Word: vividness
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With such evidence stacked against his client, Lawyer Williams took great care in picking jurymen, ended up with a working-class panel of eight Negroes, four whites. Then he proceeded to paint an emotional, vivid-hued contrast between Cheasty and Hoffa. Cheasty, went the Williams defense, was a "liar" and an "informer"; Hoffa was a man who "fought many battles for labor" and "never betrayed a trust." Jimmy himself took the witness stand and, with Williams asking helpful questions, blandly testified that he had hired Cheasty solely as a lawyer to help represent teamsters under investigation. Not until...
...bite when he feels like it." On the subject of controlling the people: "The party leadership must not be divorced from the ranks of the party and must not become divorced from the masses. If there is a divorce there will be no comrades. Hungary serves a vivid lesson. As a result of disintegration and divorce a handful of Hungarian counterrevolutionaries, with help from abroad, were able to stage a blood bath in Budapest, when a mere sneeze from the party members should have been enough to blow them away...
Three weeks ago the legal battle ended; Joanne had won $190,000 in insurance and jewelry. Said a Swiss friend: "She seemed relieved that it was all over. She was a kind girl, with a vivid interest in people and things. All she needed was a man who could really lead her." But Joanne had only Mother, and the lonely isolation (Joanne spoke no French or German) of her Swiss villa had only intensified her unhappiness. Over the months her drug intake increased alarmingly-sleeping pills to stop her "headaches," Dexedrine to wake her up, reducing pills to curb...
...bitter book is a huge bestseller in Finland. American readers should be impressed by his terse descriptions of infighting, and grateful for the absence of the detailed flashbacks to peacetime life that have become the curse of war novels. There are some stereotypes but also some fresh, vivid portraits: Rokka, the veteran of the Winter War, who will fight his own way or not at all; Honkajoki, the eccentric pedant, who infuriates his officers by carrying a longbow into battle; Lahtinen, the Communist sympathizer, who wins a medal for bravery, yet takes a perverse pleasure in the stubborn resistance...
...Those vivid pictures and your map of Middle Africa "bring homesickness" (vi koka ongeva) to one just back from Africa. Your writer, however, brushes off Christianity as "Catholicism in the Congo, Anglicanism in British East Africa, isolated settlements of other Protestant religions elsewhere. Numerically, Christian conversions are few." A conservative estimate gives at least 8,000,000 Protestants and 13,000,000 Roman Catholics in Middle Africa, and the Christian community has been doubling itself about every 15 years...