Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just about the biggest advantage a TIME writer has over a newspaper reporter racing for his deadline is the help of a trained research assistant always at his elbow to help dig out the facts he needs to make his stories vivid and clear and factual...
...directly due to Wyler's World War I experiences. He was twelve when the war began, and his parents' home in Mulhouse was French. Alsace-Lorraine was a major battleground. Mulhouse changed hands a dozen times before the Armistice, and Wyler spent considerable time underground. His most vivid memory: crawling out of the cellar after each conflict, wondering whether he was French or German...
...staff of twelve managed to keep a steady stream of on-the-spot news flowing across the Atlantic. These Graebner reports of how the Nazis dished it out and the British took it in the Battle of Britain will long be remembered as some of the most vivid, authentic reporting ever to appear in TIME...
...Ghostly Father, I Confess is both a vivid criticism and an ambiguous endorsement of the favorite emetic of Miss McCarthy's circle, psychoanalysis...
People who make quick, obvious answers and pass on to the next card are apt to be "conformist" types, anxious to be popular and avoid trouble. Those who see each blot as several different pictures are likely to have active and vivid emotions, while those who see shapes only in small details are often repressed...