Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fifteen minute walk in a dusty, chaotic atmosphere separated points of importance. Besides the halls taken over for an organization center, the only buildings opened for use were two widely separated restaurants, the Soviet pavilion illuminated at the top by a Red Star, and exhibition halls turned into crude barracks with composition-wood dividers...
...Communist participants sought to win the election as a matter of principle, and to prevent the small group of Communist Americans working with the Festival organizers from controling the the seminar tickets. Though the Communists never really did effectively control attendance at the seminars, their occasionally clever but mostly crude obstruction earned them an undemocratic brand at the Festival...
...decorously on the confident assumption that all they needed to do was to avoid rocking the boat. But unlike Tom Dewey's cohorts, the Tories awoke in time to change their campaign style. "Attack," ordered Tory Chairman Lord Hailsham last week. "Expose the grisly Socialist record. Ridicule their crude pretensions...
...within a year joined the surgical staff of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He has been there ever since. Besides his historic work on citration, Dr. Lewisohn introduced more drastic (and proportionately more effective) operations for stomach ulcers, and pioneered in using the first crude preparations of folic-acid antagonists against cancer. Though technically retired, Dr. Lewisohn follows closely the war on cancer, still visits Mount Sinai's Cell Research Laboratory almost every...
...Soviet growth-about 8% a year, v. 4% for the U.S., since World War II-is that the Soviets have neglected the consumer needs of their citizens. But now a major change is on the way, and the growth rate is on the wane. Going out is crude coercion of the worker; coming in is personal incentive. This shift, says Nove, requires a major diversion of Soviet resources to the nongrowth sectors that the Kremlin ignored for so long...