Word: crudely
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...already been wooing her with all forms of the great potato—fries to hash browns to baked—but this soothed the Irish blood running through Dartboard’s veins. [Dartboard will not hurt you if you choose to insert your own crude potato famine joke here.] • Dartboard was severely disturbed after trekking up to the Yard to watch Primal Scream last week. No, it was not the massive amounts of nudity that frightened her—Dartboard’s made of stronger stuff than that. Instead, Dartboard was appalled...
...election, the government launched a fresh onslaught, this time against the websites and blogs themselves. Using keyword filters and censorship software pirated from U.S. firms, the government blocked thousands of websites containing news, political content and satire. It even blocked the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). The crude filters make it impossible to look up suggestive words such as women, so a Google search on women's pregnancy produces an ACCESS DENIED screen. "The end result is a marginalization of women and women's issues," says activist Sussan Tahmasebi...
...different: different from our parents, from our brothers and sisters, and certainly different from that amorphous mass of “relatives” that we see a few times a year. At a certain point, however, perhaps after a long story, a short anecdote, or a crude joke, we become aware of just how much we resemble our brethren. After many years of asserting our own identity, it is more than a little humbling to discover that we, at times, seem nothing more than a hodge-podge collection of the habits and idiosyncrasies of our aunts, uncles, and grandparents...
...What’s the deal with it? —Crude Contributor
...thumbs up as the band raced into final number “Mountain Man,” only stopping as the house lights went up. As I headed out to ice my ear drums, the crowd remained, trying to coax out just a little more of that preciously crude fossil fuel...