Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Debris. Foreign correspondents were taken by the Russians to see with their own eyes how well the drive was going. As usual, New York Times's Cyrus L. Sulzberger painted the most vivid picture of the Russian effort: "White-helmeted infantrymen armed with automatic rifles and dragging metal ammunition cases be hind them on the snow, shuffling ski troops, cavalrymen on heavily furred horses, with rifles strapped to their backs and brass-handled sabers rattling by their sides, tractor-drawn supply sleighs and powerful howitzers, long columns of tanks and caterpillar troop carriers slogging past the wrecked debris...
...Erasmus Cooke at Sandusky, Ohio. My father often related to me how Ogontz used to carry him and also his cousin, the first Jay Cooke, piggie-back through the woods. When Jay Cooke and my father came to Philadelphia to enter the banking business, memories of Ogontz were so vivid that when Jay Cooke built his handsome home in the suburbs of Philadelphia, he called it Ogontz. The district then came to be known as Ogontz...
From the deck of a ship entering the harbor, Willemstadt in Curaçao looks like a toy Dutch town, its well-scrubbed houses bright in the vivid tropic sunlight. To 79 men, women and children hanging over the rails of the Spanish liner Cabo de Hornos last week, Curaçao seemed very beautiful. It looked like heaven to them, for they had been on a long voyage through hell...
...secret in his schools. Every young Nazi is taught to hate the U.S., knows that some day he will have to fight it. This week an educator who had heard Hitler's plans from the mouths of Nazi babes told what he had heard in the most vivid factual firsthand account of Nazi education yet published outside Germany, Education for Death (Oxford; $2). Its author, whose integrity is vouched for by such authorities as William L. Shirer and Douglas Miller, is Michigan-born Gregor Athalwin Ziemer, 42, for eleven years headmaster of the American Colony School (for U.S. diplomats...
...subduedly ominous of the many firsthand reports of France on the eve of the debacle; 2) As Time One Day . . ., a resumption of van Paassen's boyhood memories about the Dutch village of Gorcum, begun in Days of Our Years; 3) The New Order Comes to Gorcum, a vivid account of the coming of the Nazis; 4) In the Steps of the Sun, eleven true stories illustrating the general misery of the age in all parts of the globe; 5) Irrevocable Hours, sketches of Hitler, Mussolini, Hess, et al., including a rational argument that Hess is in England because...