Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southerners with emotions and water pipes alike close to the surface, with houses built for warmer winters and with crops like oranges, lettuce, satsumas, grapefruit still unharvested, it was a week of sore trial-a week of raw winds, raw tempers, busted water pipes, frozen radiators, sniffles, skids, tumbles-a week of frustration when auto-supply houses ran out of tire chains, when hot-water heaters blew up, trains were late, mails delayed, and cases of influenza (10,000 in North Louisiana) closed schools that few children could reach. Snowbound New Englanders of Whittier's day might be undisturbed...
...salt. Minister Cross cited acute German shortages: petroleum, iron, cotton, copper, wool, oils, fats. He reminded the House that there was in Germany an "abnormal desire to convert currency into goods from 'fear of future inflation. . . . Important steel works may have to suspend operations for lack of raw materials. Many factories making rubber are closing for lack of raw materials and others are working below capacity. There is a shortage of accessories. . . . The textile situation is acute...
...Fortnight ago Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. sold two cargo ships, aggregating about 19,000 deadweight tons to Great Britain. Of its 52 vessels, 14 are under charter to Chilean Nitrate Sales Corp., carrying the raw material for explosives and fertilizer to the U. S., Hawaii and Japan...
Simple in essence, but by no means so simple as they sound, Mr. Propter's ideas boil down to this: "Time and craving, craving and time-two aspects of the same thing; and that thing is the raw material of evil." Good, impossible within time, exists only on the animal level and on the level of eternity, of "pure, disinterested consciousness." That level is attained in the loss of wilfulness, of desire, of personality...
...significant difference in the situation today from that in 1914 is that England is much less dependent now on American exports. As never before, the colonies are supplying Britain with her much-needed food and raw materials...