Word: rawer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grimace for History. With the help of the Marine Corps, Warner Bros, has given this film fine reticence of sound effect and commentary. The very rawness of the color helps to give a rawer reality to some of the most real things ever fixed by a camera. But after all its fierceness With the Marines at Tarawa ends quietly, with one of the most powerful shots it records. The marines are trooping back from battle. They march toward the camera. One young fellow on the sidelines is smiling, almost with jubilation. There are no other smiles. One gaunt...
...misery of China's peasants, filth, disease, widespread begging, shocked raw young Americans. Their own discomforts -the mud, the lack of women, the food-rubbed them rawer still. They heard ugly stories-of Lend-Lease material being stored for use after the war instead of against the Jap, of hoarding and profiteering by merchants, of smuggling from India and trade with the Japanese, of excessive tax burdens on the peasants...
...troops used had been trained for the desert, had only a few weeks' jungle experience. They never solved Japanese tactics, never exploited the jungle. Casualties through disease and action approached 100% in the original units; replacements had even less training, hence the troops became rawer and rawer. Commanders were no more prepared for the jungle than their soldiers; they showed a singular lack of knowledge and imagination in their conduct of the campaign...