Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance to ponder the issue. For the President had made it plain that it was not simply a matter of delivering goods to Britain and Britain's colonies. It was a question of keeping the world's sea lanes open for the passage of such raw materials as rubber and tin, which are essential to U.S. defense. Many a Congressman who had thought the historic U.S. policy of "the freedom of the seas'' was just a phrase of Woodrow Wilson's saw the light last week after the President's message...
...lives? We do not. . . . These crowds of people . . . were symptoms of a fatal frame of mind. Their peril and their fate were at the back of that mind. Custom and habit were at the front of it. . . . If the cause of the shut down is lack of raw materials, then a sad situation exists. If the cause is 'holiday is as usual,' then a scandalous situation exists...
...fast as one coat of dye dries, another is applied, until the patient looks as though he were covered with a light, flexible coat of purple leather. Then he is kept at a temperature of around 85° F. The dye protects the raw flesh, and kills all bacteria...
...after the President's speech, in a slick little four-way play, a rigid export control was slapped down on Philippine trade. The President signed an act curbing Japanese access to Philippine raw materials. By prearrangement President Manuel Quezon immediately signed a proclamation implementing the new license system. Then High Commissioner Francis Bowes Sayre, almost in the same breath, announced that the act was in effect at once under his supervision...
Another time there was the problem of the exact noise of a man being skinned alive: pulling apart stuck-together pieces of adhesive tape was the solution. Beheading acoustics were attained by slicing cantaloupes with a cleaver. Fingers were scissored off by substituting pencils for fingers. Dropping a raw egg on a plate simulated perfectly the blup of an eye-gouging. Flowing corn syrup furnished the voop-vulp of freely flowing blood. When a mechanical giant pulled a wretch's arm off, the leg of a cold storage chicken was pulled off beside the mike...