Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Right now, the editors have other projects afoot for the weeks and months to come, adding the unique and vivid impact of color to the drama of the world's news...
...shocked when she first saw Ibadan, a city of many slums and open sewers in the upland jungles of Nigeria. While still brushing up on her Nigerian history at a University College of Ibadan indoctrination course, she wrote to a friend, Robert V. Storer at Cambridge, and crammed 150 vivid words onto a 5½-inch by 3½-inch postcard, giving her impressions of Ibadan life...
...this film, cheap horror is carefully avoided, and the blood-sucking scenes are all tactfuly done. The great theme is illustrated with an assembly of vivid episodes mounting in tension to the Transylvanian crescendo; the total effect is terrifying in the way an Aeschylus tragedy is terrifying. A representative scene is that in which a team of surgeons tries in vain to save the latest victim. "He has died of an unnatural loss of blood," says one over the corpse, and then after a chilling silence come the ominous words: "If only we knew what caused those two puncture marks...
...Your vivid, poignant report on the call-up of Wisconsin's Red Arrow Division exemplifies not only the high morale and combat readiness of National Guardsmen, but also the understanding and courage of their wives and families, who bear the real sacrifices. We hope the article is read by those few individuals, including some Guardsmen, who do not yet recognize either the urgency of our mobilization or the traditional duty of our citizens to respond, whatever the cost, when they are needed...
...book's 814 pages (excluding check list and index), there are vivid scenes of triumph and disaster. There is the occasion, soon after the success of Main Street, when Lewis' crisply arrogant first wife, Grace Hegger, was introduced at a party as "Mrs. Lewis." Said she: "Please, Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. Even my dentist says, 'Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, spit...