Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters is a fantastic structure, designed to resemble a warship on land. His office has a few pieces of period furniture, a broad expanse of bookshelves filled with tomes on naval history. Scattered about are gaily colored, crude models of the ships which one of his U-boats sank on a successful cruise. On the wall behind him is a portrait of his revered predecessor, Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, who ardently advocated unrestricted U-boat warfare 26 years...
...from a green cotton dress, had human hair on its head. A small naked statue, honored as a protector against syphilis, sat in a shrine made from an old oilcan. A portable sepulcher held a recumbent Christ, whose bloodstained jaw and neck could be moved puppetwise by strings. These crude but striking effigies formed part of an exhibition of Religious Folk Art of the Southwest which opened last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...Wildcats. Under present conditions, independents say the wildcats cannot be, and will not be, sunk this year. For months the independents have waited for Washington to do something about the low ceiling price on crude oil ($1.17 per barrel), the high labor costs, an unfavorable tax situation, importation of low-cost foreign oil (258,000 barrels per day). Tired of waiting, they are going out of business...
...unless synthetic tire technology improves enormously between now and next year, every pound of guayule will still be badly needed, because it still takes some natural rubber to make a satisfactory heavy-duty tire. Considering that the Nazis, with 25 years of synthetic rubber experimentation behind them, still mix crude with synthetic rubber, Salinas has good cause to feel safe and strategic-at least for the duration...
Trips to the Mediterranean served only to reinforce Mencken's native temper. At the Vatican he inserted himself among the pilgrims and impudently kissed the apostolic ring of Pius X. Jerusalem he deplored for its "crude pottery of the thunder-mug species." The Holy Sepulcher he found obviously "bogus ... for unless Joseph of Arimathea was a reincarnation of Samson no one could imagine him rolling a stone large enough to close it." Mencken was full of sympathy for the British soldier who "spoke in favorable terms of the destruction of [Jerusalem] by the Romans in the year...