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...labored over a diary that grew to 600 type written pages. He graduated in the top ten (of 92) from the three-month course for rookies. Then, as he wrote last week in the lead of "Badge 384." his front-page series: "I was the law in the rawest, meanest, toughest police district in Cleveland...
...shoddy case. The authors name some names and print some telephone numbers, but fact after fact hangs on the rawest form of hearsay, and the turn of many a phrase suggests that the co-authors worked with libel lawyers squatting alertly on their laps. Too many of the statements have no substantiation at all. this, for example, is part of the Lait and Mortimer pocket survey of the nation's colleges...
...Anna, where his bleary old barge captain excitedly awaits the daughter he hasn't seen since her childhood; and Anna slouches in at last, a tired tramp. But having beautifully set the table, O'Neill brings on chunks of the crudest realistic black bread, cups of the rawest romantic wine. After father meets daughter, Boy-in a sense-Meets Girl. Loving a wild Irish stoker. Anna must alienate him by confessing her past. But there is, if no assurance of happiness, at least a rather muddled happy ending...
...Rawest Deal? The Labor government's bill, made public three days later, called for the nationalization of 107 companies, accounting for over 90% of the whole industry and 300,000 workers. Private owners would be compensated at the market value of their holdings. The Tories immediately roared with pain, claiming that steel share prices had already been depressed by fear of nationalization itself. "This," cried the Standard, "is the rawest deal ever handed...
...correspondent, the Chicago Daily News's Leland Stowe served with the armies of seven nations, traveled in 44 countries. The worst behaved troops he saw anywhere, he declares, were U.S. troops-the rawest, rudest, most irresponsible, most scornful of the rights and ideas of others...