Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brilliant and melodramatic though these are, they seem to flash by like a scene of violence caught in the spotlight of a passing automobile, clear, vivid, frightening, but without relation to the life around it. Black Boy helps to explain that lack of relation. It is the story of a man set apart from his own race by sensitivity and intellect, yet barred forever from the white race by the color of his skin...
...caught up with Walton only six days out to sea, in the darkness before dawn when a U-boat attacked the Coast Guard cutter on which he was crossing the Atlantic (perhaps you remember his vivid story of the eight-hour battle in which the Spencer finally killed...
...liveliest and most informal dictionaries since Dr. Johnson's, it is also one of the easiest to read. It gives a vivid characterization of cowboys and their life...
Outstanding among the books of the Paris exhibit is the "Cabinet du Rol," printed in the seventeenth century at the order of Louis XIV. These elaborate folios are a vivid record of the festivals, tournaments and state entries into the capital. The University possesses one of the few complete sets...
...unfolding. By enemy report, no less than 70 Allied warships had penetrated into Lingayen Gulf, were laying their guns on coast defenses as far south as San Fabian (see map). Third Fleet carrier planes supplied close air support. The Japanese description of the scene was nothing if not vivid: "The whole area of Lingayen Gulf is detonating with the fiercest bombardment ... by the enemy surface units as well as the large carrier-borne plane bombings. . . . Superheavy guns mounted in the fortresses of San Fernando, Bauang, Damortis and other places on the coast of Lingayen Gulf are sending up a terrible...