Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a raw, chilling rain followed eddying snow on the flat frozen prairie north of Detroit. It fell on the just and the unjust, and also on a 113-acre tract between Eleven and Twelve Mile Roads. There the rain, sifting through the steel skeleton of a sprawling, one-story building, gathered like dew on the rough jackets of workmen, stiffened red hands that had to be warmed up before the glowing maws of smoking salamanders. The rain did not slow up the work, any more than the snow had: on & on went the chatter of pneumatic hammers...
...Like an angler playing a fish is one simile that comes to mind. Echoes have been heard of his merry wit. And he once drove racing cars, though he ruefully admits that he never won a race. Yet the most engaging thing about him is his perfect courtesy. A raw-boned and awkward freshman steps before him. Nothing is right about his stance. His parries are slow and his disengage circles huge. Patiently Peroy begins to iron out the main difficulties, showing him how to put his feet, relax his wrist, lunge, cut to the head...
...fifth (of six) administrative assistants Sherman ("Shay") Minton, 50, defeated Senator from Indiana. Tall, black-haired, jut-jawed Mr. Minton, a 200% New Dealer, will get $10,000 a year; will not be used as liaison man with Congress-where his forthright tongue too often rasped colleagues raw...
...that old inflation bugaboo looks in the window at businessmen when they are confronted with profits -and scares them just as he does when they are confronted with wage increases. I called it a bugaboo because inflation does not begin until production capacity, through a shortage of machines, raw materials or workers, cannot meet increased demands." He declared, overlooking the fact that there are already serious shortages in several vital industries: "We are a long way from that point." Said the colonel finally: "Labor must be dealt with in good faith if we are to enter this dangerous...
With grins of glee Berlin officials announced last week the signing by Germany and Russia of "the greatest grain deal in history." In exchange for German machinery Russia agreed to send to Germany an unspecified amount of grain, oil and other raw materials. "Through this agreement the British blockade becomes more illusory than ever," chortled the pleased Berlin officials. "This will be a great disappointment to Winston Churchill...