Word: raw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although he labored in obscurity throughout his early career, William Faulkner lived to see an academic cottage industry grow up around his books. Since his death, in 1962, the business has boomed into a vast factory, belching out theses, dissertations, books, articles, catalogues of trivia, notes and querulousness. Raw material is naturally at a premium. If a single word that Faulkner wrote and neglected to destroy has not been discovered, some professorial truffle hound will doubtless find and publish...
...both the warehouse and the bank, there were countless errors of both bookkeeping and judgment. Although short on capital, the Carters unwisely launched a massive expansion of the warehouse. From 1975 through 1977, they borrowed nearly $10 million to buy a huge new peanut sheller and enormous supplies of raw peanuts. But from the beginning, the warehouse consistently sold peanuts it was supposed to be holding as collateral for the loan. At one point in the spring of 1976, there were no peanuts at all on hand for two months, while the warehouse owed N.B.G. $1.1 million...
Hope, of course, did not return for years, and even now the Great Crash is a raw memory, particularly to those who were there. Could it happen again...
Barring our premature destruction, we're going out into space, says Bova. It may take a while--politicians have these tar pits they call committees--but industry will want raw materials and the military nice spots to place their nuclear weapons. Power and the profits will be their motivations, not scientific curiosity or the thrill and the strangeness of space. They won't "come in peace for all mankind." But a few--like Kinsman--may. The game will be played; we might as well start rooting for the good guys
...that the CIA acts on the whims and wishes of whomever occupies the White House, and not as the non-partisan intelligence-gathering organization originally envisioned in the National Security Act of 1947, the crassness of Nixon's attempt to use the CIA for domestic politics apparently struck a raw nerve in Helms...