Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first crude nukes are believed to be joining the Soviet fleet, but the long-dreaded day of reckoning is still somewhere in the future. During the last decade, A.S.W. (antisubmarine warfare) has taken giant strides. Killing systems no longer rely on shortrange, slow-acting depth charges. Today the standard sub killer is the torpedo, lugged to the vicinity of its prey by an airplane, helicopter, rocket or another submarine. Once in the water it does not need to be aimed; it "homes" on its victim, following its evasive twisting far into the depths...
Chicha & Coco. "We treat our colonos very well. They have no cause for complaint," says Luna's foreman. "If they want it," he says, "we even give them a daily ration of chicha and coca." Chicha is a crude corn whisky; coca is a mild narcotic leaf that deadens pain and kills hunger. Luna lets his peasants graze a limited number of livestock free (most hacendados charge one head for ten as a grazing fee). He also allots each family two acres of cropland on which to grow food-potatoes and corn, and in season turnips and cabbage...
Many observers in Cambridge believe that all Harvard men should be "intellectual." They point out that the "playboy" is a dying cause that went out with the Gold Coast and postwar Radcliffe, and crusade to exterminate the last real menace to the Harvard community, the "jock." He's a crude, embarrassingly inept social thing in an HAA sweat shirt--a C student at best, these people maintain, as they request more scholarly replacements to beef up the total intellectual output of the College. The most common disagreement is with the admissions policies of the University, which, they say, "have been...
...40th anniversary of the founding of the Polish Communist Party is a subtle and muted tribute to those who once risked their lives for what was supposed to be a noble cause. It is a simple collage of a torn piece of red banner plus scraps of leaflets and crude slogans written hastily on a wall...
Warmth for its own crude sake...