Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hold classes to teach our writers "TIME style." (Some people seem to think we do.) Many a man wanting to write for TIME has been turned down because samples of his work showed he was an imitator of TIME -as he imagined it -instead of a writer of direct, vivid, sense-making English...
...Still vivid in the memory of most Americans is the tragic 1927 sinking of the submarine 54, whose trapped crew died while a rescue fleet vainly tried to raise the ship in no feet of water off Provincetown. Rescue might have been possible if there had been some quick way to cut an escape hatch in the ship. Now such a device has at last been developed. For more than a year the U.S. Navy has been performing wonders in rescue and harbor-clearing work by means of an amazing underwater torch which cuts thick steel plate like cheese...
Broadway put on a good show in the 1944-45 season just ended. There were no overwhelming moments or historic scenes, but there were pretty ones and witty ones, charming and disarming ones, and a few that were vivid and exciting. At the box office, despite slightly higher prices and curfews, 24 out of 85 shows made good-a well-above-average showing...
...appropriate as the frigid sister-in-law, Alexis Smith is less persuasive as an actress. On the other hand, Director Curtis Bernhardt and his colleagues exploit such action possibilities as the fierce, desolate murder scene with masterful detail, turn the story's emotions into something more cruel and vivid than a series of plot signposts...
...Among my most vivid recollections . . . is of her sitting straight and rigid in a chair, reading to us from the only book in our home, the Bible. Each year she read the Bible through. On Sunday afternoons she would gather us to her side and, opening the worn pages, read for hours. It never seemed strange that, devoted Bible student that she was, she was not a member of any church...