Word: crude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national issues. Pressed hard for this level of debate, "Salty" more and more identified with the Nixon Administration. On Vietnam or ABM or tax policy, he found himself weakly deferring to whatever Nixon was saying at the moment. He failed to develop a coherent counterattack, even with a crude theme like "law-and-order." His attempt to avoid debate gave Harrington one more issue to exploit...
David Bruck's critique of the Cambridge Project is obviously far above the spirit of Luddism of those who have been posting images of IBM cards reading "saturation bombing only 31% effective. try a little gas" in a crude effort to ?mobilize a docile public opinion for the Friday rally. Still, it needs rebuttal, most seriously regarding the professional ideologies of social scientists...
...week's end, all of the Tangwena had been removed from the ranch and trucked off to the new preserve, where crude huts were being built for them. What would Hammer do with the newly cleared land? He refused to say, but there was a report that he planned to sell...
...known as polite conversation raises some unanswered linguistic questions. Which, really, is the rose, and which the other name? Is "lovemaking" a euphemism for the four-letter word that describes copulation? Or is this blunt Anglo-Saxonism a dysphemism for making love? Are the old forbidden obscenities really the crude bedrock on which softer and shyer expressions have been built? Or are they simply coarser ways of expressing physical actions and parts of the human anatomy that are more accurately described in less explicit terms? It remains to be seen whether the so-called forbidden words will contribute anything...
...specimens into jars filled with alcohol. Ashore, within a few hours, some were quick-frozen, others were dried, and all were flown to Lederle's labs at Pearl River, N.Y. There the tedious and time-consuming process of searching for medicinally useful compounds began with the preparation of crude extracts. It will continue through a variety of screening tests that will determine whether the extract is active against such familiar microbes as the staphylococcus and other causes of human disease...