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...Major Harold H. Wood-known to his crewmates as "Lemon Bar" because of his success at officers'-club slot machines-twirled the knobs on his bombsight, tried to line up the target ship Nevada with the cross hairs of his eyepiece. Topside, the Nevada had been painted a livid orange, striped with white. She wore her campaign ribbons painted on big boards-among them the Purple Heart with two stars (one hit at Pearl Harbor, two at Okinawa...
Georgia's ordinarily quiet Walter F. George stood, livid with rage, to cry: "If that is all that Harry Truman has to offer, God help the Democratic Party in 1946 and 1948!" Boiling at the idea of giving a Negro a white man's wage, Southern Senators planned a filibuster which would tie up all other legislation for weeks-or months...
...that no family journalist should use. Just after one of his papers had guttersniped a dashing engineer named Clito Bockel, Chateaubriand found himself toasting an air force officer at an Aero Club plane christening. The officer responded, "I am Clito Bockel's brother," and knocked the publisher down. Livid with passion, Chateaubriand drew his pistol and, with indifferent aim grazed Bockel's cheek, shot his chief editorial writer...
...Franklin's volatile cargo-40,000 gallons of aviation fuel, .50-caliber, 20-mm. and 40-mm. ammunition, armor-piercing and incendiary bombs-began to explode. Rockets whooshed through the air. Livid white flashes tore the smoke. Gasoline gushing from open lines flowed across the decks, carried fire four decks below, cascaded over the side and set the sea ablaze...
...Saud was a kingly guest. As the destroyer coursed northward through the livid heat of the Red Sea, he sat in his tent, scorning a cabin (and wisely avoiding the ship's low overhead). Mustachioed desert warriors, armed with daggers and clad in brilliant abbayat, roamed the deck. Arab servants squatted in every corner, butchered sheep and cooked them on glowing charcoal braziers. The destroyer's commander had declined the King's offer of enough live mutton for the whole ship's company. But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet...