Word: cruder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Were they just trying to spoil the mood? Were they sniffing out bits and pieces now to remember for the future? Are they just waiting for the present freedom to end, and everything they find now will be usable then as operational material? Or perhaps it's simpler and cruder -- they don't want us to forget ourselves and give way to euphoria. "We, the KGB, are the masters here. We can do anything here, we can peep into any hole -- either from above or from below, and you have no business coming here." So we knew whom we were...
...reach, a gravitas that can not only hurt but even kill in order to enforce that respect. Gravitas is a phenomenon of power, but the forms and styles of power are various. Dictators are forever strutting the tinhorn's impersonation of gravitas. Brute power is only one of the cruder types, and it is sometimes subdued by other forms: a moral gravitas, for example. Martin Luther King Jr. brought his gravitas to bear against men of power who were morally vacant. Gravitas may be aggression, but it may express itself otherwise, as something withheld, as a dignity and forbearance...
...does Soviet verification hardware stack up against this sophisticated array? Western experts say the Soviets use most of the same technologies but in cruder form. Some of their spy satellites still parachute film to earth for processing, instead of beaming pictures electronically. But the Soviets make up with quantity what they lack in quality. The U.S. has only two Keyhole satellites in operation, while Moscow orbited 31 Cosmos surveillance satellites in 1986 alone...
Only Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes, who as an expert on Russia advises the Reagan administration, said he watched and liked the whole film. "I expected something much cruder." Even he termed the plot "a little slow...
...about the new arrivals and how they fared. Except for Irish political dissidents, for whom Australia was the "official Siberia," the typical transportee was apt to be a small-time thief with at least one previous conviction. Those sent over for more genteel crimes inevitably felt superior to the cruder types, and the colony's earliest bureaucracy had the distinction of being "almost wholly made up of forgers...