Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barbaric country with a castle jutting out of the sharp rock; hard-eyed horsemen gallop like wild west villains across the foggy landscape; the wide palace courtyard is full of mud puddles and pigs. Welles has thus succeeded in surrounding the plot with an atmosphere that makes all the crude violence believable; photographically, this mood is sustained. Dramatically, it is often violated, both by transpositions of text and by some of the performances...
Hyslop does not judge insects by their works; he loves them for themselves. With downright affection, he recalls attractive insects he has known. There is the strong-jawed "short-circuit beetle," for instance, that gnaws into lead cables. There are insects that live in crude petroleum. There is a clever bug (Dermatobia hominis, an invader from South America) that catches flies, lays its eggs on the flies' legs, then releases them unhurt to carry the larvae to man (where they burrow under the human skin). As Hyslop talks, bugs by the thousand that he has known and loved creep...
Caltex has already been supplying about 30% of Spain's oil needs with crude oil shipped from the Persian Gulf wells of its co-subsidiary, the Arabian American Oil Co. With the new plant, Caltex would refine 15,000 to 20,000 barrels daily of Aramco oil at Cartagena...
What's the matter with U.S. stamps? What, or who, makes them so ugly? The latest atrocity, the Poultry Industry "Commemorative" issued last week (see cut), was right down to standard. Alongside the stamps of France, Belgium or Switzerland, the new U.S. stamp designs look crude and amateurish. How come...
...spot where Gaitán fell, on the sidewalk of Bogota's bustling main street, citizens have mounted a framed scroll on a crude, flag-draped platform...