Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows what the manual says: "To die participating in the supreme holy enterprise of mankind (war) must be the greatest glory and the height of exaltation." Knowledge that he may die, that he may never go back to the gardens, the chrysanthemums, the neatness, the singing, the clean raw fish and warmed-up sake that are home, makes him in the field something quite different from what he was in peacetime Japan. It makes him ruthless, cruel, lascivious. When his officer is not looking he spits in the white prisoner's food. He has no compunction (since there...
...Washington in November, OPM's Arthur Whiteside estimated their 1942 production at only 82,600,000 tons-200,000 tons less than output in 1941. For by then a new shortage had arisen that would more than offset the capacity increase: a shortage in steel's own raw materials, especially scrap...
...Stettinius had charge of raw materials and priorities; Biggers of production. They were to be the bridge between Army & Navy procurement and the U.S. industrial machine. In the political atmosphere of most of 1941, it would have taken tougher and more ambitious men than Ed & Jack to give orders to either party. Instead, Army and Navy were asked if they felt the U.S. had enough raw materials for their needs; since their own needs at first were small, they said yes. The businessmen, for their part, were asked to do thus and so for the Government as a favor...
...Chiang Kai-shek in gratitude for the activities of United China Relief. In a new, barless $15,000 home at New York City's Bronx Zoo, the new pandas will be weaned from bamboo shoots to a diet of Pablum, orange juice, milk, honey, raw eggs...
...raw earth of more than 2,000 graves they piled asters, poinsettias, hibiscus flowers, and over the dead, Marines standing honor guard fired three farewell volleys. Their elegy was pronounced by Captain William A. Maguire, Chaplain of the Fleet. Said he: "Ah ... if every American had seen how quietly, yes quietly, men suffered, how gallantly they died, how courageously they thought about the next man, they would glory...