Word: crudest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Groton, the gangling Cushing was a good-hit, no-field first baseman ("I couldn't bend over far enough to get to ground balls"), did the crudest kind of skiing (classmates recall he was forever stepping out of his bindings, losing skis on the slightest of hills). At Harvard he played squash, flopped at crew ("I learned a wrist trick-a way of making a big puddle without actually pulling hard. The coach caught me one afternoon, stopped the boat and took...
Before Christmas Comes. That old slugging partner of Khrushchev's, West Germany's oak-hearted Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, was again being subjected to the crudest of taunts and the hardest of tests. He was under pressure from the so-called "flexibles" of his own party, who have been criticizing his refusal to permit any negotiation with the East German puppet regime. They say that Germany can never be reunified without talks. Adenauer sees clearly that such talks will not end in reunification, but in recognition of the "two Germanys." Grudgingly, the old man dispatched a reply to Moscow...
DESERT LOVE, by Henry de Montherlant (203 pp.; Noonday; $3.50), is convincing proof that the crudest hands a fictional Frenchman can fall into are those of a French novelist. Lucien Auligny is the creation of Author Montherlant (Perish in Their Pride, Pity for Women), who at his gentlest tells nothing less than the bitter truth and at his worst dismisses humanity with a sardonic jeer. Lucien is a lieutenant who commands an oasis outpost in French North Africa. He is not much of a man and not much of a soldier, and boring desert duty with a handful of French...
...Marriage-Go-Round (by Leslie Stevens) has three strings to its bow: Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer and Julie Newmar. With their help, one of the season's crudest commodities may well become one of its most solid hits...
...formal decision to go to the summit with the U.S.S.R.-a public U.N. Security Council session rather than a private smoke-filled room-came out of a week of tangled interchanges and conflicting pressures, which began with one of the crudest letters a President of the U.S. has ever received. Russia's Dictator Nikita Khrushchev flatly accused President Eisenhower of delaying a summit parley because Eisenhower did not want "a peaceful settlement" in the Middle East, was in fact preparing "fresh acts of aggression ... to confront the world with an ever-increasing extension of the military conflict...