Word: crude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They used to be called race records. They were usually crude, gutsy blues recorded as they were being composed, a highly emotional outpouring of troubles that appealed to Negro listeners. Now, in increasing numbers, the soul singers are reaching beyond their original limited audience, and their records, rather more polished but still intensely expressive, regularly become bestsellers. Among the best...
...Russia achieved a momentous transformation of their country and of the world. Perhaps even more extraordinary are the changes in the nature of Communism itself that took place during that half-century. The vision of the great socialist Utopia collapsed first under bloody totalitarianism, was eroded further by a crude Russian imperialism, and is reeling today before the counterattack of nationalist sentiment and pragmatic economics...
...case of over-the-counter aspirin, even so crude a test device as the irritable stomach of a man with a hangover will sometimes show a distinction: two five-grain tablets of one brand, especially from a half-empty bottle that has been in the medicine chest for a cou ple of months, will promptly give him heartburn, whereas the same dose of another brand may have no such effect...
...Added shipping costs and dwindling petroleum supplies have already forced gasoline-price increases in Sweden, The Netherlands. West Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. Escaping price increases for the time being are France, which is getting oil from Algeria, and Italy, whose storage tanks still have a two-month supply of crude oil. Much the hardest hit is Britain, which ordinarily gets two-thirds of its oil from Arab sources. The British have started printing gasoline-rationing coupons as "a precautionary measure," last week gave oil companies the go ahead to raise petroleum prices. Meanwhile, oil companies have been chartering every available...
...from Arab states. Israel, of course, never got any-that is, not until three Egyptian oilfields in the Sinai fell into Israeli hands during the war. Israel might try to resume production; just one of the fields could supply the country with the 3,000,000 tons of crude oil it uses annually...