Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Game in Finland. "Applied to Finland, this meant keeping her in the war as long as possible, making plans to provoke civil war when Finnish arms collapse, securing maximum publicity in Finland and the Allied world for Finnish heroism contrasted with crude Russian vindictiveness and barbarism...
...first night." Some Britons and propagandists still bravely belittled the "buzz-bombs." But the world's scientists were not taking them so lightly. None asserted that the new weapon would seriously affect the outcome of World War II, but many regarded the buzz-bombing of England as a crude preview of World...
...production from all sources had fallen to half the essential needs of the German armed forces. Supporting evidence: bombs have destroyed at least half the Reich's synthetic oil plants, knocked out all Rumanian refineries (except possibly "Romano-Americana," formerly owned by Standard Oil of New Jersey). Rumanian crude must be carried to German refineries by vulnerable railroads or Danube barges, then sent back as gasoline to the eastern front. The Germans have exhausted their central reserves, must draw on and replenish local stores as best they...
...curtain rose on the prologue-the girl's family coming to a crummy Brooklyn bar for clues of her whereabouts. The audience ceased squirming. The story flashed back three years upon the girl's family after they had pitched her out-a varied clan portrayed with crude, lusty humor. The audience forgot to fan themselves with their programs. Then, back at the bar again, the girl herself (Hilda Moses Simms) swished in. What stopped them first was her beauty. But what held them the next minute was her born stage presence, and as the scenes unfolded, the skill...
...publisher necessarily or even usually a martinet. Instead, his attitude "filters down, by well-defined channels, to his staff. . . . Without orders, without crude directives, city editors fall easily into the habit of saving their big type for safe topics like rape and burglary, and burying the 'hot' (the ideologically dangerous) news in the back pages. Reporters learn not to scrutinize too closely the sacred cows of the community, and editorial writers husband their mightiest blasts for the remotest wrongs...