial capital in central Greece, had fallen to the rebels. The cabinet of doddering old Themistocles Sophoulis resigned. Sophoulis, 88, is lucid for only about an hour...