Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could have blamed them. In no other conquered country were the prospects of a successful resistance movement more dangerous and disheartening. But an underground was organized. And unlike most underground soldiers, Jan Karski has lived to tell the tale. His book is, in part, one of the most vivid adventure stories of the war. But more, it is a powerful document in the case for Polish independence...
...bombs, tended the wounded, helped the doctors fight malaria without quinine-stuck it out with our boys for two bitter months. You may remember Jacoby's on-the-spot reports on how the Japs dished it out and our men took it as some of the most vivid, angry reporting ever to appear in the pages of TIME & LIFE...
Expressionists. But as he aged he produced tough, vivid pictures in a manner entirely his own. His subjects were Maine mountains, fish, flowers, ropes, shells, and harsh, haunting portraits, painted from memory, of men who were his spiritual heroes. Among the Museum's most striking Hartleys...
Anna Lucasta. Vivid, well-acted, all-Negro play about a streetwalker and her family (TiME, June...
...type of grass that Southerners are hailing as the ideal verdant sward was reported from Louisville last week. It grows a lush, vivid green in the hottest, dryest weather, rarely needs to be mowed (it seldom grows more than four inches tall), does equally well in sun or shade, is so tough that an automobile skid does not scar it. In the south, it has been found ideal for airfields, golf tees, parks, and as a general ground cover. For northern areas, there is a hitch: the grass does not grow very successfully in cool climates, and frost turns...