Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to be quite a challenge to make a vivid impression on the freshmen," said Geoffrey C. Rapp '98, an executive board member of Holoimua o Hawai'i. "Unless we show them that there is a supportive community from Hawaii here, it is unlikely that they will want to be a part of our club...
Russia has undergone a feminist revolution in the mirror image of what has occurred in the United States. Natalia Baranskaia's "A Week Like Any Other" is an especially vivid example of the role of beauty and personal appearance in Soviet life. This story describes a week in the life of a Soviet woman. The heroine receives a questionnaire at work requesting information about how she spends her time each week. We follow her through a week and see her travel three hours a day on public transportation, prepare meals for her family, work in a high-pressure research...
Michael Fortier, prosecutors hope, will fill in the colors of the picture they have drawn. He will provide the vivid, firsthand account of McVeigh, the friend he asked to be best man at his wedding. He can describe McVeigh's visits to Kingman, Arizona, where Fortier lived and where McVeigh spent the weeks before the bombing. Most crucially, Fortier can say that on Dec. 15 and 16, 1994, he and McVeigh were in Oklahoma City, where they walked around inside the Murrah building (in which Christmas decorations adorned the day-care center). According to Fortier, McVeigh said this...
...Mount Everest. Sucking a lean mixture of bottled oxygen and air that only partly made up for the dire thinness of the atmosphere, he managed a single step to three or four heaving breaths. To his oxygen-starved brain, the world beyond his rubber mask, he writes, "was stupendously vivid but seemed not quite real, as if a movie were being projected in slow motion across the front of my goggles. I felt drugged, disengaged." A bit later, without drama or any great feeling of elation, he reached the top: "a slender wedge of ice, adorned with a discarded oxygen...
...case you were wondering, here's as vivid a definition of saloon songs as you're likely to find: "[They're] the ones the fellows sing in a dimly lighted club at about 2 o'clock in the morning, when everybody's gassed. Numbsville...