Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jacobean stone, lichenous and somnolent in great gardens beside the fleet little River Skell. The 814-year-old abbey (desecrated by order of Henry VIII) is England's noblest monastic ruin. Yet it was not its ruinous beauty that most moved Elwes, but his sudden realization of the vivid religious life which once had flourished there. "Beauty," says he, "ought to live. Ruins, as ruins, always make me want to vomit. It seemed to me then that the stones of Fountains were bleeding...
With limpid, vivid clarity, Jeans explained the mysteries. He did not stop work as a scientist, but gradually his scientific work took second place. He lectured, played the lion, his comings & goings across the Atlantic became almost public events...
...pulps. The comics, full of rocket men and bosomy girls, were the biggest surprise of all; British children's comics are mainly animal or flower stories. London street hawkers took in up to ?15 a day. Customers paid up to 25. 6d. (50?) for such gems as Vivid Confessions and How to Write Intimate Love Letters. Outraged British publishers couldn't prove it, but they felt sure that some of this Canadian flood came from U.S. firms anxious to dump their recent heavy returns...
There was Winston Churchill, dumpy, "mostly stomach," a cigar stuck in his "large, round mug." There was Franklin D. Roosevelt, jaunty in a dinner jacket, "vivid and agile." And there was onetime Slovene immigrant Louis Adamic. earnest, slow-spoken author of The Native's Return and other books. Adamic was all eyes, all ears...
...precincts of the British rulers. Tommy gunners covered everyone entering Barclay's Bank to cash a check. The Post Office, Government Lands Office, Overseas Airways office jittered as Jewish extremists carried on a "telephone terror," threatening bombings (the blasted walls of the King David Hotel were still vivid in everyone's mind). On Zion Circus the marquee of a cinema twinkled: "They Were Expendable...