Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have never heard of Murray Kempton of the New York Post before, and if it is humanly possible I shall never hear of him again. His editorial on Vice President Nixon in your Sept. 3 issue is about the most crude and pointless piece of writing it has been my misfortune to read. Mr. Kempton is frantically groping to find a point on which to criticize when he must resort to making vulgar and sneering remarks on the Vice President's dress. Constructive criticism is good for everyone, but Murray Kempton's ill-chosen words are offensive...
...Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. "With his hereditary grip on a nation's pocketbook," sneered the Pittsburgh Press, "his talks on spiritual matters are a tax on piety." From the pulpit of St. Bartholomew's, the Episcopal Bishop of Michigan snorted: "The odor . . . smacks strongly of crude petroleum...
Almost every day this month, the Venezuelan government's ordinarily dry Gaceta Oficial has been publishing a flood of mouth-watering news. For the first time in eleven years, and for fabulous sums, the government is selling off new oil concessions, some from the rich, crude-soaked national reserves...
Last year Latin America produced 885.7 million bbls. of crude, only 300 million less than the entire Middle East, and 88% of it came from a single country, Venezuela. Already the world's No. 1 oil-exporting country. Venezuela a fortnight ago officially confirmed reports (TIME, July 16) that it had granted new concessions in Lake Maracaibo, the country's first in eleven years. Last week the government announced another batch of concessions...
Dust on the Boulevard. Chibougamau's engulfing flood of men and money has produced only the slightest civilizing effects on a town that is still rude and crude. Cold westerly winds deliver a raw penetrating drizzle on one out of every two summer days. One night last week snow fell. Even so, cars churning through the town's main street-pridefully named the Boulevard-kick up clouds of chalk-colored dust; paved streets and sidewalks are still luxuries for the future. Chibougamau's population has shot up to more than 2,500 permanent residents; their new clapboard...