Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...savagely as wolf cubs, dreaded daylight, at night howled eerily as they had with the jungle pack, at ten, one and three o'clock. They lapped milk from a dish in imitation of the orphanage dogs, whose company they preferred to other children's. They craved raw meat, and Kamala was once caught devouring chicken entrails which her sensitive wolf-nose had located in a garbage pail. For months they could not walk upright; their muscles were powerfully developed for loping on all fours...
...Deprive the United States and Great Britain of vital supplies and give Japan possession of raw materials without which she cannot sustain a prolonged war effort...
...part of the United States Government. The Group would have the State Department enter the Asiatic poker game using battleships for full houses and airplanes as a straight flush. They would have our government guarantee absolutely to Japan that more moves southward in the direction of Britain's raw material lifeline will not be tolerated...
...preliminary training is designed to assist the student in getting started in his group work, and to make him more valuable to the settlement house. Heretofore, raw recruits have been plunged directly into the groups. The proposed courses will probably be given by the different houses, and will start experimentally next month...
...Jacques is a rebellious, brooding, high-strung adolescent, destined to seek feverishly the meaning of his own life. Antoine is an egoistic, hard-minded doctor, devoted to his work and proud of being a man of action. Theirs and a half-dozen other lives wind around one another like raw nerves, in alternating anguish, ecstasy, dullness, peace...