Word: unreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transport pilots and correspondents flying as observers it seemed that the operation was moving at the unreal pace of a speeded-up movie. Within 30 seconds the drop had begun, German flak opened up, colored equipment parachutes dotted the ground, a white parachute was hung up in a tree, a big Hamilcar (British) glider lay on its back, broken and burning...
...London's night life," reported CBS Correspondent Eric Sevareid by short wave last week, "swirls along a few carpeted steps below street level. . . . The orchestra is good. . . . The food is only fair. . . . The atmosphere is phony and the gaiety is forced and unreal...
When they left the train at Camp Shanks, out of long habit they formed ranks. Then an unreal officer told them unreal things through a loudspeaker. "We want to make your stay here pleasant and short. You leave tomorrow for your homes...
...books of magic into the sea, breaks his wand, dismisses his wonder-working servant Ariel, abandons his magic island for the mild humdrum of everyday life. In Auden's version, Prospero's farewell to Ariel represents the mature intellectual's adieu to the glorious but unreal life of personal fantasy...
...Allied military. Notwithstanding the President and the State Department, that authority in Normandy is the Provisional Government headed by General Charles de Gaulle (see U.S. AT WAR). There is no question whatever about this fact in Normandy. It is completely accepted by French and military alike. So remote and unreal is the question of recognition that there is no bitterness over past treatment of De Gaulle. That bitterness may come later if the U.S. Government does not ratify the unofficial fact. But the liberated French are in no mood yet to quarrel about academic matters...