Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Africa's contribution in raw materials and manpower to the United Nations cannot be in proportion to its size, but what resources Africa has are precious. The Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia are the world's principal sources of cobalt, used in hard steel for toolmaking. Vanadium and manganese, also necessary for steel, come from the Gold Coast and South Africa. Tin comes from Nigeria, industrial diamonds from the fabulous Transvaal mines, rubber from Liberia, copper from the Congo...
Leaping from their tanks, the crews take no time to wash the desert paste from raw faces. They seize shovels, quickly dig slit trenches just deep enough to lie in full length below the desert floor. Beside each trench goes a bedding roll. Then the tankers turn to washing. They use their water cautiously. One gallon a day has to suffice each man for drinking, cooking, cleaning his mess gear, washing himself...
Before his quarters at Camp Young, General Gillem has a private shower. But his lips are as cracked as those of his tankers, his face is as raw and weathered from the sand-laden wind, his uniform is a pair of overalls. Like his men, Gillem is maneuvering with one thought in mind...
Author Ormsbee loves life in the raw. As a youth, his hero tore around in a flivver, bootleg poison in his veins and "a big Polish girl on my lap and her breasts smelling of rich cigars." He was temperamental, even with the delicate Roxane: "I knocked her down on to the bed. She got up and I knocked her down again. . . . She wept. 'That's twice you've hit me. But I can't help it. I love Jon.' " So Abner picked her up tenderly and treated her "discolored...
Among the other points of great importance in the credo to which the students agreed are: (these are summaries, not direct quotes) There shall be no idea of racial superiority, and within countries all minorities shall give up some of their national sovereignty to a world organization. Raw materials, etc., shall be used for the good of all instead the benefit of a few. These three points may seem commonplace today, but think back no further than 1939 and try to imagine student delegates from a great majority of the nations of the world including the United States, agreeing...