Word: crudeness
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...history happened. There were bigger stars on the Colony's stage and screen, but Steamboat Willie got the press. Crowds created near mob scenes as they rushed to see this "riot of mirth." In truth, it was crude stuff. But Mickey turned a cow's tail into a hurdy-gurdy handle, and it mooed music as he cranked away. Another bovine's teeth became a xylophone on which he beat out a tune. In short, Willie had what its more pretentious competitors lacked--energy and freedom. And its creator was on his way to fame, riches and immortality. --By Richard...
...Saudi Arabia. Over several years, they drilled more than half a dozen holes without result. In desperation, they decided to dig deeper at well No. 7. They plumbed to a depth of 4,727 ft. and finally hit what would turn out to be the largest supply of crude oil in the world...
...best of the stories, "Giant Strawberry Funland," features Abel, a high-school loser and would-be rebel stuck in a strict, conventional rural town. While his crude older brother tries to save the family's strawberry farm by turning it into a theme park, Abel sneaks away and reminisces about his frustrated relationship with a cute alty-girl who moved away. With no central gimmick to distract him, Ollmann fleshes out Abel and his world with thoughtful details like the way Abel's mother "used to laugh more when we were little but she wears her hair pulled tightly...
American cities are highly susceptible to a crude nuclear attack, according to a report released Wednesday by Harvard researchers...
Then there's the pipeline from northern Iraq to the Turkish Mediterranean coast, which until recently exported up to hundreds of thousands of barrels a day of Iraqi crude, all of it outside the U.N.-sanctions system. Long dependent on Iraqi oil, Jordan illicitly imports some 110,000 bbl. a day, for which it pays a below-market price directly to the Iraqi government. Yet another pipeline runs from northern Iraq to Banias, a Syrian port, with a second outlet in Lebanon. It currently carries some 230,000 bbl. a day, generating annual revenue estimated at more than $1 billion...