Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centred around the building for making airplane engines. Over its steel framework contractors had first built a fibreboard shell, so that workmen, sheltered inside, could lay brick and pour concrete through winter weather. Last week the building, almost a fifth of a mile long, was hatching, pink and raw, out of its cocoon. By June, Pratt & Whitney double Wasp engines should be rolling...
Last week, after a winter layoff during which 4,000 raw ratings were trained at the Kiel Submarine School by veteran U-boatmen, the Germans were out in force again with another tactic which was the fruit of winter experiments: hunting in packs. Survivors arriving at a Canadian port told of having been attacked by "at least three or four" German submarines; others arriving in Manhattan referred to "a nest of at least seven subs." In one recent case, nine simultaneous torpedo explosions gave a convoy its first warning of the presence of submarines...
...cost increases above 2? a ton, would be renewed by Congress before it expires April 26. If the Act is not renewed in time, a strike is certain; even if it is, Lewis may pull a strike anyway, to justify his thesis that labor can expect nothing but a raw deal from defense. The possibility was enough to start a near-panic among coal users, whose average supply last week was enough to last only 34 days (23 days for railroads). They soon found it impossible to get April delivery (on high-grade industrial types), bought all they could...
Eskimo life, the most difficult and the poorest on earth, is utterly concentrated upon getting enough food. Their food is seal, caribou, tea, above all, raw frozen fish. They like rotten food even better (it is spicier) but there are few limits to what they will swallow. They eat enormously-50 lb. of meat per day for a family and its dogs-and belch and hawk and cough and spit continuously when indoors...
...truth lies far from either extreme. The "Nutcracker Suite" is strikingly beautiful, Stravinski's "Rite of Spring" is horribly realistic with the raw violence of the music matched by a dino saur death battle on the screen, and Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice" is hilariously comic--but Beethoven's "Pastoral" has become a bacchanalian nightmare and the Disney ballet which accompanies the "Dance of the Hours" is scarcely better than a Terry Toon...