Word: crudest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military plum fell to one of the grimmest, crudest men in Italy, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani. His family motto is: "An enemy forgiven is more dangerous than a thousand foes." He ruthlessly subdued Libya in 1921-29, led the murderous southern campaign in Ethiopia. Nicked by a would-be assassin's hand grenade in Addis Ababa in 1937, he had 1,600 natives slaughtered. When Mussolini chided him, he is said to have answered: "Mild measures never retained conquered soil." Shortly afterwards he returned to Italy because of "ill health...
Just about the world's crudest propaganda sheet is the monthly Bezbozhnik ("The Godless"), of Russia's League of the Militant Godless. While a pretense of religious freedom is maintained in Russia, the League carries on anti-religious activity probably abetted by the Secret Police and Bezbozhnik serves as a pep sheet for Atheists. Last week it printed an account of what has been happening to priests and their flocks in the Soviet-occupied part of Poland...
...because he is probably the most despisable man in the world, nor the crudest, nor the most ruthless . . . but simply because ... he has awakened in the world's democracies the knowledge that they can no longer rest on their laurels...
...Even the crudest and most primitive minds, which have neither the capacity nor the desire to make the efforts necessary for ... deductive reasoning, are captivated by the cinema. . . . The cinema . . . must be elevated to conformity with the aims of the Christian conscience...
...looked at his newspapers in bed. Editors were volubly aghast at such haste. Some pointed out that nearly four months was the average time to spend in preparing an important tax bill. "It took Six Days to Make the World!" warned the Roosevelt-loving New York Daily News. Crudest cut of all, the President got from his favorite and usually sympathetic columnist, Walter Lippmann in the Herald Tribune, when he read...