Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Petroleum Go. start repairing the pipeline pumping stations which Syrian soldiers blew up during the Suez-Sinai invasion last November. In ten days, by laying temporary pipes around the blasted stations, the oil company plans to begin pumping oil at 44% capacity-enough to replace nearly all of the crude oil that Western Europe has had to buy from the U.S. since the Suez landings...
...sophisticated Romans built of enduring stone, brick, concrete and mosaic, and Britain is strewn with the ruins of their villas and fortifications. But the barbarian Anglo-Saxon bands that invaded Britain after the Roman legions withdrew in the 5th century lived in crude timber buildings that rotted away with the centuries, leaving only the faintest of traces. Last week Archaeologist Brian Hope-Taylor reported the discovery and exploration of the biggest early Anglo-Saxon structure yet found in Britain-one of the rectangular great halls described in Beowulf, where a leader's thegns gathered to tell tall stories...
...found faint color changes that showed where timber had rotted. He also found a few foundation stones and many traces of holes where posts had been set in the earth. Working from these clues, Hope-Taylor concluded that the wedge-shaped area had been the site of a crude, roofless, theaterlike structure filled with wooden benches. Facing the benches was a dais protected from the weather by a screen of wickerwork daubed with clay. From this primitive rostrum King Edwin may have harangued his thegns. The benches where the thegns sat were probably arranged like a grandstand, the highest ones...
Playwright Schulman has really used his situation much less as a problem than as a come-on and a catchall. The father, his Miami hotel foundering, attempts to get a long-distance loan from his rich, crude, stupid New York brother. The brother, accompanied by his warmhearted wife, immediately flies down, immediately flares up-the first of many times-for laughs. His wife expostulates with him, sighs over the boy and wants to take him home with her; she finds a nice widow for the father. The father ditches a blonde for the widow...
...allowance for the wind. Bouch, with his schoolboy mathematics, cut a grim and pitiable figure at the inevitable court of inquiry. His design for the girders, it seems, had just come to him in conversation. Holes in the castings had been plugged with "Beaumont Egg," a sort of crude metal paste. For once the public had found the right scapegoat. Bouch died soon afterwards, a ruined, bitter, ostracized man; his widow took to drink and married a sea captain. Authors Prebble and Kendrick both flatter the modern reader with their implicit assumption that this is a more enlightened...