Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...STARK Santa Monica, Calif...
...soldier's courage has become a stranger and subtler virtue since the days when Spartan mothers clapped their sons off to the wars with the stark injunction: "Return with your shield or on it." In the jungle retreat of Bataan, it became necessary to resist in a seemingly lost cause. On the frostbitten ridges of Korea, it became necessary to carry a stalemate to its logical inconclusion. In these tragic endurance contests, new kinds of American courage were bred, and that courage is celebrated in these two remarkable, non-fiction accounts by first-time authors. Give Us This...
...Milwaukee, when police arrested her for shoplifting, learned after a brief search that she was stark naked under her coat, 23-year-old Lois Johnson explained to a matron that she wore only the coat because she didn't have a clean dress...
...Ford Star Jubilee showing last week of MGM's 1939 musiclassic The Wizard of Oz-which hauled down a spectacular 29.4 Trendex rating-forced a couple of stark truths on TVmen. Hollywood, with about 200 of its best old movies headed straight for TV this year, will have a hard time competing with itself. Further, the whole system of network programming may soon have to be revamped...
Once written, however, the speeches were used always as the bible but seldom as texts. Generally Nixon spoke without a text and without notes. More of a talker than a speechmaker, he aimed directly at his audiences, used simple, plain, stark language, made his points specifically and clearly, never shouting. Where it was possible he would pick out three or four people at various points in the crowd and speak directly to them. At Evansville, Ind. he spotted a man in blue overalls standing near the center of the audience, talked directly to him, watched for reaction. There was none...