Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jimmy is impatient. "My rocket wasn't any more crude than that of Von Braun [Dr. Wernher von Braun, one of the creators of the German V-2 and now chief of Redstone's Guided Missile Development Division] when he started experimenting," he said. "I want to talk to him if I can, and see what I need to do to improve my rocket. They didn't say it wouldn't fly, just that it was dangerous...
After four months of tireless investigation, the law last week finally pointed its finger at the acid thrower who blinded Labor Columnist Victor Riesel (TIME. April 16). The assailant, a 22-year-old hoodlum named Abraham Telvi, who got $1,000 for the brutal job, had already come to crude, ironic justice: he was the victim of a gangland murder triggered by his own hand. But the FBI seized two accomplices linked to labor rackets in New York's garment industry and put together this outline of the crime...
...Pointe aux Trembles on Montreal Island last week, Petrofina opened a new $30 million refinery, designed by Belgian Engineer Baron Prosper de Haulleville. The plant will give year-round service to the company's Eastern Canada outlets. Crude oil will be carried by tanker from Petrofina wells in Kuwait, fed into a pipeline at Portland, Me., then piped more than 200 miles to Montreal so that the flow can be maintained even when the St. Lawrence River is frozen over. Later, Petrofina plans to branch out to Western Canada and eventually to have service stations from coast to coast...
...main results of the K report to be the fact that the polemic on the cult of personality no longer makes sense." Why? Because it lacks "any historical reconstruction of the moment in which all power was transferred to Stalin." In Nenni's eyes, K is obviously a crude apparatchick incapable of making a proper "Marxist analysis." Asking how and why Stalin grabbed his despotic power, Nenni dismisses Khrushchev's explanation that Khrushchev and his gang "saw these problems in a different way at different times." Says Nenni: "This answer may be valid in a strictly personal sense...
...speaker of the poem, like any brutality-conditioned Williams stage character, lost at home his belief "in everything but loss," already sensed in the future the loveless acts of crude and familiar knowledge...