Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flames licked at Billy. The steel cab began to glow dull red, and Billy began to scream. He writhed under the scorching heat, begged someone to shoot him. "I don't want to go out this way," he cried. The skin on Billy's back was raw and burned dead-white...
...many months OEEC (Organization for European Economic Cooperation) has struggled to find some basis for a "master plan" leading to economic integration of Europe. Under such a plan, imports, exports, currency exchange, allotment of manufactures, purchases of raw materials, etc.. would be geared together. But the conflict of economic philosophies and, especially, nationalism made any actual formulation of a plan seem remote. Last week, at a meeting near Paris of OEEC's eight-nation steering committee, the plan was abandoned...
...some U.S. commissioners wanted to leave that field wide open for fellow yanquis. But the commission's finding was that Brazil still lacks resources and equipment for a general advance on its entire economic front. Because stepping up industry would require a prior boost in power, transportation, and raw materials, the commission assigned such increases preference, if not full priority. And it declared that the government must have a major role in the development of that primary type...
Where the average big league club had taken a few score ballplayers to camp this month, Rickey had assembled more than 200-from Dodger Captain Pee Wee Reese down to raw bushers* trying to make the grade in the Dodger farm system at such places as Mobile, Ala., Ponca City, Okla. and Cairo, Ill. It took organization to keep that many players throwing, batting and listening to the oldtimers. Rickey had it all worked...
...freshmen throughout the world 300 copies (marked "confidential") of a manual of polite procedure.* The elegant vice marshal of the diplomatic corps in London, Marcus Cheke (rhymes with peak), 43, with 14 years of embassy life in Brussels and Lisbon, had drawn up a deportment primer for the 200 raw recruits taken in by the Foreign Service over the past three years...