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Word: craggiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musical segments, CBS Director William Graham focused almost exclusively on Oistrakh and Rubinstein, dollying and zooming around them with gentle art, highlighting the dexterity of their finger work and the rapt expressions of two of the craggiest and most variable countenances in all the performing arts. In the Bolshoi segment, he gave the home viewer the same kind of steady, pictorial flow that is available from a good theater seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Specials: The Art of Televising the Arts | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...fishing boats that carry most of the murderous contraband. Over the centuries, Viet fishermen have learned to bottom their boats in bamboo. The intricately woven basket hulls of their fishing junks-some of them more than 100 feet long-keep out the water and yet can slide over the craggiest reef without rupturing; on sandbars, the bamboo weave spreads and flattens to prevent broaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Help for the Junkmen | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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