Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them to spinning, and taught them arithmetic by letting them count the strands. He showed them nature on long walks in the neighboring valleys, and they brought back clay to make crude relief maps for their geography lessons. There was no memorizing and no flogging...
First Rubber. The first shipment of crude rubber to the U.S. from the Far East since 1942 arrived in New York. The Canton Victory brought in 8,100 tons. Another 275,000 to 350,000 tons of natural rubber are expected to reach the U.S. this year...
Sergeant Marion (See Here, Private) Hargrove, whose best-selling book made him perhaps the richest alumnus of Yank, signed up for a lecture tour, plans to write another book. Cartoonist George Baker's crude, snafued Sad Sack, who had been syndicated to 60 civilian newspapers, was about to become a civilian himself. Some of the Yanks and their neighbors on the daily Stars & Stripes were getting together on a new magazine, to be named Salute-a word presumably unpleasing to a G.I. ear. Among the Saluters: Cartoonist Bill ("Up Front") Mauldin, New Yorker Staffman Walter Bernstein, Playwright Irwin Shaw...
...this unrest was not without its good side. The "Huks" were violent, crude and openly headed for Communism, but the uneasiness their strong talk generated had dissolved the atmosphere of lethargic resignation in which Manuel Quezon had performed his hypnotic political legerdemain. In Washington last week aging President Sergio Osmena asked the U.S. to hold a Philippine election before April...
Most promising spot is a triangular region between Lakes Van, Goktcha and Urmia. Here wild wheat still grows. Small rivers run down from the hills, their narrow floodplains easy to till with crude farm tools. The valleys of the Nile and Tigris were too big and difficult for man's first feeble efforts...