Word: crudest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoppers would give gifts of personalized Polaroid glasses. After Robert Stack in the pioneering 3 D film Batana Devil, nauseated millions by coming "right out of the screen to kiss you," there was a spate of 3-D films. Besides being terrible in their own right, they employed the crudest possible devices to remind audiences that they were witnessing something new in entertainment. Finally, when everyone was getting mighty tried of locomotives, spears, chairs and other doodads hurtling at them in mediocre technicolor, fox announced its new program of CinemaScope, opening new vistas of poor taste...
Another type of suit is needed to counteract the effect of gravity forces. "G suits" do that job in the crudest way possible-by restricting the flow of blood. The G suit looks like a pair of close-fitting overalls, with five rubber bladders set in: one over the belly, two over the thighs, and a pair around the calves. Automatically inflated, these check the footward blood flow, and they can be deflated for straightaway flight...
...time the posters faded from the walls, Jefferson retreated to the ages, President Soekarno began to bald, and Indonesia (which never had an election or ratified its constitution) began to splinter. Last week, upon Indonesia's bright-eyed women still fighting for monogamy, fell the crudest blow of all. They learned that their idol, President Soekarno, had secretly taken a second wife...
...tell whether a teacher is indoctrinating or not. "How would we find out? Would we observe him in class? No one indoctrinates when he is under observation. Episodic inspection in the classroom can enable one to tell something about the pedagogic techniques of a teacher . . . [But] except in its crudest forms, indoctrination in the classroom can rarely be detected save by a critically trained observer who is almost continuously present. This is not only undesirable but, for all practical purposes, impossible...
...memory of his patroness Evita to attack him: "Here in Buenos Aires the people trem bling with cold stood in endless columns in the streets, silently paying tribute to their departed benefactress. There in Montevideo Hugo del Carril expressed his indifference to the national pain and man ifested the crudest monetary greed by continuing to sing from July 27 to Au gust 8 ..." Hushing the Truck. The story was not true: Del Carril had returned to Buenos Aires, visited Evita's bier several times and stayed five days before going back to his Montevideo radio engagement. But the damage...