Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned his amateur yachtsmanship to use as a lieutenant on the Corvette Flower. This is his third winter of service in the North Atlantic convoys. Corvettes are the smallest British vessels in active service. They "would roll on wet grass," and some of Lieut. Monsarrat's most vivid writing describes merely the mixture of discomfort and deep pride which the corvettes engender in the heroic, fatalistic corvetteers who man them...
...from his great adventure. . . . Biting nails-good, hard, bitter Republican nails-we are compelled to admit that Franklin Roosevelt is the most unaccountable and on the whole the most enemy-baffling President that this United States has ever seen. He has added a certain vast impudent courage to a vivid but constructive imagination and he has displayed his capacity for statesmanship in the large and simple billboard language that the common people can understand. . . . Well, darn your smiling old picture, here it is! Here, reluctantly amid seething and snorting, it is. We, who hate your gaudy guts, salute...
...Patriots. The historic clash between Jefferson and Hamilton set down in vivid rhetoric (TIME...
...Most vivid scene: a tank battle, showing Soviet soldiers riding on tanks up to the enemy's lines and then charging into the mouth of his guns. Through tank gun-slits the camera looks straight down the barrel of Nazi anti-tank guns, firing at point-blank range...
...secretary so humanly addressed was young Francis Biddle of the Philadelphia Biddies, now U.S. Attorney General. He has made an offering in the form of a biography to the memory of the man he thinks may come to rank with Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln. Biddle's vivid sketching reinforces a central impression of Holmes also to be had from the monumental Holmes-Pollock Letters (TIME, April 14, 1941)-that this giant of U.S. law will ultimately be valued as a phenomenally warm, wise, skeptical, humble human being...