Word: lucidly
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...Sole Assassin. In the hour following the assassination, normally lucid people did strange things. Since the murdered President had been scheduled to make a luncheon address at the Dallas Trade Mart, Lady Bird's press secretary, Liz Carpenter, assumed that the Vice President would make the speech. She hurried to the mart only to discover, of course, that scarcely anyone was there. In Parkland Hospital, medical attendants struggled to remove the critically wounded Governor's clothes. It was Connally, finally, who had the presence of mind to remind them, "Why not cut them...
...most of the cavities, ducts and glands of his body-Ruby accused them of injecting him with the disease. Almost from the moment of his arrival at the hospital on Dec. 9, Ruby's case was considered hopeless-and he knew it. Yet he seemed calmer and more lucid at the brink of death than he had for months-possibly because he had a window to see outdoors and was allowed to sleep in the dark...
...Whether or not one supports Ronald Reagan, one cannot help being impressed by his lucid guideline to the Berkeley situation: "No one is compelled to attend the university. Those who do attend should accept and obey the prescribed rules...
Carlotta Wilsen combined flexibility with an ability to draw out sustained passages in a fine performance of the soprano arias. Don Meaders was forceful and poised singing Herod. As the Evangelist, Henry Gibbons sang with ease and lucid diction; his performance was solidly musical at every point...
...retina-wrecking color is a play so tastefully transformed into a film. Scene after scene is played in sober old Tudor houses glozed by candlelight, or by the warm green verges of the New Forest. The costumes are rich, not gaudy, and the actors are borne lightly on the lucid stream of language that flows throughout the film. Even more mesmerically than he did in the play, Paul Scofield pulls all eyes toward himself by the abundance and subtlety of what seems to be happening inside him. Seen close up, he gives off a vibration of greatness very like what...