Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves with Laotian roulette: "I was tied to a tree and used for target practice-the guards tried to see how close they could come to hitting me." Finally, three weeks after his crash, Dengler was led into a bamboo stockade somewhere near the trail and locked up in crude, wooden "footcuffs" with six other U.S. flyers. The prisoners were fed a handful of rice twice a week, supplemented their diet with snakes and anything else that crawled through their hut. "Once," Dengler recalled, "we caught a snake that had swallowed two rats. We cut it open...
...lies in the development of super submarine tankers. Since the efficiency of an electromagnetic submarine increases with size, the visionary engineer is already looking forward to the day when 100,000-ton monsters will move silently beneath the surface of the world's oceans, carrying vast quantities of crude oil and gasoline safe from the storm-tossed water above them...
...system. Their search was not rewarded until 1962, when more sensitive instruments picked up the first X-ray emissions from outside the solar system. But until this year, only one additional visible object had been definitely identified as an X-ray producer: the familiar Crab Nebula.* Though their relatively crude instruments sensed X rays from about two dozen other vaguely defined areas of the sky, astronomers have been un able to tell which, if any, of the known celestial bodies were producing them. Now X-ray astronomy seems to be coming of age. The strongest X-ray source has been...
...sharp debate rages among China-watchers on the question of Red China's nuclear and rocket capability. The main point of contention is whether or not the crude nuclear devices that three times in the past two years have boomed over Lop Nor in the Takla Makan Desert are deliverable atomic bombs...
...judgment that his sometimes awed, often contemptuous contemporaries were never able to make. Partly it was because his physical presence was so overwhelming. He was a strutting cockatoo of a man, resplendently tailored, grey hair swept up into a crest, wit as sharp as a honed spur, manner as crude as a clod. Fascinated by the combination of the baroque and the bumptious of the man, Rebecca West once wondered if it would not be better to judge Bennett as a character rather than an author. "He could not be compared properly with Fielding, or Dickens, or Balzac," she said...