Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist-dominated Poland, defendants in the nearly continuous political trials usually "confess" and "repent" before the ax falls. But last week, from a crude, unpainted witness box in the center of a Warsaw courtroom, a courageous Pole on trial for his life departed from the Moscow purge trial tradition and spoke his unrepentant mind. Poles considered his behavior sensational...
...from it. The reason: illness and near-blindness forced Parkman to dictate, a method which soon became as "easy as lying." The Oregon Trail was then edited by prissy Harvardman Charles Eliot Norton and "carefully bowdlerized of much anthropological data and many insights into Western life which seemed too crude to his delicate taste...
...aboard a troop transport, had used anything and everything he had seen as his subject: departure, return, alerts, men in bunks, cooks cooking ("The cooks might not like my paintings, but they appreciated that I was painting a cook"). The pictures he exhibited last week were patterned with the crude simplicity of a poster; his people angular, always distorted; his colors somber, often murky. But the moods he created were sure: the loneliness of a woman reading a letter from overseas, the tortured plunge into battle, the exhausted letdown of victory. It took him just under a year...
...segment of the whole U.S. press-for TIME'S story was merely the most recent of a long series of such articles. Regional newspapers like the Gallup (N. Mex.) Independent had long been recording facts about the Navajos-especially since 1933, when the Government crippled the Navajos' crude economy based on sheep-raising by ordering them-because of overgrazing and the resultant soil erosion-to begin doing away with their flocks...
Sunrise. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey followed Sun Oil Co.'s lead (TIME, Dec. 8) and boosted its buying price of crude by 50? a barrel. By week's end, the new price pattern had been established east of the Rockies and showed signs of spreading to the West Coast, where Union Oil Co. of California had already led off with a 40? increase...