Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This left two men free: Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov from Leningrad and Marshal Budenny from the south. Joseph Stalin did not scrap them. He gave them a new job, the clearest signal yet that Russia will fight to the last snowball: to form great new armies from raw conscripts, armies to take their stand beyond Moscow to fight for the lands beyond the Volga, beyond the Urals. The new armies will be ill-trained, ill-equipped, ill-fortified. But they would not be formed if the Russians did not still intend to fight...
...there any raw-film manufacturers in India...
...have directors who expose the film and make it look more raw than ever before...
...Roosevelt and Navy Secretary Knox knew when the "standby" order would be lifted. But many a war-wise shipper guessed it would be soon. Reason: the order detained 10-15 vessels bound for Vladivostok with oil and machinery vitally needed by the Russians. It also held back tons of raw materials needed for U.S. war forges. Other shippers, however, figured the order would stand until all merchantmen could be escorted (by the Navy) to Manila, there equipped with guns. That would take longer-but be safer...
...running to a million words. He is also working on more autobiography, including a history of his own ideas. Actually they have not changed very much; but the things about which he had ideas have changed. The happily and giddily clowning U.S. of the 1920s was Mencken's raw meat. He could not believe in the Depression, pointing derisively to jampacked cinema houses and highways full of colliding cars, until -so one story goes-friends showed him a bread line; then he was visibly moved. What would the Mencken who made such scathing fun of "Dr. Coolidge...