Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Because of our inability and slowness to get aid to the Dutch East Indies, we have jeopardized our whole strategic and economic position in the war. We have been shut off from many of the raw materials on which our industry depends, and at the same time our enemies have gotten many of the resources which they have needed to carry...
...dont think there is much chance of Japan attacking Russia through Siberia this spring," de Haas said. "It is to Japan's advantage to consolidate her position in the Pacific and exploit her conquests to get raw materials for her industry...
...Department's press division sent out a proud announcement to news offices: the Army had figured how to save 125 scarce raw materials, on everything from pencils to tanks. As usual, the little three-page press release arrived in a 10-by-14-inch envelope of scarce, heavy brown paper, big and tough enough to hold two copies of Gone With the Wind...
This claim the scholarly Socialist Blum countered with a tirade as eloquent and intellectually keen as any in his long career. The raw edges of his mustache waved like flags as he charged that "the best-armed army in the world will go under if the commanders don't know how to inspire the will to fight." With Gamelin mute, said he, the onus of war guilt was on political leaders, and, if so, where were the still-imprisoned ex-Premier Paul Reynaud and ex-Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel...
Although Our Russian Front must be only a raw foretaste of documentaries yet to come out of World War II, it shows what strong meat those future documentaries will...