Word: rawe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their voices like some strange visitor who, if not properly managed, will suddenly desert them. Birgit Nilsson lubricates her pipes with beer, Eileen Farrell quaffs warm Coca-Cola and follows it with burping exercises, Gwyneth Jones takes hot and cold showers and yawns a lot. The rage for eating raw garlic is so popular among German tenors (a cashew-sized sliver two hours before performing is supposed to strengthen the heart) that one indignant Italian soprano recently went onstage with an aerosol can of deodorant. Tenor Franco Corelli thoughtfully combines his raw-meat and garlic diet with nibbles...
...four make war on Raza's remote desert stronghold is the raw meat of The Professionals, and there hasn't been a livelier western whoop-up since Villain Palance bared fang and claw against Shane. Only once does the action slow down, during a gum battle between Palance and Lancaster, who seem to be firing off philosophical asides about the life of violence mainly because they need a rest. Most of the dialogue has a whiplash sting, and since the scenario is chiefly concerned with ambushes and train holdups and muscle-hard suspense, there is seldom time...
...Radius. Whatever the technological facts, China's spectacular last week did little to alter the balance of raw thermonuclear power in the world. To be sure, a slight improvement...
...period of heroic resistance, when every year brought a new American attempt to achieve manifest destiny in the North. But at the start of the 20th century, the nature of the struggle changed. Americans began to see Canada as a market for manufactured goods and a supplier of raw materials, no longer simply as a source of new territory...
...ideal, Milgram points out, is to actually go to the cities, to "buttress raw data with observation. Measurement without perception leads to a caricature." One of his thesis advises, for example, has studied the willingness of Parisians to help stranded tourists. He and a native Frenchman spent a summer asking random passers-by for directions (in French) and comparing the frequency of helpful answers. It was higher for the Frenchman...