Word: crudest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tides & Tables. With the U.S. yearning for spring, the storm was of the crudest kind. Electrical failures shut off the power in more than 1,500,000 homes and institutions. More than a dozen people in Maryland were poisoned by carbon monoxide when they tried to cook indoors on charcoal burners. Families on New Jersey's shore had to leave their homes as high tides rammed the coast. In Sag Harbor, N.Y., an 82-year-old man left his house to seek help, drowned in tidewater in his own front yard...
Sighs at 60 Paces. Tips for stories were handed the Meades for the crudest motives-cupidity, jealousy, publicity-hunger-by a shadowy legion of informants who ranged from call girls and press-agents to the free-lance writer who testified last week that he earned $150 from Harrison by reporting the amorous escapades of an actor neighbor. Story leads came from ex-husbands or wives, or embittered lovers like the small-time movie actor who in 1955 told Confidential a story of the sexual eccentricities of a fast-rising young actress who jilted...
...doomed Baltic civilization in a fable so barely told (in translation from the French) as to suggest basic English. It suits her bare, bleak theme. Her narrator is Erick von Lohmond of the Teutonic gentry. Too young for World War I, he grows up into one of the crudest of civil wars. The Red soldiers who come sweeping through the Baltic birch forests so hate the Czarist military system that when they capture a White officer they nail his hated epaulets to his shoulders or, because the officers had once worn white gloves, flay his hands while he still lives...
None of the poems in the book is entirely satisfactory; he can, and does, clothe the finest feeling in the crudest language, and ruins the perfection of a poem, inserting some unspeakably bad metaphor, or one that has meaning only for himself. They are not his best poems, but some are very good...
...world's 400 million Moslems, Ramadan is the crudest month. From the moment in the predawn light when a white thread can be distinguished from a black, through each long day until sunset, they must not smoke, drink, eat, or indulge any other carnal appetite. Across the world of Islam from Casablanca to Djakarta, tempers are scratchy and emotions combustible. But Sultan Mohammed V moved with the kind of inner calm that is his special quality. He retired to a small room to pray, then sat down to break his fast...