Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uproar over the Donnell raw deal was surprisingly loud, but politicians were generally unworried. Reformers usually make enough noise to soothe their consciences. But the roar grew louder; finally the State Supreme Court ruled in Donnell's favor. The legislature subsided. The vote at the Republican primary in St. Louis the next month was surprisingly large, but that, of course, was because there were four candidates fighting for the nomination. The Democratic primary vote was small, but that, of course, was because the renomination of Mayor Dickmann was in the bag. The Republicans picked a good man-William...
Host and demonstrator at the Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground was hard, white-haired, tank-wise Colonel John K. Christmas.* The day was cold and raw; the red Maryland clay was muddy underfoot. Colonel Christmas said that he would let the model speak for itself. Then he turned toward the tank, sulking 400 yards away on a slight rise, and waved his right arm. There was dead quiet for perhaps ten seconds. Then M3 turned loose a horizontal stream of red death, directed towards a silhouette target 900 yards away. From the muzzles of four .30-caliber machine guns spurted bright...
North of Abbeville, where the blacktop road bites into the red clay of eastern Alabama like a suture in raw flesh, the Fourth Division's Reconnaissance Troop halted. They climbed stiffly down from armored scout cars spaced a precise 25 yards apart, pushed goggles back from windburned, dusty faces, dug in reefer pockets for cigarets. Motorcyclists propped their machines on stands, squinted appraisingly at engines. The long-legged, flat-backed Troop Commander brushed oil-stains from his face with a reddened hand and walked back along the column, to see how things were...
...Author Vardis Fisher, long somberly enraptured (in Children of God, etc.) with the whole sprawling, patternless vigor of U.S. westward expansion, Virginia City and its characters are tasty raw meat. But City of Illusion is written as a novel, and in it Author Fisher has recaptured the vitality of U.S. legend as well as U.S. history...
Gidding, a self-described cum laude student of life in the raw, stated that his latest chef d'oeuvre is a story of New York life from the point of view of three modernized Fates...