Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goggle-eyed New Yorker could guess from reading the biggest and blackest headlines, the "Mad Bomber" had struck. His calling card: a crude but workable bomb made of gunpowder, set to be detonated by a cheap watch movement wired to a flashlight battery-all contained in a short (2-5 in.) length of ordinary pipe capped at both ends. And, to provide the final touch, the pipe was stuffed into a man's red sock...
...heel-furnished man to "rotate the whole body around stabilized feet and therewith dance a jig, plant a fist in a face, throw an opponent in wrestling or hurl a projectile with accuracy." Prometheus was capable of doing all these things, and his dexterity enabled him to fashion crude stone tools with a cutting edge to slice up his victims after he killed them. Strangely, he often seemed to prefer to cut off the heads of animals or fellow man-apes, leaving the bodies to rot in the veld. This may have been because he had a taste for brains...
...Wild Party (Security; United Artists) is a crude thriller that pretends, when it has nothing worse to do, to be a bloody study of juvenile delinquency. The actors all try desperately to talk reet, but somehow it comes out wrong. Actor Quinn is "Big Tom . . . ex-football player, ex-hero, ex-person," who now has nothing to do but "just kind of pleasure myself around." On the night of the wild party he is "coal-mine low," and snarls, "1 gotta tear the world...
Irritated by this crude attempt at blackmail, the Assembly lost no time in handing Kuznetsov a well-earned rebuff. By a vote of 51-20, the Philippines got a seat in the Council...
...relief plan had been prepared well in advance of its announcement. Representatives of 15 U.S. oil companies, who had formed the Middle East Emergency Committee, immediately began coordinating tanker movements and planning a big increase in Western Hemisphere crude-oil production. The objective: to ship an extra 675,000 bbls. of oil a day to hard-up Western Europe. With federal antitrust restrictions waived in effect for the crisis, oilmen set their sights on readjusting world oil routes to make up between 75% and 80% of Western Europe's daily needs of 2,200,000 bbls...